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Salt Air... any minelab folks still hunting out there?

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utahshovelhead

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I went out a month or so ago and things are very sloooowww. But I see some new diggins and just wondered if anyone on dark side is out there anymore. I get a few targets now and then but its way far between. Any one using the force on the Salt Beach besides me?

Thanks for any response,
utahshovelhead
 
I lived in Idaho Falls and we would make the trip to the old amusement park regularly and we were by far not the first ones there . . . . amazing how much has come out of that site in 45 years of being hunted.
 
Hi Andy,
I heard a quite a few gold coins came out back then...before I even owned a detector...and know of only a couple that came out some 4 years or so ago. What was your best find back then and about how deep do you think you were getting? It has been hit pretty dang hard now by some really good equipment and large loops In fact you can actually see the digs from the google earth web site (crazy but true). I laugh when I see where I know I made the digs that can be seen from space, but lots of folks have dug allot of targets good and bad. Its nice to see you keeping your eye out on the forum. Thanks for your expertise on my favorite past time and for sharin.

good luck,
utahshovelhead
 
Got to know the owner of amusement park land who was around 70 and he stated when he was a kid his dad would send him out after a weekend and him and his sister would each fill a pie pan. so indeed lots of change hit the ground. unfortunately a creek ran thru the land and after several bad floods what was left moved downstream even though I got a few mercs and a buffalo nickle. the floods made pickings awful slim...Heck our local amusement park from way back closed in the sixties. and last year with a lot of hard work managed a 1892 barber dime, 1897 barber half and a 50's franklin half and a handful of wheaties even though hundreds if not thousands of detectors ran over the area the last 25 years or so..
 
Hey Dan,
I have had lots of fun out at Salt Air over some 6-7 years now. I dont find much any more. One day a few years ago I counted over 40 people on a Saturday hunting there including bottle diggers and detectors and some both.
At your spot if ever the water slows down enough in that flooding creek I would run right up the creek bed with your detector. I have a spot just like that floods and I have found spots where, just like a beach, coins and stuff will eddy and pocket up. In one spot on the flow line I found over 40 quarters, and just a few pennies and dimes. That is fun when you find a spot loaded up like that from years of flow...kinda like a gold seam in a creek. Yeah some of the area has been to eroded but the spots where it starts to settle down remain somewhat the same.

Good luck
utahshovelhead
 
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