Snakes In The Hole And Silver Too :detecting:

[tabman]

I thought I'd get out and do some detecting this morning in this beautiful mid 50 degree weather since I took yesterday off to get ready to go to a football game. I started out with the F75SE with the Sharpshooter coil (tones 4H, 85 on sensitivity, 7 on discrimination, boost mode). Right off I found a chunky silver ring near a hedge row. It sounded good and give a ID number in the high 80's. The next target that I found was a 1964 Washington Quarter. It didn't give off a good tone and the VDI numbers where bouncing from silver to zinc. I was really surprised when I popped it out the ground. My ProPointer ran out of juice and when I went to the car to change the battery I also switched detectors. I grabbed my trusty, modded Cibola. My first couple of targets that I popped out of the ground were a couple of snakes. They was slow moving since they were in hibernation. My next target turned out to be a 1964 Rosie. It give off a sweet soft audio tone in the discrimination mode and give a real soft modulated 'woo' audio in the all metal mode when I checked the target. I knew that it was a good chance of it being silver from those two responses. My next find was a locket. It wasn't all that deep and it gave a good audio response. Along the way today I also found a few wheat pennies (1929, 1939, 1926, 1942, 1928, 1942, 1944). Wheat pennies keep me motivated to keep digging and looking. I figure if they're there, there must be silver there as well.

tabman

 

[Firefighter42]

Nice finds! Not so much on the snakes, Yikes! I'm NOT a fan of Mr. NoToes

 

[hatpin]

I like the snakes. The silver too. Those are real neat ring and locket .

 

[kaolinwasher]

Tab it was not the snakes that bit you , its the Tesoro bug , I think you are hooked, nice assortment of finds, some guy from georgia came up hear and found some hunted out parks and used an outlaw, and within 10 feet of detecting found a nice 1891 parker dime , he digs just like you be well

 

[mudpuppy]

'MiniDragons'!...I bet they were guarding a bag full of old gold coins, like dragons tend to do...

This has got to be one of your coolest hunts of the entire year! Thanks for taking the time to pop some pics and do a write up!
Mud

 

[JimGilmore]

Looks like a glass snake..

 

[amberjack]

nice finds well done !!

just to quote Mick Dundee that's not a snake

sorry couldn't help myself yeah I know I have problems

its a eastern brown snake, deadly and angry

AJ

 

[OZDigger]

Tabman, those not snakes, they are worms for fishing.

Amberjack, of course that Eastern Brown is upset, it is a baby who has lost its mother.

Regards

OZDigger

 

[amberjack]

yep !!

seen some big ones scary suckers

AJ

 

[JimGilmore]

UHm are you in the US or austraila ??

 

[amberjack]

Jim

AJ

 

[JimGilmore]

hey stop jacking the snake thread....
I'll be more specific..hey, Tabman what state are you in....again it looks more like a glass lizard to me...
Not the photo's by AJ

 

[JimmyCT]

Nice job on all the silver!

Those snakes would of startled me back on my butt. Never would expect something like snakes come slithering out of the hole that I just dug.

 

[Charles (Sabre)(Tx)]

Kinda resembles a Brown Snake.
http://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/stodek.htm
http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/Storeria_dekayi/

I dig many of them up down here in South Texas

Charles

 

[JimGilmore]

take a look at his photo and take a look at glass lizards....looks real close also...
next time you see one pick it up and watch its eyes real close for a bit.
If it is a glass lizard it will blink. Snakes do not have eyelids but lizards do.

 

[amberjack]

don't worry Jim we wont send them over although you are quite welcome to them just having a bit of fun that's all no one got bit

gets a bit to serious around here sometimes so a bit of fun is a good thing

my intention was not a hijack or snakejack so sorry if it upset anyone was just in a playful mood



AJ