pair of '44s

[DougF]

Beautiful weather this morning, went out to my favorite old park. Something has happened, either the conditions of the soil are ideal, or I have finally become one with the machine after 2 years. Since the beginning of November, I have found silver coins on 8 of 11 hunts. On one of the other three I found a deep colonial copper which is probably a KG II half penny. We have had a good amount of rain since Sept., and the soil is saturated but not muddy. Today I found a 1944 Washington qtr., my third silver quarter since Nov. 11th, after not finding one in the previous three years. The other '44 is the 1944 Merc. I found on Wednesday. They were only about 30 feet apart.

I think one factor is that I now have enough confidence in knowing the sound of a silver that I'm digging a lot fewer screw caps. Also I am eliminating some of the rusty nail signals. These two together let me cover more area. Today was a two hour hunt. That silvery thing on the right is a miniature screw cap, which really looked good in the dirt.

 

[born2hunt]

That's how it happened for me Doug. It took a while to learn the difference between the good signals and the trash talk but once you know what to listen for....it's off to the races. Great finds.

 

[sgoss66]

Outstanding. I "third" the notion that "knowing what to listen for" is a big part of it...I'm also learning to dig less trash and more silver. That's what people mean, I guess, when they say "you have to learn the language of the Explorer."

Great hunting!

Steve

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Id take that any day! Nice!

 

[silverfix]

Nice hunt dougf.

 

[Gold Nuggets]

Very nice silver Merc dime and the silver Washington quarter.
Caption got my attention though. Gold Nuggets

 

[Hotcz70]

Nice finds Doug.

 

[LFarthing42]

Nice hunt.