{"id":702,"date":"2012-05-25T18:08:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T22:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsurfer.com\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2012-05-25T21:55:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T01:55:22","slug":"hat-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/702","title":{"rendered":"Hat Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been a while since I dropped a hat trick.\u00a0 Same site I&#8217;ve been working over the past whenever, not the sort of site that gives up the double digit days, but patience and meticulous attention to detail reward the persistent with the shiny, and there is always the chance, tho I haven&#8217;t nailed it yet (outside of an abused copper posted recently), of nailing a real oldie.\u00a0 Its a sparse target, out of the box sort of site, with 1700s usage, which all sounds good; the brutal mineralization tamping expectations, and perhaps finds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-703\" title=\"052512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052512.jpg 336w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052512-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the silvers were hard.\u00a0 The first was ferrous affected, sort of like a 35-50 silver, and I was surprised when the merc was in the tailings after digging.\u00a0 The Q was deep and on its side, but, after 39 minutes of hunting, I had 2 silvers. OMG!\u00a0 I love gettin&#8217; em early cause it seems the rest of the day is on the house.<\/p>\n<p>Those who read my MD writings, and I think that set amounts to one person, know that Friday is Farewell Farewell day, we detect in the morning, spend all the clad at a local restaurant on beer, beer, and more beer, then do more detecting after lunch (and try to compose the story we will blog when we get home).\u00a0 My wife joined me today, which made it even more special (despite the fact that she hates beer, we all have our faults, don&#8217;t we?).<\/p>\n<p>Its nice on Farewell Farewell day to get some silver before lunch, and even more fun to get some after.\u00a0 The third silver was also hard. it was the barely legal 64 rosie, just on the edge of the site.\u00a0 So many silvers are found on the edge of sites; why don&#8217;t detectorists go there?<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I failed to compose a story.\u00a0 Its not that sort of site, as wasn&#8217;t that sort of day.\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 But, the derivation of the term &#8220;hat trick&#8221; turned out to be interesting; if you want a story tonite, wiki it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been a while since I dropped a hat trick.\u00a0 Same site I&#8217;ve been working over the past whenever, not the sort of site that gives up the double digit days, but patience and meticulous attention to detail reward the persistent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/702\">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\/702"}],"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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}