When detecting, we tend to carry a lot of items on a belt, including a finds bag, pinpointer, digger and often other things. Most belts have cheap buckles that are a pain in the butt to remove, and are even harder to cinch down so they don’t sag. Well, here’s the solution and I’ve found a good price on them.
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Silver, silver everywhere – live digs coinshooting silver on private property. E-trac lessons for two-tone ferrous at beautiful places. HD viewing mode recommended, I removed the fisheye effect, there’s lots of detail in the video.
Detector sounds on 90% of the live digs. Many more live digs coming now that my GoPro is repaired. All nails/iron left in the ground for future archaeological dating activity.
Includes live digs of Indian Penny, Standing Liberty Quarters, Mercury Dime, Roosevelt Dimes, Seated Dime
Related posts:Metal Detecting Hunt for Coins - 1838 Half Dime Tags: copper, digging, etrac, full dig, indian head, kentucky, mercury, metal detecting finds, rosie, seated, silver, standing liberty, video, wheats Leave a Reply (Cancel Reply)Prove you are human (sorry - I get spammed to death)My friend and journalist Tom Eblen spent time to understand the hobby, arrange a new place and travel with me to document the search. I think he did a great job and am proud to share this article with you all.
If you’re new to my blog, welcome! If you have property you’d like me to search, please send me an email to scott
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Metal finishing plant worker Paul McEvoy, 44, found the medieval finger ring just six inches beneath the surface.
Concerns about disturbing a historic site — and the possibility of metal detector-wielding copycats flocking to county parks wanting to dig — prompted the county to quash plans for the dig at DuBois Park in Jupiter.
Just last week, the county was working on a proceeds-sharing deal with a local man who proposed a small dig to find out what was setting off his metal detectors at the park.
The size and location of the unknown buried object, as well as the history of the area, convinced him it was a chest of riches, possibly buried hundreds of years ago by shipwreck survivors or even pirates passing the Palm Beach County coast."
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In total, the tales of six groups of valuable artefacts from ages past and how they were found were told at yesterday’s inquest.
Among the hoard was a collection of 14 socketed axes, which were disturbed by machine from their site of rest on land near Aylsham, the owner of which is Lord Walpole.
The axes all date to the Ewart Park metalwork phase reaching back further than 800BC, and were discovered in March by Robert and James Alston who were using a metal detector at the time."
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The 4,000 year old strip of decorated gold is the first of its type to have been found in Lincolnshire and experts have described it as an important find.
John Bennett of Claremont Street, Gainsborough, found the item in July this year while checking out a ploughed field in the Corringham area."
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Philip Ingram-Jannetta, 15, and 17-year-old Lee Partridge had only been hunting for treasure for five minutes when they unearthed the large ornate 16th century silver gilt finger ring buried three inches under the surface.
He knows where to find 20 shipwrecks around St. Augustine, he can find gold and silver buried beneath the sands of local beaches, and he discovered one of the sites of the nation’s most notorious slaughters.
Gold, silver, bronze or brass, Burney is apt to find it as he runs his trusty metal detector over the grounds at places like Greencastle's Robe-Ann Park.
On Friday afternoon, a sunny, almost 60-degree January day, Burney was out enjoying his hobby, getting some fresh air and pocketing some loose change.
Stopping along the old sidewalk that borders the bandshell area to the north, Burney's metal detector beeped and he dropped to his knees with a handheld detection gadget and hand trowel. Digging about eight inches deep right next to the sidewalk, Burney finally pulled a rusty six-inch piece of wire out of the dirt."
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But some archaeologists are standing up against these shows. They say the techniques used on the shows to dig up artifacts ends up destroying more history. They also feel these artifacts should be preserved, not dug up for profit.
With his metal detector by his side Robert Compton has uncovered dozens of Civil War artifacts.
'I've uncovered everything from mini balls, to cannon balls, buttons, bullets, buckles,' said Compton."
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A nice video is aired with the news article on the jump!
Just more arkies in an uproar regarding these shows... share your thoughts by commenting below!
That may change if Senate Bill 105 makes its way through the legislature this session.
On Tuesday, SB105 passed through the Senate Committee on Economic Development, Tourism and Labor to allow the use of metal detectors at state parks and monuments.
If passed, the law would protect enthusiasts who use metal detectors, within the guidelines of the law, officials said."
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Posted byJames M Lambertat12:05 AMUsing patience and a metal detector, Gwinn, 53, has found hundreds of bullets, belt buckles and coins, not to mention jewelry, gun parts and just about any other metal thing you can think of.
'I started when I was 19, I hunted the Easter Pageant grounds out here, it was my first really good hunt,' he said."
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Some who oppose Senate Bill 105 fear it might open the floodgates for amateurs digging up artifacts at Big Bone Lick State Park in Boone County, which is famed for its bones of extinct mammoths, sloths and other large mammals.
State Sen. Dan Seum, R-Fairdale, introduced the bill, which passed the Senate this week 20-16, and awaits approval in the House. Seum did not return messages seeking comment this week on why he introduced the bill."
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'We don’t encourage any digging on federal or state lands,' said spokeswoman Shana Tepper for Spike TV, the producers of the show. 'It is only on private property' and done within the boundaries of the law, including the site in downtown St. Augustine that will be featured in an upcoming show.
'If you watch the show, you’ll see (host) Ric (Savage) going from door-to-door getting permission,' she added."
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On a side note, at the end of the article it outlines many of the laws regarding our hobby in FL, in particular the St. Augustine area.
How do you feel about the ethics in the show and how they portray folks in the like-mind?
He unearthed a series of curved pieces of metal and one by one has pieced them together – and realized that they are in fact tiny horseshoes. Thinking they possibly belonged to Shetland ponies as they were so small, he took them to a local retired blacksmith who instantly referred to them as belonging to the ‘wartime Indian mules’.
When he was younger, Donald had heard stories of an Indian soldier’s camp being in the Loch Ewe area during the war – but no one seemed to be able to establish the truth. So, with his exciting metal find, he is beginning to piece the story together with the help of those in the area who lived through the war."
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He isn't the only one upset by the content of the show 'Diggers,' which featured Anaconda-area residents Tim Saylor and George Wyant. The show has also become the focus of Facebook petitions and write-in campaigns to the channel criticizing the show's content.
The first episode of the 'Diggers,' called 'Montana Juice,' was filmed at the Old Montana Prison, a state-owned property in Deer Lodge."
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If the two fellows names sound familiar, they were mentioned in a post here from July of last year.
Do you agree with Archaeologists? How do you feel about these new hobby related programs.
But now a ring dating back to the Bronze Age has been uncovered by a Winchester metal detector enthusiast, an inquest heard.
Alan Cracknell was on the verge of giving up his search for the day when he came across the rare find.
In his 30 years doing the weekend hobby, Mr Cracknell had found items like buttons and buckles from the Georgian period to the medieval period, but nothing like this."
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Ok, I have covered several points in my last blog post, and there are more, but those are my main ones. In this blog post I will use a couple more.
When asking permission to hunt a property this is how my introduction goes 90% of the time:
'Hello my name is Evan. I hate to bother you, but I just noticed how old your house is. Could you tell me what you know about it?' Then I say, 'I did some research on this house and what I found is...' and I let them know what I found out. I then say 'the reason for my interest is I have a website and YouTube channel called Gonehunting for History. I go around to different places metal detecting for things from the past, whether it be tokens, charms, etc. My favorite things to find are things that are connected to the town.' I then talk about past finds and relate them to the town I am in.
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In part one we built the mode (program) and now I would like to take a closer look at the settings and the thought behind them.
The first mode with the tadpole patterns is the main program, and the clear screen mode is the mode I switch to if I need to analyse iffy targets.
It doesn't matter how you mix and match these patterns between the two modes, and previously I mixed a tadpole and clear screen pattern on each mode. The problem with that is I couldn’t see which mode I was in as they looked very similar. So now I keep the most recognisable elements together, which are the tadpole patterns.
Important non-mode settings
Sensitivity is used in manual, and set as high as possible. Auto-sensitivity is very good on the CTX 3030, and if searching iron nail infested soils can bring good results.... However, I would always recommend finding the correct manual setting in this situation.
Volume Gain is set to 20 (max 30). This setting will give you an audio indication to deep high conductive targets. The CTX 3030 is a lot better at discriminating iron than the earlier FBS detectors. If you get a repeatable two way signal using my modes, chances are they won't be deep iron. If you run the gain at 20, you will find surface plough shears will give sharp high pitch responses, whereas deep high-conductive non-ferrous targets will sound soft, almost distant in their responses. So if its high pitched, soft and distant, it will almost always be a deep non-ferrous target.
Ground Balance is left in auto.
Manual Ground Balance is great for neutral ground and beach work, but on sites with high mineralisation and hot rocks, I wouldn't take the chance. If you get the manual setting wrong the detector will false badly. So use the CTX 3030 in Auto Ground Balance.
Threshold Pitch 20…. Threshold Level 17.
On the E-TRAC I would've set the pitch to "1". This is because the Threshold pitch effects all the sounds emitted from E-TRAC, and I wanted the lowest possible tones on low conductive targets. This is NOT the case with the CTX 3030, the Threshold Pitch adjusts just that, nothing else.
Although I'm specifying settings for Threshold Pitch and Threshold Level, please adjust them to your personal preference. The only thing I would suggest; is make sure the Threshold Level is audible, don't be tempted to turn it down too low.
And finally make sure you have Target Trace switched on. This is your eyes on what’s happening underground. It will help ID surface iron… or spot the keepers that lie amongst multiple trash targets.
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The years in between these events seem to go very quickly as all of a sudden the event was on. Held on the first weekend of May each year, the Palmer Crystal and Craft Fair incorporating the South Australian Detecting Championships proves to continue to be one of Australia's most attended events with over 100 entrants for the detecting sessions. Many of them pre-entered and the rest turned up on the Sunday ready to enter and talk anything detecting related.
Along with the traditional faces and smiles came a lot of new comers to the industry who were keen to see what the event was like and of course to get a chance to win the first prize - a GPX 5000 proudly donated by Minelab. The minor prizes were many, the majority of which were donated by Miners Den SA and Coiltek so many of the participants had the opportunity of claiming a prize.
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There are some basic rules that should be at the forefront of your mind when detecting for gold, probably the most important one being to dig everything. No one can accurately determine if a signal is gold just by listening to the signal response, especially if the target is large or close to the surface of the ground. There is another side to gold prospecting with a metal detector that requires a different approach, this is often dictated by expediency due to time restraints and in a lot of cases an attempt to maintain some sanity, these areas are often in and around old diggings where there is a lot of trash from both modern and Old Timers.
As most of you know when the detector heralds a target there are a number of factors indicated by the audio that will allow you to make an informed decision on the likelihood of the depth and size of the target. In this discussion let's assume I’m talking about Monoloop coils in combination with the
GPX 5000, however most of what I’m about to say can correlate to Double-D coils as well.
The size and depth of a target determines the way it behaves when it’s exposed to the transmit field of the detector. It is the eddy currents excited in the target by the transmit field that we are listening carefully for during the GPX 5000’s receive on-time, the deeper the target, the fainter the target audio will be due to the weaker field coming back off the target.
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I was recently invited to participate in WWATS (World Wide Association of Treasure Seekers) Rally held in Antlers, Oklahoma. More info at www.wwats.org. I’m not a rally hunter, but welcomed the idea of meeting other hunters and having a chance to have some fun. So I packed up the CTX 3030 and headed out.
The first hunt was a night hunt. The targets were planted on top of the ground. We were not allowed to use a flashlight or lighted displays. Even the pinpointer lights were taped over. So, I adjusted the volume gain to 2, to keep from hitting any deeper targets, lowered the sensitivity, and ran in a Combined/ferrous coin program. I had the conductive lines 10 though the 14 open and the rest discriminated. Knowing silver dollars and halves hit on the twelve line, I was confident I was not going to miss anything good. I also attached the CTX 06 Smart Coil to help aid in pinpointing in the dark. It made quick work of finding the coins and prize tokens that were everywhere. I did carry the PRO-FIND 25 just in case I was having trouble. More than a few times I would come up on a hunter who was struggling to locate their find and would hand them the PRO-FIND 25. I won several prize packs including bags and a nice 1867 Shield nickel in a case.
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The CTX 3030 incorporates four different Target Separation options... Low Trash, High Trash, Ferrous-Coin and Ground-Coin. Selecting the proper Target Separation option will allow you to optimize the signal processing of your CTX 3030, to best match your site.
Low Trash Target Separation should be used in areas with low to moderate levels of mineralization and minimal amounts of metallic trash. When passing over multiple targets in “Low Trash”, the CTX 3030 will respond to the target providing the strongest target signal, possibly masking a smaller adjacent target. Therefore, it is not recommended to use “Low Trash” in areas with a high concentration of metallic targets. In areas with lesser amounts of metallic trash, “Low Trash” allows the CTX 3030 user to create a very narrow discrimination pattern, based on accepting only the target property values you wish to hear.
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When learning your detector's personality someone invariably chimes in with the, "you have to dig it all comment". The implied fear is that by using sound/display to selectively dig targets you may walk over the find of a lifetime. Thus I would like to address this ever present warning about "digging it all". I like to look at the three cons:
The first con is context: It is simply where are your hunting and what are the conditions? Are you at the beach where digging it all is relatively easy and signals can be few and far between? Are you detecting in a lake that is very trashy with countless bits of foil and metal? Are you in a park where there are pieces of can slaw from cans that have been run over by lawn mowers. Also part of Context is when you are hunting? Is it a beach cut near a known wreck site after a big storm? Or is it a small creek site you have discovered way off the tracks that has never been detected? Context is everything!
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If you own a GPX 4800, GPX 5000 or the new CTX 3030, you'll be interested in Minelab's new harness; the PRO-SWING 45.
All GPX models are supplied with a good quality harness, and the PRO-SWING 45 builds on this platform, taking it to a higher level.
The main inclusion with this harness is an integrated J-strut, designed to transfer the weight of the detector from your shoulder and neck, down to your hip.
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One of the keys to success in metal detecting – whether you are hunting gold, relics or treasure - is that you need to keep at it. Success goes to those who are persistent and diligent in their efforts. The fellow who can only put in 3 hours each day will, in the long run, loose out to the fellow who is able to put in a full 8 hours or even more. It is especially true when you put in day after day of effort searching. You must not injure or wear yourself out. Proper coil swinging techniques can be hard on arms, shoulders, back and hips, and other parts of the body, and it’s hard to keep going when you are aching. This is where a support system for your detector, to balance and spread out the weight load is so very important.
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As expected, haven’t got out much lately. A couple shorter hunts at an old site, trying to squeeze a couple more out, but got just a couple of wheaties. It was a disappointment cause I’ve gotten a bit of barber silver here, and I’ve gotten much better since then (I think it was Jan 2012 I was last there). The competition has definitely worked it good since. I was stupid for not working it better then, but I stumbled on a honeyhole elsewhere at the time, and one thing led to another. Oh well.
So, with that, hadn’t found a silver in about 2 weeks, and even tho I was wasn’t getting out much, and was hitting low probability situations, it was frustrating. Its all about the experience. Its an addiction at a lower level of neural circuitry that all the rationalization doesn’t help.
So, Friday had a doctor appointment in a township I have never detected in, but has alot of old areas, so I found a couple of prospective sites near his office. The first was just brutal due to EMI. It was night next to a powerline and a TXRX tower of some sort. I can deal with noise, but not high tone noise. Most of the EMI was coming in at CO 50. The site had promise, as it was old, and I’m sure the competition has to deal with the same thing, unless they have an EMI proof machine, and there were a few good tells, but I just couldn’t take it, and after about 90 minutes left. I think the trick to this site will be to come in with an almost entirely black screen, with just a small white window for dimes and quarters. I’ve proven that the E-Trac will do fine without a threshold, so this is an approach to try sometime. But, I don’t like making pattern changes in the field. There is something wonky about my pattern editor, or I don’t know how to use it right, so that’s best done sitting at home.
Onto the second site, and even older park, in the midst of alot of old houses, but it is small. I rarely have good luck at small parks, as they are so easy to grid out. I started right in the far corner, and gridded from both edges, and got some good tells (deep 60s pennies), but it took quite a while to get even the first wheatie. The problem at this site is that the mineralization was quite high, and I was struggling for depth on the clad. I was getting quite frustrated, wondering if I would ever find silver, when I got a really deep wheatie, and then a dateless SLQ about a foot away, with just 20 minutes left before I had to leave. I thought it was gonna be a clad Q (just the way my luck was running lately), and was ecstatic to see that shiny disc. I have my doubts about my ability to get dimes here, due to the mineralization, but we’ll see.
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Haven’t been out since 6/6 when I found 4 mercs (family vacation in Myrtle Beach, took the detector, but I’ve never been much of a fan of beach hunting, and besides, laser tag and miin golf are more fun).
Anyway, back to that same park again to try to finish it off, and pulled two more mercs and a rosie. The first merc was in some sort of iffy area that looked like it had been excavated in the recent past; you never know whether or not to blow these areas off. Good thing I gave it a go, as it was rather shallow and a slam dunk. The second merc was on the very edge of the site, right next to a metal fence, and the rosie was deep and on its side. All kinda lucky silvers, really, but we’ll take ‘em.
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I guess that’s a reasonable title, who knows? To me, I think its sad when the focus is more on the bad stream of consciousness writing (and the editing or lack thereof), than the actual metal detecting (cause, it is, after all, a “metal detecting blog”, rather than a “bad stream of consciousness writing blog” (and believe me, there are a bzillion of the latter out there, cause bad words strung together by every moron with a browser and an internet connection are easy to find, but very few of the former, cause finding silver coins (at least like I do once in a while (or, more accurately, more than once and a while), remains hard). That said, lets roll it. (Morning edits are dead (which, of course, means we pre-edit at this stage (too bad for those who understood what was going on, and for those of us who really enjoy spewing bad stream of consciousness writing while calling it something else), If this don’t scare ‘em away, nothing will)).
So. lets not talk about metal detecting at all, but last night’s concert. Awesome baby! Brother at a house concert, full band, tho Dalbo didn’t have a full kit. Its sort of like one of your favorite bands playing in your living room, which is exactly what it was, except it was someone else’s living room (but what does that matter?, so long as the band is 3 inches away). Are you kidding me? A house concert where you can just sit there and talk to the band, and Angus
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First hunt since last week, and went back to the place I called “the Plantation” in the last entry, where I found a merc last Wed or Thu. Didn’t have much hope for the site, but a huge 2-300 year old estate recently becoming a park has some promise. And besides, it was hot. 92 and humid. Perfect. We whine all winter about sub 70 temps; at least we rejoice when it is hot. Bring it on. Jack it to triple digits. While the competition melts, the silver is mine.
Anyway, the problem with this site is that there are huge trees everywhere, and they are old and big, which means you can’t see bupkis on the aerials, so you have to kinda try to figure stuff out on the ground. Last time I was here I just gridded out near the parking lot and found a merc, cause there wasn’t much else to do, especially since the whole place was overrun with kids, but today the kids were home out of the heat playing video games and whatnot, and the place was mine.
To my mind, the most promising place was a small patch of woods between one of the old buildings, and by an old pond. What struck me about the woods was there were quite a few old growth trees consistent with others in the grassy areas of the site, and a lot of smaller trees, but no mid range trees. Bingo. Had to be a grassy area in the silver area, with nice slope right by the pond with good exposure and good shade trees. Had to be where they hung out, and enough out of the box that it wasn’t hunted to death.
First target, 1940 nickel, one inch, 1970 penny, one inch. 1955 wheatie, one inch. Are you kidding me? Three good tells in 15 minutes. I was in business. Not only that, I was getting a lot of bottlecaps. Bottlecaps may even be better than silver, cause its not about finding silver, its about finding silver sites, and when I find bottlecaps like this, it always ends well.
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Thursday was a train wreck, 3 hours of bupkis at a park I was working the beginning of the year. Its a 6 silver site, (plus one copper), but it is just so dead. Pulled 73 cents in clad in all that time (and I dug most of it; usually I get 2-3 bucks only digging the quarters and what I get by mistake in that time). Could not even muster a wheatie from the place. The only reason I went is cause I had an appointment in that area, and I do want to finish the site eventually, but it is just so damn boring. So, the hunt snapped a short silver streak, I think.
Friday (today; yeah I know its dated Saturday; we get the morning edit and first draft all in one this time), I went back to the woods trifecta place to finish off the patch of woods, and explore other parts of the site more.
Man I got a nice beautiful hit in this patch of poison ivy (and I figured this entry would be titled “what we do for silver”), but, after spending quite a bit of time weeding it out (I’m really allergic, and so much for “leave no trace” ethics”), and then working thru the roots (which also contain the allergen, I believe), the damn thing was a memorial penny. Are you kidding me? I was pissed; who wouldn’t be? But what detectorist would have passed on the signal?
Anyway, the rest of the woods gave up plenty of everything, including more bottlecaps, except, of course, more silver. One of those “everything but the girl” sort of hunts. No quarters again, tho. Weird.
So, off to explore the rest of the site, specifically the grassy area near these ancient trees and a very old building, which of course is gonna be hunted out — the only thing going for it is that it is on the large side, and that can sometimes defend a site.
I started at the very edge, like I almost always do now, and did get an old bottlecap, which is nice, but just not much of anything else. This section seemed real rocky, meaning less sinking than usual, and thus easier to hunt out.
Only one high tone other than the bottlecap, and it turned out to be this (that’s what I call it, cause it reminds me of a symbol in a game I wrote that my wife likes, and that’s what we call it).
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Just a ’62 rosie this morning, but we’ll take it. This, from a new site for me, a school from the 40s or 50s. Got it within the first 15 minutes of hunting, which seemed like a good sign, but the site was otherwise dead. Just 4 clad coins, and no wheaties or other good tells. Site is huge, but the ground is rocky and hard (despite a bit of recent rain), so I may table it for a while (but, since it is a school, will only be able to hunt it in the summer, so we’ll see).
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Got out for about 2.5 hours this morning, to a 50s park I was hitting early in the year, and hit a couple of weeks ago, and was skunked. It was a six silver site (now 7), and I just wanted one final hunt to clean up some loose edges, and mark it “closed” in the db, and I also wanted a site with very few targets to minimize the stress on my knees and feet.
Its still dead, but I did muster a 1929 merc and a 1920 wheatie, and just 4 clads. One of the clads was a zincoln at 7 inches. Are you kidding me? It was in with a dime, and it sounded like a 12-38. Since I found a copper at this park, I figured why not dig it? Boy I was pissed.
The merc was right on the edge of the site about a foot into the woods in some tall grass. Only 3 inches deep, and came in as a 12-44. Sounded good tho, tho I really expected to be a penny. I was quite surprised.
So, we have a zincoln at 7 inches, and a merc at 3 inches. Coins usually sink further in the sunny, grassy area, than the wooded areas.
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Ok, this one ain’t gonna end well, but lets roll it.
Yesterday went back to the sparse site which produced the smooth ’29 merc the other day to try to close it out, by working an out of the box field section (and, in a future entry, I’ll explain why this section is uniquely out of the box, and likely not previously detected hard, but that ain’t happening tonite).
Bottom line, dropped more clad and wheaties on a run rate basis than anywhere previously in the primary section of the site, and, further, got a nice deep 12-43 which I figured could end well as an exotic silver or copper, and spent 20 minutes hacking at it, and by the time I was done, it was so deep I was speaking Chinese when I recovered it (which, of course, is easier to do than learn Euskara, which, my really old loyal readers know, I can both read and write, but not speak, but more on that later).
And, what the eff was it? A goddamn 8.5 inch long copper spoon. Whohoo. Here it is –
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Its been a while, so alot goin’ on. Today was the first hunt since 7/12. That’s a long time to be away from my second favorite hobby.
First, about the marathon I was training for, and gave up detecting for in light of injuries. I finished. Woohoo. 4:18 or so, not bad as these things go, for someone like me, who takes on too many calories from fine food and Victory beer. Middle of the pack in age group, and top 43% or so overall, I think. My goal was to survive, and I did that. I was gonna write up a nice long entry about the experience (and when you are running 26 miles, you have plenty of time to compose such in your mind), but I have neither the skill to write what it is like to run a marathon, and I don’t suspect a metal detecting blog is the best place to do so in any case. All I can say is that it is hard, and I have total respect for anyone who can get thru such a race, especially the bone chilling times some people put up in these things. Are you kidding me?
Of course, I did it with injuries. As for my “stress fracture”, written about in the previous entry, turns out that it is something called a Morton’s neuroma (which, BTW, was neither clinically cataloged by Morton, nor is it a neuroma, so it wins the medical misnomer award for the day). It is basically an inflamed nerve in the foot, and can be quite a nasty injury, if not contained. Just shows, as I said in the last entry, never do medicine on yourself (tho it turns out the non-medicinal interventions I effected are consistent with the non-medical interventions indicated for this condition. Turns out medical interventions are also indicated, and I don’t do drugs (except Victory beer and cortisone shots), so we’ll see if one or the other gets me thru it. If not, its surgery or live with it. Yikes. I do think my case of this injury is contained, however. We’ll see.
To make matters worse, I pulled a hamstring at mile 13 in the marathon. It hurt thru mile 15. I massaged it (while running, which is hard, BTW), and it seemed to go away, and I never thought about it again. Until I tried to run on Wed, and it was clear it was pulled. How I finished a marathon from 15 with it on no pain is a mystery to me. Call it will, denial, and stupidity, I guess. Anyway, my favorite hobby, which is running, is threatened by 2 injuries. Muscle pulls generally heal quickly for me. The neuroma spooks me. When my number one hobby is threatened, I get pretty far in the dumps. Coupled with the “post marathon blues”, as they call it, I have not felt like metal detecting much, even after the race; nevermind the fact that I was physically unable to for a few days.
Maybe I should actually write about silver and metal detecting. No thanks. I’m still on the sorry horse. I hate being hamstrung (literally), by injuries, so I whine, and when running is threatened, I whine even more. Good thing I sent those prospective sponsors packing.
I just have to write about Facebook now. I like Facebook. I think it is an incredibly well-done program. Brilliant. But it sucks when you work so hard to train for and finish a marathon, (which, BTW, is much harder than finding silver coins at the rate many do), and get a few Facebook comments and likes (which are great, don’t get me wrong), but also get mountains of political and religious comments in your Facebook from so-called “friends”. Who are these people? and why to they get to proselytize (damn, almost got that one for the first time without looking in the spell checker; its a tough one, missed it by one letter this time), and why to they need to proselytize (nailed it that time) their bullshit in my Facebook, yet not comment on my marathon? Are these people actually “Friends”? Who knows? And, BTW, they are wrong (and I respond with fact and logic in the hopes that they will go away, but it only gets worse, and I have to wear out the “unfriend” button on these morons).
I ain’t gonna proselytize my views on those subjects here, but I can, cause I’m an unsponsored blog. All I can say is that if you want to thump left, thump right, thump your bible, thump your atheism, thump your gay, thump your homophobia, thump your guns, thump your gun ban, get your own blog. Don’t bother me on my Facebook, cause I’m smarter than you, and have an answer to each of these issues (and many more) which is guided by fact, logic, science, and common sense (the latter being the most important (aside from …)). And, I didn’t even mention my profession, the Dismal Science, which is even more most important. (Oh, and BTW, if you are reading this, and not my Facebook friend, feel free to friend me. Could be an interesting experience. Just don’t thump your this or your that
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