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Sweet Barber, 2 indians, V nickel and more.

3/24/2013

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Thursday nite after work I hunted the 1910 farm house that is owned by the farmer who has given me permission to do all the fields I have been hunting lately. It was obvious it had been hunted before, no clad, no shallow signals. I went across the yard three directions and managed to get 4 deep coins. 2 injuns, a V nickel and 1 wheat, and the little dog. I was happy whoever hunted here missed a few goodies.

Friday after work I went back to hit more fields with BadJim, the first field I got the blazing barber quarter, about a hundred melted blobs of metal that registered just like indians, so you couldn't skip them. I found the point laying on the surface and also the tiny bottle. Amazing the bottle has laid in the field and has never been broken from the farmers plow. I laid the quarter beside it for size reference.

Saturday I hunted some fields with Starky and I came home with absolutely NO keepers at all......nothing. Well I guess some field days are just like that.





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Took me 13 Hrs to Capture a small Tribe and their Fatty Chief

3/18/2013

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Hunted fields all weekend, friday..saturday..and sunday...I must have found the most UNproductive field sites in my whole county! There was virtually NO conductive signals. Absolutely some of the worst field sites I have ever hunted. Besides for a few shotgun shells and broken harmonica reeds, what you see in these pictures is ALL the conductive targets I found in 13 hours of hunting field sites where old homesteads once stood. All were on the 1886 map, a few of them were gone by 1914, so I had some pretty old sites.What shocks me most is NO buttons, normally field sites that don't give up coins at least have flat buttons. I don't think I have ever hunted fields all weekend and recovered no buttons.....lol. I have to laugh because I don't know what else to do.

So in 13 hours I managed 4 cents, so I made about a 1/3 penny an hour LMAO.

the indians are 1905, 1903, 1865, and the fatty is a 1863. Got a crotal bell, buckel, clock winder key, small musket ball, and the tiger eye looking thing, no idea what that is. Not sure what the grey/silver colored thing is either, any clues?

So laugh with me at my extremely small pile of conductive targets from an entire weekend of hunting!





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Sunday's finds..Small tribe..Old Merc..and Fake gold

3/12/2013

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Sunday BadJim and I went to Findlay, Ohio to do some door knocking.....had a forum member who lives there tell me getting permission there is impossible, so I felt the need to go there and see for myself. I knocked on a lot of doors and most people weren't home. Did catch a couple people home and first got permission at a large brick home, corner lot. This place looked awesome....but it was obvious it had been hunted, there was barely even clad in the yard, got one stinking wheat, big disappointment there. 




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Six silver Saturday, and CW token!

3/11/2013

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BadJim and I drove saturday until we were out of the snow, we had to go about an hour north, I know it is odd to drive north to get out of snow, but they got less that us! We started at a park, not much there but clad for me, Jim got a silver there. We knocked doors at a corner lot and the yard was decent size but barely any targets, I got a rosie, a buffalo, a some wheats.

We went two houses down and knocked and got permission, I got a 3" deep clad quarter signal on the curb and I dug it of course, I NEVER skip quarter signals regardless of depth. After I removed the quarter I re-scanned the hole and got a signal that now showed about 6" deep directly below where the quarter was. I dug down and found a CW token!!! That made my day! That shows that shallow clad can very well be masking deeper GOOD targets!

After that we hit a farm right outside of town, it was on a major higway and normally that means it has been pounded because everyone drives by it, but it turned out being a good yard, first got a few wheats, then I got a screaming 12-47 and I got 5 mercs in one hole!!!! What a blast they just kept coming out, man silver spills are a real rush!

So a good day indeed with six silvers, and a CW token. Jim got a couple more silver and indians from that yard as well, turned out being a heck of a farm yard!


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