Muddyshoes
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Sorry, no pics.
Has been raining for a couple days in central Florida, but I decided to go out anyway to a local well-searched park that borders a lake that gets pretty high during the rain. As a result, the grass is very lush and rich, very thick and is about 4 inches ABOVE the curb line in places. The dirt because it's so wet all the time is like wet, black clay meaning you look pretty nasty and dirty after digging a few of those 6-8 in targets.
The area has a volleyball court with a sand substrate which means mid to upper 70-reading bottlecaps within about a 50 foot border of the court.
As expected, the main grassy area didn't reveal more than a few coins and a rusted razor blade. Fortunately my pro pointer found it before my fingers did.
I did spot a flower bed where the bushes had been removed recently, so I got excited and shot to that spot. Also as expected, the area was a bottle cap, pulltab and screw cap repository for the local bums who frequent the park. However, I got a good, solid 81 and dug down about 3 inches to find a silver 1964 rosie! I proceeded to dig every piece of crap in that flower bed but no other silver or coins were to be found.
I stopped for a bit and scanned the area and found what looked like a narrow walking path to get from one area of the park to the other between some bushes. I hit that spot pretty hard and found about 30 pennies, a couple nickels, about a dozen clad dimes and seven clad quarters, an old belt buckle, the top of a toy car and about an inch down, a very thick and heavy sterling silver man's mood ring. (Nothing was very amazing which is why there is no picture...we all know what a pile of dirty coins looks like.)
It started to rain really heavily with lightning and since the stock AT Pro headphones aren't waterproof, I headed on home.
To date after 7 hunts, I've scored 7 rings, (5 of them silver..no gold yet), 2 silver dimes, about $21 in coins and the pile of usual curious stuff that's fun to pull out and look at now and then as you say, "I still don't know how that could have gotten there..."
Sadly, I had to leave a solid 87 that was at least 8 inches down entangled within the roots of a cypress tree right at the lake's edge and under the water line in that black mud. I didn't have my chainsaw with me...
Has been raining for a couple days in central Florida, but I decided to go out anyway to a local well-searched park that borders a lake that gets pretty high during the rain. As a result, the grass is very lush and rich, very thick and is about 4 inches ABOVE the curb line in places. The dirt because it's so wet all the time is like wet, black clay meaning you look pretty nasty and dirty after digging a few of those 6-8 in targets.
The area has a volleyball court with a sand substrate which means mid to upper 70-reading bottlecaps within about a 50 foot border of the court.
As expected, the main grassy area didn't reveal more than a few coins and a rusted razor blade. Fortunately my pro pointer found it before my fingers did.
I did spot a flower bed where the bushes had been removed recently, so I got excited and shot to that spot. Also as expected, the area was a bottle cap, pulltab and screw cap repository for the local bums who frequent the park. However, I got a good, solid 81 and dug down about 3 inches to find a silver 1964 rosie! I proceeded to dig every piece of crap in that flower bed but no other silver or coins were to be found.
I stopped for a bit and scanned the area and found what looked like a narrow walking path to get from one area of the park to the other between some bushes. I hit that spot pretty hard and found about 30 pennies, a couple nickels, about a dozen clad dimes and seven clad quarters, an old belt buckle, the top of a toy car and about an inch down, a very thick and heavy sterling silver man's mood ring. (Nothing was very amazing which is why there is no picture...we all know what a pile of dirty coins looks like.)
It started to rain really heavily with lightning and since the stock AT Pro headphones aren't waterproof, I headed on home.
To date after 7 hunts, I've scored 7 rings, (5 of them silver..no gold yet), 2 silver dimes, about $21 in coins and the pile of usual curious stuff that's fun to pull out and look at now and then as you say, "I still don't know how that could have gotten there..."
Sadly, I had to leave a solid 87 that was at least 8 inches down entangled within the roots of a cypress tree right at the lake's edge and under the water line in that black mud. I didn't have my chainsaw with me...
Probly motivates a few hunters to c a pic of a dirty pile of clad with a silver ring sitting on top. Cant call u Muddyshoes if your not going to stay out in the rain and hunt
