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<\/a><\/p>\nI also spent some time in the woods when it got really hot.\u00a0 The woods are near an old swimming hole that gave up all those wheaties and a merc on that day, and they were not woods back in the day — so sometimes you can get some out of the box stuff in these situations.\u00a0 Moreover, coins tend to not sink in the woods, so I pulled 2 wheaties, the earliest being a 1913, and another buff (dateless and abused; not shown).\u00a0 No silver from this site tho.\u00a0 The woods are a bit thorny, but I want to try to squeeze a silver out of them some other time.<\/p>\n
Back in the field, I also dug this thing.\u00a0 I thought it was going to be an old coin when it rang up, cause it was deep and had a nice sound.\u00a0 But, it was this thing — I have no clue what it is, and to add insult to injury, it is not even silver.<\/p>\n
So, two days without a silver, snapping my streak at 14.\u00a0 Not bad, as these things go, but its rare that I have 2 skunks in a row.<\/p>\n Yesterday I had to take my son somewhere, and this is to a town that I swear the whole town is hunted out.\u00a0 I have never pulled a single silver from several promising sites in this town.\u00a0 But since I had to be there for several hours, I decided to hit a site I had hit once before, that I was sure was hunted out.\u00a0 If I had a silver streak going, I prolly would not count this hunt.<\/p>\n But, I was surprised to find 3 wheaties over a 4 hour hunt.\u00a0 Still hunted out, tho.\u00a0 I will get a silver out of this town someday.\u00a0 So, 3 hunts in a row without silver.\u00a0 That hasn’t happened to me since March or April of 2011, I think. At least the hunts were all known low probability going in.<\/p>\n This morning I needed a fix, so back to a site that had been quite good, and I was hoping it had a bit more juice in it.\u00a0 It was really too hot, and the ground too hard to be hunting, but it is so addicting.\u00a0 I was skunked there too; all I could say is give me one damn rosie and I’ll go home.<\/p>\n So I went to the location of where there is all this dirt from dredging an old swimming hole; I had found some old coins near the swimming hole, and had high hopes for this dirt, and I had already found a couple of wheaties in it.\u00a0 The problem with this sort of site is that it is even more rock hard than normal field or park grass\/dirt, so I was saving it for after some good rain.<\/p>\n But, I needed a fix, so I hit it.\u00a0 One thing that is interesting about hunting these sorts of tailings\/scrapings\/dredgings is that TID on the E-Trac doesn’t really work for some reason.\u00a0 You can get a 12-44 an inch deep, and it be a silver.\u00a0 That is always a clad dime in natural settings, and can safely be ignored.\u00a0 And other TIDs tend to be wonky, and of course you can’t go by depth either.<\/p>\n Which means you have to dig all that clad cause you can’t tell, and there was tons of it.\u00a0 All I could say was gimme a damn rosie and I’ll get out of this heat and rock hard dirt, and play board games with my family, or go play pinball or something.<\/p>\n I had high hopes for this dredging zone given how old the place it came from was, but it was just clad city.\u00a0 I expected one silver for every 6 clads, based on a couple of assumptions (including the fact that I doubt it was ever detected), but it simply wasn’t to be.\u00a0 Eventually I pulled the damn rosie and was out of there.<\/p>\n Well, that’s 4 hunts in one story.\u00a0 A few wheaties, a couple of buffs, a rosie, and a whatchamacallit.\u00a0 Due to the heat and the rock hard dirt, I don’t know how much digging I’ll be doing going forward, but fields and woods have some appeal, as the misery is mitigated somewhat.\u00a0 We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After that amazing midweek hunt of a barber half, 2 reale, large copper and about 10 wheaties, I expected a letdown, but it was more like a crash. I obviously went back to that site, looking for more.\u00a0 Wouldn’t you?\u00a0 … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n