never give up never surrender!

[Ed Steinhoff]

As a follow up to muds post below, I would like to say that yes finds numbers are down a bit but I have been concentrating on the 4 feet around small park basketball courts so total numbers are down but the nice bling finds are way up!
Just to change pace, went back to coin shooting today and played with different settings on the f70.
Leslie the bluenoser inspired me three years ago to never return home without "quota" ie 50 coins.
As a personal challenge I have up ed the ante to 100! Did it today in my favorite park, 103 coins all clad no bling but I had a ball!
It is still there in spite of the increase in hunters, experience and knowledge of your machine will still beat the newbies!
HH Ed in co.

 

[mudpuppy]

Thanks for the kick Ed! I read your post early this am and went charging out all refreshed...got this 14k white gold with a nice diamond off the dry sand!
Mud

 

[Lakota]

There you go guys , thats what I'm talking about... Though this AM my water season hit a bit of a bump. The spot that treated me so well last year, had two gentlemen in the water with equipment in hand. Turned out to be a couple of nice guys and they weren't finding much ( neither was I, but I hammered the snot out of this spot last year) so what fresh drops were there fell to the older gentlemen's Stingray II w/ clean sweep , his son was running the Stingray like myself . So while it was real nice to talk to some fellow detectorists it was a surprise in deed.
Then to top it off my other favorite spot is already closed down for the rest of the year. Didn't know that they shut down after labor day.

Yet I don't hear a fat lady singing yet , so we will see . Oh before I forget , only good find from this morning was a Sterling butterfly pin with abaloni in the wing ( well used to be ) so not a total skunk.

Good luck and stay safe guys,

Lakota

 

[jim tn]

I don't consider myself to be to bad a hunter along with guys I hunt with, but I am non the less pleasantly surprised how often those hunted out spots continue to give up goodies. It is just amazing how often some of these spots yield some numbers of coins, old and new, by simply swinging from another direction, as one example of "how to." Or, by simple digging something a little scratchy of a bit different sounding and reading. IH's, Buffalos's and even a peace dollar recently found their way into my pouch by digging signals that I and others and previously passed up. Every time this happens my faith gets renewed to "never give up and surrender." There are still plenty of goodies out there guys and gals. HH jim tn

 

[Ed Steinhoff]

Way to go on the nice ring Mud!I stopped for an hour this eve. on the way home at a basketball court I hadn't hunted in a couple of years.
Pulled 2 quarters, 22 Penny's, a large bracelet and a silver "princes" ring. {both junk)
The point is, stuff is still to be found and this addiction is still fun!
HH Ed in co.
PS. I remember well your posts from last year when you were getting close to 10,00 coins, you were plenty excited then!!!
10,000 coins! at my yearly average it would take me 5 years to find that much!!

 

[ez4sure]

thanks for motivation ed and nice gold mud wtg after reading all your posts i hit the beach today hh

 

[dbax]

Nice ring, Mud. Are you going to find the owner and give it to them? That is what people as me all the time. I tell them sure, and I find the people that lost the coin too. Nice ring, nice find and if that is a real diamond well, nice find. I found a Ipad in about f 4" of sand on the beach once, but and it was locked. Contacted Apple and gave them the serial, but they said it had been "Jail broke", which I guess is a no, no, so no warranty or coverage of any kind so they could do nothing but reload their own software back to it, which would unlock it. So we did that and I gave it to my wife, she is still using it, a year later. Sometimes you just cannot find the previous owner. Peace

 

[mudpuppy]

Yep, found the owner, just returned it Friday...that was a .58 diamond in a solitaire setting...they finally posted their loss on CL as their last hope...they went back where they lost it with a detectorist less than 12hrs after they lost it, but it was gone...I told them I have been waiting for them to post a sign at the beach entrance or CL and have been keeping it safe for them. funny how things happen, getting up early and outrunning everybody else seems to work up here..and with all this sand, I really do hunt for visual signs of a lost item...sand all scratched up in ever expanding arcs where somebody was crawling and looking...
Mud

ps..Huh, I just noticed... everything I'm wearing in this picture Including the smile I found while out detecting this summer!

 

[Ed Steinhoff]

GOOD JOB MUD!
Hope it brings good finds karma and negates some of the bad images portrayed by those stupid
tv shows
HH Ed in co.