Finds From Last Weekend

[flinthunter]

These are my finds from a weekend fun hunt our club had at an area park. The pictures show my total finds from Friday, Saturday, and part of Sunday. I learned a valuable lesson about swing speed with the Etrac. I've hunted with the Etrac for a couple years and usually keep my swing speed fairly slow but to find some of the deep wheats I slowed my swing to about 5 seconds each way. The depth of some of the older wheats, one of the rings, and the sterling chain was in the 8 - 10 inch range. At my normal swing speed the deep targets just made a quick chirp when I passed over them and they also had to be almost dead center under my coil. At the much slower speed I was able to identify the deep targets easier. Yesterday I decided to try this again at a local park that has been hunted to death. I hit an area that I thought I had just about cleaned out. I pulled 5 wheats and an Indian cent out, all in the 7+ inch range. The VDI numbers were jumping all over the place on these but an occasional good number and the depth gauge said "dig me". The numbers on yesterdays Indian hit around 6-8/28-31. I was running in auto +3 and do not use noise cancel unless necessary.

77 memorial cents, 21 clad dimes, 6 clad quarters, and 2 nickels
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31 wheat cents - 1909, 1918, 1919, 1919-S, 1924, 1925, 1926, (2) 1928, 1928-D, (2) 1930, 1932, 1934, 1935, (2) 1936, 1940, (2) 1941, 1941-S, (2) 1944-D, (2) 1945, 1945-D, 1946-S, 1947-D, (2) 1951-D, 1958-D
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1932 Canadian cent and 1887 Indian cent
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1923 Standing Liberty quarter, 1916-S Barber dime, 1942 Mercury dime, 1948-D Roosevelt dime, 1959-D Roosevelt dime, piece of sterling chain, sterling heart pendant, and (2) sterling rings
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small Brinks lock, fishing weight, fired bullet, button with red coral center, marble, books charm, and costume ring
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this picture is self explanatory
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[Mason Jarr]

Holy smokes. That's quite a haul. Nice work!

 

[GroundScanner]

Great hunt !

 

[badjim]

nice haul and sweet indian

 

[NebTrac]

Now that's a lot of diggin'! Congratlulations on the finds and thanks for the pictures.

NebTrac

 

[Sooper Dave]

That's a lot of digging! And a lot of nice finds! Love the silver & Indian, that SLQ looks to be in nice shape! Congrats!

 

[Dale(Ia)]

Wow! What a haul!! Beautiful SLQ!!!

 

[Goes4ever]

I'd say you did exceptional!

 

[moonshine]

nice digs and the SLQ is an outstanding find!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Wow ... that's a lot of digging - it sure paid off - congrats on all the great finds !

 

[fishnnut]

Wow great hunt...just curious what did the bobber ring up at ....