Digging Was Hard Today!

beephead · Jul 8, 2018

I haven't been detecting for around 2 weeks now, so I decided to give it a go today. The heat wasn't all that bad, but the ground was so hard in places that I gave up and left the target for another day. I did manage to unearth a 13.5 gram silver ring, a Rosie, a Mercury dime, 15 wheat pennies and some clad coins. I may not go back until it rains again. The ground is just way too dry and hard.

beephead

KiowaRd · Jul 8, 2018

The ground around here is just as hard but certainly doesn't give up finds like what you're showing.

kingman mikey · Jul 8, 2018

Congrats on the silvers & silver turquoise ring, that is sweet my man. :wow:

5 mile · Jul 8, 2018

Nice going Beep, always look forward to your finds...and what detector your using!

brncofan · Jul 8, 2018

nice hunt congrats

brncofan · Jul 8, 2018

beephead said:
I haven't been detecting for around 2 weeks now, so I decided to give it a go today. The heat wasn't all that bad, but the ground was so hard in places that I gave up and left the target for another day. I did manage to unearth a 13.5 gram silver ring, a Rosie, a Mercury dime, 15 wheat pennies and some clad coins. I may not go back until it rains again. The ground is just way too dry and hard.

beephead

yes the ground here in CT is like talcom powder soo very dry need rain badly

bubbaron · Jul 8, 2018

Congrats on a good hunt with some nice finds.
Bubbaron

Dirty Nails · Jul 8, 2018

The sand in NW Florida has certainly spoiled me. Excellent work!

OzarkDetector · Jul 8, 2018

You had courage to go out.
The Mrs. had a three day weekend.
We had planned to have a detecting weekend, which we cancelled.
Not just the heat, but the ground is so dry and hard here in "rock and some clay North Central Arkansas," you feel like you need a jackhammer to make a plug.
Maybe one rain here in last six weeks.

jack&jill · Jul 8, 2018

For passing on a few targets Beep, you still came home with a great hunt. We have had the heat here but have been blessed with the rain so conditions are still pretty good. That is if you can hunt in a sauna. Trapper

Foragist · Jul 8, 2018

That is a very nice haul of digs Beephead. The first pic of the ring shows a sky blue turquoise, but the other shots show it as more green. The natural high blue stuff has some better value. I like the little toy pistol and soldier, too.

jwp1964 · Jul 8, 2018

Love the ring! Nice hunt.

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WyoTom · Jul 8, 2018

Nice finds!

GroundSweeper · Jul 8, 2018

Man Beep!!! That’s a heck of a ring! Not to shabby on the silvers too! Congrats!

metaladdict · Jul 8, 2018

Nice turquoise ring and silver. Our ground is hard too.

Trashfinder · Jul 9, 2018

Ground is hard as a brick here... mostly clay,,, but finds like that would motivate me to dig anyway!

beephead · Jul 9, 2018

KiowaRd said:
The ground around here is just as hard but certainly doesn't give up finds like what you're showing.

Thanks! The wheat pennies kept me spurred on to do more digging.

kingman mikey said:
Congrats on the silvers & silver turquoise ring, that is sweet my man.

Thanks! My wife really likes it a lot.

5 mile said:
Nice going Beep, always look forward to your finds...and what detector your using!

Thanks! I got way too many detectors, but I enjoy using them all.

brncofan said:
nice hunt congrats

Thanks!

brncofan said:
yes the ground here in CT is like talcom powder soo very dry need rain badly

Our mostly clay soil is butter like when it's wet, but it's as hard as concrete when it's dry.

bubbaron said:
Congrats on a good hunt with some nice finds.
Bubbaron

Thanks!

Dirty Nails said:
The sand in NW Florida has certainly spoiled me. Excellent work!

Thanks! I know what you mean we have a few sandy soil areas around here.

OzarkDetector said:
You had courage to go out.
The Mrs. had a three day weekend.
We had planned to have a detecting weekend, which we cancelled.
Not just the heat, but the ground is so dry and hard here in "rock and some clay North Central Arkansas," you feel like you need a jackhammer to make a plug.
Maybe one rain here in last six weeks.

Dry hard ground and humid hot weather makes things hard.

jack&jill said:
For passing on a few targets Beep, you still came home with a great hunt. We have had the heat here but have been blessed with the rain so conditions are still pretty good. That is if you can hunt in a sauna. Trapper

Thanks! When you're over a deep target and you push on the hand trowel hard and it doesn't break the surface, you know it's time to move on. lol

Foragist said:
That is a very nice haul of digs Beephead. The first pic of the ring shows a sky blue turquoise, but the other shots show it as more green. The natural high blue stuff has some better value. I like the little toy pistol and soldier, too.

Thanks! I'd say that it's more green than blue. I thought that I might have had a large silver coin under my search coil with the ID reading that I got.

jwp1964 said:
Love the ring! Nice hunt.

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Thanks!

WyoTom said:
Nice finds!

Thanks!

GroundSweeper said:
Man Beep!!! That’s a heck of a ring! Not to shabby on the silvers too! Congrats!

Thanks! I'll do better when we get some rain and when it cools off some. Right now I'm doing a lot of cherry picking. I'll start finding a lot of interesting finds when I start swinging my Deeptech Smart Plus and Tesoro detectors. Maybe some more gold rings, old dog tags and neat tokens.

metaladdict said:
Nice turquoise ring and silver. Our ground is hard too.

Thanks! Hard ground sucks! lol

Trashfinder said:
Ground is hard as a brick here... mostly clay,,, but finds like that would motivate me to dig anyway!

Thanks! I wouldn't have dug nearly as much, but finding a good target every once in awhile kept me going. I'm sore today.

beephead

Mud-puppy · Jul 9, 2018

You have found a lot of great rings over the years, gave us a look at them, that one there is another real beauty! You gonna wear it? Sell it? Very nice save Beep!

Tom_in_CA · Jul 9, 2018

good pictures. Good play-by-plays.

beephead · Jul 9, 2018

Mud-puppy said:
You have found a lot of great rings over the years, gave us a look at them, that one there is another real beauty! You gonna wear it? Sell it? Very nice save Beep!

Thanks! I'd would if the band wasn't broken and if it was a larger rings size. I have all of the rings that've found stored away by finds for each of the years that I detected except for the gold ones and they're in my safety deposit box at the bank. One day I'll take the time to get them all together in one shot. Just getting 251 silver coins that I found in one year in a group picture was a chore.

Tom_in_CA said:
good pictures. Good play-by-plays.

Thanks! Things haven't been too exciting while out detecting here lately. No bit bull dog attacks etc..

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