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  1. 5 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

     But yes, having a lot of places to go does lead to getting still more. If I pass a farm of interest and it feels like the time is right and the farmer is out there, I'll stop and ask. Most are curious as to what I might find, and thankfully appreciate the desire for some reward for me should I do all the work to dig it up. Establishing a friendship of sorts goes far, they will try to think of other places to look, or even ask someone else for me.

    There are 2 rules for getting permissions:

    1. Start out with a question about the history of the place and a compliment about how nice it is, then Listen to the farmer after asking to hunt it, no matter how long they talk. It's the most important thing, if you act hasty or impatient, you're not doing to get it. If they say no, be prepared to calm their fears of leaving holes and damage. Make them say no more than once.

    2: See rule 1.

    I guess you could just say it's complicated 🙄 but I do hope to inform as well as brag 😎 information is a bit more important here.

     

    The evidence is in....Your permission system sure does work !  You have become one of the locals.

    Everything found has a story to tell , even the pulltabs ........   

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  2.  I decided to leave the hemos  in my pouch for things stuck in rock crevices. 

    Getting pics with the chromebook selfie cam is a supreme challenge .  More so without sunlight.  I figured at least it looked like what it was this time.🙄

     

    The 4" of frozen crust left from Saturday is getting a steady rain at 45* so all ground should be bare again when it stops. I probably could have dug through it but zero chance of disappearing diggings if I did . Shoveling the white crust trashed my elbows anyway so I needed the break . 

     

     

     

  3. Welcome to the crew lobokai

    My first detector wasn't a Bounty Hunter.

    But it was made by them ! 

    A Rat Shack  Micronta Discovery 2 

    It's still hanging on the wall as I type..I found my only gold ring with it.

    Not sure if I should credit the detector , the lady that lost it showed me exactly where to look.,,,,in 2 feet of snow .  On the first beep , I shoveled all the snow under the coil into a plastic tub and brought it inside....so I can say it did beep when I swung the coil over it confirming  it is a functioning metal detector !  

    I didn't get to keep the ring and that lady hasn't called me back to find the ring again ,,,,yet .( and I didn't say she didn't call me back  LOL🤩 )

     

     

  4. Braving bugs is just a part of it uptah camp.

    I'm not complaining about the sno* predicted for today....the temps keep the bugs unhatched , which is the only kind I like !  

    Everything I found last year doesn't come close to that one buckle .  WTG !

    You're so right about location being most important , and you're surrounded by location ! 

    I'm told I am too but can't prove it with finds ,,,,so far. 

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  5.  Well , that didn't work out as planned....

    A detecting buddy  came over saturday morning but didn't want to go to the big beach , so we went to a small town park beach but went by another on the way(including the rock I used to fish from when I was a kid) that had more people than sand.  No open ocean exposure at either  and the low tide is all soft mud flats so just did a ~ 50' wide wet and 20' wide of dry x 200" stretch of sand at beach #2 .  Not one solid beep except for a huge amount of ID # 1  .  I decided they were not gold rings and notched it out.  T-Rex went hungry , nada.

    Next to an old park on a small river that used to be a ford crossing called Wescustogo.  It was covered in mud from recent flooding .  And water was still too high to detect , even the banks were under water.  My friend detected in the park around the trees and picnic tables and in the weed areas that had not grown up yet.   He found junk and not sure but might have pulled out a zincoln too.

    I scouted out the higher ground and came away with the only non junk finds of the day . A pair of hemostats 8" down next to a big rock on the path from the parking lot and 2 pennies , 1 was a zincoln.    All of these spots were less than 5 miles from the LLBean main store , expected more from places that are  probably swarmed every summah .

    I did find a clad rosie right behind my car here on my space in storage while I was waiting for him to show up !🏴‍☠️   

     

     

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  6. I'm a musician so I have an airtight excuse....

    I just realized I posted my beach hunt in your beach thread. 🙄 No charge.

    I'll move it as best as I can...........

    Post move due to me being a dum bass (not to be confused with dumb ass.)😜

    But I did leave you a couple of likes ! 

     

     

     

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