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Can't hardly believe it...third huge class ring in the last 10 months.
I was talking to a city worker in another park last week and he told me about this park I went to this morning.
Right next door to a prime site that was used for years by travelers heading west on the Sante Fe trail.
Time to find some older coins, relics, caches, whatever, and time to start using the threshold on the Vaquero to go deeper than I have before in disc.
So I get there and it is a nice little park with a tot lot, a picnic shelter and a couple of picnic tables.
Wasn't planning on digging any huge holes today, and I had my 10X12 DD coil on the Vaq because I did not get a chance to change it to the little bit deeper 9X8 concentric.
Not quite the coverage as the DD, but it will go a little deeper in this great soil around here.
No problem, this was just a first look hunt and I can come back in the future if it seems to be a good one.
I didn't realize there was a tot lot here, I did bring my F2 also but not my Compadre, so I took the Vaq in there and turned the disc down to iron and went to work.
Found some clad, a few nickels and dimes and several pennies, and a few zipper pulls but no hoped for jewelry.
I was headed to an area nearest to where the old campsite used to be, and I walked right by a picnic shelter.
Lots of trash, so I turned the disc up a little past iron and dug a few of the more solid, "coin sounding" signals.
On the Vaq, good targets like coins will usually have a nice tone and a sharp end to them, trash too, sometimes, but good targets always do.
I dug a few dimes and pennies, a quarter or two, and even a few pull tabs.
Can't be 100% right all the time in this world.
Then, I got a nice tone that disced out just a hair below zinc, no sharp end to this tone but it did sound...different.
Very mellow, hard to explain but most solid signals I dig, strange signals I always dig too.
You just never know.
I kind of expected a pull tab because in this park this is exactly the area on my Vaq I had found a few already.
Nope ...not a pull tab this time.
I found the target with my supertuned Propointer, not supertuned it was gone.
It also sounded a little deeper in that mellow signal I got from my Vaq...not really loud at all.
I figured 4-6 inches in depth for this one, pretty deep for a pull tab but what the heck.
As someone very wise and successful once said..."I did not come here to swing...I came here to dig!"
So I dug a little plug, it was a bout 4 inches deep but my PP said it was still a little deeper so I stuck my Lesche way out side the target and dug underneath and scooped out about a 1/2 inch of soil.
I didn't want to scar it just in case it was something good.
Still no target so I stuck my Lesche in again and went down another inch and pulled up the dirt.
Before I even got the thing to the top of the hole I saw what was sitting on my digger covered with dirt...and smiled.
Third time I have been lucky enough to think I was digging something else and instead a huge gold ring pops up.
Nothing like this feeling, I can tell you, and each experience is still in my memory just like it happened 2 minutes ago.
Now I have another one, and right now at this moment, it still feels like a dream and I am still flying!
14.2 grams of 10K golden goodness!
When I dug it there was something oddly familiar about it, too.
Last December I dug my second class ring at a different park with my Compadre and I have been attempting to track down and contact the person that I think is the owner.
I was burned on my first return so I am being very careful about this one.
I have called his cell phone repeatedly, but still no luck on connecting.
Still trying, I would want these rings back if I had lost one.
When I got home I took this older ring out and compared them.
Same school...same exact ring!
This new one is a little larger, (fits me perfectly!), and from a class one year older, but it is the same ring.
Evidently, these people at this school have trouble holding on to prized possessions as the years pass.
I think this newest one has been down there a few years, it was about 5 inches deep and the dirt was really compacted around it, but I rescued it and I guess I will look for this owner too.
Right now I am sitting on about $620 worth of gold at melt, add the first one and that would make about $1000 worth of class rings I have found in my short time in this great hobby.
I found one with my F2, one with my Compadre and now one with my Vaquero.
Each one has a little four leaf clover taped to it's side.
I guess you gotta have a little faith in luck, sometimes, and I try not to leave anything to chance.
Once I found that ring I gave up even thinking about looking for those older relics from the wagon train days and just bopped around the area digging high tone signals hoping to find a silver ring.
Not today, but along with some quarters, dimes and copper pennies, (and some can slaw), I did come across something else.
It is a copy of some sort of old coin, Roman or Greek, maybe, and I know its a copy because it says so right on it.
Pretty neat...not a coin or a token, just another cool little oddity that I found in my travels.
As nice as that is, today is about that gold ring, and I wish on all of you to experience at least once in your life the thrill of digging this kind of surprising target.
As always, HH, and remember...DIG THAT ZINC!
I was talking to a city worker in another park last week and he told me about this park I went to this morning.
Right next door to a prime site that was used for years by travelers heading west on the Sante Fe trail.
Time to find some older coins, relics, caches, whatever, and time to start using the threshold on the Vaquero to go deeper than I have before in disc.
So I get there and it is a nice little park with a tot lot, a picnic shelter and a couple of picnic tables.
Wasn't planning on digging any huge holes today, and I had my 10X12 DD coil on the Vaq because I did not get a chance to change it to the little bit deeper 9X8 concentric.
Not quite the coverage as the DD, but it will go a little deeper in this great soil around here.
No problem, this was just a first look hunt and I can come back in the future if it seems to be a good one.
I didn't realize there was a tot lot here, I did bring my F2 also but not my Compadre, so I took the Vaq in there and turned the disc down to iron and went to work.
Found some clad, a few nickels and dimes and several pennies, and a few zipper pulls but no hoped for jewelry.
I was headed to an area nearest to where the old campsite used to be, and I walked right by a picnic shelter.
Lots of trash, so I turned the disc up a little past iron and dug a few of the more solid, "coin sounding" signals.
On the Vaq, good targets like coins will usually have a nice tone and a sharp end to them, trash too, sometimes, but good targets always do.
I dug a few dimes and pennies, a quarter or two, and even a few pull tabs.
Can't be 100% right all the time in this world.
Then, I got a nice tone that disced out just a hair below zinc, no sharp end to this tone but it did sound...different.
Very mellow, hard to explain but most solid signals I dig, strange signals I always dig too.
You just never know.
I kind of expected a pull tab because in this park this is exactly the area on my Vaq I had found a few already.
Nope ...not a pull tab this time.
I found the target with my supertuned Propointer, not supertuned it was gone.
It also sounded a little deeper in that mellow signal I got from my Vaq...not really loud at all.
I figured 4-6 inches in depth for this one, pretty deep for a pull tab but what the heck.
As someone very wise and successful once said..."I did not come here to swing...I came here to dig!"
So I dug a little plug, it was a bout 4 inches deep but my PP said it was still a little deeper so I stuck my Lesche way out side the target and dug underneath and scooped out about a 1/2 inch of soil.
I didn't want to scar it just in case it was something good.
Still no target so I stuck my Lesche in again and went down another inch and pulled up the dirt.
Before I even got the thing to the top of the hole I saw what was sitting on my digger covered with dirt...and smiled.
Third time I have been lucky enough to think I was digging something else and instead a huge gold ring pops up.
Nothing like this feeling, I can tell you, and each experience is still in my memory just like it happened 2 minutes ago.
Now I have another one, and right now at this moment, it still feels like a dream and I am still flying!
14.2 grams of 10K golden goodness!
When I dug it there was something oddly familiar about it, too.
Last December I dug my second class ring at a different park with my Compadre and I have been attempting to track down and contact the person that I think is the owner.
I was burned on my first return so I am being very careful about this one.
I have called his cell phone repeatedly, but still no luck on connecting.
Still trying, I would want these rings back if I had lost one.
When I got home I took this older ring out and compared them.
Same school...same exact ring!
This new one is a little larger, (fits me perfectly!), and from a class one year older, but it is the same ring.
Evidently, these people at this school have trouble holding on to prized possessions as the years pass.
I think this newest one has been down there a few years, it was about 5 inches deep and the dirt was really compacted around it, but I rescued it and I guess I will look for this owner too.
Right now I am sitting on about $620 worth of gold at melt, add the first one and that would make about $1000 worth of class rings I have found in my short time in this great hobby.
I found one with my F2, one with my Compadre and now one with my Vaquero.
Each one has a little four leaf clover taped to it's side.
I guess you gotta have a little faith in luck, sometimes, and I try not to leave anything to chance.
Once I found that ring I gave up even thinking about looking for those older relics from the wagon train days and just bopped around the area digging high tone signals hoping to find a silver ring.
Not today, but along with some quarters, dimes and copper pennies, (and some can slaw), I did come across something else.
It is a copy of some sort of old coin, Roman or Greek, maybe, and I know its a copy because it says so right on it.
Pretty neat...not a coin or a token, just another cool little oddity that I found in my travels.
As nice as that is, today is about that gold ring, and I wish on all of you to experience at least once in your life the thrill of digging this kind of surprising target.
As always, HH, and remember...DIG THAT ZINC!