Eric in RI
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Hey all, managed to get out on Saturday for a solo park mission. Yup you guessed it, same park / ball field. I first started the day by accidentally locking my keys in my car. Being a locksnith, I laughed at my own misfortune. The door shut behind me before I could grab it and the latch caught and clicked. Unfortunately all my tools are in my work truck and the park is a mile away from my house. Couldn't even call my roommate to bring me my spare key because the phone was in the car doh! 
I did however use my imagination and McGuyver skills. I found a really long pine tree stick, was able to wedge it between the door and the jamb and proceeded to push down the manual window. I gotta admit, not my best work, but I got in after about 15 minutes of cussing at my stupidity. After I got inside, I grabbed my key from the ignition grabbed my gear and started hunting!
About 1 1/2 hours of hunting, I hadn't even found a wheatie yet, I thought that was strange. I did however find a nice high tone about 6" deep. Rewarded with the 1952-D Roosie. I can't tell if I was the one who hit it with my blade or if it was pre-existing? The gouge didn't look new as before I cleaned it, I didn't know it was gouged. The dirt was caked in it. Anyway, he aint purty, but silver is silver. Another 2 hours goes by and still now wheats. I didnh't really care as I found silver and was happy with what I had. I walked over near the bleachers and came across a textbook nickel signal. Registering 4" deep, I said to myself, its a nickel or a ring. I love my optomism lol, dug down, pulled out the pro-pointer and it was still in the hole. Pry out a clod of dirty and see the rim of a nickel. Sweet, I wasn't wrong, wipe it off and see a no-date buffalo staring at me. Awesome! Stuck the pro-pointer in the hole again and there was another signal. I was like oh baby, this nickel has a brother! Pulled out another clod of dirt and saw silver! Turns out to be a 1948-D Roosie! This one is more worn, but no scratches! Awesome, first old coin pocket spill with the ATPro. Rescanned the hole, nothing.
Decided to end the hunt with a parking token. Cool, my first token!
Today my roommate and I went out to hunt near an old bottle dump that my roommate had dug out years ago. He told me that he found an 1873 Indian head penny on top of the ground when he was digging the dump, so we figured good chance more keepers were close by. Well we hunted it for about 2 hours and didn't find a single coin. Not even a Zincoln. My roommate came across a cherry signal, he dug down 18" and hit a piece of flat steel. At first we thought it was a box full of old coins, but alas, it was an old license plate from 1926. That was really cool to find!... We then hit a field near the bottle dump. My roommate found a sweet Vietnam combat medal. I found an old buckle, an ox shoe, tons of lead and junk brass items and lots of big iron. My roommate said, lets go somewhere where we can get a large cent. I was definitely game. Went off to an old farm field that we gained access to. Unfortunately, they are in the middle of development and put about 4ft of fill dirt on top of the farm field as they are going to be building houses. My roommate found a wheat penny on the path leading to the field. We decided to stick to the edges of the field as it was undisturbed. I came accross a dime signal registering 6" deep. Pulled out the pro-pointer and found that it was more like 4 - 5" deep. Took out a clod of dirt and seen the reverse of a silver dime. Kept praying for seated but turns out to be my first Barber dime with the ATPro. I was on cloud nine, I finally broke my streek of silver Roosies and got something older! I stuck to the edges for a while but didn't find anything. My roommate ventured into the middle of the field and found a silver salt shaker top marked sterling at an honest 10" deep. He said he's hunted by that tree with his old Bounty Hunter numerous times and today the AT-Pro paid off for him. Right after that I came across a signal that came up 65, 66, 67 and staying with those numbers. It said it was only 2" deep. Well it was about 5" deep again and I seen the rim of a penny. I said could it be an indian? Heck ya it was, this one turned out to be an 1890. Sweet! It started raining out and we didn't bring out waterproof headphones so we called it a day.
I gotta say, this ATPro is one mean silver sniffer! Thanks for checking out my post and HH
I did however use my imagination and McGuyver skills. I found a really long pine tree stick, was able to wedge it between the door and the jamb and proceeded to push down the manual window. I gotta admit, not my best work, but I got in after about 15 minutes of cussing at my stupidity. After I got inside, I grabbed my key from the ignition grabbed my gear and started hunting! About 1 1/2 hours of hunting, I hadn't even found a wheatie yet, I thought that was strange. I did however find a nice high tone about 6" deep. Rewarded with the 1952-D Roosie. I can't tell if I was the one who hit it with my blade or if it was pre-existing? The gouge didn't look new as before I cleaned it, I didn't know it was gouged. The dirt was caked in it. Anyway, he aint purty, but silver is silver. Another 2 hours goes by and still now wheats. I didnh't really care as I found silver and was happy with what I had. I walked over near the bleachers and came across a textbook nickel signal. Registering 4" deep, I said to myself, its a nickel or a ring. I love my optomism lol, dug down, pulled out the pro-pointer and it was still in the hole. Pry out a clod of dirty and see the rim of a nickel. Sweet, I wasn't wrong, wipe it off and see a no-date buffalo staring at me. Awesome! Stuck the pro-pointer in the hole again and there was another signal. I was like oh baby, this nickel has a brother! Pulled out another clod of dirt and saw silver! Turns out to be a 1948-D Roosie! This one is more worn, but no scratches! Awesome, first old coin pocket spill with the ATPro. Rescanned the hole, nothing.
Decided to end the hunt with a parking token. Cool, my first token!
Today my roommate and I went out to hunt near an old bottle dump that my roommate had dug out years ago. He told me that he found an 1873 Indian head penny on top of the ground when he was digging the dump, so we figured good chance more keepers were close by. Well we hunted it for about 2 hours and didn't find a single coin. Not even a Zincoln. My roommate came across a cherry signal, he dug down 18" and hit a piece of flat steel. At first we thought it was a box full of old coins, but alas, it was an old license plate from 1926. That was really cool to find!... We then hit a field near the bottle dump. My roommate found a sweet Vietnam combat medal. I found an old buckle, an ox shoe, tons of lead and junk brass items and lots of big iron. My roommate said, lets go somewhere where we can get a large cent. I was definitely game. Went off to an old farm field that we gained access to. Unfortunately, they are in the middle of development and put about 4ft of fill dirt on top of the farm field as they are going to be building houses. My roommate found a wheat penny on the path leading to the field. We decided to stick to the edges of the field as it was undisturbed. I came accross a dime signal registering 6" deep. Pulled out the pro-pointer and found that it was more like 4 - 5" deep. Took out a clod of dirt and seen the reverse of a silver dime. Kept praying for seated but turns out to be my first Barber dime with the ATPro. I was on cloud nine, I finally broke my streek of silver Roosies and got something older! I stuck to the edges for a while but didn't find anything. My roommate ventured into the middle of the field and found a silver salt shaker top marked sterling at an honest 10" deep. He said he's hunted by that tree with his old Bounty Hunter numerous times and today the AT-Pro paid off for him. Right after that I came across a signal that came up 65, 66, 67 and staying with those numbers. It said it was only 2" deep. Well it was about 5" deep again and I seen the rim of a penny. I said could it be an indian? Heck ya it was, this one turned out to be an 1890. Sweet! It started raining out and we didn't bring out waterproof headphones so we called it a day.
I gotta say, this ATPro is one mean silver sniffer! Thanks for checking out my post and HH
