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Had a chance to head north of town with my detecting buddy to a smaller Montana town, and we had probably the best couple of days detecting that both of us had ever done!
I met my friend, who uses the Nox 800, at this town. I arrived a bit earlier and decided to hop out and try a quick check of a curb strip. The second coin found with my AT Pro was a 1920's Merc Dime, so I got pretty excited! My friend arrived a short time later and we started on the curb strip. I did catch a couple of folks home and got permission on two yards. Amazingly, the yards produced very little silver, but the curb strips were loaded with goodies!
I started out hot, as I had a silver quarter and two silver dimes, when I got a great 92-93 signal on the Pro, and deep. I was shocked to see Big Shiny in the hole, and called my friend over to see a beautiful 1925 Peace Dollar looking up at us! Rechecked the hole and pulled a Silver Rosie and a Silver Merc out of the same hole, a very welcome 3 silver coin spill! At that point my friend had a couple of silver dimes, but then he got hot and found 4 more silver dimes in short order, on the curb strip across the street. The curb strips were amazing, wheaties, buffalo nickels, and lots of clad were everywhere. The strips were kind of hit and miss, some areas in front of the homes had very little, while some individual home strips produced 15 wheaties, modern clad, and 6-8 silvers! Kind of like what it must have been like back in ca 1980 when the first Ground Balance machines came out.
It was totally fun to anticipate that the next target would be another silver! We ended up the first day in great shape, with dozens of wheaties, some buffs, and lots of The Shiny. I ended up with 10 silvers, and my friend ended up with 11 for the first day.
The next morning we started beep-beeping around 10 am, and the good fortune continued. We did get some private yard permissions, but the vast majority of the shiny came out of the curb strips. My friend started out hot, with 4 silver dimes right away! I wasn't finding any silver, but tons of wheats, when I finally hit a hot spot that produced 3 silver dimes out of 4 coins found, the other was a wheatie. I found a couple of nice Silver GW quarters, more dimes, and my friend found a worn Standing Liberty quarter, a nice Indian Head cent in a wheatie spill, and more dimes. We ended up that day with 5 more silvers for my friend, giving him 16 total. I ended up with 7 silvers for the 2/3 day that we detected, giving me 17 silvers total. Grand total of 33 silvers for about 1 2/3 days of hunting!
Pics below are of my friends better finds first, followed by my better finds. Found tons of clad, but you've all seen that before!
Am blessed to have had such a great experience, a kind of "throw back" to the old days of rich and loaded curb strips! Thank you for your interest!
I met my friend, who uses the Nox 800, at this town. I arrived a bit earlier and decided to hop out and try a quick check of a curb strip. The second coin found with my AT Pro was a 1920's Merc Dime, so I got pretty excited! My friend arrived a short time later and we started on the curb strip. I did catch a couple of folks home and got permission on two yards. Amazingly, the yards produced very little silver, but the curb strips were loaded with goodies!
I started out hot, as I had a silver quarter and two silver dimes, when I got a great 92-93 signal on the Pro, and deep. I was shocked to see Big Shiny in the hole, and called my friend over to see a beautiful 1925 Peace Dollar looking up at us! Rechecked the hole and pulled a Silver Rosie and a Silver Merc out of the same hole, a very welcome 3 silver coin spill! At that point my friend had a couple of silver dimes, but then he got hot and found 4 more silver dimes in short order, on the curb strip across the street. The curb strips were amazing, wheaties, buffalo nickels, and lots of clad were everywhere. The strips were kind of hit and miss, some areas in front of the homes had very little, while some individual home strips produced 15 wheaties, modern clad, and 6-8 silvers! Kind of like what it must have been like back in ca 1980 when the first Ground Balance machines came out.
It was totally fun to anticipate that the next target would be another silver! We ended up the first day in great shape, with dozens of wheaties, some buffs, and lots of The Shiny. I ended up with 10 silvers, and my friend ended up with 11 for the first day.
The next morning we started beep-beeping around 10 am, and the good fortune continued. We did get some private yard permissions, but the vast majority of the shiny came out of the curb strips. My friend started out hot, with 4 silver dimes right away! I wasn't finding any silver, but tons of wheats, when I finally hit a hot spot that produced 3 silver dimes out of 4 coins found, the other was a wheatie. I found a couple of nice Silver GW quarters, more dimes, and my friend found a worn Standing Liberty quarter, a nice Indian Head cent in a wheatie spill, and more dimes. We ended up that day with 5 more silvers for my friend, giving him 16 total. I ended up with 7 silvers for the 2/3 day that we detected, giving me 17 silvers total. Grand total of 33 silvers for about 1 2/3 days of hunting!
Pics below are of my friends better finds first, followed by my better finds. Found tons of clad, but you've all seen that before!
Am blessed to have had such a great experience, a kind of "throw back" to the old days of rich and loaded curb strips! Thank you for your interest!