{"id":2976,"date":"2021-07-08T16:49:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T20:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2021-07-08T16:50:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T20:50:22","slug":"nice-mix-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/2976","title":{"rendered":"Nice Mix Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t got out but once since my last post in late May, and did pretty well today, nailing 4 mercs, a largie, and a bison.\u00a0 As near as I can tell, the bison is 1916, and the largie is 1851.<\/p>\n<p>This is a permission site (a church), and I have not hit it in a while due to the fact that they changed priests, and it was a period where I moved onto other things.<\/p>\n<p>But the new priest also gave me permission the other day, so off I went.\u00a0 The site, or at least this section of it, can be frustrating, as the ground is highly mineralized (the largie was at 4-6 inches, and was a tough signal, and all the other coins were shallow.<\/p>\n<p>But, I&#8217;ve dug 43 silvers here over the years, so I must be doing something right.\u00a0 Today, all 6 coins were dug in the first 45 minutes, then nothing but a wheatie over the next 2 hours.\u00a0 I think I was moving from a bad mineralization section to an impossible one.\u00a0 I want to hunt 3-4 hours today, but the heat, bugs, and lack of late hunt finds sent me packing after 2:50.<\/p>\n<p>This might be a site to try the Nox, to see if all the hype about how good it is mineralization is true.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/070821.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2977\" title=\"070821\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/070821.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/070821.jpg 503w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/070821-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/070821-342x300.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t got out but once since my last post in late May, and did pretty well today, nailing 4 mercs, a largie, and a bison.\u00a0 As near as I can tell, the bison is 1916, and the largie is 1851. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/2976\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2980,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/2980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}