HIT THOSE OLD DRIVEWAYS

[jim tn]

The rain finally ended this weekend and I was able to get out for my usual early morning hunting, this morning. However, with all the rain we've been getting, the mowers are way behind and the grass is very tall almost everywhere. Anyway, I decided to go to a site that has a lot of trees and many driveways and always found the grass to be shorter on the gravel driveways and around the trees. The driveways, in fact, were always pretty good, whenever they could be dug in. I had dug 3 halves from these driveways over the past couple of year's, plus some other silvers. Unless there has been a good rain, though, the driveways are un-digable as they are all gravel. From the first driveways I detected, I recovered a 42 Merc. and a no date Buffalo nickel. The next one yielded a 52d Washington quarter and another 35 Buff. The 3rd and 4th driveways only yielded a few clads, but the last one gave me another Wash. quarter, a1950, and a 36 Merc. All in all, I ended up with the 4 silvers, 8 wheats and $1.45 in clad and several pre 82 Memorial cents. I was swinging my F 75 and using the small elliptical coil. HH jim tn

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[Wolfdog]

I have had luck in old driveways also,just hard to dig in sometimes.

 

[woodwizard]

great finds-a screw driver works good in gravel for digging

 

[bertman]

WTG on finding that silver... I have found several silvers the same way, hitting those gravel driveways...

HH Robert

 

[Cliff KS]

Yeah, there's coins in the old driveways, but packed gravel is about the toughest digging I have experienced.
Congrats on the silver!

 

[jim tn]

The only way I can dig on these driveways is after about a two day soaking rain. Other wise, they are as hard as concrete. Usually, though, the targets are pretty shallow. Thanks and HH jim tn

 

[MikeW]

Wow, thats some nice detecting.You got the right idea for sure)

 

[jim tn]

Continued on with the driveway hunting this morning and got a 57d Rosie and 2 war nickels, a 45 and a 43. The 3 on the 43, although very worn, looks a little fat to my old eyes. The more I keep looking at it, it seems to be growing a 2 under the 3. I think I will have someone that is more of a coin expert then me take a look at it just for the fun of it. Even more gratifying then recovering the silver Rosie was that when I dug it I found it nestled between two pieces of trash. The vdi was bouncing some and giving a mid and high tone signal. The vdi was reading a 37, 68-69 and 74-77. This was all under the footprint of the small elliptical coil. As it turned out, besides the silver Rosie, there was a tab ring and a small, broken piece of metal that appeared to be part of a door hinge. This continues to prove to me that the F 75 is still one of the best for seeking out good targets from among the trash. HH all, jim tn

 

[Cal_Cobra]

That's very impressive, talk about separation. I haven't used the small elliptical coil in a while, been having too much fun with the 11" DD