Honest to goodness MD post......

[therick]

As I was coming home from work yesterday, I passed a local elementary school that was built back in the mid to late 50's. It has a track across the street from the school, the usual oval track with a football field in the middle, a couple of old, flimsy goal posts and a backstop for pick-up ball games. The field is usually used for P.E. by the school. Today it was different ..... there were tractors with box blades skimming the grass off of the field and piling it into 10ft high mounds to be picked up later. "Dang", I was headed out of town later to visit the in laws ! So this morning I set the alarm clock and hit it about 7:30 am. When I got there, it was smooth and void of ANY grass and all I could see was a pocket full of silver coins since it looked like the top 3 inches had been shaved off. I pulled out the old Whites Eagle II SL, ground balanced her and took off. An hour later, all I have to show for my efforts are about 2 dollars in clad and nothing of any age. I was still digging memorial pennys at 4 inches even with the top shaved off of the ground. What a disappointment. Oh well, you win a few, lose a few and it rains on some. At least I got out and gave it the old college try. Hopefully, next time will be better.

therick

 

[Ed SW Fla]

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[Brian(upstateNY)]

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[Craig in Alabama]

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[Brandy[Ma.]]

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[General Ray]

it because everything was just right and I would have hit it also in a heart beat .

When I use to hit Barber Park I use to stay away from the baseball fields because not only did they look new but the ground level was higher then the rest of the park and I was told a lot of dirt was moved around them so I always shy'd away from them. After hitting the rest of the park for a couple of years landing barber after barber the finds started to thin out to almost nothing except for that day Keith was with me and I found that 2-center

Then one Sunday as I was about to call it a day because I was not finding anything old I decided to walk across the baseball field that was new, I just knew it had fill dump on it and I was right but what I didn't know it was fill from the rest of the park, a park that was around in 1860

Right away I started finding barbers again, many of them so I kept coming back and probably found 20 or more in total along with ih's and Merc's, Dave from ILL has found some also when we hunted together , ya just never know

Another time I was working right next to Camp Randal where the Badgers play in Wisconsin, about a mile west of Camp Randal their was a new school but as I drove to my job site every day and passed this school I said to myself that the school is new but I know the ground it sits on must be old because the neighborhood around this school is old. So one day leaving the job site I decided to walk the grounds to see if fill was dumped on it over the years and to my surprise I could see the roots of trees that I knew were old and said bingo, new school but old ground, all the fill was up by the buildings!!!!!

The following Sunday I was at the school at 6 am and after three hours of hunting and finding nothing I started to work my way back to the car and thinking why no old coins, why no coins at all for that matter , must have been hit for forty years by the large local detecting club in Madison and cleaned out of all coins then I heard that sweet single that only my ears could love and knew I had a old coin and deep because my Minelab told me so and I knew it.

The only question was I asked myself before I dug the careful 10 inche plug was, is it a barber quarter or deep seated dime laying perfect, laying flat

Much to my surprise this old gal was resting so pretty in the side of the hole in which I just dug then used my hands to pull and dig the dirt out've knowing for well the coin was close because my SunRay probe told me so that was hooked to my Minelab Explorer which fed me the information threw my gray ghost head phones

Then after all that and totally on cloud nine I walked another 6 feet toward my car and heard that copper sound and found this, I dug another 10 inche plug and found a civil war token from the State of Wisconsin, it don't get better then that, thanks Minelab, SunRay and Gray Ghost

So you did the right thing Rick and you just can't pass it up when you see a site like this, jump on it right away and every time

General Ray

 

[Elson(La)]

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[Dave~UT]

Some sidewalks were torn up in an area of town that was built in the 30/40s. I figured everybody and their brother had searched that area because Salt Lake has a large contingent of MDers. After finding a couple of Memorials, I got a nice signal at the end of the torn up area. Two inches down was the Seated. Glad I turned the car around that day.

 

[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[General Ray]

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[JSinkAZ]

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