Hello My Friends!
It was another fine week of turf and surf hunts for me here in Southern California, and the weather was much more cooperative than it was last week. I was able to get out on 2 turf and 2 beach hunts this week. For the turf spots, I hunted 3 extremely heavily detected parks, just hoping to find a few remaining oldies. I had higher than average doubts about finding anything, especially at my first turf spot, but I was up to the challenge. After a couple hrs of hunting, I was more than happy to have found 3 silver dimes (2 Rosies and 1 Merc), along with 3 wheats. This was at a spot that had produced over 40 silver for me last year, and numerous silver for a few of my buddies too. I decided to leave this spot and try another close by spot, but that was a bust. Not even a single old coin. My second turf hunt was from one of the heaviest of detected parks in So Cal. This park is the 2nd most producing oldie park for me in all of Los Angeles over the past 9 years. It's always so rewarding to dig an elusive old coin from beyond 7", especially from a park like this because there's very little, if any, spots that have not been hunted here. It is a trashy park, so that is key in the chances there could still be partially masked deep targets just waiting to be found. I was really pleased with how the hunt ended up, as it took me more than a couple hrs before I had found my first silver coin. I ended the hunt with 5 silver (2 Mercs, 1 Rosie, 1 War Nickel, 1 tiny sterling heart pendant), along with 14 wheat pennies. With a day like that, the drive home in evening traffic on the 5 Fwy was actually enjoyable.
My two beach hunts this week were major workouts!! I dug a lot of deep trash with my TDI, but also pocketed some keepers. On my first beach hunt this week, I dug two war nickels, each at around 18", back to back. They were only a few feet from each other, and gave off a very faint whisper (just a bump of threshold) on my machine. Shortly after that, I dug a Rosie at 10". I found a few wheaties also, along with around $5 in clad. My second beach hunt was much tougher, but I did manage to find an 1899 V Nickel, which is an uber rare find here in So Cal. I can count on one hand the number of 1800's coins I have found at a S. Cal beach in the past 9 years of hunting here. I continued digging and digging for a few hrs many deep targets, and finally was rewarded with a silver for the day, a Rosie! What a relief it was to see that dime!! It was crazy that after digging so many targets, I had not found one precious metal piece of jewelry.
I'm 31 silver coins away from my 500 goal this year....I'm making steady progress, and that's a good thing. I hope it continues!
Thanks for looking!
Good Luck to All!
HH,
Raphis
Dan
It was another fine week of turf and surf hunts for me here in Southern California, and the weather was much more cooperative than it was last week. I was able to get out on 2 turf and 2 beach hunts this week. For the turf spots, I hunted 3 extremely heavily detected parks, just hoping to find a few remaining oldies. I had higher than average doubts about finding anything, especially at my first turf spot, but I was up to the challenge. After a couple hrs of hunting, I was more than happy to have found 3 silver dimes (2 Rosies and 1 Merc), along with 3 wheats. This was at a spot that had produced over 40 silver for me last year, and numerous silver for a few of my buddies too. I decided to leave this spot and try another close by spot, but that was a bust. Not even a single old coin. My second turf hunt was from one of the heaviest of detected parks in So Cal. This park is the 2nd most producing oldie park for me in all of Los Angeles over the past 9 years. It's always so rewarding to dig an elusive old coin from beyond 7", especially from a park like this because there's very little, if any, spots that have not been hunted here. It is a trashy park, so that is key in the chances there could still be partially masked deep targets just waiting to be found. I was really pleased with how the hunt ended up, as it took me more than a couple hrs before I had found my first silver coin. I ended the hunt with 5 silver (2 Mercs, 1 Rosie, 1 War Nickel, 1 tiny sterling heart pendant), along with 14 wheat pennies. With a day like that, the drive home in evening traffic on the 5 Fwy was actually enjoyable.
My two beach hunts this week were major workouts!! I dug a lot of deep trash with my TDI, but also pocketed some keepers. On my first beach hunt this week, I dug two war nickels, each at around 18", back to back. They were only a few feet from each other, and gave off a very faint whisper (just a bump of threshold) on my machine. Shortly after that, I dug a Rosie at 10". I found a few wheaties also, along with around $5 in clad. My second beach hunt was much tougher, but I did manage to find an 1899 V Nickel, which is an uber rare find here in So Cal. I can count on one hand the number of 1800's coins I have found at a S. Cal beach in the past 9 years of hunting here. I continued digging and digging for a few hrs many deep targets, and finally was rewarded with a silver for the day, a Rosie! What a relief it was to see that dime!! It was crazy that after digging so many targets, I had not found one precious metal piece of jewelry.
I'm 31 silver coins away from my 500 goal this year....I'm making steady progress, and that's a good thing. I hope it continues!
Thanks for looking!
Good Luck to All!
HH,
Raphis
Dan
And not even anywhere near the old east coast!
