sgoss66
Well-known member
Dodging the rain over the past couple of days has been tough, but I did manage a few short hunts. Over the weekend, two two-hour hunts yielding nothing shiny -- 6 wheat cents plus a little clad. The past two hunts have been a little better though, in the keeper department.
Monday morning, I hit curb strips for about an hour and a half before the rain hit; first keeper was a '59-D Washington quarter (this one SCREAMED silver, and was hoping for my first SLQ, but I'll take it
), followed by a '22-D wheatie and finally, just before the rain hit, a '52-D Rosie that was in between penny and dime sound/ID. I really thought this would be another copper penny trying to trick me, but I was pleasantly surprised to see a silver rim when I cracked open the plug!
[attachment 227182 3-19-12WashRosie.JPG]
Wednesday morning, I sloshed my way through my local "hunted out" park for a couple of hours; the ground was literally soaked, with water seeping into my plugs as I dug them. I hit an area that has proven productive in the past, but I have pretty much cleaned out the high tones from this little area; today, I did manage a double-beeping mid tone that otherwise sounded nickel-ish. In the plug, I found a 1907 "V" nickel, tilted 45 degrees from horizontal (apparently yielding the double beep). After, I moved to an area I haven't hunted as much, which is more trashy/nail-filled. Here, despite lowering sensitivity quite a bit, the falsing was just HORRIBLE, the worst I've ever experienced, due to the saturated ground. Eventually, conditions forced me to switch completely out of manual sensitivity to semi-auto, as sorting the "good" high tones from the barrage of high-tone falses was near impossible. With the machine MUCH more quiet and stable in semi-auto, I finally managed to isolate a deeper, warbly high tone -- and was rewarded with a 1919 Merc, just before quittin' time!
[attachment 227183 3-21-12MercVnickel.JPG]
Thanks for looking/reading!
Steve
Monday morning, I hit curb strips for about an hour and a half before the rain hit; first keeper was a '59-D Washington quarter (this one SCREAMED silver, and was hoping for my first SLQ, but I'll take it
), followed by a '22-D wheatie and finally, just before the rain hit, a '52-D Rosie that was in between penny and dime sound/ID. I really thought this would be another copper penny trying to trick me, but I was pleasantly surprised to see a silver rim when I cracked open the plug![attachment 227182 3-19-12WashRosie.JPG]
Wednesday morning, I sloshed my way through my local "hunted out" park for a couple of hours; the ground was literally soaked, with water seeping into my plugs as I dug them. I hit an area that has proven productive in the past, but I have pretty much cleaned out the high tones from this little area; today, I did manage a double-beeping mid tone that otherwise sounded nickel-ish. In the plug, I found a 1907 "V" nickel, tilted 45 degrees from horizontal (apparently yielding the double beep). After, I moved to an area I haven't hunted as much, which is more trashy/nail-filled. Here, despite lowering sensitivity quite a bit, the falsing was just HORRIBLE, the worst I've ever experienced, due to the saturated ground. Eventually, conditions forced me to switch completely out of manual sensitivity to semi-auto, as sorting the "good" high tones from the barrage of high-tone falses was near impossible. With the machine MUCH more quiet and stable in semi-auto, I finally managed to isolate a deeper, warbly high tone -- and was rewarded with a 1919 Merc, just before quittin' time!
[attachment 227183 3-21-12MercVnickel.JPG]
Thanks for looking/reading!
Steve
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