Had to travel for business this week...found some towns on the Mapquest that looked promising...left thurs morning at 6am...hit the first stop 3hrs later...big sportsfield, concessions, etc...clad everywhere, 25 degrees with a cold wind, high graded Q's, wet clay soil with ice crystals, grass was flat..easy sweeping and stabbing...back on the road and hit a place I've stopped at before 250 miles from home when on business, big place, always a good century location, but I only get to spend a short time as I am generally heading through and have to be somewhere...got my dream coin! the Franklin Half![attachment 304577 fieldofdreams-3.jpg][attachment 304582 fieldofdreams-1.jpg]
Worked the rest of Thurs and all day Friday late into the night...got up early Sat am and pulled into the 'Ben Franklin' spot right on the button at 8am...fired up the 70...sort of wore out in 3hrs, which is generally my limit, but it was nice and overcast, high 30 temps, really a perfect day to detect! .
..Thought I might just head home but decided to drive around this little town and scope things out, I knew I had a good count coming in sniping Q's...
Old hand carved limestone curbs! old town, run down, a guy that hunts curbstrips would really get excited here! Found a huge park, big chip totlots, BB courts, you name it...I have NEVER seen such a place carpeted with coins as this place was..and as y'all know, I've been into some pretty heavy clad carpets...I told myself to settle down and try to go methodical on this motherhubbard, but of course, I didnt!
Just to work the periphery of the BB courts would take 3 days...the totlots were packed with clad, (gotta be gold in there) EVERYWHERE was a massive cacophany of coins! Seriously, I have never seen anything like it..surely a place for a small coil....I sniped just the Q's, with the 11"dd..stooping and stabbing like a madman...I know I had coil over 1000 dimes, but I ignored them and just went for the Q's...well, I went to do a pouch dump twice...looked at the clock, it was 2:30...so I decided to drive 100 miles North to that other little town I started out at on Thurs and look around a bit, (and to give my ears a break)...got there at a quarter after 4...Sun goes down at 5...found a middle school with a huge pea gravel totlot, and there were dimes everywhere![attachment 304579 fieldofdreams-2.jpg] It was great kicking gravel instead of reaming the driver through clay, so I settled in to clean it out! It was dark when I left with this loot and drove on home...[attachment 304581 fieldofdreams.jpg]
Heres what 306 Q's look like in a 16oz cup with a BF Half on top! And the line up..I kept all the hunts separated in three coffee cups...Thurs hunts combined, and todays park hunt separate from todays final school totlot hunt (lotsa dimes).. .. .[attachment 304583 fieldofdreams-4.jpg]
Definitely today was a record day for me, both in count and dollar amount..316 coins for 57.85 just today alone!...for a total10 hr hunt, 600 mile 60 hr round trip, on the 'job'.. total was 451 coins for 85.77...I figure nobody hunts this clay on account of when its dry its like concrete, and when its wet, it would stick to a digger most damnably...I tell you boys, this day was what I have been training for all these years, ..(never ground balanced once, 60 sens, DP tones, 70 had the half deads in her from the Pro) You cant snipe Q's in a clad carpet unless you use DP tones..
F70 Quick Broom, I have not yet found the top end speed of this thing, but this post should give you an idea of what she is capable of...
Mud
Worked the rest of Thurs and all day Friday late into the night...got up early Sat am and pulled into the 'Ben Franklin' spot right on the button at 8am...fired up the 70...sort of wore out in 3hrs, which is generally my limit, but it was nice and overcast, high 30 temps, really a perfect day to detect! .
..Thought I might just head home but decided to drive around this little town and scope things out, I knew I had a good count coming in sniping Q's...Old hand carved limestone curbs! old town, run down, a guy that hunts curbstrips would really get excited here! Found a huge park, big chip totlots, BB courts, you name it...I have NEVER seen such a place carpeted with coins as this place was..and as y'all know, I've been into some pretty heavy clad carpets...I told myself to settle down and try to go methodical on this motherhubbard, but of course, I didnt!
Just to work the periphery of the BB courts would take 3 days...the totlots were packed with clad, (gotta be gold in there) EVERYWHERE was a massive cacophany of coins! Seriously, I have never seen anything like it..surely a place for a small coil....I sniped just the Q's, with the 11"dd..stooping and stabbing like a madman...I know I had coil over 1000 dimes, but I ignored them and just went for the Q's...well, I went to do a pouch dump twice...looked at the clock, it was 2:30...so I decided to drive 100 miles North to that other little town I started out at on Thurs and look around a bit, (and to give my ears a break)...got there at a quarter after 4...Sun goes down at 5...found a middle school with a huge pea gravel totlot, and there were dimes everywhere![attachment 304579 fieldofdreams-2.jpg] It was great kicking gravel instead of reaming the driver through clay, so I settled in to clean it out! It was dark when I left with this loot and drove on home...[attachment 304581 fieldofdreams.jpg]Heres what 306 Q's look like in a 16oz cup with a BF Half on top!
And the line up..I kept all the hunts separated in three coffee cups...Thurs hunts combined, and todays park hunt separate from todays final school totlot hunt (lotsa dimes).. .. .[attachment 304583 fieldofdreams-4.jpg]Definitely today was a record day for me, both in count and dollar amount..316 coins for 57.85 just today alone!...for a total10 hr hunt, 600 mile 60 hr round trip, on the 'job'.. total was 451 coins for 85.77...I figure nobody hunts this clay on account of when its dry its like concrete, and when its wet, it would stick to a digger most damnably...I tell you boys, this day was what I have been training for all these years, ..(never ground balanced once, 60 sens, DP tones, 70 had the half deads in her from the Pro) You cant snipe Q's in a clad carpet unless you use DP tones..
F70 Quick Broom, I have not yet found the top end speed of this thing, but this post should give you an idea of what she is capable of...Mud
HH jim tn
so now what pay off your house? Buy q new car? Oh fantstic job!!!!!!
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