Big Silver Detected With Equinox :)

[Cal_Cobra]

5 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

A silver Roosie would make may day on 3/4 of my hunts.

I'm sure you didn't mean that as a slam/put-down, but the reality is that metal detecting is about making the most of the situations/conditions for which you have access.  We in the Eastern USA certainly have time on our side, in the sense that this part of the continent was settled by Europeans earlier (in the case of the Atlantic coast, much earlier) than the West.  But as is the case with native gold detecting, although we have that commodity in the ground as well, we don't have the luxury of federal lands that are still even today in 2020 (despite all the whining from many who remember better days) a big advantage in most kinds of detecting.

Here if you want a chance to find the best you need to get permission.  Some are very good at that (the same people who got dates in high school?) and some aren't.

But as I said in a previous post, you guys are very good at research and given the 50+ years that detectors have been in peoples' hands, that is critical to being able to achieve the best finds.  So good on you (sincerely) and I look forward to sharing your Western USA opportunities in the limited times I'll be able to access those lands with you (after this pandemic hiatus).  Thanks again for sharing your experiences.  It is quite inspiring.

Absolutely not meant as a slam or put-down at all.  i started off park hunting, believe me I know the amount of effort and skill (and sometimes just dumb luck) it takes to be successful turf hunting.  Tom's very good at deep silver turf detecting, it's a special kind of skill for sure to be able to slice and dice through a sea of modern junk and drill down to the oldies. 

BUT once I started relic hunting, touching Western history, and finding coins that predated the United States as a country, I was hooked.   I love park demos too, but the hunt mindset is more that of relic hunting, and if there's a demo in an old park In San Francisco, you'd be surprised what turns up, cobs (yes you read that right, cobs have been found), reales, busts, large cents, seateds, gold rush era buckles, some great buttons, tokens, and the usual suspects like barbers, mercs, rosies, and jewelry.  A good demo is a blast to experience, and I've been fortunate to be able to get in on a few epic park demos.   Our history definitely doesn't go back as far as that in the Eastern USA where Tom always tongue-in-cheak jokingly says that every sand box and tot lot are loaded with large cents, but we do have history here, from the early fur-trade and Spanish Mission influence to the gold rush and great railroad expansion, but as California becomes the most populous state in the United States, it's disappearing by the day as it's being turned into a cement jungle.

GL&HH,
Cal

 

 

[Cal_Cobra]

5 hours ago, calabash digger said:

To me having a Equinox and Deus is a lights out combo already.....How was the Iron content on the site?

TONs of iron, machine gun sea of nails, along with big stuff too, and lots of that flat rusty tin thrown in for good measure ?

[Cal_Cobra]

3 hours ago, Dances With Doves said:

I found  almost all my silver in pounded  spots so you have to know how to  work  the trash as  best you can. The spots that  Cal  likes to hunt make it so much more exciting   and  I have hunted a few.I like  the spots when  almost any conductive  signal has a chance of being a great   find when compared to parks that produces mostly junk.Almost  all the  Jesuit rings I found  were like a nickel hit without 1 pull tab found in this secluded  field.

Absolutely, these are the kind of places with lots of low and mid conductors, most of which are munitions casings from rim fires to modern, lead from the same eras, bits and bobs, etc., but when you work out a nice high conductor in the midst of the iron, it stops you in your tracks. 
 

[Guest calabash digger]

5 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said:

TONs of iron, machine gun sea of nails, along with big stuff too, and lots of that flat rusty tin thrown in for good measure ?

That is where I feel most at home with a metal detector......That sounds like my kind site!

[GB_Amateur]

11 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said:

...We do have history here, from the early fur-trade and Spanish Mission influence to the gold rush and great railroad expansion, but as California becomes the most populous state in the United States, it's disappearing by the day as it's being turned into a cement jungle.

That's a problem in many parts of the world.  Lying in bed last night I was thinking about my upcoming "Detecting New Year's Resolutions" of expanding my detecting horizons.  We have ghost towns, too.  (I recall reading the number of USA ghost towns that still exist -- can't remember but something like more than 50,000?)  And as you point out, many good detecting sites have disappeared due to development, both residential and commercial.  We (i.e. all detectorists) can sit back and lament or go find the juicy sites that remain.  2021 will be as good as we choose to make it.

[Cal_Cobra]

9 hours ago, calabash digger said:

That is where I feel most at home with a metal detector......That sounds like my kind site!

Same here buddy, I've pulled some great keepers out of the iron abyss ?