{"id":1138,"date":"2012-10-17T18:28:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T22:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsurfer.com\/blog\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2012-10-17T18:31:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T22:31:47","slug":"silver-yesterday-and-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/1138","title":{"rendered":"Silver Yesterday and Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s hunt was quite frustrating.\u00a0 Back to the site from early in the week where I got 1 silver and 7 wheaties for a longer hunt to get a better feel for the place, and I got 1 silver and 12 wheaties.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 Well off the magic 2.5:1 ratio.<\/p>\n

It was bizarre.\u00a0 No clad, no trash, just wheaties.\u00a0 Who cherrypicks to that degree?\u00a0 Who digs the clad and trash, and not the wheaties?\u00a0 It was just unbelievable.\u00a0 This is a permission site, and I was told it has not been hunted since the early 90s\/80s.\u00a0 Since it is still in use and there was no clad, it is obviously being snuck into, and by someone who picks off everything but the wheaties.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 I tried to think of a technical explanation; sometimes when I get wheaties and silvers out of ratio like this, it means I am swinging too fast to see the silvers, and a conscious effort to slow down corrects the problem, but that wasn’t it.\u00a0 To make it worse, I gort 5 to 10 wheatie signals I didn’t even bother to dig.<\/p>\n

So, over two days, 19 wheaties and 2 silvers over 7 hours.\u00a0 I generally write off a site if the silver rate is less than 1 per 2 hours, and this ratio has me flummoxed.\u00a0 I decided to give the site a break\u00a0 and maybe go back someday — it has such potential, but the evidence suggests that it is a dud.<\/p>\n

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Today went a bit better; I went back to the site where I found my 300th silver for a little cleanup of sections in one zone I didn’t get to last time, and the first section had a deep, iffy merc, and the second section had a war nickel that came in at an unbelievable CO of 30 on the E-Trac.\u00a0 Usually they are CO 15 or 16.\u00a0 I’ve seen one before at 12, and one at 22, but never this high.\u00a0 Of course, at an old site, you dig any deep, repeatable signal, regardless of the numbers, but 30 is really high for a war nik (I airtested it to be sure).\u00a0 As you can see in the pic, it is quite shiny; perhaps it has a lot more silver than most.\u00a0 I also dug sterling ring in this zone.<\/p>\n

The site has two other zones, one being a large field, and I decided to hit that field in the remaining time I had before I had to get back to work.\u00a0 Hit a pair of silver dimes, so that was sweet.\u00a0 Maybe that opens the field up; I’ll try some more in there if I have the time later this week.\u00a0 Now 11 silvers from this site.<\/p>\n

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