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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