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Just got back from the Buckeye Hunt in New Concord Ohio

Ron from Michigan

Ron from Michigan

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I can't say enough about the quality and effort Bill and Don Hayes put fourth to make this a great hunt.Michigan Speedway has nothing over the thrills and spills here.My brothers and I had a lot of fun and found a lot of silver.Met some really nice people,LOL the Sovereign did interfere with other detectors on the field.Sorry Mike I did try to avoid you and your MXT.Yelp the comp hunt was brutal though only one competitor was carried away in an ambulance.Iron man Mike was back before we could finish signing his get well card the next day.There was a Wedding at the end of the hunt the groom was a competitor.Honest this is all true including the Sovereign finding 66 Silver dimes,4 Silver Quarters,3 Silver Halves,and a 1/2 oz.silver coin from a token.HH Thanks Ron
 
Ron sounds like you had fun. We're all glad it wasn't you hauled off in the ambulance. hope he's doing ok. Thats a lot of silver.
Good luck Gary
 
Gary,Mike is fine,great guy,spoke to him before I left today.I stayed around until EMS loaded him, I was glad to see he was OK the next day,he thanked me for my little help, just a backup helper.I 've back boarded a few with the National Ski Patrol,the EMS crew they did an excellent job.The Buckeye hunt was a lot of fun,though disappointed not to see any Sovereign hunters.My brother walked by a disgruntle group talking about that Minelab on the field making their detectors crazy.By the end of the weekend we were friends,I asked one of the anti Sovereign group members to be our fifth hunter on the poker hunt,Mark found the joker card and all five of us walked away with a 50 cent silver piece,we ended up with three Queens for a win. Thanks Ron
 
Sounds like you guys had a great time. Glad he was OK, and it looks like you cleaned up on the silver! :thumbup:
 
Good looking haul sounds like a lot of fun , that is a lot of silver ! HH Jim
 
That was a great workout too. just to get all those silver coins, I hope it was not scorching hot like the pass few days here on the NWest.
HH.
Abel.
 
Critter,my brother has a 1235X he decided to try for the 2nd hunt.It was amazing how well that detector worked, much better than his F75 for the seeded hunts.The Sovereign did work great.Maybe you should consider the Buckeye Hunt next year.Cost wise made most of the entry fees back on the silver finds.Thanks Ron
 
Hey Ron it was nice meeting you at the Hayes hunt. Glad you had a good time and thanks for a few pointers on which sovereign to consider. Please come back next yr.
 
Nicklepicker,again the Hayes did an excellent job,but the people or competitors there made the Buckeye Hunt even a greater success.LOL I survived the Hotel stay,no Price Line for me.By the way the Sovereign is one of the best nickle machines I've used.Glad you had a safe ride home. Thanks Ron
 
Excuse me Ron but both your brothers found the jokers and got the win. MARK, not Mike had the queen. It was a great hunt , over $10 in silver myself. Glad you talked me into giving my Fisher 1235 a try. Looking forward to next years hunt.
 
Kevin, you are correct Mark got the queen.Those 1235X Fisher's are still the benchmark for a performance detector in the comp hunts.Thanks Ron
 
Ron, while I've never tried a seeded hunt so I don't know for sure, I don't think it's my cup of tea. Just no big interest in it. To me it feels like fishing a stocked private pond. But, I won't criticize others who find it enjoyable. After all, I have gotten criticized on this forum many times for doing air testing. Sure, not the same as actual undug targets, but just the same I find it very enjoyable and my "thing", and I do find that there are things you can gleam from controlled tests what targets in a hole might not be able to tell you if you don't be very careful when digging to see exactly their orientation (being on edge, etc) and if any masking targets were nearby.

Whatever floats your boat is my motto. Some guys enjoy just clad hunting and reap the rewards of banking those clads for buying old silvers at the store or paying for new equipment. Sure, I still clad hunt here and there, but I enjoy old coin or ring hunting more than anything else. So why should I criticize others for doing what they like to do, when some seem to feel the need to criticize me for my "thing" being testing controls, settings, coils, or machines against each other in certain ways? I don't want others doing it to me, so I won't do it to others.

I can relate to the air or other testing being felt "worthless" to some for one big reason. When I see guys who get all involved in fantasy football teams I don't see the point myself when you can watch the real game and to me (IMO) that's much more interesting and "real" then playing fake teams against each other. So I can understand why others might feel my "thing" is pointless, but I just say to each their own...

That old 1235 Fisher is a legend. Many guys remarked about it's depth and ability to unmask coins in junk for years. Or, at least I think that's the model, as I never followed the earlier Fisher models all that close.
 
Critter,the seeded hunts are great to place to network with other hunters.Some people bring their finds found from their coin to relic hunting.Example Mark showed my brother and I a 18K gold bracelet found water hunting in Lake Erie.Kevin brought along his Civil War finds including his belt buckle.Mark showed me a beautiful small 14k diamond ring he said too bad it was junk because it had a P on it.My brother Kevin explained the P was an(pure 14K) older mark for plum and Marion the Gold guy from Ohio confirmed also,Mark was surprised and happy and remove the ring from his junk bucket.Critter if you never been to one of these comp hunts you are missing out on a lot of information and a chance to hone your techniques,also can give some people a reality check on how good they really are it does for me.The 1235X is old but not obsolete my brother let my cousin Owen use it on a short get together in a well worked favorite WV park on his way back to VA yesterday.The 1235X found 40 coins including wheat's a silver dime and a clad half in a couple hour hunt by an experienced hunter who never used this unit before.I would consider making the Buckeye Hunt next year its right in your back yard location wise,and a lot of fun.Thanks Ron
 
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