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    Silver In The Hole!... Wait... What?... Silver!

    in White's Metal Detectors

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    I got out of work early yesterday and headed to an old abandoned lot south of town. There used to be two houses there that are no longer standing. I hunted this site hard 4 years ago finding 163 coins (mostly silver dimes, quarters, wheat cents, and older Jefferson nickels). I also found a 30 year Ford commemorative coin, two silver rings, a distinguished flying cross from WW II, dog tags, cub scout pins, etc. I hunted it hard a couple dozen times and then left it alone. During my last hunt there I only found a silver war nickle at about 8 inches and figured it was pretty much hunted out.

    I was reading an article about the White's MXT that suggested if you've hunted an area hard, you may have missed items if you used the same discrimination settings during all your hunts. With the fact that I have a new machine and taking the advice to use different discrimination settings, I figured that site would be worth another try.

    At first the going was slow. I'm still learning the MX Sport and the machine seemed a little chatty. I made some adjustments and got it to settled down. I was really just hunting for gold since I hadn't found any before. I was thinking I could have missed gold with all the trash around there. After 30 minutes I got a nickel signal and dug hoping for gold! I was surprised to dig a nickel! What? You're kidding... could I have really missed a coin after all those hunts?

    Now my hunt was not only for gold, but for more coins as well. Before long I dug another nickel! Unbelievable! Two missed coins! The hunt was now on...silver and gold here we go! I headed to the spot that had produced the most for me. As I was going along I remembered specifically that next to "that tree" I had dug a nice Mercury dime. Just as I arrived there I got VDI 82. Quarter! No... there can't be any quarters here, I hunted this spot out. There's a bunch of plumbing stuff all over the place here, it must be more plumbing stuff. HOWEVER... I decided to dig. Have you ever dug one of those holes where you just can't get a plug. Everything falls back into the hole, the roots get in the way, you know what I mean. I started hoping that it wasn't a silver quarter because by now I was convinced that I'd scratched it or even something worse with all the digging. 

    Just then...SILVER...what?...a SILVER QUARTER! What? Are you kidding me? A SILVER QUARTER! 

    During the rest of my hunt I also dug a 1963 Lincoln, a piece of silver bracelet, and a cool button. Thanks for looking, Tt
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    MX Sport Finds Ring #1

    in White's Metal Detectors

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    The weather was a little warmer today so I decided to travel about 30 miles to the park where I've found lots of old coins. The area used to be used as a lakeside recreation park in the 1920's and has been very good very to me. I searched for a couple of hours hoping the MX Sport would pull some old coin that my XLT had missed.

    It seems that the MXS is intended to be swung a little slower than the XLT so I didn't cover as much ground as I'm normally would have. Maybe it was just me trying to pick through a lot of trash and isolate good signals. Anyway, two hours of searching resulted in one recently drop quarter and several really dip digs. After I took a short nap in my camper a fellow came along and asked if I was treasure hunting. He said he had an interest in old coins and showed me his 1964 JFK half dollar. He also pointed to place that he had found a 1927 buffalo nickel that washed out of a bank. He seemed like a nice enough guy although I suspected he was living out of his truck. I told him I had something he might like and went to my truck to get a 1934 buffalo nickel that was in my pouch. I gave it to him to add to his collection and he seemed to really appreciate the gift.

    After he left I went over to the area he showed me and after about 30 minutes found an Avery 925 silver ring. This was the first ring that I've found with the MXS and I was really excited. I had promised my wife some rings when the MXS arrived and now I was going to keep promise number one. You see, my house is like the White's commercial where the guy finds a ring and gives it to his wife. EVERYTHING that I find is offered to her and she takes whatever she likes. I know she going to like this one. By the way, when your wife is always wearing rings that you find they add greatly to the conversation whenever metal detecting comes up.

    Thank for looking and as always, H Digs!

    Avery 925 Silver Ring.png

    Avery 925 Ring.png

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