I used a vacation day to do some detecting today and boy am I glad I did. Got paid to dig targets...don't get better than that! I really have no intrest in beaches, but my gut told me to go check out a popular little spot at a lake by my house. There were no surface finds at all so I'm sure it's been gone over. I dug a bunch of caps and tabs out of a little grassy area then moved to the sand. I got a quarter signal at 8+ inches. I kept swingin over it and every 3 or 4 swings "ding". I walked away and dug a couple fishing sinkers but had to go back and dig that signal. I figured since it was sand it wont take long. Glad I did! Here's a pic of the beach....
And heres the target I almost skipped....
I left there and went to a house I got permission to hunt that was built in 1890. The home owner was fine with me detecting but was skeptical as to how much damage I would do as his lawn was in poor shape. I got a few really nice signals that were deep and I didn't want to dig big holes so I left them alone. I know there's a few silvers there but didn't want to ruin my chances of coming back. I dug a few clad coins and was headed back to the truck when BING BING BING happened. The highest signal the Ace350 has was screaming at me. It was bouncing from 4 to 6" deep so I carefully got to work. I about crapped $500 worth of wooden nickels when this pretty lady showed her face....
Here's todays silver cleaned up a bit...
I was gonna leave out the trash pic but I like folks to see through my journeys that "keeper" finds are rare and trash is everywhere. I was at the beach about 45 minutes and got this out of there. Maybe I saved some kid from getting cut in the future.
Every day I get out is a good day....BUT TODAY WAS A WICKED GOOD DAY! :)
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Kchacha....think I'm gonna go back to the beach in the mornin before i hit a new woods site I found. Depends if I get the "honey do" list done in time lol. If not, Im going Sunday....fingers crossed!
Go back to both!!!
Really nice Bob! Keep up the good work.
SCORE!!!!! congrats! made me smile, WTG BOB!
Awesome find! That would be as nice as me finding a little gold.
It was almost flat but about 10"deep in wet sand. Surprised it chirped at all. A big ol silver half is what I been wishing for all year and when that sexy lady showed up it was like Christmas :)
fantastic Bob, to great finds indeed, was the quarter on its edge if so it will give you a erratic and unpredictable signal.
that was a wickked great day bob