Dan(NM)
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2 hours ago, Tometusns said:
Congrats Dan, that's a very nice haul!! How are you liking the ctx? One of the guys in the club has that combo (ctx,nox). He's got some cool finds with both. Anyways great treasure hunting trip! Tom
Thanks Tom, it's a great combo for coin shooting, they compliment each other quite nicely.
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1 hour ago, Cal_Cobra said:
That's an awesome haul of silver!!! Were you mostly using the EQX or the Exp2?
Surprised some older silver didn't show up 🤔
Nox and the CTX, about equal time on both depending on the site. None of the spots were that old unfortunately.
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4 minutes ago, mh9162013 said:
Gawd you suck...
LOL, I know :-)
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I remember finding my first penny with a Garrett Groundhog VLF/TR machine back in 1988🙂 I was hooked and like Tom said, it's only the beginning of a great journey, have fun!!
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4 minutes ago, rvpopeye said:
Another great day , you'll never forget !
Being retired IS the best job I've ever had........welcome to the tribe.
Yep, the count down has begun, Oct 30th can't get here fast enough!!!
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7 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:
The Equinox was a retirement gift from my wife. 👍 That is awesome. Guess we're blessed 😇
I know I am and I sure don't deserve it 🙏
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7 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:
Sure was a heckuva run, Dan. Good to see all that silver! That's an experience that will last... Until the next one😀 👍
This trip was a gift from my wife for retiring from the postal service next month 🙂
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I closed out my 5 1/2 days of hunting in Texas Panhandle today and I ended up with a few more keepers. What a productive trip it was. Since I will not be coming back to this area again for some time, my intent was to hunt for wheats and silver only. I did not want to spend most of my time digging trash chasing nickles and low conductors. I hunted 3 different parks and 1 school.
I'm not sure how many hours I hunted, maybe 50 or so, but, I hunted until I could not swing the coil anymore each day
The first 2 pictures are of today's hunt followed by the total's for the week. Thanks for stopping by and having a look.
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7 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:
I'm salvating with envy. Kinda funny that the 'homework' you did wasn't what led you to this one. Nothing wrong with stumbling onto a spot and you had the smarts to realize it was worth a check. Jackpot!! 10 straight hours of detecting -- hope you had plenty of water. Texas must still be hot in mid-September.
What is that crusty thing next to the silver GW quarter?
IMO, you found a spot that has never been hunted. (Historic Aerials likely will tell you more.) I suspect the other baseball infield has been landscaped/backfilled and agree with your hypothesis that they just hadn't done that where you found the silver mine. Are there still parts of that site you haven't surveyed?
Consistent with Raphis's post, I think you experienced time travel -- back to the 1970's and 80's when lots of school yards and muni parks were just laden with silver coins for the pickin'. I hope I find one of those someday.
The crusty is a war nickle at hit at 24 on the Nox, thought I was digging a penny 🙂 I drank a gallon of water that day, thankfully there was a nice breeze. I did roam around the rest of the ball field, nothing doing, it was only a small portion of the field.
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3 hours ago, Raphis said:
A wartime Jefferson nickel no doubt. If Dan soaks that in lemon juice for a few hrs (or more), it should look a lot more like a nickel.
It is a war nickle that rang up as a penny, came in at 24 on the Nox, that's the only reason I dug it 🙂
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8 hours ago, Rick N. MI said:
Nice hunt. Great finding a spot like that. Great photos too. You could turn your statement into a metal detecting old rock & roll song like Hot Rod Lincoln. Which detector did you use?
That spot I was running the Nox, been using both the CTX and the Nox on this trip, both have done well 🙂
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I never dreamed I would find a spot like I did today, turned out to be my best silver coin day ever!!I've been on a 6 day hunt starting last Wed and ending Tuesday morning when I head home. I've been hitting a couple parks in the town I'm staying in and a couple of surrounding towns as well. I managed to get into some producing spots and have done pretty well with multiple silver days everyday.Today, my plan was to drove over to a town about 60 miles from here and hit a pretty big park that's been around awhile. I got up early, grabbed some breakfast and hit the road. About 20 miles in, I figure out I forgot my phone, so, I head back to the motel. I decided to stay here and look for a new spot so I googled the town and saw a couple of parks and schools that I decided to go check out. Well, none were in older neighborhoods, so I headed to a park that had produced last year.As I'm driving over there, I see an old high school that's been renovated and drive around back and see a big open area with old backstops in each corner. I decided what the heck, might as well stop and swing awhile, maybe I'll get lucky and find a wheat or 2 I started out in front of one of the backstops and get a copper hit. The shovel slid easily into the ground and I pulled out a memorial. I move straight out towards the pitchers mound and get another penny signal. I go to dig a plug and the ground was hard as a rock, nothing but compacted rock and gravel. I take my pinpointer and scan the ground, thankfully I got a hit. I began to chisel my way thru the rocks and pop out a wheat, oh yes, it's on now.
The next target was another wheat, again, within range of the pinpointer, out pops another wheat. Now I'm getting excited, within 5 minutes I have 2 wheats, that's good sign. The next 2 hits were funky signals and turned out to be mercs, both shallow and picked up by the pinpointer. Every swing of the coil sounded like a machine gun, 6-7 iron targets per swing. I'm in the middle of an iron infested spot, with compacted ground.I hunted for the next 30 minutes and ended up with 3 merc and 6 wheats, no clad, I'm only 45 minutes into this hunt and it's only 8:15 am, gonna be a long day lol. This old playground area is about 1 square block, so, I head off toward the other backstop and within 50 I get a hit. The ground is as soft as butter and out comes a clad dime. I hunted about 30-45 minutes at the other backstop and dug nothing but deep clad.I realized real quick that the spot I was in must have been avoided because of the rock hard ground and all the iron so I headed back. I decided to start grid off the area and see how far this hot spot goes. Turns out it's roughly a 60-70 foot area in front of the backstop. The soil outside of this spot is completely different and relatively trash free. I guess they dug out the original soil and missed this area, I have no idea.I hunted all day, started at 7:30 and called it quits at 5:45 when I quit digging keepers. I never thought I would stumble on a place like this just out of pure dumb luck. I'm glad I decided to stay in town.I ended up beating my single day silver coin finds of 13. Sorry for any grammar or punctuation errors, I'm celebrating with a couple of cold ones:)
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Thanks everyone, feels good to hit the right spot 🙂
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4 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:
Great hunting I might say and glad for the saves of the silver.
Now about the $20 bill, I have to say that I have you beat this week on that. On Monday I was walking grandfathers dog and low and behold there was a $20 blowing across the sidewalk in front of me. Rusty didn't even look at it because he had his eyes set on a cat across the street. I was able to step on it and pick it up. Then on Wednesday I went shopping for grandmother and get out of the car and step on 2 more $20's. I bend over and picked them up and added them to my wallet.
With that said finding paper money on top of the ground is not that uncommon today, so how many have you found in the ground so far? I am still at zero on that one, but I am still hoping to get a few of them.
Good luck on your next hunt.
Thank you,
I deliver the mail and find money, phones, tools, etc etc quite often. I haven't found any bills buried yet, but, you never know what the next hunt will bring!!
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I had another great day hitting a couple of different parks on my week long hunting trip. First park gave up 2 halves, 1 silver, 1 clad. The Walker was in the same hole as a wheat and a silver quarter. I found another silver dime, the Cracker Jack token and a couple of wheats and then the park went cold on me. I drove across town to another area and the first keeper was a silver ring followed by a Merc. Not much after that except for a wheat and some clad.
I drove over to another little town to scope things out, turned out to be a bust. The town didn't even have a park it was so small.
I headed back to the town I'm staying in and went to a park that I did very well at last July. Not 10 minutes in I get another silver quarter, followed by 3 wheats. On my last pass, I look ahead of me and see some folded green, a $20 bill lol. I'll be coming back to this park tomorrow and spend the day looking for the keepers I missed last time.
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1 hour ago, geof_junk said:
No Aluminum Aussie coins 92.5% or 50% silver with the kings head most likely 92.5% but 50% from 1946 to 1966.
Thanks for the info, I assumed aluminum because it hit at 21 on the Nox, I feel even better now 🙂
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47 minutes ago, rvpopeye said:
Do it again , do it again !
I'm on a little road trip until next Tuesday, digging like a man on a mission lol.
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10 hours ago, schoolofhardNox said:
Nice haul. Lots of coins and some silver to boot! Cool Austrian coin too along with the silver? ring. That's some hard digging there!
Thanks, at first I thought the Austrian coin was silver, I think it's aluminum. It's dry as bone here, but, I can still cut a plug relatively easy.
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I went back to the spot that produced a lot of stuff yesterday. It was like somebody flipped a switch and it was over as fast as it started lol. So I roamed around for about an hour and a half and hit another hot spot. The area was about 40 ft wide and 60 ft long thats where most of the stuff came out.
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I had a busy day digging targets
Took a little road trip and hit a park. Doesn't look like anybody in the town is swinging a metal detector LOL. I dug almost $14 in change, halfway through the day, I quit digging shallow penny signals. I wasn't able to dig any old silver, but, silver is silver. The little silver ring was a nice bonus. I only covered a small section, I'm headed back tomorrow to see what else comes out.
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27 minutes ago, Ridge Runner said:
Well I’m went to their site and I did find one new detector called the Gold Finder 2000 . NM has it marked as new but don’t show any info on it are price .
Chuck
PS I did find it’s operating at 61 KHz but that’s all
https://www.noktadetectors.com/metal-detector/gold-finder-2000/
MSRP $849
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56 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:
Happy to be of service sir. 🤣 🥳
Thanks for the heads up!!!
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4 hours ago, F350Platinum said:
Recommend calling them but hope I helped👍 using mine right now 😀
I just got my tracking number 😎
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I just now ordered one, still showing in stock.
Unbelievable Day!!!!
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Thank all for the positive comments and for taking a look.