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<\/a><\/p>\nOh my, that is a beautiful sight, and it doesn’t count the ones I left cause they were in roots or the ones that were bloody obvious (tip: use “sizing pinpointing” on the E-Trac to help make them bloody obvious).\u00a0 (And of course we know how it ends, cause the title gives it away — if we did edits, we’d change the title to “Bottlecap Fest”, and this entry would actually really work, but I love posts with “trifecta” in the title, so here we are).<\/p>\n
Anyway, soon after, a 12-46 which was obviously a silver, and out pops the rosie at 1 to 2 inches.\u00a0 A little later on, a beautiful 12-45 to 47, and out pops a barber dime at three inches (it appears I scratched it, but I don’t remember doing so; was in a pile of roots).\u00a0 Where’s the seated?; this place is old, and I actually solved it, for once.\u00a0\u00a0 Looking for the trifecta — give me a seated or a merc.\u00a0 Near the end of the hunt, a 12-44 at 1 inch that was most certainly going to be a clad dime, and no one would have dug it in the grassy area, but stuff doesn’t sink in the woods (and there are reasons for this, maybe fodder for another day); at an old site in the woods, you dig everything, and was shocked to see the silver rim in the hole, and a 1943 merc (would have rather seen an older merc).\u00a0 Why so low and sounding like clad?\u00a0 — cause of the tarnish, not so apparent on the front, but brutal on the back.<\/p>\n
But there’s more, at least I think there is, lets see if the bad stream of consciousness produces it.\u00a0 The coins are ugly.\u00a0 Coins in the woods tend to come out that way.\u00a0 It must be the sap in the leaves, or something.\u00a0 The reverse of that merc is a train wreck.<\/p>\n Also, its been said many times that barber dimes come in low, like 12-41 to 12-42.\u00a0 Not always true, especially not in the woods.\u00a0 Remember, TID is also a function of depth (the deeper, the lower), mineralization (the worse, the lower, especially at depth, as before), thinness (remember the expression “one thin dime”, may have been coined in the barber era, and may apply), and of course patina (more tarnish, lower TID).\u00a0 I’m not sure why I wrote this paragraph, but no doubt there is a reason,\u00a0 Maybe to confuse the search bots, or something.<\/p>\n But, what else?\u00a0 Mosquitoes.\u00a0 This was intended to be a whine free post (who could whine when pulling a trifecta?), but the mosquitoes were brutal.\u00a0 And they were smart too, they only seemed to attack from the back, not from the front where you could see them and kill them.\u00a0 Darwinism at work, for sure — the front attackers were killed by my predecessors for sure.\u00a0 Now, Chester County isn’t known for mosquitoes, but this place was brutal, at least in the woods.\u00a0 These silvers were well earned.<\/p>\n What else?\u00a0 My assessment of this wooded section of the site is that it likely has never been hunted before.\u00a0 Never seen so many bottlecaps and silvers in such a small area (50 by 25 feet), in a putative low density site (not a park in the silver era).\u00a0 But, no quarters (clad or otherwise, either).\u00a0 So, someone may have been thru, just someone without A class skill.\u00a0 Just goes to show that its hard to grid out a section of woods, but, if you are meticulous (and what are the odds I spelled that one right on the first try?), you can get some.\u00a0 Meticulous gridding when you’ve got good tells, no matter how difficult the terrain, is always the answer.<\/p>\n As for this site, the rest of the wooded section is to be tougher, given greenbriar and other annoyances, and it is rather small.\u00a0 But, given how lightly the site appears to have been worked, if I don’t get a big fish in the greenbriar, I may have an outside shot at one in the grassy area.\u00a0 We’ll see.<\/p>\n Total hunt time, 2 hours and 3 silvers.\u00a0 We’ll take it.\u00a0 But, there’s even more, but I think we’ve all been through enough of BSoCW for one day.\u00a0 At least I actually finally nailed one.<\/p>\n Oh, and I now remember at least some of the “there’s more”.\u00a0 The barber was silver #122 on the year, which is a milestone.\u00a0 That’s how many I pulled in my first year with the E-Trac.\u00a0 So, at least the decline isn’t so brutal yet to make this my worst ever year in my E-Trac era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First hunt since last week, and went back to the place I called “the Plantation” in the last entry, where I found a merc last Wed or Thu.\u00a0 Didn’t have much hope for the site, but a huge 2-300 year … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n