There Wasn't Much Left To Find On the 2nd Go Around

beephead · Jan 26, 2018

I met up with my hunting buddy this morning at the same site that we hunted yesterday to see if we could find some more goodies. He found a Mercury dime and a Rosie. I kept working at it and finally unearthed a 1901 V nickel and 4 wheat pennies, but no silver. I decided to go back over the steep bank that I detected yesterday. Those steep banks aren't easy to detect, but I seem to always find some good finds on them.

Finally, I got a VDI #92 and a high pitched audio response on my MXT Pro. Oh, I just knew that I had a Barber Half under my search coil. I flipped over the plug and saw a large silver rim, but didn't know what it was. I yelled at my hunting buddy to come over see what I found. When I removed enough dirt, we saw it was a Walking Liberty and not a Barber Half. I got cheated again. LOL It's time for one.

beephead

WyoTom · Jan 26, 2018

Very nice walker!

cellrdwellr · Jan 26, 2018

Great hunt, big silver, you called it! Nice addition, congrats!

Ron 71 · Jan 26, 2018

I'm gonna get cheated tomorrow! :laughing:

Congrats on the big silver!

Waveoff · Jan 26, 2018

Not a bad second outing at all. You've been killing it lately! Congrats on another awesome hunt!

wasatchau · Jan 26, 2018

You "got cheated"? Hell, you got blessed with another silver half. I'm still looking for my first one.

Mud-puppy · Jan 27, 2018

Man! Nice big Half! Thats some real old dirt though...looking at your junk shot...does not appear to have much dropped after the late 60's? Whatcha think?

Big Treble · Jan 27, 2018

Mud-puppy said:
Man! Nice big Half! Thats some real old dirt though...looking at your junk shot...does not appear to have much dropped after the late 60's? Whatcha think?

I might agree with you mud, notice the hemweight?

Mud-puppy · Jan 27, 2018

Big Treble said:
I might agree with you mud, notice the hemweight?

Yeah! BT! Right? I have learned so much from studying Beeps junkshots! How to quickly evaluate a locations potential based on the junk, its depth and composition...if this place has ever been hunted etc...Based on the junk, a guy can then set up right, concentrate, and target specific signals accordingly.....Those junkshots are super important.....

metaladdict · Jan 27, 2018

Beep you said you were due a half and looks like you were right!Congrats! :shock:

beephead · Jan 27, 2018

WyoTom said:
Very nice walker!

Thanks! It always amazing me that someone lost something that big and shiny and I end up, by some miracle, finding it. Back in the day you could have bought 10 hand dipped ice cream cones with it.

cellrdwellr said:
Great hunt, big silver, you called it! Nice addition, congrats!

Thanks! I sometimes I scare myself. I'd better be careful what I wish for.

Ron 71 said:
I'm gonna get cheated tomorrow!
Congrats on the big silver!

Thanks! If it had turned out to be a Barber Half, I would have fainted.

Waveoff said:
Not a bad second outing at all. You've been killing it lately! Congrats on another awesome hunt!

Thanks! I haven't been able to go much, but when I have it has been productive.

Mud-puppy said:
Man! Nice big Half! Thats some real old dirt though...looking at your junk shot...does not appear to have much dropped after the late 60's? Whatcha think?

Thanks! I was doing a little cherry picking at first, but later on I switch into the relic mode and started digging everything above iron that sounded halfway decent. My hunting partner and I both agreed that the ground was a little funky. Both of us were getting a lot of broken target signals even on shallow 4 or 5 inch coins. He was using an E-trac and I was using several different detectors. I think that there was a lot of burnt trash and coal cinders thrown about the yard that was causing all trouble.

Big Treble said:
I might agree with you mud, notice the hemweight?

Good eye!

Mud-puppy said:
Yeah! BT! Right? I have learned so much from studying Beeps junkshots! How to quickly evaluate a locations potential based on the junk, its depth and composition...if this place has ever been hunted etc...Based on the junk, a guy can then set up right, concentrate, and target specific signals accordingly.....Those junkshots are super important.....

I'm sure that you've noticed that I'm not digging nearly as much as I used to. I'm grunting more and more getting up and down to dig the targets as well.

metaladdict said:
Beep you said you were due a half and looks like you were right!Congrats!

Thanks! That's my second one this year. I'm still amazed when one pops out the ground!

beephead

Big Treble · Jan 27, 2018

That's no lie on the grunting I'm getting close to that, BH! You need to get a Sampson to save your back!

beephead · Jan 27, 2018

Big Treble said:
That's no lie on the grunting I'm getting close to that, BH! You need to get a Sampson to save your back!

I've got one with the extra long handle called the "Dixie". I only use it in the woods and in old fields away for onlookers. Most of the yards that I detect the owners and neighbors might get offended if I used it, so I use a hand trowel instead.

BTW, a Sampson shovel will do no more harm to the turf than a hand trowel, but it's all in the optics of what people see and think.

beephead

jwp1964 · Jan 28, 2018

Cheated again? Lol, send some of your bad luck my way. Congrats on the half and other nice finds.

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beephead · Jan 28, 2018

jwp1964 said:
Cheated again? Lol, send some of your bad luck my way. Congrats on the half and other nice finds.

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Thanks! It's all about location, location, location!

beephead

pescadore · Jan 28, 2018

Nice Hunt Beep !!! Sorry you didn't get your Barber but the Walker is no slouch for sure. Congrats on your finds and I am sure that Barber will show up soon !!
HH ... Pesc

ben24 · Feb 10, 2018

Congrats!

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