TODAYS FINDS WITH THE VAQUERO

[joe dirt_1]

My buddy and I headed over to the old picnic grove this morning for some coin hunting. We certainly picked a hot day to be out...95 degrees with this nice Illinois humidity made the heat index 115 degrees..... We hunted in the shade of the big oak trees as much as possible and kept hydrated with plenty of ice water so it wasn't too bad out there. If you hunt in these temps make sure you drink plenty of water and take a break once in a while cause heat stroke can sneek up on you without you realizing it and it can be deadly, especially for us old farts....lol.

My buddy was swinging a Fisher 1236x-2 and ended up with 1 coin... a nice 1940 mercury dime. The only silver found today....
Today was nickel day for me.... I found 4 V nickels, 1896, 1898,1900, and 1905. Also found 1 indian head penny....1899. I also found a cool little metal animal that looks like a sheep or a calf....can't really tell what it is. Dug an unfired small caliber lead ball with the sprue still on it...looks to be a .32 or
.36 caliber ball. The Vaquero hit this tiny lead ball and some small brass rivets hard at about 6 inches. It amazes me how well it does on tiny targets....and it hits them hard.

Tesoro made one helluva detector when they made the Vaquero. I'm totally impressed with its depth and discrimination capabilities. Ya just can't beat it for the money. HH........

Roger

 

[Hombre]

Roger

That's a very good V nikel count, impressive actually. In 1996 at the little cowtown of Caldwell Ks (est. 1871) they tore out the sidewalks and street for downtown renovation. Back in the day the chisholm trail run right down main street and that was one exciting time to be detecting in that town. I found fistfulls of V and sheild nickels, whorehouse tokens, saloon tokens, seated liberty dimes and quarters and worn out bust dimes and increadable amount of indian heads, one guy claime he found a gold coin where the old side walks had been, and I beleived him..I also found colt cap&ball bullets and seveal complete 44/40 colt cartriges. The renovation lasted a couple of weeks then it was over too soon.......never hunted a place like that agin, kind of spoils a guy.

 

[joe dirt_1]

Randy, You were very lucky to get into a site that produced those kinds and quantities of coins and tokens. It would tend to spoil a guy after digging old coins and tokens by the handfull and then having to go back to digging clad and wheat pennies. I bet some of those tokens were valuable collectors items.

Roger

 

[tabman]

I'm really impressed. You have a great place to detect and using one of the best detectors ever made. Way to go!

tabman

 

[sandtrout]

Looks like you found a great place with a great detector.....how deep were you finding targets?

 

[joe dirt_1]

sandtrout, most of the targets I dug today were in the 6 inch range, maybe a tad more. had a couple targets deeper but it was big iron like a big rusty bolt or nut. Had some bud lite shrapnel fool me a few times where the farmer musta been knockin' back a few as he mows the grove.


tabman, I'm loving this detector.... it is just a killer in this old grove. very smooth and quiet until the coil goes over a target. If it only had tone ID it would be the perfect coin machine.

HH........ Roger