contest info **** READ THIS- ended 11-30-08

General Information


There is no end date to sign up for the contest. Entering the contest and paying the $5.00 fee also gets you in the drawing for the prizes after the contest is over.

All are welcome to enter the drawings -- just pay the $5 ticket fee, even if you don't want to participate in the contest. Payment can be sent here.

Dirt Fishing Entry Fee Payment Info

Entry fee is $5.00. There are lots of prizes, with more still coming…. including several prizes by random drawing among all participants, so even if you don’t ‘win’ you can still end up with a prize! Check them out HERE

Pay with Paypal by clicking here (credit card payments are fine)

Or, snail mail to this address:

Dirt Fishing Contest
PO Box 22592
Lexington, KY 40502-2592

Prizes

1.#1 a 1936 walking liberty half paired with a 1951 Franklin half.

#2 (5) au winged liberty dimes early 1940s

#3 5 buffalo nickles most with dates paired with 5 "V" nickles most with dates.
donated by grinsebring

*. 1. coin hunting in depth {book}
2.taking a closer look at detector disc.{book}
3.researching and detecting ghost towns{book}
4. detecting previously hunted sites {book}
5. introduction to metal detecting {book}
6.finding civil war camps in rural areas {book}
7. lesche digging tool {new}
8.1921 morgan silver dollar {as dug}
donated by me.


*lesche digging tool and coin tumbler donated by Ed in KC

*gold scale donated by cliff490

*2009 coin blue book donated by ventor12

*3 copies of i-detect software donated by kkc

*metal detector cloth carrying case donated by doebino

*3 or 4 cash prizes between $20-$25 each

*back issues of treasure hutning magazines donated by beerdoodle

*Titan 2000xd with a 10" Search Coil with accessory package including the following.

All in one carry bag
Pro Deluxe Lightweight Hi-Fi Headphones
Guide "Finding Treasure State by State"
Composite Digger
Treasure Hunting Sheath
Titan Baseball Cap
Kellyco 3 Pocket Coin Pouch
Finder's Log
Trial Subscription to "Lost Treasure" Magazine
Full 5 Year Warranty donated by kellyco

*1901 O Morgan Silver dollar. donated by Tinky1878

* Friendly Forum T-shirts donated by Vlad and Carol K

**** there are more but ill need to go through my PMs to sort em out. ill have a list later on during the contest of how these will be awarded..the winners will get some sort of package and most ive posted here will be for the random drawings***

Rules for posting finds

at the start of the contest there will be a "control item" givin this will be givin by a neutral party since i am in the contest as well
the "control" item must be present in the photo.
each team will have there own thread to post there finds,you can post your finds as soon as you can or you can accumulate your finds and make 1 post each week..the choice is yours. give the total of scoreable finds and calculate the points from the score system above,we will review the photos and give a score at the end of the contest.

posting jewelery finds: when posting a jewelery find take a pic of the item and try to get as good of a pic as you can of the hall mark or a pic of you testing the gold on a tester. i know hallmarks arent the easiest thing to photo but do your best. if you cant get it the jewelery will be labeled as "junk jewelery/plated" and points will be awarded as such...

CONTEST TEAMS

I did a random drawing for the teams. Here they are:



VET----------------------------GREEN HORN

Deep Silver-----------------------GeorgiaJay
HEAVYMETALNUT-----------------Bmattioli
RelicHound------------------------Venator12
Brian in TN------------------------motor20
DiveHunter------------------------bobulon
TN Ninja Digger--------------------TNHunter
NCBounty15-----------------------Havenalmighty
Tinky1878------------------------Doebino
Cliff490---------------------------AeRoFoRcE
Grinsebring------------------------tinfoilhat
Ed in KC--------------------------Cammobunker
G-man422------------------------Lowjiber
dcturtle--------------------------BrianVickers83
OZ_IL----------------------------Calvin
Beefcake--------------------------Beerdoodle
Westernlegend1-----------------BlamKing
WyomingHunter------------------SilentE
Carol K-----------------------------Bearharold

I will have everyones individual team thread set up before tomorrow evening and will also post the control up before 10pm tomorrow night. if you have a team name send it to me in a PM and that will be the name of your thread to post your finds in

one week to go. after the contest give me a week or so to go through the scores and Ill draw for prizes that friday or saturday {Dec,5th/6th} we have had quite a few folks enter the drawing and ive been trying to get the folks who donated at the beginning to verify that they still plan to donate but some have not replied...even if everyone does not win a prize a good majority will. thanks to everyone...we where able to raise a decent amount of money for the site which will help vlad and carol alot im sure as its not cheap to keep a forum like this running smoothly.