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Woke up early this morning. I just worked too many days in a row and I needed a day to metal detect real bad. The weather was marginal....snow, wind and below freezing temperatures. The desire to hunt took over, so I put a hot pack on the ACE, a jacket on me, some snow boots and to the car I went.
First stop....a 7-11, where I got a couple of dogs and a fountain pop. Not necessarily the healthiest meal, but tastes real good.
I headed out of town today, and here is the first hill, the first of three I hunted today. I got my gear together, and headed to the hill. I suddenly heard a lot of screaming, turned around and one of my my worst nightmares was developing. About 40 young screaming kids, overloaded with hormones with snow easy carpets were about to invade my hill, which looked so very promising. I turned around and headed back to my car, but not before hearing verbal snarls directed at me, about a traesure hunter looking for buried treasure in the snow...bahahahahahahahah!
I sat in the car, read the paper, and after about 15minutes, those little monsters headed back to their nearby school, and again, I had possession of the hill.
Things now started to get better. My first decent signal ended up being a cell phone, my second one in the last couple of weeks. The second signal was a 2 dollar coin. A found several more coins after this hill was completed, and then I headed to another hill.
And things got even better yet. I had just about wrapped up my last line gridding the bottom of the hill, and while walking back to my car, I got a signal, looked down and saw what appeared to be a round gold object. I got down on my hands and knees, looked closely, and by golly, a gold colored ring. My first one this year. Was it gold or a nitro? When I got hope, I grabbed my jeweller's loop and along the side was a clear stamp "10K".
I did manage some interesting finds today. Lots of one and two dollar coins and some more jewellery.
Here's a pic of all my finds. As usual, I dug all good sounding targets, regardless of where they discriminated out as. And below is my second phone that I found in the last couple of weeks. The last one was returned to its rightful owner. Hopefully this one will still work and I will be able to return it also!
Woke up early this morning. I just worked too many days in a row and I needed a day to metal detect real bad. The weather was marginal....snow, wind and below freezing temperatures. The desire to hunt took over, so I put a hot pack on the ACE, a jacket on me, some snow boots and to the car I went.
First stop....a 7-11, where I got a couple of dogs and a fountain pop. Not necessarily the healthiest meal, but tastes real good.
I headed out of town today, and here is the first hill, the first of three I hunted today. I got my gear together, and headed to the hill. I suddenly heard a lot of screaming, turned around and one of my my worst nightmares was developing. About 40 young screaming kids, overloaded with hormones with snow easy carpets were about to invade my hill, which looked so very promising. I turned around and headed back to my car, but not before hearing verbal snarls directed at me, about a traesure hunter looking for buried treasure in the snow...bahahahahahahahah!
I sat in the car, read the paper, and after about 15minutes, those little monsters headed back to their nearby school, and again, I had possession of the hill.
Things now started to get better. My first decent signal ended up being a cell phone, my second one in the last couple of weeks. The second signal was a 2 dollar coin. A found several more coins after this hill was completed, and then I headed to another hill.
And things got even better yet. I had just about wrapped up my last line gridding the bottom of the hill, and while walking back to my car, I got a signal, looked down and saw what appeared to be a round gold object. I got down on my hands and knees, looked closely, and by golly, a gold colored ring. My first one this year. Was it gold or a nitro? When I got hope, I grabbed my jeweller's loop and along the side was a clear stamp "10K".
I did manage some interesting finds today. Lots of one and two dollar coins and some more jewellery.
Here's a pic of all my finds. As usual, I dug all good sounding targets, regardless of where they discriminated out as. And below is my second phone that I found in the last couple of weeks. The last one was returned to its rightful owner. Hopefully this one will still work and I will be able to return it also!
