DIGGER27
In Memory Of
Hit the park I have been to so many times in the past but for the last few hunts I am using my new older coin settings on my F70 and it is going well.
First hunt with the new settings I dug a merc.
Second hunt I scored a silver Rosie.
This morning I happend across two keepers and this park that has a reputation for being totally hunted out is coming alive for me.
Not easy to hunt here, mineralized southern soil, tons of garbage you will find in a park that goes back to the 20's plus way more iron here than you might believe pretty much because it was built on a landfill.
As an extra bonus for some stupid reason they thought it was a good idea to mix a ton of slag from the local foundry in with most of the fill dirt when they built most of these neighborhoods and parks around here in the early part of the last century.
I have talked to a couple of other guys that used to hunt while hitting curb strips and they say they just gave up hunting around here because it is impossible to find anything in all this ridiculous garbage and iron.
Hard, sure, impossible...no way.
You just gotta learn your tools well and then go the extra mile and figure out how to do it no matter what obstacles you come across.
Conquering big problems like this is actually one of the more enjoyable things about this hobby for me, thrilling when I learn something new that helps me find the good stuff.
The 1900 IH was a surprise, I was thinking silver dime or old wheat.
Yea, I know these things are supposed to come in lower than a zincoln and it does out of the ground but in this soil as you get deeper all the numbers get way high and at 6" deep that's how these things act in this hot soil.
Just getting to 6" here is a victory, that is like 10-12" in normal soil it is that bad around here.
This was a great find but my next deep one was even more of a surprise.
I get another signal again with really high numbers and again I am hoping silver dime but this one read 7" on my depth meter and that is a number I rarely see around here.
I dig down and every bit of 7" I find a dirty and very thin disc the size of a nickel.
I was hunting with 2 other guys and after we cleaned it off in a small pond none of us could tell what this thing was.
There was some well worn marks on both the front and the back but not enough to make any sense.
I scrubbed as bunch as I could around the edges and I found what looked like two numbers...19, but the rest was gone.
Ryanchappell was one of the guys with me and he started at it and guessed it was a super worn and screwed up V Nickel.
At home under magnification and comparing the few of the features that were still there to a pic of a good one I found out he was right so I pronounce this my second V I have found in my career.
The first two numbers are actually 18 and I could see the shape of Lady Liberty's neck in the correct place right above it but that is about it.
I also used a nail to scrape down through one part and it sure looks like nickel to me under all that dirt so I am satisfied.
Thin as a dime, screwed up like crazy but to find a nickel 7" deep in this garbage is saying something about the success of my new coin hunting settings.
And yes deep nickels also come in way high in this soil too because a buff and a war nickel both at 6" did the same.
Out of the ground this thing came in slightly below a regular 31 nickel at 27 because it is so worn thin.
I was getting bored with this park but now I have a new attitude and it is big so I wonder what else I can find in the future?
More to come...hopefully.
First hunt with the new settings I dug a merc.
Second hunt I scored a silver Rosie.
This morning I happend across two keepers and this park that has a reputation for being totally hunted out is coming alive for me.
Not easy to hunt here, mineralized southern soil, tons of garbage you will find in a park that goes back to the 20's plus way more iron here than you might believe pretty much because it was built on a landfill.
As an extra bonus for some stupid reason they thought it was a good idea to mix a ton of slag from the local foundry in with most of the fill dirt when they built most of these neighborhoods and parks around here in the early part of the last century.
I have talked to a couple of other guys that used to hunt while hitting curb strips and they say they just gave up hunting around here because it is impossible to find anything in all this ridiculous garbage and iron.
Hard, sure, impossible...no way.
You just gotta learn your tools well and then go the extra mile and figure out how to do it no matter what obstacles you come across.
Conquering big problems like this is actually one of the more enjoyable things about this hobby for me, thrilling when I learn something new that helps me find the good stuff.
The 1900 IH was a surprise, I was thinking silver dime or old wheat.
Yea, I know these things are supposed to come in lower than a zincoln and it does out of the ground but in this soil as you get deeper all the numbers get way high and at 6" deep that's how these things act in this hot soil.
Just getting to 6" here is a victory, that is like 10-12" in normal soil it is that bad around here.
This was a great find but my next deep one was even more of a surprise.
I get another signal again with really high numbers and again I am hoping silver dime but this one read 7" on my depth meter and that is a number I rarely see around here.
I dig down and every bit of 7" I find a dirty and very thin disc the size of a nickel.
I was hunting with 2 other guys and after we cleaned it off in a small pond none of us could tell what this thing was.
There was some well worn marks on both the front and the back but not enough to make any sense.
I scrubbed as bunch as I could around the edges and I found what looked like two numbers...19, but the rest was gone.
Ryanchappell was one of the guys with me and he started at it and guessed it was a super worn and screwed up V Nickel.
At home under magnification and comparing the few of the features that were still there to a pic of a good one I found out he was right so I pronounce this my second V I have found in my career.
The first two numbers are actually 18 and I could see the shape of Lady Liberty's neck in the correct place right above it but that is about it.
I also used a nail to scrape down through one part and it sure looks like nickel to me under all that dirt so I am satisfied.
Thin as a dime, screwed up like crazy but to find a nickel 7" deep in this garbage is saying something about the success of my new coin hunting settings.
And yes deep nickels also come in way high in this soil too because a buff and a war nickel both at 6" did the same.
Out of the ground this thing came in slightly below a regular 31 nickel at 27 because it is so worn thin.
I was getting bored with this park but now I have a new attitude and it is big so I wonder what else I can find in the future?
More to come...hopefully.
