THE GOLDEN TAKES 1ST PLACE... 'Guess I'm the Winner!! :super:

[dahut]

Got back to the high school today for an hour or so. The GOLDEN was ready to go, as it was still packed from yesterday's road trip to N. Carolina. Lori's mom had her 80th birthday, in High Point, NC and we toodled on up to partake and celebrate.
I toted the Golden along on the trip - just in case. Don't leave home without it!

Well as it turned out, I never got to use it and it was still packed in it's case, waiting.
Like a good dog, the Golden is ever faithful.

Today at the school, I got the usual haul, plus a few surprises.

Here's the haul:

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$1.06 in clad and a Wheatie

And of course, no outing would be complete without the usual suspects, "The Trashy Nasties"...

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One of the surprises, which I think is a nice item...

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It is brass, about the size of a dollar coin and hit hard as a high-tone. A foot above the ground I was still swinging on that high-tone sound. Now, I could have left it for some large piece of trash; maybe a chunk of roofing metal or a can. But, that ain't me - I investigate most signals, no matter what they resemble.
I'm glad I did. It's a pretty cool trinket. I think I'll put it on my key chain.

The other surprise was that 1951-D Wheat Ear Cent. It hit hard and tight, and gave the double blip of a very shallow coin. Those sorts of hits are usually dimes or copper cents, and I don't hesitate to dig 'em. This time there was no digging involved... that cent was less than an inch below the surface and I just had to uncover it with my boot. It looks like it hasn't lain there a month. I don't know if it was protected in some way, or was a recent drop.
This is one of many Wheat's I've gotten at this school, over the years. Yet, I have not found even one silver coin.
I reckon I came too late to the hobby, and the Cherry Pickers beat me to it long ago.

Thanks for looking.

 

[pulltab]

nice find

 

[tvr]

Nice hunt dahut!

We celebrated my mom's 80th last week.

I got out with the Tejon for about 40 minutes at the playground that is 100 feet from my house.

Tried running all metal for a change and listening for deep barely audible things. Today the faintest things I heard in all metal, I checked with the discriminator on and everything hit and turned out to be in the range the discriminator said it was; unless it was iron. I dug four nails, a rust trail and a fragment of iron pipe that didn't hit in discriminate but where there in all metal.

Targets that hit in discriminate, a round foil ball the diameter of a dime at about 9 inches, three spent 9 mm casings all at about 5 inches, a nickle on the surface, three pennies, three lead blobs at various depths, some wire, three old round tabs and a screw top.

Mostly I was testing the new Predator shovel Christmas present ... it cuts through the partial freeze we have pretty well (it warmed up a bit this weekend) ... but digging is about done here for this year. Tejon does hit very hard on brass and lead.

Very nice brass 1st place medallion!
tvr

 

[JB(MS)]

The 1st place thing is a neat find. I've been mostly using the A.&.S Baron but took the Golden out for a change Saturday morning. I was stuck inside because of the rain so I browsing on Virtual Earth and noticed what appeared to be a tot lot, outlined in red in the photo, at a park in Smithville, a small town about 7 miles northeast of here.
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That's an old park, and there wasn't a tot lot the last time I hunted there a couple of years ago, so as soon as it stopped raining I rode up to take a look. Evidently no one had hunted it as it was loaded with coins. Just the clad and nickels in the photo but got about the same number of pennies. Only had about 45 minutes so I used the wide notch setting and only hunted inside the graveled tot lot, had to get home in time to see the Ole Miss Rebels whup them girlyboy Texas Tech Red Raiders in the Cotton Bowl.
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[tab-nabit]

[Quote} "This is one of many Wheat's I've gotten at this school, over the years. Yet, I have not found even one silver coin.
I reckon I came too late to the hobby, and the Cherry Pickers beat me to it long ago."

They sure didn't beat you to "1st Place" now did they?

 

[slingshot]

Hey JB. Virtual Earth sounds hard to beat! Is it a google thing? That could be even more interesting than a GPS. Thanks.

 

[marcomo]

It's actually Microsoft's version, and it's another great dirt fishing resource.

 

[dahut]

I find that the all metal digging is superfluous, and often masochisitic. With todays instruments, I tend to believe the DISC. This is one reason I like tone ID. I can run in low DISC and get a better idea of the ferrous targest. This doesn't mean that I don't recover most items that hit repeatably - you can see my nickel count and trash recoveries in every post.

What I mean is, I dont see the point in going to all metal to dig tiny iron bits and tracing eroded iron trails, in most urban applications. At least not until you have cleared the field first.
Out in a relic field or deep woods, I tend to change that. But for other places and normal hunts, if my detector tells me it's iron, I tend to believe it.
To date, I find it is rarely wrong.

 

[dahut]

Virtual Earth is a great tool and unlike some of the other such services it is relatively up to date.

 

[amcjavelin]

wow thats really neat congrats on that find, I wonder if i will find a second place with my golden? HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dahut]

wow thats really neat congrats on that find, I wonder if i will find a second place with my golden? HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Naw... Im betting you find something better!

 

[Beale]

Congrats on a very good hunt! Glad you could get out! I really like the 1st place item! Good job, Beale.

 

[dahut]

Congrats on a very good hunt! Glad you could get out! I really like the 1st place item! Good job, Beale.

I am blessed to live here. The winters are mild. Thanks

 

[Mike Hillis]

there is a used Golden MicroMax over on the tpot for 235

shamelessly,

Mike

 

[SkiWhiz]

there is a used Golden MicroMax over on the tpot for 235

shamelessly,

Mike

It didn't last long, it has already been sold. Steve.

 

[dahut]

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