DIGGER27
In Memory Of
Now before you say no big deal let me tell you a few reasons why this is a very big deal...to me.
This was found in a special place, a stretch of curb strips that are unusually wide at about 10' and runs down a certain long block.
In the middle of this block is the entrance to a small old park established in 1898...the horse and buggy days.
In 1902 an extremely high end neighborhood was built around the perimeter of this park with a limited numbers of the most expensive homes at the time for the city's elite, bank owners, business owners, doctors and such.
Each was on 5 acre lots but most of that land was subdivided into smaller parcels now with some newer smaller homes built there as time went on.
There are still several of the older large original homes in there, most are marked historical.
One has recently been completely restored to its original condition, the address is #10, and if you want to buy it it is on the market right now for only about $1.8 million.
The whole thing is private so unless you knew somebody in there no hunting in the park or the big lawns or what is left of the huge backyards but the strips in front are city owned.
Because of the history of this park and neighborhood these strips have been hunted continuously and often since detectors have been invented.
I know a guy that lives in a smaller home right across the street from the entrance, he moved in in 1971 and told me he has seen legions of hunters scouring these strips since then.
Sometime one or two, sometimes whole groups but most of the old guys, the club guys, consider these things hunted out now but boy do I wish I knew what these guys found here back in the old days.
I myself have hunted here a ton because I never consider any site completely hunted out especially in my environment.
There is just too much iron, too much trash, a lot of that red dirt mineralization that just makes things hide so well to think that everything is gone completely no matter how many hunted here or how good they were.
The easy to find stuff is long gone but the not so easy targets are still around and I keep coming back trying new settings, coils, detectors and whatever else I can think of to try to find anything old that is still possible to find.
I have not found any silver here but way down at one end of the block I have dug a few wheats and other cool things like a small Tootsietoy boat.
Right in front of the entrance I found my best looking crotal bell, a beautiful cast one that still rings plus other neat stuff like a 50's watch.
This tells me most seemed to have cherry picked the high tones because those are rare but the lower conductors are still here even though 99% of them are junk and trash.
There is some modern clad here but anything older and good that comes out of this place is a huge victory as far as I am concerned and I love the challenge of visiting here when I can to try my luck as rare as that is.
Who knows, buffs, shields and V nickels might still be in play here and my dream is to come across some kind of extremely masked silver, maybe a Barber coin, and free it from its long resting place.
Yesterday, using the new Mojave in the strip in front near the entrance I found a wheatie.
It was near the street next to the old square cut rock curbs, areas I always hunt thoroughly because people getting in and out of cars tend to lose a lot of things next to these.
I have hunted in this exact spot using my F70 and at least 3 if not 4 coils, a Vaq and even my Compadre got a few chances.
Never dug this wheat but yesterday with the Mojave I got a nice, high repeating signal and dug into the very dry drought conditions dirt.
Not a huge hole but I ended up digging deep enough to hit somewhere around the hilt of my Lesche...that is about 6" if you measure it.
That is as far as I usually go in dry dirt if even that far here because it is difficult to chop your way down very far in the dry stuff and to dig any deeper I would have to make a big messy hole which I don't want to do.
I still don't know how deep the Mojave will actually go in my dirt, on the last couple hunts I went after a few nice high tones but couldn't get to them so I don't know if they were big iron deep or good coin targets...very frustrating but nice to know I am picking up signals deeper than I ever remember my Compadre doing in this mess.
We had a soaking rain yesterday so today we will try to acquire a few of those deeper ones and see what they are.
On this hole I was about to give up but on one of my last little piles of dirt I was able to scrape up out of the bottom of the hole I ran my pinpointer over the dirt and got a hit and sifted through and saw a coin.
Had to be minimum of 5" deep, might have been even past that closer to 6".
I smiled...even though I nicked the thing doing all that chopping and scraping to get to it.
There is a pretty rich layer of great really masked targets all around here at the 4-7" range for those of us that can learn to notice them...a few even at 8" which is about as far as I have been able to reach with my F70 in the bad stuff so far.
If this thing can actually hit that 6" mark here constantly I will be thrilled, if it can even get a bit deeper I will be shocked but it just might be possible.
All these reasons are why this lowly little one cent coin means so much to me.
What it represents might be huge.
I might have been able to find this coin at another time on another day with another machine but up to now I didn't..the Mojave did on its first trip and did it easily.
The depth I seem to be reaching seems to exceed my Compadre depth by at least a couple of inches but I don't really know how deep it can get on coin sized items in this dirt...yet.
So far I have found 3 great old targets in areas I know I have scoured before many times with several units and coils and this little machine found them...exactly what I was hoping for when I decided to get this one.
To find any high conductive coin in those strips as I said is a huge victory, I will keep coming back because where there is one there might be another so I still have hope some even better targets can be hiding.
This is just one little wheat cent but why it is worth way more than just one cent to me.
This was found in a special place, a stretch of curb strips that are unusually wide at about 10' and runs down a certain long block.
In the middle of this block is the entrance to a small old park established in 1898...the horse and buggy days.
In 1902 an extremely high end neighborhood was built around the perimeter of this park with a limited numbers of the most expensive homes at the time for the city's elite, bank owners, business owners, doctors and such.
Each was on 5 acre lots but most of that land was subdivided into smaller parcels now with some newer smaller homes built there as time went on.
There are still several of the older large original homes in there, most are marked historical.
One has recently been completely restored to its original condition, the address is #10, and if you want to buy it it is on the market right now for only about $1.8 million.
The whole thing is private so unless you knew somebody in there no hunting in the park or the big lawns or what is left of the huge backyards but the strips in front are city owned.
Because of the history of this park and neighborhood these strips have been hunted continuously and often since detectors have been invented.
I know a guy that lives in a smaller home right across the street from the entrance, he moved in in 1971 and told me he has seen legions of hunters scouring these strips since then.
Sometime one or two, sometimes whole groups but most of the old guys, the club guys, consider these things hunted out now but boy do I wish I knew what these guys found here back in the old days.
I myself have hunted here a ton because I never consider any site completely hunted out especially in my environment.
There is just too much iron, too much trash, a lot of that red dirt mineralization that just makes things hide so well to think that everything is gone completely no matter how many hunted here or how good they were.
The easy to find stuff is long gone but the not so easy targets are still around and I keep coming back trying new settings, coils, detectors and whatever else I can think of to try to find anything old that is still possible to find.
I have not found any silver here but way down at one end of the block I have dug a few wheats and other cool things like a small Tootsietoy boat.
Right in front of the entrance I found my best looking crotal bell, a beautiful cast one that still rings plus other neat stuff like a 50's watch.
This tells me most seemed to have cherry picked the high tones because those are rare but the lower conductors are still here even though 99% of them are junk and trash.
There is some modern clad here but anything older and good that comes out of this place is a huge victory as far as I am concerned and I love the challenge of visiting here when I can to try my luck as rare as that is.
Who knows, buffs, shields and V nickels might still be in play here and my dream is to come across some kind of extremely masked silver, maybe a Barber coin, and free it from its long resting place.
Yesterday, using the new Mojave in the strip in front near the entrance I found a wheatie.
It was near the street next to the old square cut rock curbs, areas I always hunt thoroughly because people getting in and out of cars tend to lose a lot of things next to these.
I have hunted in this exact spot using my F70 and at least 3 if not 4 coils, a Vaq and even my Compadre got a few chances.
Never dug this wheat but yesterday with the Mojave I got a nice, high repeating signal and dug into the very dry drought conditions dirt.
Not a huge hole but I ended up digging deep enough to hit somewhere around the hilt of my Lesche...that is about 6" if you measure it.
That is as far as I usually go in dry dirt if even that far here because it is difficult to chop your way down very far in the dry stuff and to dig any deeper I would have to make a big messy hole which I don't want to do.
I still don't know how deep the Mojave will actually go in my dirt, on the last couple hunts I went after a few nice high tones but couldn't get to them so I don't know if they were big iron deep or good coin targets...very frustrating but nice to know I am picking up signals deeper than I ever remember my Compadre doing in this mess.
We had a soaking rain yesterday so today we will try to acquire a few of those deeper ones and see what they are.
On this hole I was about to give up but on one of my last little piles of dirt I was able to scrape up out of the bottom of the hole I ran my pinpointer over the dirt and got a hit and sifted through and saw a coin.
Had to be minimum of 5" deep, might have been even past that closer to 6".
I smiled...even though I nicked the thing doing all that chopping and scraping to get to it.
There is a pretty rich layer of great really masked targets all around here at the 4-7" range for those of us that can learn to notice them...a few even at 8" which is about as far as I have been able to reach with my F70 in the bad stuff so far.
If this thing can actually hit that 6" mark here constantly I will be thrilled, if it can even get a bit deeper I will be shocked but it just might be possible.
All these reasons are why this lowly little one cent coin means so much to me.
What it represents might be huge.
I might have been able to find this coin at another time on another day with another machine but up to now I didn't..the Mojave did on its first trip and did it easily.
The depth I seem to be reaching seems to exceed my Compadre depth by at least a couple of inches but I don't really know how deep it can get on coin sized items in this dirt...yet.
So far I have found 3 great old targets in areas I know I have scoured before many times with several units and coils and this little machine found them...exactly what I was hoping for when I decided to get this one.
To find any high conductive coin in those strips as I said is a huge victory, I will keep coming back because where there is one there might be another so I still have hope some even better targets can be hiding.
This is just one little wheat cent but why it is worth way more than just one cent to me.
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