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<\/a><\/p>\nSaturday I met up with some guys at at a massively huge park for some woods hunting — last time I was here, I pulled 3 silver coins, but it was all due to sticking to an old roadbed in the woods, and I worked that paradigm pretty hard last time, so I wasn’t sure where the silver would come from this time, just randomly swinging in the woods, but guys have pulled seated halves, dimes, reales, and so forth from these woods, so you have to give it a go, and besides, its more fun to hunt with others, even if you don’t find anything.\u00a0 I didn’t find anything, other than a couple of corroded wheaties.\u00a0 Not sure anyone else did; if they did, I don’t know about it.<\/p>\n
I had to attend to some errands, then had some time for another hunt closer to home, at yet another site on my prospective list that I have never been to, and I was again skunked.\u00a0 This is an old school, and these can be hit or miss, but this was bad, not a single deep coin in the “obvious section”.<\/p>\n
But the out of the box section, the corner of the property gave up some wheaties, and I was optimistic, but was not to be.\u00a0 The wheaties were shallow, and I pulled 6 of em, which means I’m owed two silvers, but sometimes it just doesn’t work out.\u00a0 The mineralization was the most brutal I remember ever seeing — I was getting an auto rec of 9 for a good part of the hunt, and almost always lower than 15.\u00a0 I like to be above 21, and consider below 19 pathological.\u00a0 This site is mostly a writeoff as well, except for one huge old farm field that I may wonder sometime when I’m in the mood to go for a one in a million field score.<\/p>\n
So, two prospective sites, both dudding, as well as that park I was hoping to develop, but now looks bleak as well.\u00a0 You get times like this you feel you will never see silver again — one of the downsides of working a site dry and then moving onto the next one.\u00a0 One day, there will not be a next one.\u00a0 Maybe that day is today, who knows?\u00a0 These sorts of sites do not grow on trees, and meanwhile the competition has been at work on others with their Minelabs as well.\u00a0\u00a0 But, I feel like I had a good run since May 2010 if I never find another good site, but I’ll keep trying for a while, or maybe I’ll get more serious about door knocking — but that’s not my style — when I’ve done it, its generally just for the day, and I enjoy the experience of solving a site day after day.<\/p>\n
What I’m not understanding is this all or nothing vibe I run into.\u00a0 Some sites give up 20 to140 silvers, and some give up bupkis.\u00a0 All basically look the same in the research.\u00a0 I wonder why.\u00a0 I wonder if it is about the intense and variable mineralization we seem to have around here, or if it is just the case that myself and the competition are in the process of cleaning everything up, sort of the tail end of a golden age.\u00a0 Who knows?<\/p>\n
Well, at least I won’t have to write blog entries that often, and I can learn to play the lute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thursday’s hunt was trying to open up a new site just a quarter of a mile from the recent honeyhole — you figure if one site gives up 65 silvers, the one down the street might give up a few … Continue reading