Captain Silver
Elite Member
Got up early today with the morning free for a hunt. I was going to get out in the water for the morning low with the Excal Sword...but right before I left the house it began to rain
I saw that it would clear up by mid morning so I went back to bed for a couple more hours...by 10 the sun had come out but the tide was coming in so I grabbed the scoop, the Explorer II and for the first time in a long time...went over to Iron Beach to work the slope low and slow in search of silver
Tide finally came up and ran me off after a couple and a half hours...these were all the finds
only 37 cents in clad, scrap and more scrap, half a dozen wheats...sterling #18 was a bucket lister, a vintage ladies silver hat pin that thankfully I didn't destroy while digging
these are silvers #105 to #108...
3 Mercs and a Barber Quarter
the Barber is career silver #1199...
I must have learned something hunting Nail Park the last few weeks...what stood out today was the high tone 'tic' a deep silver gives off when it's hiding in the almost constant null of a beach polluted with iron. The Barber Quarter was ridiculously deep, I was down 14-15 inches and about to give up on it but pulled the pinpointer from the backpack...it barely buzzed at the bottom of the hole, I scooped a couple more inches and was almost on it, louder now... another bite and it was finally out. I stuck the scoop handle first in the hole and scratched a line on it with a rock...it measured at 19" deep
Well, that's all for now, it wasn't the hunt I had planned but a damn good morning anyway. Thanks for looking, see you after the next outing...and Happy Hunting to all!
I saw that it would clear up by mid morning so I went back to bed for a couple more hours...by 10 the sun had come out but the tide was coming in so I grabbed the scoop, the Explorer II and for the first time in a long time...went over to Iron Beach to work the slope low and slow in search of silver
Tide finally came up and ran me off after a couple and a half hours...these were all the finds
only 37 cents in clad, scrap and more scrap, half a dozen wheats...sterling #18 was a bucket lister, a vintage ladies silver hat pin that thankfully I didn't destroy while digging
these are silvers #105 to #108...
3 Mercs and a Barber Quarter
the Barber is career silver #1199...
I must have learned something hunting Nail Park the last few weeks...what stood out today was the high tone 'tic' a deep silver gives off when it's hiding in the almost constant null of a beach polluted with iron. The Barber Quarter was ridiculously deep, I was down 14-15 inches and about to give up on it but pulled the pinpointer from the backpack...it barely buzzed at the bottom of the hole, I scooped a couple more inches and was almost on it, louder now... another bite and it was finally out. I stuck the scoop handle first in the hole and scratched a line on it with a rock...it measured at 19" deep Well, that's all for now, it wasn't the hunt I had planned but a damn good morning anyway. Thanks for looking, see you after the next outing...and Happy Hunting to all!
