Hunting An Old Drained Pond

[schoolofhardNox]

So today's hunt was not at a beach, but at a place that I should have been hunting all along! I thought I missed my opportunity (kind of did) to hunt a very old drained pond. I could not find a place to park, so I kept putting it off. That was in the fall of 2020. They said the dam repairs would be done by January 2021, so I forgot all about it. Last week, I have a client that needed a scrap electronics recycling pick up, so I drove to his new house which just happens to abut the pond. Now this pond is HUGE and a lot of people have been pounding it for a year (at least 30 people that I heard of. Many nice coins and rings have come out of there, including Seated coins. Oh well. So I asked if I could park in his yard and go down to the pond and he said - anytime. Now because it has been dry for over a year, except with a small river flowing down the middle, lots of vegetation has sprung up and makes it impossible to hunt. It's very boggy in about 90% of the pond now. The side I am on is not the popular side that has been used for a couple of centuries, but I figured I would start there and maybe return some other time. Also being cold, some of the desirable area froze solid. I brought the Equinox and the GPX 5000 for this hunt, and decided on the GPX even though I would be in areas with a lot of iron ( I assumed). I was amazed that the iron rejected extremely well and most of the iron I dug was out of curiosity. This was a 4 hour hunt and I had to dumb the GPX down sensitivity wise in order to not go nuts. Targets were everywhere. This was going to be a low conductor hunt because of all the iron, as my primary goal was finding gold! I knew there would be a lot of lead, but I did not take into account the sheer number of small pieces of aluminum that I would encounter. I worked non stop and got a lesson on trashy pond hunting. I'm glad I did it and glad that I found a little bit of gold, silver and even a very crumbling Indian cent. Man o man, do humans pollute!!!! 🤬 I will be back if the weather doesn't freeze over everything soon. I'm glad I had a chance to detect it after all. 🙂

[Joe Beechnut OBN]

That's a Nice Gold!! Love red stone gold rings.. 

No doubt you did a service to mother nature also, Lotta digging...🏴‍☠️

[King-Of-Bling]

I've had many a beach hunt likes yours. I know of a few over analytical engineer type knuckleheads who would question my trash to target ratio. And I could care less. The point is you found a beautiful gold ring. Lots of digging exercise and a great hunt !

[schoolofhardNox]

2 minutes ago, Joe Beechnut OBN said:

That's a Nice Gold!! Love red stone gold rings.. 

No doubt you did a service to mother nature also, Lotta digging...🏴‍☠️

Thanks Joe. I wish I had not procrastinated as the pond was bare for months. Target are shallow and I could have used the Nox for most of the hunts. Live and learn

[schoolofhardNox]

Just now, King-Of-Bling said:

I've had many a beach hunt likes yours. I know of a few over analytical engineer type knuckleheads who would question my trash to target ratio. And I could care less. The point is you found a beautiful gold ring. Lots of digging exercise and a great hunt !

Thanks. I could have just used the Equinox and hunted differently. Had I known that this was going to be easy, shallow digging I would have done it differently. But I could have missed that ring because of all the different sizes of aluminum that may read the same as the ring, so I decided to dig as many targets as I could dig, until there was no more room in the pouch 😄.

[F350Platinum]

Great stuff again! Yeah a lot of trash, but you sure do find the good ones. 🙂

I bet if you took the 5000 over where people were more successful, you'd get everything they missed. You just got some good practice in. 😀

[Zincoln]

Bet your legs are sore tomorrow.  That is a lot of holes represented in the pics!  Great job pulling the gold ring out of the mix!

Zincoln

[schoolofhardNox]

36 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:

Great stuff again! Yeah a lot of trash, but you sure do find the good ones. 🙂

I bet if you took the 5000 over where people were more successful, you'd get everything they missed. You just got some good practice in. 😀

Hopefully I won' t run out of time and the deep freeze hits. I wanted to cross that small running water but chickened out. I didn't want to be that guy that gets stuck in the mud and has to call for help 😄 They already had one of those for the fire department to practice on 😆 I will go over to the better side next time. This hunt i just wanted to get used to what I was up against. I really didn't expect that many targets to be so shallow. The ring made it all worth it.

21 minutes ago, Zincoln said:

Bet your legs are sore tomorrow.  That is a lot of holes represented in the pics!  Great job pulling the gold ring out of the mix!

Zincoln

Probably will be soar, since I didn't take anything to drink with me. 🙄 I opted to take a spare set of mini headphones with me in the spot usually reserved for a 16 oz electrolyte drink. I've had some headphone issues lately, so I didn't want to trudge back up that steep briar filled hill until I was done for the day. It did help that the targets were shallow and very close to one another. I could actually dig 2 or 3 targets without getting up if they were close enough.

[Cal_Cobra]

The gold ring made it all worth it, congrats!

[strick]

Superman strikes again! and it's nice to see that it paid off...Nice ring. 

strick