More Of My Finds...

[Critterhunter]

Due to the weather I wasn't able to get out hunting for about a month or so until this week when I went out twice. First time out I got a war nickle. Second hunt I managed a cool looking tie clip with an eagle on it. It's a fairly large tie clip and looks like it's sterling while the eagle is some kind of die cast metal. I think it might be from WWII. Plan to post a pic of it in the What Is It Forum to find out and will throw a pic on here too. It was about 5 or 6 inches deep and read like a pull tab at I think 159, but I suspect the eagle was on top in the ground causing it to read that low. I plan to flip it upside down and see if it reads coin because the clip it's self sure does look silver. Can't find any markings on it, though.

A friend dug a merc and another friend dug a 1906 indian on the same day.

 

[Critterhunter]

I got permission to hunt the yard of a house that was built around 1910 and headed out there yesterday for a short half hour hunt, just to see what the place was like. The yard was devoid of signals for the most part. Popped a wheat and a few other copper pennies along with a nickel. In the backyard I got a 159 signal that sounded solid and round. Passed it up to search out some quick silver. Ran out of time to hunt but kept thinking about that 159 signal. Since there were no tabs let alone hardly signals at all in this yard I figured I better go back and dig that one up. I had a strong feeling it would be a ring. I've found yards to be one of the best places to find rings and other good finds that read down in the "junk" range because most people just don't throw trash in their own yard. If something is dropped in the yard it's usually by accident, so I always feel the percentage of rings to trash is much better in yards like this.

Anyway, went back and dug up that signal and sure enough it was a ring. I wasn't even surprised, almost half expecting it to be. Sounded to "round" and solid for one thing, and as said there wasn't much junk there to make me suspect it would also be. It was caked with mud and at first I thought it was white gold since it read so low. Then I saw a crack in the side of it and thought maybe it was silver, as a cracked silver ring can read lower than being a "COIN" signal. Got it home and after washing the mud off it I was let down to see that it wasn't even silver, more like a silver plated woman's ring.

Still, I just thought it was worth mentioning. It's odd that I just "knew" that signal was going to be a ring. If you are hunting a yard with little trash then your odds of those few junk signals present being a ring go way up IMO.