Congrats. One of my best sites was a still standing one room schoolhouse. Dozens of wheats and indians, v and buffalos, but only two silvers but one was my first seated dime. Neighbor said hes seen detectors there before though
This is what a virgin schoolhouse produces(UPDATED)
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Matndew
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Great finds!
Cordo
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That is a great site, alright!
hikingthehills
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That was my thoughts. It would help out with detecting as well!
gseuser
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I wish we could but they mow it for hay
Tom_in_CA
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As someone who was there at the advent of TID (early 1980s), I can tell you this is wrong. At *best* they might pass up low conductors (foil and tabs). Which, heck, is even still true to-this-day (in junky blighted parks anyhow). But no, none of us ever skipped "everything but quarters". And even if you tried, go figure: The machines of those days were limited on depth.
And for country-sites like this (abandoned early-on), I believe we had the "presence of mind" to go into relic mindset. And to the extent that some guys never moved their 6000D's out of the "tab reject" mode (even in relicky sites), those machines were far-from perfect/efficient at coverage.
This could very well be true at *that* one particular spot. But as for an owner saying "no one's ever md'd here", I always have my doubts as to whether that solely qualifies it as being true.
I know of many places where the current owner will indeed say such a thing. But I know for a fact the places have been hammered. Either before the current owner's time, or with some someone else's say-so (daughter, son, cousin, gardener, ranch-hand, etc....). Or ... quite frankly, ... someone decades ago "helped themselves".
Even if the current owner has been there 50 yrs. and insists, it often means they simply have no idea. They might *just assume* that if someone else in the family gave the go-ahead, that *certainly* they'd know about it. But who's to say ? Like if your wife gave the go-ahead to someone to retrieve a kid's errant base-ball from your back yard, is your wife necessarily going to have told you ? Or 20 yrs. from now are you necessarily going to remember it ? Same psychology for md'ing.
markinswpa
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That Ford token is awesome that has become my number one most Wanted how about a picture of the Chevy token that was a pretty great hunt good luck mark
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demyansk1942
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Thanks for that info from the 80's. I had a detector when I was in my teens in the late 70's. I never really used the thing due to no clue about how to use etc. No internet back then and I was into other things. Just think, of all the silver I missed
Nice finds
Congrats.
Congrats.
The stories I'm told most these old farts would leave pennies and nonshiny items in the hole, so they say. These guys also said they pulled silver coins out of a location by the handful like it was no big deal.
But what do I know? I'm much younger listening to the old men recollect metal detecting uphill both ways.
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Trashfinder
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Fantastic site! Hope lot's more coming from there for ya!
Darktower007
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Nice finds!!
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Jamflicker
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Congrats on the finds. I found one of those Ford tokens a couple months ago.
