LovestheShiny!
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Decided to do something different today. It was a perfect fall day, temps in the low 70's and sunny. I headed over Lolo Pass from Montana to Idaho, and traveled down the Lochsa and Clearwater Rivers (same route of Lewis & Clark waaaaay back when) into Idaho. I had permission to detect a lodge for fishermen and hunters, built in the early 1960's. I did have a bit of hope to find some shiny, but barely, as the date of the lodge meant only a few years of silver circulation. I did hope to find a lot of coins and I did that!
The first couple of coins were copper memorial pennies, and the first dime was a 1954-D Silver Rosie! Wow... my thoughts were that this place had never been detected. As it turned out, that was the only SILVER dime, as the next 69 dimes found were all clad! I wonder if that is some sort of record for dimes! I did find ONE wheat penny, the rest were copper memorials. I must have passed over about 50-75 surface / shallow zincolns, I did not dig them as they are a distinct "75" on the AT Pro. I did get a costume gold looking ring, and a small cross. I know there are gold rings there as there is a swimming pool, volleyball area, and other areas that look good, but the pull tabs are really thick. On this first visit, I wanted to look for high tone targets and see if I could pull some shiny. I did get fooled by a half-dozen bottle caps.
For all of you "clad stabbers" out there, I detected for 6.75 hrs, found 225 coins total... for a rate of 33.33 CPH (coins per hour). Not as good as the hard core cladders here on the forum, but not bad for me as I usually chase older sites and silver coins.
Had a ton of fun, my knees are a bit sore from all that down & up! Saw a few cool sights... a HUGE bull elk crossed the road just ahead of me on the drive there, and while detecting, saw a KC-135 Stratotanker fly overhead with a C-17 Globemaster cargo jet on the boom! Hope this is of interest and successful hunting to everyone!
The first couple of coins were copper memorial pennies, and the first dime was a 1954-D Silver Rosie! Wow... my thoughts were that this place had never been detected. As it turned out, that was the only SILVER dime, as the next 69 dimes found were all clad! I wonder if that is some sort of record for dimes! I did find ONE wheat penny, the rest were copper memorials. I must have passed over about 50-75 surface / shallow zincolns, I did not dig them as they are a distinct "75" on the AT Pro. I did get a costume gold looking ring, and a small cross. I know there are gold rings there as there is a swimming pool, volleyball area, and other areas that look good, but the pull tabs are really thick. On this first visit, I wanted to look for high tone targets and see if I could pull some shiny. I did get fooled by a half-dozen bottle caps.
For all of you "clad stabbers" out there, I detected for 6.75 hrs, found 225 coins total... for a rate of 33.33 CPH (coins per hour). Not as good as the hard core cladders here on the forum, but not bad for me as I usually chase older sites and silver coins.
Had a ton of fun, my knees are a bit sore from all that down & up! Saw a few cool sights... a HUGE bull elk crossed the road just ahead of me on the drive there, and while detecting, saw a KC-135 Stratotanker fly overhead with a C-17 Globemaster cargo jet on the boom! Hope this is of interest and successful hunting to everyone!
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