Eric in RI
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The Saturday before last I managed to get out to the pounded park for a couple of hours. I hit this trashy area along a sidewalk. Others have pounded this section to death, but not good enough. My first good target was the skeleton key. It was a very loud signal, ringing up high 80's and nearly blew my eardrums. It was only 3 inches deep. I followed an underground powerline close to where I parked. I thoroughly hunt these areas as lots of people skip over them because of the interference. I got a mixed signal that was all over the place. As I moved the coil back and forth I heard a slight high tone at the edge of the jumpy signal. I first dug the jumpy signal and was rewarded with some aluminum wire. I swung again where I was getting that faint high tone and sure enough, it was still there. Dug a plug next to the open plug and was rewarded with the 1944 Merc. I decided to call it a day.
The following Sunday Jay and I were out scouting new spots when we came across this bulldozed lot. The place looked old and promising as it was in an older section of town. The first good signal I got was the Municipal Group medallion from Springfield, Massachusetts. I thought for sure it was a colonial copper at first in the hole, but I like medallions too. Things were pretty slow for a few hours. I had found 2 wheats near the old bulldozed house site. Jay found an 1888 Indian penny on top of the ground so we gridded this section. Jay got into a hot spot and nabbed a buffalo nickel, a 1928 Merc and a 1964D Roosie. After he was done in that spot I eagerly wandered over to see if he missed anything. This area was quite trashy and was literally a bed of nails. I slowly worked my way in a straight line and nabbed the 1905 V-nickel first, then came the 1882 Indian, then the 1876 Shield nickel and lastly was the Buffalo nickel. It was getting dark so we decided that we would come back the following weekend.
Well, the following Sunday came and we headed out to the same spot again and invited our buddy Ron. Jay started off by nabbing a really nice 1873 indian with full liberty and some really sharp details. Then Jay found a 1942-P war nickel followed by a 1905 indian. Ron was 2nd on board with a really sweet sterling silver mechanical pencil that looks old. I personally wasn't having a good day. My pro pointer has been falsing a lot and literally will sound off with the slightest movement. When the 3 of us hunt it is very competitive. There is a lot of harmless gloating when good finds are made, but you never wanna be the last guy to find something. Luckily Ron had his new Garrett carrot and offered to let me borrow his backup pro-pointer which I will probably buy off of him in the next few weeks. That's when things started getting better for me. I came across this bouncy mid-tone that every once in awhile would produce a high tone. Iron was littered all around the signal so I had my doubts. I dug a small plug and popped out what I thought was the cap to a lipstick container. It was pretty thin and brittle and I stabbed it with my digger during retrieval. It looked really nice with that gold color but I immediately dismissed it as just fake gold to get my blood boiling. Jay came over to see what I had dug. He took one look at it and said you got 14k gold Eric. I was like get the f outta here, you're bs'ing me... He was like it says "14 karat gold" right there. Sure enough, it did. I guess I need to up my glasses prescription lol. Finally I was on board and didn't feel the competitive burden weighing down on my shoulders. The area we hunted was starting to get picked clean.
About an hour later, Ron comes walking up to me with a really puzzled look on his face. He wanted to show me an item he found and didn't know if it was a coin or not. I took one look at it and sure enough, he got himself a nice colonial copper. Its about the size of a U.S. half cent. I was definitely puzzled by it because I never seen one like it before. It was holed at the top, but it looks pretty old. I'd have to guess mid to late 1700's. He is currently soaking it now and I will try to get pictures of it cleaned up from him. Ron showed Jay and I where he found it and told us that his time for detecting was running out and wanted us to pound the section with him. Jay was about 30 feet away and called us over saying he had a real nice tone. I checked it with my machine and we both agreed that it was probably a silver quarter. It was pretty deep and Jay ended up borrowing my Sampson shovel to excavate a nice colonial shoe buckle. We hunted that area for a good hour and not much else was to be found. I walked back to the bulldozed home and heard the best signal all day. From 6 - 7 inches I dug the colonial knee buckle. Not much else after that. The broken crotal bell was a heartbreaker for me. I have never found a one complete and intact. After shooting the crap with Jay and Ron, I reluctantly gave Ron his pro-pointer back.
When I got home I cleaned up the gold whatsit and performed an acid test. Sure enough, it tested positive for 14k gold. It weighs 5.6 grams. Not a bad producing spot!!! We will definitely be going back again. HH!
The following Sunday Jay and I were out scouting new spots when we came across this bulldozed lot. The place looked old and promising as it was in an older section of town. The first good signal I got was the Municipal Group medallion from Springfield, Massachusetts. I thought for sure it was a colonial copper at first in the hole, but I like medallions too. Things were pretty slow for a few hours. I had found 2 wheats near the old bulldozed house site. Jay found an 1888 Indian penny on top of the ground so we gridded this section. Jay got into a hot spot and nabbed a buffalo nickel, a 1928 Merc and a 1964D Roosie. After he was done in that spot I eagerly wandered over to see if he missed anything. This area was quite trashy and was literally a bed of nails. I slowly worked my way in a straight line and nabbed the 1905 V-nickel first, then came the 1882 Indian, then the 1876 Shield nickel and lastly was the Buffalo nickel. It was getting dark so we decided that we would come back the following weekend.
Well, the following Sunday came and we headed out to the same spot again and invited our buddy Ron. Jay started off by nabbing a really nice 1873 indian with full liberty and some really sharp details. Then Jay found a 1942-P war nickel followed by a 1905 indian. Ron was 2nd on board with a really sweet sterling silver mechanical pencil that looks old. I personally wasn't having a good day. My pro pointer has been falsing a lot and literally will sound off with the slightest movement. When the 3 of us hunt it is very competitive. There is a lot of harmless gloating when good finds are made, but you never wanna be the last guy to find something. Luckily Ron had his new Garrett carrot and offered to let me borrow his backup pro-pointer which I will probably buy off of him in the next few weeks. That's when things started getting better for me. I came across this bouncy mid-tone that every once in awhile would produce a high tone. Iron was littered all around the signal so I had my doubts. I dug a small plug and popped out what I thought was the cap to a lipstick container. It was pretty thin and brittle and I stabbed it with my digger during retrieval. It looked really nice with that gold color but I immediately dismissed it as just fake gold to get my blood boiling. Jay came over to see what I had dug. He took one look at it and said you got 14k gold Eric. I was like get the f outta here, you're bs'ing me... He was like it says "14 karat gold" right there. Sure enough, it did. I guess I need to up my glasses prescription lol. Finally I was on board and didn't feel the competitive burden weighing down on my shoulders. The area we hunted was starting to get picked clean.
About an hour later, Ron comes walking up to me with a really puzzled look on his face. He wanted to show me an item he found and didn't know if it was a coin or not. I took one look at it and sure enough, he got himself a nice colonial copper. Its about the size of a U.S. half cent. I was definitely puzzled by it because I never seen one like it before. It was holed at the top, but it looks pretty old. I'd have to guess mid to late 1700's. He is currently soaking it now and I will try to get pictures of it cleaned up from him. Ron showed Jay and I where he found it and told us that his time for detecting was running out and wanted us to pound the section with him. Jay was about 30 feet away and called us over saying he had a real nice tone. I checked it with my machine and we both agreed that it was probably a silver quarter. It was pretty deep and Jay ended up borrowing my Sampson shovel to excavate a nice colonial shoe buckle. We hunted that area for a good hour and not much else was to be found. I walked back to the bulldozed home and heard the best signal all day. From 6 - 7 inches I dug the colonial knee buckle. Not much else after that. The broken crotal bell was a heartbreaker for me. I have never found a one complete and intact. After shooting the crap with Jay and Ron, I reluctantly gave Ron his pro-pointer back.
When I got home I cleaned up the gold whatsit and performed an acid test. Sure enough, it tested positive for 14k gold. It weighs 5.6 grams. Not a bad producing spot!!! We will definitely be going back again. HH!
You sure got some nice rewards for your hunt.