Gold Last Weekend, Silver This Weekend

[TXKajun]

Man, the last 2 weekends are starting to make up for the last 3 years of detecting! My beeping buddy and I headed out Saturday and had a pretty much banner day.

We hit a park that hadn't been hit before and pulled out some clad plus his first target was a wheat penny. Woohoo! Then we hit a newer school and the bleachers were open for detecting. We did pretty good on quarters and dimes. Then a little tot lot at the same school for a 7 dime pocket spill. While we were there, a guy who lived next door said we outta try the old elementary school "between the goal posts".

We headed over there and he pulled out a sweet .925 silver Indian Chief ring and I managed to snag my 2nd ever silver coin....a 1954 quarter. It had a hole drilled in it so it could be attached to a necklace. No necklace showed up, though.

All in all, we got about $9 in clad between us and the silver.

Yep, I bought a lottery ticket Saturday, but didn't do any good there.

Kajun

[vini]

Kajun what sort of digging tools do you use in the park? I have a park to dig in but a little worried someones going to get on me about hacking away with a pick.

[Ridge Runner]

TXKAJUN

Don't it feel good when you have good luck like you did.I love finding the rings and silver but I never turn down clad coins.Them clad coins will pay for your next detector you may want.

Vini

I don't know about Kajun but I use the digger that's put out by Lost Treasure and others sell some like it.Now I got the one that has a solid handle plus it cost less.You can stand on it but I've yet damage it.

Kajun

Have you ever found a silver dollar? I got pass that one but now working on that gold coin and have been for years.

Keep posting!

Chuck Anders

[Guest Mike C...]

Hi Kajun--sounds like your on the right track--what kind of coin beeper you using ??? IMO the lesche digger is the best--its a little pricey but you get what you pay for--I've bent and broke plenty of cheeper diggers---just my 2 cents worth-Mike C...

[TXKajun]

Vini, I use a Lesche digger. Plus I pinpoint with my Tinytec Deluxe, so I can usually pop out a coin on my first try. It doesn't leave much of a trace, so I don't worry bout gettin' in trouble for it. When I have to dig, I do a plug and replace dirt and plug as best as possible.

Chuck, yah, the clad do add up. I take 'em, give em a spin in my rock tumbler with some water, dish detergent and aquarium gravel, then a couple of times a year, I take 'em down to the gun show and buy silver coins with em after using some of them to pay my entry fee. So far, the only silver I've found is a 1908 dime and the '54 quarter. I'm working my way up. I figure next will be a 50 cent piece, then comes the dollar and then a gold coin! LOLOL

Mike, I'm using my faithful, trusty Ace 250 Pro with the large coil. It's been out-hunting my buddies new DFX, but he's only got a month or so on it.

Last Saturday, he and I ran the river from behind one of the subdivisions west of town down to the reservoir. Took us about 5 hours. We hit tons of campgrounds, but a bunch of 'em had .22 & .38 shells all over that made beepin darn near impossible, but we did ok. Then we hit a couple of schools in town and each of us pulled out a 1945 wheatie....one at each of the schools..plus some more clad! We're gonna hit them again! Total for that day was about $9 again. Then on Sunday, we went back to where we found the silver ring and quarter and hammered it hard. No more silver, but we pulled out about another $7-8 in clad and I managed to find a copper ring.

We've got a lead on a big party place along another river close by and plan to hit there this coming weekend. It's been a party place for over 50 years, so it's probably gonna be junky as heck, but we're gonna try. Then, we've got our eye on another little park and school in a small town nearby that we want to hit.

The weather here's been great! Up to about 70-75 degrees midday, starts out at about 45-50 in the morning when we head out.

Thanks for all the comments!!

Kajun

P.S.

If one of ya'll with a Minelab PI detector wants to head down here, we know a guy who lost a 2+ oz gold and 8 diamond ring when he was putting in a little water pipe. It's probably buried about 14"-24" and neither my buddy's DFX or my Ace 250 or Minelab Eureka Gold will pick it up. And yep, we've tried....twice!