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<\/a><\/p>\nSo now I’m looking at a grid working out from a hot zone that seems dead in all directions, but got 2 sides going into hundreds and hundreds of acres of field, and one side going towards the road.\u00a0 Which way would you go?<\/p>\n
Duh?\u00a0 Its actually a tough choice, cause the road is obvious, but, as such, the area by the road is obvious to the competition as well.\u00a0 On the other hand, the great wide open fields are an obvious no go, but are so peaceful (and remember the story in my comments from the 01\/31 entry; the prospect of finding the half dollars buried by the old timer, which are more in the field direction)..<\/p>\n
So of course I go for the road direction, cause its trashier, and trash is your friend. If the detecting is hard, you have a better chance.\u00a0 And while the grid in that direction was much more sparse than in the hot zone, I did manage to pull a merc (next to some sort of large high tone trash, which managed to mask it, I imagine, for some of the competition with machines with slower separation), giving me my third silver coin of the day.\u00a0 Also pulled a 7.5 gram silver ring that was under a memorial penny.\u00a0 Got it on the rescan (and it sounded like a silver Q; d’oh!).\u00a0 Note to newbies — always rescan your holes.\u00a0 Of course you do, don’t you?<\/p>\n
But, there’s more.\u00a0 Of course, there always is.\u00a0 First, lets honor the promise to talk about target ID.\u00a0 It was brutal.\u00a0 It was random.\u00a0 I dug 13 wheaties, and a hideous 17 memorial pennies.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 Many sounded quite sweet.\u00a0 I also dug 5 clad dimes and one clad quarter.\u00a0 Economists love looking at stats, and the first one that jumps out is just one clad Q against all those other coins.\u00a0 That’s good — it shows I was lucky enough to hear high tones the competition was missing (one in 5 to one in 6 coins is normally a clad Q).\u00a0 OTOH, clad and wheaties were sounding like silver in many cases, which is why I wasted so much of my precious day digging them.\u00a0 I think what is happening is that the particular characteristics of this site (high particle mineralization), are adding to the target.\u00a0 I was also digging plenty of high conductive coins (copper pennies), at FE numbers that did not drop lower than 25.\u00a0 Just like the last time I was here, when I dug a silver dime with a high FE number.\u00a0 Sometimes it just works out that way.\u00a0 Beware, and be open minded when the site has weird ground.\u00a0 Or, maybe it was my settings.\u00a0 Or maybe the big unit. Or maybe the alignment of the planets.\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 Just be open minded and flexible, and most importantly, lucky.<\/p>\n So, the actual more for the “but, there’s more”, is this thing, a silver relic.\u00a0 This was in the direction of the wide open fields when I got burnt out working the trashy direction towards the road.\u00a0 I have no clue what it is, but it looks really old.\u00a0 Firstly, its tarnished (and most of the coinage I’ve pulled here is not), and it is not stamped, which means it is older than 1905.\u00a0 If you know what it is, please comment (fingers provided for perspective (sorry, had to say that :))).<\/p>\n So, this today was my 24th silver coin from this site, ranking it 13th all time for me in terms of sites.\u00a0 The interesting thing about sites that get to 21 silvers for me (the “possible honeyhole” level), they almost always get to the “honeyhole” level at 40 silvers.\u00a0 Weird how that works, and why I have my levels where they are, but I’m still calling this a 25 silver site.\u00a0 We’ll see, and hopefully it is more like a honeyhole.\u00a0 That will take finding the old-timer’s buried halfs.\u00a0 Good luck with that.<\/p>\n Nailed this one baby! (tho it took more like 20 minutes.\u00a0 Maybe just start posting: here’s the silver; cause who has the time to both read and write this?).\u00a0 Anyway, here are the cleaned finds (forgetting whatever that silver relic is, cause that was processed separately) —<\/p>\n Alot goin’ on here.\u00a0 Didn’t have time to think of a cool title, but the one we’ve got seems fine for a metal detecting blog, doesn’t it?\u00a0 Lets try to nail this one without a tomorrow morning edit (cause who … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"