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Sweet sand candy ! 👍

Ahoy Skull !

Very nice ring finds down in Davy Jones' !  Good ta see ya beat the mermaids to 'em ! 

It sucks the D2 is becoming an issue but any tool is what it is,  to you.  May the rats with wings gulls have their way with it ! 

You need to know your tools are performing 100% what you expect when you're under the waves in the briney .Arrrrgh .  When you're on the bottom , it's dive gear like everything else you use.

Sell the stress stick and only look back to the rings you DID find with it. ( they should go nicely towards the $ you lost in the testing.) Plenty here that would love to have it I'd guess.  

YoHo !

A nice honker 925 !  Beefy lookin' without a doubt ! 🖖

UPTAH UPDATE

Finally moved to the track infield after only finding one zinc and several pull tabs/rings by the barn I've been at the last several days. . . I gave up after 2 1/2 hours , I was starting to get pushed around when I was standing up. Otherwise it was an all orb 50* today , the ground is totally thawed and a perfect soft/moist ratio.  2 clad dimes , 1 wheatie (and again it looks like it might be 1930) . 1 copper memorial and 5 zincs.

 I've used every light source and magnification device I have and still can't clearly see the mark on the ring. (it's recessed into a little rectangle).  So it's bling for now...arrrrrrr🙄

Still no time period for the tack bits . ID same as many of the pull tabs on the 800 ...I thought it was higher but must have been something else nearby. (using the 6" coil in the trash carpet near me.until I hit the infield and switched to the 11") .  

I think the wheatie was a 1930 🤗, hard to see and can't get a good pic. , will try again later to get the horse bling and the ring composition sussed out too. The slayer is calling me but it's 35* and the winds are still howling (but not as bad as the werewolves of London).😏

3 hours at the horse/pulling barn entrance = 1 wheatie , 1 copper memorial , 1 clad dime , a couple more pieces of matching horse bling . And YES I dug some ring pulls.  Froze my butt. 

BUT once again , on the walk back to the rig . a RING !  🏴‍☠️

Not yellow but it IS silver . Tiny 1.36g  Gonna need more magnification to read the mark .  The glasses of shame would not do. What a shame . 🙄       I did use the flashlight I found last year.....

Guessing he was able to afford 6 new tires (two spares)  !     👍🤯

It still looks kinda dangerous....🥸

I found a 10 euro cent version last summer. (it was from Greece) .  The first view of color on those things does raise the blood pressure  !  🖖

You sure did find multiple something good on that hunt ! 🤯

Sounds like many more trips there are called for.

Could you bring trimmers if the weeds grow ?   

Saturated ground yesterday uptah camp . Passed on playing in the mud. Ankle was a little sore from stomping the slayer on saturday. Declared it a charging day and worked on inside of the rig.   Still more 40+ wind gusting today.  I did get more of those fancy little horse tack pieces saturday so my ID guy was right ! (They were all in the ID range for silver too , might be testing them ! )   Might see him today.  It's 32* right now , maybe make it to 40.  Windchill is brutal but I can layer up.... and detect in  the lee of buildings.....😏

Impressive finds count as always ! 

Silver well represented .  Lead count confirmed the settings .

Ya shoulda got a gold there ! That beach owes you one now ! 

The "private" beach will have less depositor observation on a rainy day.... 

 Extra  low negative tides here too , hope I can manage a visit to a beach .

Got in a couple more hours so far,had to come inside for warming up.

So far , 3 more pieces of the tack that "everybody had" . I'll ask him when the next time I see him.

1 quarter , 1 nickel and 3 rotted zincolns  , 0 of the zincs were round , 1 was almost square and 2 were actually cupped ??... found the quarter dragging the coil across the lawn on the way back to the rig !  5" down , a 2000 MD states quarter😩. Almost finished with the road and saving the area near the big entrance to the show/pulling  barn  for last . I noticed last summer that most of the rigging up happened on the lawn between me and the road (where the MD qtr was ) . Big area so still going to the EX hall first. Many more pull tabs removed in search of that 1/10th oz gold ....

I'll probably be going back to the camping area in 5 weeks   

I almost forgot . 2 more hours till a minus 1.3' low tide today too...trying to talk a friend into going to one of the southern beaches .  Too cold for that to be fun if it is raining though ! (36* SE@10-15 w/gusts to 30). The minus tides are for almost a week  but will be after dark in a couple days.  

5 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

 

Sometimes the "horse bling" can be very old, in my case a lot of it has been from the 1700s. If be interested in a pic if you haven't um, recycled. 😀

If the road has ditches on either side and they're not full of water that can be a good place to look albeit somewhat awkward. I'll hunt the sides more than the middle.

Not much yet this season but I didn't toss last year's horse stuff when I moved to this side last fall so it will be in that box  , I got one bit with a design on it and showed it to one of the fair people , he said they all had that design a while ago . I usually ask him about anything I think might be interesting.

I'm headed outside now , will try to post pics tonight , no orb today , it really helps with my chromebook photo quality...

No ditches either unless you count the guy that drove his too big pickup down the middle of the road leaving a couple of mini Grand Canyons ? 

I DID detect the valleys before kicking the cliffs down a bit though.😉 Still have about 25% left before moving over to the exhibition hall area.... More rain later today so gotta go>>>>>>>>>>🖖

Today back on the dirt road. ~3 hours. 

Still nice and soft digging 1 quarter , 3 dimes , 4 nickels , 3 copper memorial pennies and 4 zincolns.

Only 40 or 50 pieces of junk and  some horse bling pieces .basically also junk. 🙄 Must have dug 20 pull rings and tabs trying for the little gold coin.  Maybe some day... but I leave 'em after that many......OOOOIE.. 

All era of pull tabs are represented  here,    If anybody is a  serious collector (you know who you are ) , I can hook you up ! 🤩

One of the volunteers here showed up with a detector he found on the side of the road.....It was the cheapest no name pistol grip thing I've ever seen . But it did go beep and he found a 20d nail @ 6" right in front of my door !  HOW did I miss that ? 😜 I have the iron boops on all the time and  you didn't find an 800 . (I still dig nails and screws in the road , even if I sometimes know what they are...)  

He was gonna get two parrots but the ducks were on 90% off clearance and pirates love getting a good steal ! 🏴‍☠️

Only a 90 minute hunt today. A quarter , two dimes  , one copper memorial and two zincs. A

few pieces of lead , one rusty but usable nail ~ 20d (cuz I decided to dig a wacky ID signal just to see what it was). and two beaver tail halves giving nickel IDs.   

It's raining which will last 20 hours and one to two inches more for the ground to soak up. 

Looks like easy digging in the road continues and I'm only 1/3 of the way on just this road .

-1.6 low tides almost here too ! And that will be easy digging even if the rest freezes again.

I've been using the 11" and park2 . I need to go back to the 6" but that would slow me way down....

I'm going to spend one hunt digging just negative IDs  .

quack quack arrrrr quack quack arrrrr . two ducks and a pirate walked into a barrrrrrrrrr 

Nice bucket lister !   

Very nice , WTG !🥸 

I've done well over 200 hours here so far.. maybe 10% LOL. And the depositors keep coming ......  

I hope not.  I get enough as it is. 🙄

I've been searching the various dirt roads here , that are all very soft right now. Rain moving in as I type. Mud is better than ice so I'm good. 

I don't think I'll have enough time to cover the whole fairgrounds before moving on. I just clocked a couple more hours on it though.   Still have the perimeter trail and .......so much more.

Stunning finds !  I'd have trouble leaving that spot alone for a while....... WTG !

 It's kinda like the biggest fish in the lake. When you catch it , there is still the biggest fish in the lake.

Even after you and Chase have scoured the place....there's always gonna be more ! LOL 🤔

Do they all get turned over in the fall ? 

Congrats on your first "wild" silver quarter !