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All the research I've been doing the past couple of weeks, plus this weird weather, has really given me a case of cabin fever.
Yesterday actually got up above freezing for a few hours, but not long enough to really melt the Fluffy White Crap. I was itching pretty hard to get out and hunt. I knew that any open grassy areas would be frozen pretty good, so I decided to hit the woods.
The last time I went into the woods, I hit a spot that gave up a Wheat, and had an old rosebush right besides it. I had also detected a lot of shallow coins along a trail, but when the first two zinc penny hits proved to be zinc pennies instead of IH's, I walked on, looking for something else. Yesterday, just for kicks and "itch relief", I decided to head out and recover that coin spill.
When I got there, there was about an inch or so of snow down. The trail itself was frozen about an inch into the dirt, but the grass-, leaf, and snow-covered areas on either side were thawed.
The first hit was very shallow, around an inch or two. When I recovered it, I realized it was a Wheat! '51D! I immediately got to thinking about an old coin spill, and set about recovering the coins. Of course, those were modern. About 10' from where the Wheat came up, I recovered a '50 roosie, also an inch down, and managed to scrape it slightly.
I think I may have turned over a new leaf. Snow hunting, here I come!
HH from Allen in MI
Yesterday actually got up above freezing for a few hours, but not long enough to really melt the Fluffy White Crap. I was itching pretty hard to get out and hunt. I knew that any open grassy areas would be frozen pretty good, so I decided to hit the woods.
The last time I went into the woods, I hit a spot that gave up a Wheat, and had an old rosebush right besides it. I had also detected a lot of shallow coins along a trail, but when the first two zinc penny hits proved to be zinc pennies instead of IH's, I walked on, looking for something else. Yesterday, just for kicks and "itch relief", I decided to head out and recover that coin spill.
When I got there, there was about an inch or so of snow down. The trail itself was frozen about an inch into the dirt, but the grass-, leaf, and snow-covered areas on either side were thawed.
The first hit was very shallow, around an inch or two. When I recovered it, I realized it was a Wheat! '51D! I immediately got to thinking about an old coin spill, and set about recovering the coins. Of course, those were modern. About 10' from where the Wheat came up, I recovered a '50 roosie, also an inch down, and managed to scrape it slightly.
I think I may have turned over a new leaf. Snow hunting, here I come!
HH from Allen in MI