Back to the Field of Dreams for another 2 silvers, both of them barber dimes. 30 silvers for the year so far, and 8 barber silvers. 19 silvers from this field. Unbelievable. Very few wheaties, no indian heads, no coppers, no clad, no ferrous targets. “All he does is find silver”. The most bizarre site of all time, but as long as the music is playing, keep dancing.

The universe does mock me tho, as each silver comes out pretty much abused. But whatever, silver is silver.

The Field of Dreams keeps on giving. A pair of Barber silvers and a merc. All abused to the hilt, and that is too bad, but at least fun to dig.

I’ve now pulled 17 silvers from the Field of Dreams. I thought I was basically done here, but found another hot zone. 17 silvers from a field site is off the charts. I’ve done about 5% of this field. Compare to the other field site I’ve been working for a few years, which is twice as big, I’m about 40% done, and have only pulled 2 silvers from that field.

Well, we’ll take it, even tho pretty much every silver that has come out of this place has been abused. The Universe mocks my every move.

More from the Field of Dreams, a trifecta. That’s the good news.

The bad news is that I finished out that zone. Gridded out. The Field of Dreams no more. 12 silvers in 7 hunts, not too bad.

I did find some clad today. Tons of it. 13 pieces in a 10×10 area, and the only clad in the entire field. And it was deeper than the silvers, on average, and relatively modern, with 2 presidential dollars.

The weirdest site I’ve ever done, but we’ll take it.

Two more silver dimes today, the rosie barely legal. The rosie is an anomaly, because it doesn’t have the blackness that every other silver here has, and outside of a stray penny, every coin dig here has been in a tight range of 1901-1944.

Its a weird site. Besides the blackness, all 10 silvers and the wheaties have been shallow, from 1 to 4 inches, most of them at about 2. I have yet to dig a ferrous target, which is weird, as I’m usually pretty aggressive on those 50/50 could be ferrous/could be deep silver.

Just no deep coins here. Plenty of deep canslaws and other high tones, but no coppers (and there should be by now), and no low tones. It is almost as if a layer of fill from a 40s site has been rolled over a much newer patch of dirt, but the area seems too big for that to have happened. Of course, plowing of fields keeps coins from sinking to some extent, but I’ve been on other plowed fields which have had plenty of deep coppers and ferrous targets.

And then there is the black. Why are all the silvers black? I get a few like that, but not pretty much all of them.

Oh well, too many questions. Be happy, as long as the silvers are coming out. Things felt like they were thinning out today, tho, but we’ll see. And another thing, this site is so lopsided that an efficiency ratio I watch, silvers to total coins dug, has exceeded 10% for the year. That has never happened. My goal is to keep that above 5%, and I usually do, and its important to me, but 10% is just crazy.

In any case, don’t worry, be happy.

Back to the new field site I started last week with the Barber quarter, and pulled 5 silvers. Quite a lot for a field site, as these things go. So far 8 silvers from this field in 3 hunts. Sadly, they are quite tarnished, but $1.05 in silver for one hunt isn’t too bad.

Not sure if they hay or plant crops here; in either case I don’t have all that much time left this season, hopefully I’ll find a few more before it gets unhuntable.

New site today, another old field. Managed to pull a barber quarter and merc, both with no eye appeal, but we’ll take it. I don’t see too many barber quarters (only 11 for my career).

The site certainly has potential, and also competition. Saw another guy’s plugs, and rather fresh ones at that. One just 10 feet from the merc, and another about 50 feet from the barber, in vastly different sections of the field.

I could tell by all the high tone trash I was digging that the site has not been hunted hard. It has big fish potential if I can beat the competition and the grass; we’ll see, but its a 30+ acre site, so realistically its mostly luck, tho sometimes, on a good day, I like to think I bring some skill to the game.

I have no idea why I was thinking of this quote all day. I’m not much of a sports fan, but it goes back to a sports quote — “all he does is catch touchdowns”. This was referring an Eagles wide receiver (I believe his name was Cooper, but I could be wrong), who was cut with these words from the coach — “he can’t block, he can’t run, all he does is catch touchdowns”. He continued to catch touchdowns throughout his remaining career, and the quote came up every time, making the coach look like a jackass, which he was, independent of this stupidity.

Anyway, I did find a silver today. First swing, first target, new site. Old house site that is sort of out of the box. I thought this was gonna be a big day, but it wasn’t to be. Only coin I found on the day, and it was frustrating, as the site was littered with deep high tone trash which is usually a good tell.

But hey, I don’t mind being a one trick pony. My time, my equipment. Finding silvers is just fun. Hopefully I will find some more of them. 11 for the year; still could get 100 at 10 per month, buts its tough; we’ll see. Sadly, I was sick and could not get out this week until today, so that makes it even tougher.