Skippy SH13
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I absolutely KILLED IT, last night. I hunted for just over 2.5 hours, and managed FOUR golds, TWO silvers and TWELVE total rings!
$4.62 was a consolation prize... I took that out, too.
It all began with me searching on Google Maps for a school to hunt at. I always just pull up my phone and type "Schools" and then see what pops up. I've learned that if you center your map over different areas, and then re-search the term, it'll pop up different schools.
For whatever reason, this particular school is hard to get to pop up on the maps. It's kind of in an out-of-the-way location. So much so, that I've only ever hunted it ONCE, and that was 3 years ago, when I first started with the ACE350. I remembered it, when I showed up to the school and remembered that it was a well hunted area (hardly any change), and lots of trash.
But that was with the ACE350. I'm running the AT Max. Trash? No problem.
I got started on the tot lot, and found exactly nothing. Got two strips into the field (it's a big rectangle), and had managed a 3 dime coin spill and a single penny. On the 3rd strip into the field, I ran across some solid but bouncy signals in the 50's on the AT Max. Dug up the plug and found a silver ring. I thought it was odd to have silver ring up so low, so I waved the pin pointer back into the hole. BINGO! First gold ring pops out.
The next thing that happened is in this video:
https://youtu.be/B3wVur3r-fE
Then I finish checking the hole, and finding nothing else, I stand up and make the next sweep... What's this? More signals right next to the hole?
https://youtu.be/I1gboe_g9Q8
After that, I knew no matter what happened, the hunt was already AWESOME. A double double! Definitely spikes the gold ring counts..
I worked the rest of the field (one strip at a time), and pulled another ring about every 2-3 strips. Ended up with 12 rings total. Change started showing up about 8 strips into the field. Clearly someone else has been here, and had pulled all the dimes and quarters out, but hadn't searched the whole field. Likely every other person that came by, just found trash, and gave up.
About 3/4 of the way through the hunt, I ran across a SOLID 69 signal, and popped the plug Just about pooped my pants when I saw the gold rim showing!
https://youtu.be/Ot5PLLsRzFU
What a hoot. I laughed about that for about 10 minutes, at which time I pulled another silver ring:
https://youtu.be/qlk0JIh7hXE
I finished the day with a puzzle ring (too bad it wasn't gold!), at smiled all the way back to the truck at my TWELVE RING HUNT. My previous best was 9, and they were all junkers.
This was a killer hunt, and one I hope to beat someday. On land, though, anytime you can get TWO golds is a brilliant day. But a double double? That's just amazing.
The flattened gold ring was 18K (1.4 grams), and the others were all 10K. Total weight was 4.37 grams. Value of all rings' gold is about $90.
Thanks for reading!
EDIT: Just acid tested everything, it all checks out. 18K for the one, and 10K for the rest.
Skippy
$4.62 was a consolation prize... I took that out, too.
It all began with me searching on Google Maps for a school to hunt at. I always just pull up my phone and type "Schools" and then see what pops up. I've learned that if you center your map over different areas, and then re-search the term, it'll pop up different schools.
For whatever reason, this particular school is hard to get to pop up on the maps. It's kind of in an out-of-the-way location. So much so, that I've only ever hunted it ONCE, and that was 3 years ago, when I first started with the ACE350. I remembered it, when I showed up to the school and remembered that it was a well hunted area (hardly any change), and lots of trash.
But that was with the ACE350. I'm running the AT Max. Trash? No problem.
I got started on the tot lot, and found exactly nothing. Got two strips into the field (it's a big rectangle), and had managed a 3 dime coin spill and a single penny. On the 3rd strip into the field, I ran across some solid but bouncy signals in the 50's on the AT Max. Dug up the plug and found a silver ring. I thought it was odd to have silver ring up so low, so I waved the pin pointer back into the hole. BINGO! First gold ring pops out.
The next thing that happened is in this video:
https://youtu.be/B3wVur3r-fE
Then I finish checking the hole, and finding nothing else, I stand up and make the next sweep... What's this? More signals right next to the hole?
https://youtu.be/I1gboe_g9Q8
After that, I knew no matter what happened, the hunt was already AWESOME. A double double! Definitely spikes the gold ring counts..
I worked the rest of the field (one strip at a time), and pulled another ring about every 2-3 strips. Ended up with 12 rings total. Change started showing up about 8 strips into the field. Clearly someone else has been here, and had pulled all the dimes and quarters out, but hadn't searched the whole field. Likely every other person that came by, just found trash, and gave up.
About 3/4 of the way through the hunt, I ran across a SOLID 69 signal, and popped the plug Just about pooped my pants when I saw the gold rim showing!
https://youtu.be/Ot5PLLsRzFU
What a hoot. I laughed about that for about 10 minutes, at which time I pulled another silver ring:
https://youtu.be/qlk0JIh7hXE
I finished the day with a puzzle ring (too bad it wasn't gold!), at smiled all the way back to the truck at my TWELVE RING HUNT. My previous best was 9, and they were all junkers.
This was a killer hunt, and one I hope to beat someday. On land, though, anytime you can get TWO golds is a brilliant day. But a double double? That's just amazing.
The flattened gold ring was 18K (1.4 grams), and the others were all 10K. Total weight was 4.37 grams. Value of all rings' gold is about $90.
Thanks for reading!
EDIT: Just acid tested everything, it all checks out. 18K for the one, and 10K for the rest.
Skippy
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