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You can ignore all the trash and only dig the good stuff right?

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Andy Sabisch

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The use of SELECTIVE discrimination in most areas is required based on the sheer volume of trash in the ground. I've hunted sites pretty much around the globe and I hate to say it, with only a few hundred years of history in terms of cities & villages, we do have way more trash in the ground than countries where they have 1,000's of years of history behind them. Sites dating back to before Christ I've been to in Spain, England and Africa had far less junk than say a 50 year old park here is the States . . . .

So, even with running with some level of discrimination and listening for the "right sounds", the question is do you still dig trash?

Well, I thought these photos would be worth posting and show what I've dragged home from most of my hunts over the past several months. Yes, it's a heck of a pile and the question is, did digging them pay off? Many of the silver and older coins I've found were in sites that were trashy to the point most local hunters simply ignored them and looked for easier ones to search . . . to be honest, there were times that my mind was not fully in it where I could not spend more than 30 minutes or so at these sites but there is still stuff worth digging if you have the time, patience and use the proper settings.

So . . . here are some of the "fruits of my labor" from these sites - the bucket was overflowing so I decided it was a good time to take a photo . . . . and I have the blisters to back the photos up!

Andy
 
Looks like some of my stuff... I even dug up a bucket to put it in....
 
And I thought I was the only one that dug that much trash:rofl: I haven't seen that much trash dug since I was a kid digging in the 70's. But you are correct, we produce way too much trash and dump it, compared to the rest of the world. How many good coins come from that pile anyways???
 
I can post a better breakdown but overall, I was happy with what came out of the trash . . . .

~ 140 silvers
~ 350 Wheats
~ 25 Indians
6 large cents
1 silver reale
~40 pieces of gold jewelry
~100 pieces of silver jewelry (from beach areas mainly)
Several trade tokens
Over $175 in clad (kept getting in the way of the good stuff)
+ the usual assortment of relics, keys, trinkets, etc.

Bryce had me beat in most of the categories . . . . . . but I might have topped him in the amount of trash I pulled out :lmfao:

Like the saying goes . . . "No pain, no gain" . . . . . . still waiting for the detector that shows what you have detected on a screen . . . even displays the date, grades it and then looks up the current value so you can see if you want to dig it . . . . maybe next year!

Andy
 
Mercy!! Looks like I need to not be so selective in my diggin's. Thanks for the post Andy, with all of the good stuff that you dug compared to all of the trash, it helps folks realize that there machine is workin alright.
 
As several have posted, the reason I wanted to post the trash finds photos was so that newbies that are getting a pouch full of trash and not a pocket full of old coins and jewelry are not doing anything wrong . . . . the days of finding site after site where you dig nothing but all stuff are long gone (not to say there are not virgin sites left, just that you need to work to find them . . . . heck, in the 60's when I started, my brother & I hunted the local elementary school and on a slope we all used to play on, pulled over 300 Mercury dimes and we gave it the name "Mercury Dime Hill").

A few tips on finding the good stuff . . . . . . and it may seem real basic to some but worth repeating:

1) You need to hunt sites that were in use during the period the type of targets you are hoping to find were in use. If you want to find Indian Head pennies or Barber silver, hunting the school or park that did not go into operation until the 1940's is probably not going to give you what you are looking for.

2) With the amount of trash in the ground, hunting in all metal and digging every signal is not really an option unless you are hunting a site that is being developed or you want the site to be closed due to the holes being made. Use the technology that exists today - detector and coil selection is critical - and decide how much digging you and the site can tolerate. I have several older sites that I've hunted yet know there is still stuff there . . . as detector technology improves, I can re-hunt them and see what else I pull out.

3) You need to be in the right frame of mind when hunting the trashy sites. If you find yourself getting frustrated with each piece of junk you find, it's time to leave and find an easier site to hunt or simply something else to do. Heck, yesterday morning I was out with a friend that wanted to trashy site I had found a few months back and pulled some great stuff out from. I had 100 others things to do the day before and got to bed at 1:30 . . . and he picked me up at 6:30 . . . . . tired, I was not really into the day's hunt and it showed. I wasted time on forced signals and then got frustrated at the junk I was digging. Hardy on the other hand pulled out a silver half and other stuff . . . . . not my day and after 2 hours, we threw in the towel.

Look at the finds others post and let that motivate you to find good sites to hunt. Realize that most of the photos and stories do not tell you what they dug that went into the trash bin . . . . .

Andy Sabisch
 
Hey Andy the scariest thing about that picture is you posted that it is from the past several months, do you sleep?? lol
 
. . .is when you hit a site, swing across a previous plug and find trash in the hole. Last summer I was hunting a beach and ran into a couple that would find a tab or foil, and toss it back on the sand and keep walking . . . . . and then they complained about how much trash there was . . . . I guess after digging the same piece of junk 10 times it does get tiring!
 
WOW! I'd say that was worth it. A very nice ratio of good coins to junk! Way to go. Please stay out of my area unless you want to get rid of the trash for me. That would be OK.:rofl: Nice haul:beers:
 
I thought my areas were trashy! LOL

I'm going to do a spot in my yard like that when the rains go away. Have found alot of good finds here where a CW hospital once stood. going to pick out a 10' x 10' location in one of the higher trashy spots and take it down to remove all the trash and what ever other find are there.

plan on posting pic's from start to finish, I'm hopin to find some things but the wife said she hopes I don't because then I'll dig up the intire yard :biggrin:

thanks for the info and HH

3ringer
 
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