My buddy Sturrat, has been hunting straight through this awful Winter...through the ice and nasty weather...He got today off work and called me this am for a hunt! I said, "Listen dude, I'm too sick to do anything" He said..."You old guy, you have the rest of your Life to be a wimp if you choose, the wind is out of the east, its overcast and raining, the Lake is Flat"! "You always say, Time and gold wait for nobody, so you must be Nobody"
So I had to go, after a challenge like that!...
...It was raining most aggregiously, a wet rain, wetter than normal, like actual water droplets or something, but we wadered up and went in anyway...Rat found a neat old sterling bracelet!, He easily dug 3 times the targets I got, a lot of nickels and wheat pennies...a huge and interesting pile of trash...definitely all 'gold signals' type of trash..gold chain type of signals even, and he runs a 'Lab, a dirt rig at that, not waterproof, he can only hunt so deep before risking an electronical disaster...
I took it easy and slow and diddled along with my Pro, basically harvesting tabs, all woozy and stupid feeling, going way slower than normal, took off my gloves and got my hands wet in the icy water to try to bring my fever down a bit...It was Nice little hunt! Clad and 2 wheats and this 1866 IH, which is the oldest coin I've ever found! Funny thing...that signal was not a solid 81 high ping like most copper pennies...it was a low 70 mid tone...which is indeed and odd signal...TID too high to be a beavertail pulltab, which are 63ish mid tones, too small a signature to be a shotgun shell, or big lead sinker, so it was an interesting target to dig..I was surprised when I saw the wreath in the scoop!..Cointrackers says its worth $40...I'll be happy with $20 from my LCS if I can get it.
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We met at the cars and compared finds at 1 oclock...He was doing a pouch dump and heading back out under the gray and foreboding sky, we thought about the place, and considered the amount of gold hiding from us out here...figure theres probably 10 gold rings within a half mile of us at the moment...I bravely peeled off my leaky waders and headed for the house..no need to be too much of a Man all in one day...I'm gonna go get a new set of waders this afternoon I think...Sturrat will probably get a Pro pretty soon...He really got onto this waterhunting gold/silver in a big way and is dang good at it...Its been an honor for me to get some inspiration from somebody half my age that has the 'fire' for gold and old silver, and dont give a rip about the weather, and takes off work!..
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Mud
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So I had to go, after a challenge like that!...
...It was raining most aggregiously, a wet rain, wetter than normal, like actual water droplets or something, but we wadered up and went in anyway...Rat found a neat old sterling bracelet!, He easily dug 3 times the targets I got, a lot of nickels and wheat pennies...a huge and interesting pile of trash...definitely all 'gold signals' type of trash..gold chain type of signals even, and he runs a 'Lab, a dirt rig at that, not waterproof, he can only hunt so deep before risking an electronical disaster...I took it easy and slow and diddled along with my Pro, basically harvesting tabs, all woozy and stupid feeling, going way slower than normal, took off my gloves and got my hands wet in the icy water to try to bring my fever down a bit...It was Nice little hunt! Clad and 2 wheats and this 1866 IH, which is the oldest coin I've ever found! Funny thing...that signal was not a solid 81 high ping like most copper pennies...it was a low 70 mid tone...which is indeed and odd signal...TID too high to be a beavertail pulltab, which are 63ish mid tones, too small a signature to be a shotgun shell, or big lead sinker, so it was an interesting target to dig..I was surprised when I saw the wreath in the scoop!..Cointrackers says its worth $40...I'll be happy with $20 from my LCS if I can get it.
..We met at the cars and compared finds at 1 oclock...He was doing a pouch dump and heading back out under the gray and foreboding sky, we thought about the place, and considered the amount of gold hiding from us out here...figure theres probably 10 gold rings within a half mile of us at the moment...I bravely peeled off my leaky waders and headed for the house..no need to be too much of a Man all in one day...I'm gonna go get a new set of waders this afternoon I think...Sturrat will probably get a Pro pretty soon...He really got onto this waterhunting gold/silver in a big way and is dang good at it...Its been an honor for me to get some inspiration from somebody half my age that has the 'fire' for gold and old silver, and dont give a rip about the weather, and takes off work!..
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to get out.Great find and hope you're feeling better soon.HH
