My wife and I spent our annual week or so up in the northern reaches of Mn last week and I had the occasion to revisit the areas now 115 year old fairgrounds.
I first began hunting this old site about twenty years ago and am quite certain I may have been one of the first serious detector swingers to have hunted on it back then. IH, v and buffalo nickels, wheaties and silver dimes and quarters, including Barber, were fairly common place each trip up there, for several years. For the last five or so years, though, the old grounds had started to become quite frugal. Others have learned of the merits of hunting old fairgrounds, too, it appears.
Anyway, not to turn this post into a book, I was able to devote my usual 25 or so hours to the site and came away with 9 silver dimes, 3 buffalo and 2 war nickels, 1 silver ring, a handful of wheaties and some clad. Two of the dimes were recovered from true 9 and 10" depths.
The f75 once again worked through all the trash quite nicely. Some bottle caps, though, still fool me and the f75. I inched along fairly slowly and would investigate all high tones, including tics. If I got a good coin reading on a tic, I dug it. Both of the deep dimes were just high tone tics and bouncy readings of 68-75. The top 3-4" of soil was quite dry. There was a slight dampness below 4", but over all conditions were pretty dry.
My settings were usually disc. 6, sen. 70-80, tones 3h & 4h, process de and gb was in the low 70's.
Thanks for reading. HH jim tn
I first began hunting this old site about twenty years ago and am quite certain I may have been one of the first serious detector swingers to have hunted on it back then. IH, v and buffalo nickels, wheaties and silver dimes and quarters, including Barber, were fairly common place each trip up there, for several years. For the last five or so years, though, the old grounds had started to become quite frugal. Others have learned of the merits of hunting old fairgrounds, too, it appears.
Anyway, not to turn this post into a book, I was able to devote my usual 25 or so hours to the site and came away with 9 silver dimes, 3 buffalo and 2 war nickels, 1 silver ring, a handful of wheaties and some clad. Two of the dimes were recovered from true 9 and 10" depths.
The f75 once again worked through all the trash quite nicely. Some bottle caps, though, still fool me and the f75. I inched along fairly slowly and would investigate all high tones, including tics. If I got a good coin reading on a tic, I dug it. Both of the deep dimes were just high tone tics and bouncy readings of 68-75. The top 3-4" of soil was quite dry. There was a slight dampness below 4", but over all conditions were pretty dry.
My settings were usually disc. 6, sen. 70-80, tones 3h & 4h, process de and gb was in the low 70's.
Thanks for reading. HH jim tn