SHATTERED my silver record today! my old record was 11.

[Mike in Dana Point Ca]

hi all,

first of all let me say, "wooooohoooooo!" ok, now that that's out of the way i'll tell you about my best day ever in my detecting career. let me tell you- i feel like i'm dreaming. i've been feeling like this for about the last five hours!

it all started when i met mike (ratman) at a park that i've been to two or three times in the last 3 years. we met at around 7 am this morning and got to swinging. the day started off slow for me, as mike had a few wheats and a merc before i even had a wheat. eventually i dug a few wheats, then at 8 inches i got myself an '06 indian! minutes later i dug my first silver: a merc. about 6 feet away i dug another merc. cool. i was on the board. i moved into another area and no sooner than i put my coil down, i get a great signal...merc. a little time goes by and i move into an area in the front of the park. it's a turf section that butts up right against the sidewalk. i start swinging and proceed to dig 2 wheats in one hole, then another wheat a few feet away. then i dig up a merc. i call mike over and we gabbed for a bit, then a foot away i get another merc. it was 11:30 am and i had 5 silvers in my pocket. i could have left then and called it a great day. but it was early and i had the whole day to detect. about this time mike had to take off. we said our goodbyes and i got back to it.

the area i was working was a green turf patch about 25 ft X 75 ft. running along the sidewalk in front of the park. after mike left i moved down the way a bit and started picking up wheats. then i dug a merc. about a foot away i dug a rosie, and this became the pattern for the rest of the day. when i broke for lunch i had nine silvers. i texted dan, val and jayson and dan texted back, "go for a record." twist my arm...

soon after lunch, i got numbers 10 and 11. sweet! i tied my record. just one more...number 12 came in the form of a rosie. then 13,14 and 15. i couldn't believe it! i took a water break and called dan and mike. they couldn't beleive it either. when i started up again, i managed to pull two more silver dimes. i was at 17. i knew that was val's record, so i called up the boys in Iowa to let them know. val told me to stop right there. he didn't want me to break his coveted record of 17. but jayson egged me on, telling me to go for 20. i still had about an hour of daylight left, so i went for it. a bit later i get a great signal, dig down and out pops TWO ROSIES!! i immediately call up jayson and tell him i just found #'s 18 and 19. he just starts laughing. while i'm on the phone with him i recheck the hole with the probe..."there's another coin in there!", i scream! i told him, "i'm gonna put the phone down for a sec while i dig this out. i might be about to dig #20!" i remove a portion of the bottom of the hole and BOOM! rosie! i couldn't believe it. i went from 17 to 20 with one hole.

after that i hunted for maybe 10 more minutes, then decided to call it a day.

i don't know if i'll ever be able to beat this day.

i ended up with 12 mercs, 7 rosies, a war nickel, '06 indian, and 54 wheats. most of the coins were 5-8". not sure of all the dates, as most of the coins from this place were pretty corroded. i was surprised that no big silvers popped up. i'm not complaining though.

thanks for the long read. i'm gonna go have a beer.

HH,

Mike

 

[Nick A]

I do pretty well getting silver every time out, but that's usually ONE coin!
Amazing! There's hope for me yet!

 

[mj-air23]

20 silver in one day, now matter what they are is fantastic! Any good date Merc's in there that you found? Once again, congrats!

 

[digitrich]

It's hard to imagine any one would not have already checked that spot years earlier. I get in parks in towns so far off the beaten path, you'd think there's just know way someone's ran a detector here, only to find out 93% of the park has been specifically cherry picked for silver. I guess you found that other 7%. Good job.

 

[Mike in Dana Point Ca]

mj-air, no good dates as far as i know. i think the earliest one is a '23. i thought a barber would eventually show up, since i did find an IH.

 

[James N.D.]

Only thing different was that I had found 85 Wheats, and 31 Silver but in 2 days. I had 26 Silver though on that Saturday alone with Big Silver too boot. Isn't a GREAT FEELING to dig that much Silver in one outing? I know it feels great when I do it! Make sure you go through all them Coins to make sure there isn't any Key Dates before you clean them. I wish you Continued Success, Good Luck and HH on your next adventure out.

 

[Mike in Dana Point Ca]

hi james. thanks.


where did you find the 26 in one day? was it a park, demo, old fairground? that's amazing. i just couldn't believe how many deep signals i was getting in this area! one right after the other, most were wheats or silver. some of the deep ones turned out to be early 60s memorials, but it astounded me how this place went overlooked until now.

 

[Andrus(ut)]

I bet that your concentration was at a peak. It seems when you get hot even more coins come because of positive attitude. 54 wheat's also, those are the times when your arm never gets tired from swinging but your wrists and back start to feel it from digging.

 

[sharp_shooter_1]

good job sharp shooter said that

 

[jeff & Maria]

n/t

 

[NealNoIN]

n/t

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

That's a heck of a day Mike...I have found a few "hot spots" like that but none in quite some time. That's the kind of place you can hunt again and again and it will keep giving it up. Were you using the stock coil? Depending on the amount of modern coins and trash there is, it would seem a no-brainer that after you get done "cleaning up" with the bigger coil that you hit it again with something like the 5" or 6" round or maybe the Excelerator 4.5 x 7" coil which I found to be terrific in those types of places, being able to run 30 to 32 on the sens (amazing, but true) and get depth nearly equal to the bigger coils. Anyway, nice hunt!