{"id":1705,"date":"2013-03-20T17:12:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T21:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsurfer.com\/blog\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2013-03-21T06:30:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T10:30:21","slug":"third-sites-a-charm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/1705","title":{"rendered":"Third Site&#8217;s a Charm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back to the honeyhole to work on one of the two remaining small zones, the first of which gave up a wheatie spill last week, but I had no other intel on it.\u00a0 A couple of wheats in there today, but no other good tells, and it didn&#8217;t have the best sound.\u00a0 It was cold, and the wind was biting (this is an exposed site, and its always biting, but biting less when the silver is flying).<\/p>\n<p>As much as I would have loved to remain to clean up this section, I decided to cut my losses and head for a nearby site which is more protected from the wind.\u00a0 Before doing so, I pulled a pocket watch, too bad its base metal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032013z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1706\" title=\"032013z\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032013z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032013z.jpg 629w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032013z-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032013z-434x300.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second site was where I found just my 12th career silver, way back in the fall of 2009, and I have not been back since.\u00a0 Its a 50s park in a very old town, so its a mixed bag of expectations.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure if my expectations were dashed or not, but it was quiet as a church mouse &#8212; not even a wheatie, and I did all the right things, like working the edges, out of the box sections, and so forth.\u00a0 Obviously not the right things today.<\/p>\n<p>Decided to go home, but that takes me past another old site, a site I&#8217;ve hit many times, but have only a rosie to show for it, which I found in 2010.\u00a0 Everyone claims its hunted out, but its too big to be hunted out.\u00a0 Its true its hard to find silver here, at least for me, but I&#8217;ve always felt the problem was that the mineralization was too extreme, not that there isn&#8217;t silver there.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never had good luck here either, but this was my first hunt at the site with the big unit, and I pulled a merc and a wheatie in the 45 minutes I had.<\/p>\n<p>If I can make this site sing with the big unit, that would be awesome, cause it looks like a 50-100 site, but I&#8217;m not too optimistic on that score.\u00a0 This is my 5th or 6th hunt there, with just two dimes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1707\" title=\"032013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032013.jpg 322w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032013-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032013-308x300.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to the honeyhole to work on one of the two remaining small zones, the first of which gave up a wheatie spill last week, but I had no other intel on it.\u00a0 A couple of wheats in there today, &hellip; 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