Been hammering this particular site for nearly 25 years and it has provided me with many memories.
When my mom's 7 year battle with cancer was nearing the end a couple years ago...for lack of better words...this place probably helped keep me sane.
I had a lot of trouble "accepting" things both right before I lost her and after. Actually I still do
I would come here...put the headphones on...start scannin' the ground...and for that brief couple of hours it cleared my head and brought me some inner peace.
If the finds came..great. If they didn't...I couldn't have cared less.
Today Dave and I needed to clear our heads so we gave it one more pounding.
I noticed one thin strip of ground where a long iron pipe had been removed and thought I might as well give it a shot. After all this was probably the only few feet of ground my coil had not been able to get over and this was in the 200' x 200' area where I had pulled many 1800's silver and injuns' from in the past.
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(You can see exactly where I dug in the rut)
I angled the coil as to parallel it along each side of the long deep rut where the pipe came from...and stuck it down in it.
Before long I got a high warble that made the hair on my arms tingle.
I stuck the Raptor digger down in the rusty, sandy rut and dug a nice hole off to the side.
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The probe now sang over the gritty pile of soil I dug up...and a grayish thin disc came to light.
It had a hard, crusty layer of grit on it but I could clearly see it was a seated lady...and an old one at that.
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What a wonderful surprise from this beat up site.
A few minutes later my battery konked out on me so I bent down...popped the old one out... and put a fresh one in.
When I looked up...I noticed Dave had decided in the blink of an eye...that I needed some "help" hunting my spot.
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I've known this big feller' for right at 20 years...and I don't think I've EVER seen him move that fast unless there was pizza involved.
Since I was rooted out of my turf
...I wandered a few feet away where I got a strange warble. It was mixed in with a trash sound and also nulled in spots
It was a pretty high warble though so I figured it was a wheatie mixed in with some iron and junk.
I was very surprised to see the 1889 Injun emerge from the soil.
I would have never guessed it was anything but a deep wheatie and don't think I have ever found an Injun' that gave off that high of a warble.
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A very sweet 3 hour hunt and a lot of fun.
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This hobby is just full of wonderful surprises and always finds a way to put a smile on my face no matter how bad my day has gone.
When my mom's 7 year battle with cancer was nearing the end a couple years ago...for lack of better words...this place probably helped keep me sane.
I had a lot of trouble "accepting" things both right before I lost her and after. Actually I still do
I would come here...put the headphones on...start scannin' the ground...and for that brief couple of hours it cleared my head and brought me some inner peace.
If the finds came..great. If they didn't...I couldn't have cared less.
Today Dave and I needed to clear our heads so we gave it one more pounding.
I noticed one thin strip of ground where a long iron pipe had been removed and thought I might as well give it a shot. After all this was probably the only few feet of ground my coil had not been able to get over and this was in the 200' x 200' area where I had pulled many 1800's silver and injuns' from in the past.
[attachment 192817 pipe3.jpg] [attachment 192819 pipe5.jpg] [attachment 192820 pipe6.jpg]
(You can see exactly where I dug in the rut)
I angled the coil as to parallel it along each side of the long deep rut where the pipe came from...and stuck it down in it.
Before long I got a high warble that made the hair on my arms tingle.
I stuck the Raptor digger down in the rusty, sandy rut and dug a nice hole off to the side.
[attachment 192818 pipe4.jpg]
The probe now sang over the gritty pile of soil I dug up...and a grayish thin disc came to light.
It had a hard, crusty layer of grit on it but I could clearly see it was a seated lady...and an old one at that.
[attachment 192816 pipe2.jpg]
What a wonderful surprise from this beat up site.
A few minutes later my battery konked out on me so I bent down...popped the old one out... and put a fresh one in.
When I looked up...I noticed Dave had decided in the blink of an eye...that I needed some "help" hunting my spot.
[attachment 192821 pipe7.jpg]
I've known this big feller' for right at 20 years...and I don't think I've EVER seen him move that fast unless there was pizza involved.
Since I was rooted out of my turf
...I wandered a few feet away where I got a strange warble. It was mixed in with a trash sound and also nulled in spots It was a pretty high warble though so I figured it was a wheatie mixed in with some iron and junk.I was very surprised to see the 1889 Injun emerge from the soil.
I would have never guessed it was anything but a deep wheatie and don't think I have ever found an Injun' that gave off that high of a warble.[attachment 192822 pipe8.jpg]
A very sweet 3 hour hunt and a lot of fun.
[attachment 192823 pipe9.jpg] [attachment 192824 pipe10.jpg]
This hobby is just full of wonderful surprises and always finds a way to put a smile on my face no matter how bad my day has gone.
Congrats
Guess you were in the right spot at the right time and if that pipe hadn't have been dug up then that dime