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Didn't have any properties "lined up" for a hunt this morning, so I went back to the old neighborhood and found a "Marty rental" that I'd hunted last year. Might have pulled a couple Rosies from this place before - but back then I hunted with stricter notching and was in 4 kHz most of the time. So today I started with 12khz and started finding a lot of zinc cents that were previously notched. The trash was moderate - but after an hour I had a Wheat along with some clad...the 12 khz was really lighting up what was left. Stayed at this first house about 2 hours and found a 1946 and 1928 Wheat...
Decided to get on over to "Silver Street" since it was only 2 blocks away and see what was happening there. Found a newly-listed rental to a house built in 1932 and called the number on the sign...the person stated that he'd never heard of such a request at a rental property LOL - and went ahead and granted permission. Score! Turns out he has about 15 other rentals in the area so I will be paying him a visit in person and show him some of the finds to help secure those other properties when the time comes!
At this house I began hunting in 12 khz and started finding modern clad right off the bat - surely a good sign. Got a real faint signal with no VDI and then switched to 4 khz and the pitch dropped a good bit - this was to be the oldest Wheat of the day, a holed 1917 S with the lovely green patina. Must have been 8" deep - I tried to film today but battery life is still an issue and not sure how to get around that problem in the field. Not far from this deep Wheat I remember getting a "78" and forgot that I was still in 4 khz - so initially it looked like a silver hit! At only 2" down came the 1941 Captain Midnight Decoder - didn't know what it was a first, but I knew what it COULD be - I'll take most things like this over a silver coin for one hunt at least!
Silver Street may not have lived up to its name today, but it did keep me very busy while providing an avatar-changer!
Decided to get on over to "Silver Street" since it was only 2 blocks away and see what was happening there. Found a newly-listed rental to a house built in 1932 and called the number on the sign...the person stated that he'd never heard of such a request at a rental property LOL - and went ahead and granted permission. Score! Turns out he has about 15 other rentals in the area so I will be paying him a visit in person and show him some of the finds to help secure those other properties when the time comes!
At this house I began hunting in 12 khz and started finding modern clad right off the bat - surely a good sign. Got a real faint signal with no VDI and then switched to 4 khz and the pitch dropped a good bit - this was to be the oldest Wheat of the day, a holed 1917 S with the lovely green patina. Must have been 8" deep - I tried to film today but battery life is still an issue and not sure how to get around that problem in the field. Not far from this deep Wheat I remember getting a "78" and forgot that I was still in 4 khz - so initially it looked like a silver hit! At only 2" down came the 1941 Captain Midnight Decoder - didn't know what it was a first, but I knew what it COULD be - I'll take most things like this over a silver coin for one hunt at least!
Silver Street may not have lived up to its name today, but it did keep me very busy while providing an avatar-changer!
Nice loot CZ! Your new avatar is cool--finding stuff like that is what makes this hobby so much fun. Thanks for the story and pictures. ---Clad