markinswpa
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Silver slump, CONFIRMED. I have been very lucky this year as far as silver, with coin spills and old coins found, But as of late, the last 7 or 8 hunts, although a few cool relics found, the silver has eluded me. Saturday I went back to a farmhouse from the 1890s that I did get a few silver and wheats from in the past. I put in a good 9 hours and all I came away with with was a Buff, 3 wheaties and .79 in clad. I will say the 800 ground balancing in the high 70s, stock coil, I hit that Buff at almost a foot down. Deepest nickel I've dug.
Sunday I got permission to do a local 1916 build. The front yard was so dry I had trouble getting my hand Lesche in. I even took 3 gallons of water and my watering can. The few signals I could dig on were clad and watered the roots as soon as I flipped the plug. The lady's son came out and told me she would be more comfortable if I hunted down back. I said no problem and headed down there. So the soil in back was better, but things got a little strange. 7 Wheaties. I was hitting wheats and memorials less than 2 in. down. But the dimes and quarters were clad. A 65 slam so to speak. All toll, out of 6 dimes 4 were 65s, out of 3 quarters, a 65 & 66. A 65 nickel, and out of 20 memorials most were in the 60s. All those shallow wheats but not one silver. I got a large 28 and out pops what I thought was a sterling Boy Scout slide. On clean up when I tried to straighten out the back I could see he plating coming off. No silver for me. The other cool find of the day was, what I thought was a lead toy soldier but when looking at it, and I don't know why, it reminded me of member Digging for Clad. Sorry guy. Not sure why. Anyway I really need to get my coil on some silver soon. Thanks for looking in. Mark
Sunday I got permission to do a local 1916 build. The front yard was so dry I had trouble getting my hand Lesche in. I even took 3 gallons of water and my watering can. The few signals I could dig on were clad and watered the roots as soon as I flipped the plug. The lady's son came out and told me she would be more comfortable if I hunted down back. I said no problem and headed down there. So the soil in back was better, but things got a little strange. 7 Wheaties. I was hitting wheats and memorials less than 2 in. down. But the dimes and quarters were clad. A 65 slam so to speak. All toll, out of 6 dimes 4 were 65s, out of 3 quarters, a 65 & 66. A 65 nickel, and out of 20 memorials most were in the 60s. All those shallow wheats but not one silver. I got a large 28 and out pops what I thought was a sterling Boy Scout slide. On clean up when I tried to straighten out the back I could see he plating coming off. No silver for me. The other cool find of the day was, what I thought was a lead toy soldier but when looking at it, and I don't know why, it reminded me of member Digging for Clad. Sorry guy. Not sure why. Anyway I really need to get my coil on some silver soon. Thanks for looking in. Mark