4 silvers including my 1st BENJI

GroundSweeper · Jan 24, 2021

Went back to the lake bed today, wore the cold weather rain gear, supposed to snow... second, third, fourth, fifth targets all silvers! 1954 D Wash, 1964 D Wash, 1953 D Franklin 1/2 (my first silver half!), then a 1964 D Rosie...all found one after the other within a 2’ area - will call it a spill :cool:

Couldn’t find anything else for an hour, then got a 1944 S wheat cent... and to top it all off, got me a marble! I did find another narrow gauge RR spike, well most of one, and part of an old 7-up bottle I thought was neat. Maybe I’ll try and cut it flush some day with the wet saw.

Quite a cold muddy mess, but one of the best hunts I’ve ever had. Only hailed on me too, so wasn’t bad!

GroundSweeper · Jan 24, 2021

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Truth1253 · Jan 24, 2021

A Benjamin half that’s something special Congratulations

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GroundSweeper · Jan 24, 2021

Truth1253 said:
A Benjamin half that’s something special Congratulations

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Ain’t that the Truth! :lol:

Thanks man!

ToySoldier · Jan 24, 2021

GroundSweeper said:
Went back to the lake bed today, wore the cold weather rain gear, supposed to snow... second, third, fourth, fifth targets all silvers! 1954 D Wash, 1964 D Wash, 1953 D Franklin 1/2 (my first silver half!), then a 1964 D Rosie.............but one of the best hunts I’ve ever had. Only hailed on me too, so wasn’t bad!

Looks like fun! A Ben Franklin half was one of my two bucket listers last year. Still looking!

GroundSweeper · Jan 24, 2021

ToySoldier said:
Looks like fun! A Ben Franklin half was one of my two bucket listers last year. Still looking!

Thanks ToySoldier! It was pretty crazy, boom boom boom boom! I have A LOT of bucketlisters... seated, barber, silver thimble, gun (preferable a 1911 I can get back to working condition :lol:

), lead soldier(s), wings.... etc...

MuddyMo · Jan 24, 2021

What a day, congrats!

GroundSweeper · Jan 24, 2021

MuddyMo said:
What a day, congrats!

Thanks MuddyMo, best in a long while! Appreciated!

Tom_in_CA · Jan 25, 2021

I like the coins in-situ in the clod pix.

And the item to the left of the 7-up bottle, bottom of that pix, appears to be an opium pipe end-part. Here's some examples of complete pipes :

MuddyMo · Jan 25, 2021

Tom_in_CA said:
I like the coins in-situ in the clod pix.

And the item to the left of the 7-up bottle, bottom of that pix, appears to be an opium pipe end-part. Here's some examples of complete pipes :

Hmmmm.. You knew what it was, you live in Cal and you just happened to have pics

Tom is there anything you want to confess??

Tom_in_CA · Jan 25, 2021

MuddyMo said:
....Tom is there anything you want to confess??

But I didn't inhale ! :shock:

Truth1253 · Jan 25, 2021

GroundSweeper said:
Ain’t that the Truth!

Thanks man!

Would I lie lol

You’re welcome

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GroundSweeper · Jan 25, 2021

Tom_in_CA said:
I like the coins in-situ in the clod pix.

And the item to the left of the 7-up bottle, bottom of that pix, appears to be an opium pipe end-part. Here's some examples of complete pipes :

Whoa thanks Tom, I had no idea, figured it was a pot pipe and probably would have chucked it! Now I’ll add it to my display of finds from this spot, very cool, super appreciated. Glad you liked the pics

NCtoad · Jan 25, 2021

Way to go GS! Nothing like finding the bigger silvers. All I’ve been finding lately is dimes. Congrats on the benji! I’m still looking for one of those.

jruckman38 · Jan 25, 2021

Nice hunt. Love the fresh dug silver pics. Just adds to the story telling me your actually digging them. Thanks for doing that.

Soil Surgeon · Jan 25, 2021

WOW !! Fantastic finds , photo's and play by play . I wish I was still studly enough to swing a big coil like that ! It doesn't seem like that long ago that I could swing a WOT
coil for a nice long hunt . Congrats and keep up the great hunting !

GroundSweeper · Jan 25, 2021

jruckman38 said:
Nice hunt. Love the fresh dug silver pics. Just adds to the story telling me your actually digging them. Thanks for doing that.

Thank you! I don’t find the goods very often so I like to take pics! Glad you like ‘em

NCtoad said:
Way to go GS! Nothing like finding the bigger silvers. All I’ve been finding lately is dimes. Congrats on the benji! I’m still looking for one of those.

Thanks Toad! Dimes are the majority of what I find, this was a rare day indeed for me.

Soil Surgeon said:
WOW !! Fantastic finds , photo's and play by play . I wish I was still studly enough to swing a big coil like that ! It doesn't seem like that long ago that I could swing a WOT
coil for a nice long hunt . Congrats and keep up the great hunting !

Thank you Sir! It’s gotten harder to swing the 15 for long periods since I tweaked my arm while carrying bundles of shingles up to my roof this past summer. Ouch. Mud was building up on the bottom of the coil too not helping :laughing:

LovestheShiny! · Jan 25, 2021

Very nice pulls from that mud! Congrats on the Big Ben and the other silvers!

campnagle · Jan 25, 2021

wet black silver and a fat half!

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