Friday afternoon I hunted with RacerX and managed to find a 1939 merc, a 1942 merc, as well as a 1918 buffalo nickel.
Sunday I hunted a spot that I've hit hard over the last year, and I've pulled several barbers, injuns, V nickels, my first SLQ, a few mercs, lots of teens wheatbacks, etc., from this spot. The past couple of times I've hit it, I found a few old coins, but no silver, I thought the silver had dried up. When I've hunted this area in the past, it's always been pretty wet, but this day it was really dry. Sunday I started hunting it and my first target was an 1898 indian head! Next target a few feet away was a 1901 indian head! Then I got a really iffy signal, bouncing from dime to everything else, and at 8" I pulled a merc
Over the next couple of hours I manage to dig seven wheats and two more mercs, all at depths around 8" deep in an area I've hunted hard over the past year, and had written off for producing more silver. Then I switched from the stock 11" DD to the 5" DD coil to see if I could coax out another silver or two. No silver, but I found another wheatback, and a little pocket spill of 5 wheatbacks (amazing I never dug this before). I was a bit surprised that all three silvers Sunday turned out to be mercs (1919, 1943 & 1944), as barbers had far outnumbered all my other silver finds there, but we take what we get. I hate the clich
Sunday I hunted a spot that I've hit hard over the last year, and I've pulled several barbers, injuns, V nickels, my first SLQ, a few mercs, lots of teens wheatbacks, etc., from this spot. The past couple of times I've hit it, I found a few old coins, but no silver, I thought the silver had dried up. When I've hunted this area in the past, it's always been pretty wet, but this day it was really dry. Sunday I started hunting it and my first target was an 1898 indian head! Next target a few feet away was a 1901 indian head! Then I got a really iffy signal, bouncing from dime to everything else, and at 8" I pulled a merc
Over the next couple of hours I manage to dig seven wheats and two more mercs, all at depths around 8" deep in an area I've hunted hard over the past year, and had written off for producing more silver. Then I switched from the stock 11" DD to the 5" DD coil to see if I could coax out another silver or two. No silver, but I found another wheatback, and a little pocket spill of 5 wheatbacks (amazing I never dug this before). I was a bit surprised that all three silvers Sunday turned out to be mercs (1919, 1943 & 1944), as barbers had far outnumbered all my other silver finds there, but we take what we get. I hate the clich