Old bottle and river finds

[fongu]

I went to this old church area I have permission to search and it's so overgrown, I didn't find anything and could barely swing my GTI-2500 with the sniper coil. It was frustrating, but I finally found the debris from where the old church was. Lots of old cans and nails and eyeballed this old Duraglass bottle from 1911. Screw threads, but still over 100 years old.
Went to the river and hunted about 5 hours and found some costume jewelry, a marble and 28 cents in clad and when I went to leave, I was broke down. AAA sent a person to jump start me and I got home about 9 pm and was real tired. Enjoyed the trip tho. Without the sifter, these items would have went right thru my scoop. I hope to modify my scoop with some 1/4 inch hardware cloth before my next trip. Somebody posted on one of these forums and I can shake my scoop out without being afraid of losing small targets.
One of the reasons my pain is worse is I lift the scoop full of sand or mussels and dump it into my sifter and it catches lots of small items that used to fall thru my scoop. The ladybug was a 73 on the DVI, the item that looks like it has diamonds on it was a 99. The small item with stone in middle was a 60-61 and the little thing that looked like an eagle folded over was a 52.
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[Hank68]

Sorry you had difficulty getting home, but persistent pays off, congrats

 

[Dancer]

Fongu. Looks like you about got your river down pat. Any new areas on the screen?

 

[fongu]

Thanks Hank68.
Dancer, I have several very promising areas, but just can't get to them right now. When I went to the old church Saturday, somebody had dug about 30 holes so I have some competition, but I'm the only one who has permission to detect there and that's what makes our hobby look bad. There is a creek that used to be an old swimming hole, but the water was too deep for my stock headphones. Now that I have the amphibians, I hope to hit it next weekend. Two other places I have permission are so rugged I can't drive the car I was using Saturday and I have to put a belt on my car today. One of these places the land owner wants me to wait until his crops are harvested before I go there, so it's a waiting game.