WHERE IS MARK"S WHEATY DAG NABBIT?

[mwaynebennett]

[size=x-large]Where is Mark's first wheaty?

Where is Mark's first silver coin?

Where is Mark's gold jewelry?[/size]

How can the world be so unfair?

Today I went to two parks. The first used to be a school long ago. After about 45 minutes I had found two memorial pennies. I then went behind the baseball backstop and lying on the grass were three dimes and five pennies. Geez. I would do better tossing the MD and just walking around. I then went to the front of the backstop and found another recent coin dump that had about $0.40 in it. For some unknown reason I get a bigger thrill out of finding coins underground than above ground. Do any of you feel the same?

I next went to another park. It is about 5 acres and had but one modern picnic table in it. Nothing else. No swings, no camp sites, nothing but a huge grassy/mossy area with trees. There were perhaps 70 old trees, at least 100 years old. After an hour I found one clad quarter and tons of junk. I think I'll call it "POLITICIAN PARK" because it was so full of c r a p.

For the life of me I don't understand how aluminum beverage cans can get 8"-10" underground. Perhaps the vast amount of rain and the long growing season here in the Pacific NW somehow allows vegetation to grow up and die on top of items which forces them down.

Lastly, I gave the Pioneer 505 another shot and tried using the PP method of resetting the ground balance. It works but is so much more arduous than simply Xing. I also prefer the H U G E display on the Elite 2200 and the fact that I can operate the controls with the same hand that holds the unit. With the 505, I have to use my left hand to turn it on or off while the MD is being held in my right. The 505 is a find machine however I believe that it is "old school" compared to the innovations incorporated in the Elite. Plus, the Elite 2200 is Sooooooo much lighter and easier to swing.

Mark
Elite 2200
Pioneer 505
WA St.

 

[darrenb]

Mark, you aren't alone! I have dug over 400 coins so far, and probably a dumptruck full of trash, and have yet to find a wheat or silver. Been to the really old spots, with no luck. Found an old abandoned outhouse in the middle of the woods behind a church, and after detecting around it very carefully, I found a 1982 dime. I have decided to tell myself that I am actually looking for the new stuff, so I'll feel better about my finds. Everybody keeps saying that the old stuff will come, but I'm starting to doubt it! Good luck and happy hunting!

 

[mwaynebennett]

Maybe it is all a perverted conspiracy by Greenpeace to trick us into cleansing the earth of garbage.

Mark
Elite 2200
Pioneer 505
WA St.

 

[Aces High 333]

I usually get surprised when I least expect it.

 

[salmonriverhotrock]

Mark, I do not want to discourage you but a couple or so weekends ago, I found a "44" Wheat. This is the oldest coin I have found since coming here to the river in Nov. 06. Everything else has pretty much been the 70's on up. The sad part about this Wheat is it has a rock scrape mark on Lincolns face. I tried the other day to take a picture of it to Post here but can not get close up enough for a good picture.

This Wheat was found along the old North & South Highway or what was old U.S. 95 at a small dirt turnout overlooking the river. I've been looking at old pictures of the highway and much of the modern covered the old. Many places that were narrow along the river are now wide and the modern turnouts along the river side of the highway were the old narrow highway. This one small turnout though looked the oldest or most original. I detected one dirt turnout not much of 80 yards before it and found not one coin. I detected in that area on both sides of the river and found a total of 2 cents, 3 horse shoes, a few pieces of lead sinkers, and much junk.

I will have to say that back home in south east Idaho, I found older coins more often than I have here but you still worked for them. Up till this Wheat, I had thought myself in a real dry spell. It has been a real dry spell for rings. Our old U.S. 95 and the old wagon road go back a good many years or to the time of the Model "T". I've seen the State Government maps that show all the structures that were destroyed in the right of way to put in the new road and most are now under many feet of road base materials. I can only imagine all the camp sites that many travelers of those days may have used that were destroyed or buried. I feel I was fortunate to have found that Wheat and it took a long time here but I can not believe someone else did not find it first. Maybe I thought it a place to look while others shrugged it. Keep at it, there is a Wheat waiting for you.

 

[mwaynebennett]

Robert:

In the Idaho Primitive Area, east of Big Creek, I remember seeing several old log houses that were slowly rotting into the ground. That was back in 1977. I would love to go back in there and poke around. Unfortunately it is about a 15 mile walk each way from the trail head at Big Creek. You are not far from there. It is about a70 mile drive from McCall. Back in 77 it was a dirt road to Big Creek. Is it still dirt? You could plan a long weekend expedition. If you want, I can provide long and lat coordinates of the approximate location of one of the log houses. The trail to Monumental Creek goes past at least one of the old log cabins.

Mark
Elite 2200
Pioneer 505
WA St.