2 hour hunt this morning lots of leaves and rain.
Wife and I hit the local park, didn't expect much, park is supposed to be hunted out.
After 1st hour and a few clad and plenty of pull-tabs we started to get bored, when we noticed the baseball field fence was recently removed, there was still fresh soil
from the recent work. This park is from very early 1900 and we have pulled a few silvers, V-nickles, Indian heads, ton of Wheaties and lots of clad, but recently it hasn't panned out much.
We followed the line where the fence once stood, it surrounded the baseball diamond. Lots of targets but most were aluminum fencing ties, which sound like zinc pennies and occasionally like silver.
We started from mid left field and we moved just by 3rd base, I got a clear vdi of 74 on my XP Deus in 4khz- bottlecap program, reading indicated about 3-4 inches deep.
I dug the plug, being sandy soil it crumbled and I instantly saw the One Dime wording.on reverse of 1901 Barber.
Before I dug the Barber dime, I had scanned a second target less than a foot away. The 2nd target had ID'd as 84vdi along with a 50 reading from nearby fencing material.
The wife was excited and happy for me after pulling out the Barber. This hobby has a way of pulling you back to it, just when you think the season is over or the park has nothing to give.
I asked her to scan the next target with her Fisher Gold Bug and see what's in it, happily she wasted no time. I kept hunting towards home plate, didn't take more 3 steps when she
called my name with the same excitement as when she finds gold. I thought she found a Morgan Dollar but it was just a 1905s Barber Quarter. We felt like running around in circles doing flips
like those 2 idiots on TV
but we didn't -maybe next time.
We had fun, finding silver makes my day!
So, remember if you see any type of ground work at your local park, don't pass it up!
Wife and I hit the local park, didn't expect much, park is supposed to be hunted out.
After 1st hour and a few clad and plenty of pull-tabs we started to get bored, when we noticed the baseball field fence was recently removed, there was still fresh soil
from the recent work. This park is from very early 1900 and we have pulled a few silvers, V-nickles, Indian heads, ton of Wheaties and lots of clad, but recently it hasn't panned out much.
We followed the line where the fence once stood, it surrounded the baseball diamond. Lots of targets but most were aluminum fencing ties, which sound like zinc pennies and occasionally like silver.
We started from mid left field and we moved just by 3rd base, I got a clear vdi of 74 on my XP Deus in 4khz- bottlecap program, reading indicated about 3-4 inches deep.
I dug the plug, being sandy soil it crumbled and I instantly saw the One Dime wording.on reverse of 1901 Barber.
Before I dug the Barber dime, I had scanned a second target less than a foot away. The 2nd target had ID'd as 84vdi along with a 50 reading from nearby fencing material.
The wife was excited and happy for me after pulling out the Barber. This hobby has a way of pulling you back to it, just when you think the season is over or the park has nothing to give.
I asked her to scan the next target with her Fisher Gold Bug and see what's in it, happily she wasted no time. I kept hunting towards home plate, didn't take more 3 steps when she
called my name with the same excitement as when she finds gold. I thought she found a Morgan Dollar but it was just a 1905s Barber Quarter. We felt like running around in circles doing flips
like those 2 idiots on TV
but we didn't -maybe next time.We had fun, finding silver makes my day!
So, remember if you see any type of ground work at your local park, don't pass it up!
