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Got a "grit your teeth" story to tell anyone?....................Here is one you might enjoy, I was hunting an area

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right off the railroad tracks known to be busy during the civil war. Had an old hotel site etc, I had been hunting for a couple of hours with little to show, when a guy shows up with a pitch fork looking thing and started turning the soil over with it, no detector, just looking, I sh-t you not, in 30 minutes he pulls out a fat old solid gold bracelet that had a big half sun on its top. It looked to be hand-made. For just an instant it crossed my mind to hit him with my detector and take the bracelet and run. I was sick for a week.......:rant: top that if you can...................
 
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I would have walked up to him and say " awesome!! Thanks for finding my bracelet. I have been out here for a hour looking for it":thumbup:
 
WOW :surprised:
I think i would have hit and ran :devil:
Definitely doesn't top that, but when i first started learning the SE... I dug every signal trying to learn what was what... I dug so much foil i was about to to crazy.. I started up the side of a small hill and got a strong foil like hit.. It was 11-2 to be exact,, I passed it up knowing it was another ketchup packet.. My friend comes behind me "also learning his explorer" gets the signal digs it and it ends up being a Man's gold wedding band :rage: I was so mad lol

Good story bud!! if that guy keeps that up.. We will all be out there with pitch forks lol
Derrell
 
I wasn't going to share this but why not?
I made the mistake of inviting him to one of my private sites.:wacko: It was a spot way back in the woods on private ground where a cabin once stood.
Well Bryce had been helping me along to learn how deep coins can sound NOT like a coin.

I never get into arguments about sounds or settings or anything but I can tell you he is right about no sounds ever being the same on deeper coins. or coins in junk.
It is neat to watch all the videos around and some of them are very well made and you can learn the basic sound coins make. If you want to find the deeper coins other people dont you need to dig a lot of stuff that doesn't sound just like what is recorded or taped though. If that is what all those coinssounded like they wouldn't still be in the ground.

Well I was excited and told Bryce I had found an 1841 half dime here the day before and I invited him to come and hunt it with me.
That was a big mistake:surrender:
He was walking behind me so the grass would be smashed by me being in front of him and he got a signal right where I had just passed my coil over. He siad.hey I think you missed one and I turned round and watched the nightmare unfold. He dug a plug and a we saw the edge of a silver coin. I had walked right over a capped bust dime. No more invitations for you Bryce:lol:
 
the city where I live tore down a housing project and close to the street there was a grass strip. I used a 1266x with a large coil to hunt it, my mistake, the many targets blended together so I went on, the next guy had a 8 inch coil and I must say he seperated that Mexican gold coin ring nicely from the trash.:ranting:
 
DERRELLD AS MUDDY AS IT IS HERE A PITCH FORK MIGHT WORK BETTER.....:rofl::rofl:
 
A buddy of mine and I both had Compass Coin hustler II's,

We used to ask and get permission from many homeowners in my hometown to go detecting. I remember one house that was a beautiful Victorian with a well maintained lawn. We were careful diggers even at that tender age and were finding quite a few nice coins. The homeowner asked if we could help find his property stakes. We would get a hit in a likely area and mark it for him to dig. Remember the Coin Hustlers had two controls- Volume knob and a test battery pushbutton. No discrimination whatsoever. The homeowner would dig a hole and eventually we/he found all the stakes.

Then he looked around at all the holes HE had dug and told us if we were going to leave the lawn like that we were no longer welcome.

Can't remember exactly where the house was but do remember it was loaded with coins. Perhaps need to take a look next time I get back to my hometown.

Chris
 
I got permission to hunt at my son's former primary school over the school holiday period. was hunting in a large bark chipped area, when along comes a 14 year old aboriginal girl who had no implements. She gets down on her knees at starts pushing the bark chips around with her forearm! After a hour, she scored herself $15!!!! I talked to her and she said that she does it on a semi regular basis and averages $20! I felt like she was a fare evader. Her I am by paying my dues by getting permission and paying good money for a detector, and her she is armed with only her bare hands and a bit of nouce and walks away with the lute!!!! I was gob smacked and deflated:nopity: (and I had to clean her mess up as I didn't want to cop the blame for the mess that was left.:throw::cry::lol:
Mick Evans.
 
just click on the link and let me know. Oh by the way...thanks for mashing the grass so nicely so I could go a couple of inches deeper than you:bouncy: http://www.findmall.com/read.php?19,785455,785455#msg-785455
 
luck, I will tell you one last one, this is the truth so help me. Twenty five years ago I was downtown parked waiting to try to get my unemployment, I was broke etc. I parked in a lot across the street from the gov. building and I didn't get my money. So I sat out there and stewed for an hour trying to think of a way to make a dollar, I don't know what ever happened and finally left. I just remember that lot and sitting there. About 5 years later they cleared that lot and not 10 foot from where I was parked they dug up about $30,000 in gold coins from a bank robbery from the 1800's. The guys who found it were so green, they walked over to a local bank and traded some of it at face value, $50 gold coins for, well $50. The coins were in mint condition, the bank robbery well known. I had researched it. All I got was a story to tell..............Good night gentlemen:ranting:
 
A week ago while detecting in a 13 acre farm field I dug up a deep sweet sounding signal, it was about a good 14 inches deep and thought for sure it was going to be a Seated Dollar, low and behold, it was my Lesch digger I had lost last year. I had just reordered one the day before from KellyCo. Now I have two.

Sick thing is, I was disappointed that my $50 shovel I found wasn't a coin. :rant:

I also ordered the Pistol probe but I am a little learry about taking it into the farm field. If I could loose my primary shovel, what are the chances that I am going to be leaving $169 and walking away, I don't think it will fare as well with the plow as the shovel did.

Speaking of plowing, why am I waiting for farmers to plow when I could just turn over the soil myself by hand in small areas of dense iron and then go over it with the machine?? That's actually a pretty good idea.

As for your guy with the pitchfork, if he does that on public property he's going to give all pitchforkers a bad name.:shrug:
 
Dang that sucks guys!!! Last year when I first started out on one of my hunts out in the woods I got some coin signals, on all of them I dug down and put my probe in the hole and got nothing so I moved on. This happened like 3 or 4 times, well my buddy was behind me like 20 feet when he said I got a silver quarter. I walked back to see what he found and noticed that I was there already and lost the signal. Well he did this a few more times and I was getting Tee'd off to say the least!!! Well I got a dime signal and dug down and checked the hole and again NOTHING!!! I called my buddy over to see what if anything was in the hole (he has an in-line probe). Right off the bat he said its just a little deeper in the hole, I rescanned the hole with my handheld probe and got nothing!!! Well I dug down and got an early Merc, I then touched my probe to the dime and the probe was dead... He wound up getting a silver Washington, 2 Mercs and maybe a Wheatie by just rechecking my holes that I gave up on. I was a Greene and didn't rescan the hole with my detector... Hard lesson learned but it was a valuable one indeed... LOL
 
How about this one. I am in my oldest favorite park and trying like the devil to find somthing "Honerable" and not having any luck. One of the local winos that had been watching me comes over and asked if I knew anything about coins, then out of his pocket he shows me a franklin half, a indian head 1893, and buffalo nickel, said he found them and wanted to know if they were worth anything! I felt like putting a battery in his b**t and swinging him by the legs.Maybe I could find somthing then! ARRRRRRRGHHHHH
 
I used to do something similar.

When I was in elementary school as a kid, they had one of those very elaborate wooden playgrounds. Well, coins had a tendency to get lost underneath it in such a way that you could see them laying there but couldn't reach them. I got myself a hockey stick so I could go fishing for them, and managed to find enough to buy a soda oftentimes. Once I found a couple of older foreign silver coins some kid must have brought for show-and-tell.
 
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