rvpopeye Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 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...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F350Platinum Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 4 hours ago, rvpopeye said: horse bling Glad you're getting out RVP, 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvpopeye Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 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>>>>>>>>>>🖖 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvpopeye Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvpopeye Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 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.....😏 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvpopeye Posted March 12 Author Share Posted March 12 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..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvpopeye Posted March 12 Author Share Posted March 12 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).😏 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Scout Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Admire your perseverance. The high winds can really sap your energy and enthusiasm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvpopeye Posted March 13 Author Share Posted March 13 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") . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvpopeye Posted March 20 Author Share Posted March 20 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 !🏴☠️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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