Waveoff
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Last weekend I went away for the weekend to spend three days detecting a 140 acre permission with civil war history and military school history starting in the late 1800's. I ended up not finding a single civil war relic or silver coin. I found a couple of old wheats but everything else was just modern stuff. Then to top it all off, I got really sick for three days as soon as I got home. 103.5 fever, chills, body aches...fun times. I got tested for West Nile virus and some other stuff since I was in the woods and got an insane amount of mosquito bites despite the fact I used deep woods OFF. I'm still waiting for the lab results. Needless to say, I haven't been out detecting for a few days.
I finally went on a decent hunt this afternoon after being down for a few days. I drove to an older town about 35 minutes away from where I live intending to hit an old park I researched online. I was having trouble finding it but noticed a lot of curb strips while I was driving in circles. I decided to stop and hit a corner. As I was setting up, I noticed a middle aged couple on the porch of their older looking house. They looked friendly so I made small talk with them and asked them about the park I was looking for. They didn't have a clue what I was talking about but they did tell me their house was the oldest one on the block and that I was welcome to detect their yard. Well don't mind if I do! I started off only finding some rotten zincolns around their house along with some can slaw. Then they mentioned that the empty space between their house and the wife's uncle's house next door used to have an even older house standing there. They mentioned this as daylight was fading fast. I decided to crank the disc to around the 3 o'clock position on my vaquero in an attempt to cherry pick. My first hit was a deep, faint sounding but repeatable signal the didn't disc out at all. I cut my plug and found my first Indian head penny (1906) about 9" down. A few more feet away I got a similar sound and dug a second injun (1903) that was only a couple of inches down. A few more feet away I got a pretty strong hit that sounded really nice. It ended up being a third injun (1898) that was about 6" down. I also found a 1916 wheat amongst the tribe. I ended up running out of daylight but they said to come on back anytime I want.
Sorry for the long winded post and thanks for looking!
I finally went on a decent hunt this afternoon after being down for a few days. I drove to an older town about 35 minutes away from where I live intending to hit an old park I researched online. I was having trouble finding it but noticed a lot of curb strips while I was driving in circles. I decided to stop and hit a corner. As I was setting up, I noticed a middle aged couple on the porch of their older looking house. They looked friendly so I made small talk with them and asked them about the park I was looking for. They didn't have a clue what I was talking about but they did tell me their house was the oldest one on the block and that I was welcome to detect their yard. Well don't mind if I do! I started off only finding some rotten zincolns around their house along with some can slaw. Then they mentioned that the empty space between their house and the wife's uncle's house next door used to have an even older house standing there. They mentioned this as daylight was fading fast. I decided to crank the disc to around the 3 o'clock position on my vaquero in an attempt to cherry pick. My first hit was a deep, faint sounding but repeatable signal the didn't disc out at all. I cut my plug and found my first Indian head penny (1906) about 9" down. A few more feet away I got a similar sound and dug a second injun (1903) that was only a couple of inches down. A few more feet away I got a pretty strong hit that sounded really nice. It ended up being a third injun (1898) that was about 6" down. I also found a 1916 wheat amongst the tribe. I ended up running out of daylight but they said to come on back anytime I want.
Sorry for the long winded post and thanks for looking!