If I gambled I would be a problem gambler

[GunnarMN]

I have been back to the farm field now about 5 times and no more silver , but i keep thinking i will find another silver coin and it drives me back if i was a gambler i would be broke as i think i have a gamblers mentality could be a coin on the next pass so I keep going , the weeds have turned the tide of battle against me and are making it difficult to swing but i keep chopping them down and swinging hard, soon the rag seed will unleash thear polinous cemicals on me to give me hay fever and alergys and the thistle with its spikes shall prick me but i push on with mudd sticking to each shoe until i have 5 pounds on each leg but why press on because I am a gambler i think i will win

 

[Critterhunter]

Keep up that mindset and you'll for sure find more old coins. Is there a large old oak tree in the middle of the field or off near the side? People used to head for those to take a break in the shade and cool down. Think like a farm hand and look for the closest large tree for shade. Oaks grow slow so if it's big then you can bet it's 100 years old or more. Ever see a large tree right in the middle of a farm field with no other trees present and wonder why they left that one standing? They did that on purpose to have some shade for them and their horses or other cattle that was pulling the plow.

 

[JimmyCT]

You gambled and you didn't come home empty handed as you found some neat relics. I'm with Critterhunter. Keep that mindset and more coins will follow. It is that DRIVE inside you that will get the coins. When the mentality kicks in, "man, I have hit that field 1367 times and there is no more left" that is when you lose out. I'll take one local park around the corner from me as an example. This park has seen more detectors then skeeters in the park.This year alone I pulled several silver mercury and roosevelt dimes, a handful of wheat pennies, two indian head pennies and numerous clad coinage. This park is still pumping out coins even though the old man that stopped me approx. 21 years ago to tell me I wasn't going to find anything as it has been "cleaned out" I am glad I do not think like him and certainly glad I didn't listen. Just because he hit it in the 1960's with his magical BFO detector Technology now is 1000 times better. They may have did some fine cherry picking and pulled some nice coins but it isn't empty. I just have to work a little smarter and harder for them. Gunnar, I FEEL there is more in that massive field. Yes, we all get discouraged but like I said earlier, it is that DRIVE that sends you back knowing....Gunnar, since you are a gambling man, the only way to increase the odds of silver is to hunt it more. I am a gambling man too.... I bet that if you stick with it and hit that field / house / barn / watering hole / big tree in the middle of the field - you will pull more coins out. And when you do find them, take some nice close up pics and post them for us. Happy hunting gunnar I wish you the best in pulling out the other coins that are still there waiting for you. - Jim

I have been back to the farm field now about 5 times and no more silver , but i keep thinking i will find another silver coin and it drives me back if i was a gambler i would be broke as i think i have a gamblers mentality could be a coin on the next pass so I keep going , the weeds have turned the tide of battle against me and are making it difficult to swing but i keep chopping them down and swinging hard, soon the rag seed will unleash thear polinous cemicals on me to give me hay fever and alergys and the thistle with its spikes shall prick me but i push on with mudd sticking to each shoe until i have 5 pounds on each leg but why press on because I am a gambler i think i will win

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Gunnar,interesting finds,great job.HH Ron

 

[bootyhoundpa]

yes- i can relate to that gambler mentality....waking some saturday mornings 4am after spring thaw and just itching to get out there and swing it....the better your finds get the more you just want to be out there......like if i had my way i would be out there all the time.......i guess you could call it metal fever......oh yea,,just a tip for you.....if there is any source of water on the property be sure and work those areas over as quite often that is where the coins and buttons can be found from washing clothes,watering horses,bathing,etc.etc,, you sure are digging alot of iron considering you are using one of the best discriminating machines made.....happy hunting......

 

[GunnarMN]

this is an aire photo of the field i am hunting it was taken in 9-21-38 and you can see the farm house wich is no were to be seen today funny thing is all the silver coins were found 500 to 1000 ft away frome the house the only coins i found right next to the house was a 1909 wheat a 1919 cent and a 1901 indian within 15 ft of the house i was finding lots of shells then they dropped off and i started to find lots of slugs now I am in a dead zone critter good advice on the tree i think thear is one out thear i should go to were it was in 38 that is a good point and pot luck i think your prophecey will come to pass I just have to be patient

 

[JimmyCT]

Hey Gunnar these pictures are of 2011 & your 1938 photo. It is called overlay on google earth. Now you can exactly see where things were. I provided several overlay photos in different transitions (so you could see todays layout on the map and back in 1938. Hope this helps you out. that big tree (down near the heart-shaped tree line) on the right hand side near the road is exactly where that house use to sit. I personally would be hitting that whole right side of the map above the heart shaped tree line. Cool thanks for sharing your 1938 photo! Now, the rest is up to you. There are coins and relics that have been lost. Now, you have recover them. Good look Gunnar! Keep us posted!

 

[GunnarMN]

WOW that is really cool thanks man that is very helpfull and well dun. how did you get the size just right ? what an amaze yes the tree is were the house was thear is a stone foundation just below the ground and i have found many broken slow tines that have hit it and the cents were just 15 ft south of it and thear is old pottery and glass I know thear is the oout houses in the earea but its amazing how little has changed in 80 years and its intresting you said hit everything to the right of the heart shaped tree line in fact i have don that and that weare all the coins came from a 1926SLQuarter 1905 barber quarter and 1948 canadian and the 1901 indian now I am starting to go west of that line i put two stakes in the ground as a guide and keep moveing over 4 ft and covering all , hear you are hunting this site with me and you dont even live hear that cool

 

[BeachBat]

I presume that is a river running through the farm - if its not too deep I would detect in there, or if it is too deep then the edges of it because it certainly would have been wider many years ago..... There should be an area where clothes would be washed and they would also have had a bath...... sometimes you can get lucky in spotting exactly where that location is - look for a big flat rock that doesn't belong there under natural circumstances, it would be the washing rock..

As well as trees for cover farmhands could also have put a small shelter somewhere... there is a discolored patch at 45

 

[JimmyCT]

Yes, that is Rum River running through there. Hmmm Where did they get the name RUM from lol somebody had a distillary nearby lol Hey Gunnar, did anyone in the area make moonshine in their backyard? Gunnar, look real closely at the garden plot along the road side running North & South. See how that huge garden plot was ONLY on the East side of the property near the road. Now look at it present day. Now they plow the land West to East and East to West. Back in 1938 they only worked the right side of the property North and South.

See at the top of the heart of tree line there is a clump of bushes or trees? From that point go straight up and all the land to the East to the roadside of it is where I would concentrate my time hunting. I have drawn a line as to where the land that used to be farmed. I am not saying West of that line there isn't anything. I personally would devote my time in the rectangle box area all the way to the road. The farmer must of stopped his tractor / animal plow at the roadside to talk to his neighbors. He may even had a fruit and vegetable stand near the roadside. Man you have some serious hunting to get done. Take your time, go slow and have a blast!

also right long that line in drew, that clump of trees I most certainly would hit real good. This is most likely their resting spot from the hot summer days and guess what, they probably went swimming in the Rum river! So here they put all their change, keys pocket watches on the ground near the tree and went swimming. Somehow they accidently kicked the change on the ground and didn't realize it and now Gunnar is going to go cherry pick the silver right out of the ground!

Yes, I will help be your EYES treasure hunting from Connecticut. I am excited for you Gunnar! Charges those batteries up and get your detector swinging

 

[GunnarMN]

Rum river got its name from the color of the water, witch is amber or rum colored from the larg amount of decaying vegitation in it the river has lots of bottom land that floods every year in fackt the winding streem in the picture is just a overflow that drys up in the spring you can walk right across it the real river is in the north west part of the picture I have hunted everything inside the out lined earea and all the coins came from that earea but i have the garden plot next to the road to hit and after plowing all around the house again as that earea is infested with nails this farm was homesteaded in 1879 and abandoned in 1955 but i have what i think is a moonshine spot way back in the woods with a well point and lots of 20s 30s garbage on the top and i have lokated the out houses but not dug them yet but its like a tropical rain forest out thear now and i have to make a trail to it and its not on any map wich makes me think it was a logging camp or a moon shine spot i have never swung a detector on it yet i have to talk to a guy sho lived and knew what was going on in the earea and beach bat thats what I will do show the junk and point out the benifits of alowing me to detect,