Unbelievable Day!!!!

[Dan(NM)]

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:)

[devilsrenegade]

Nice work, I would be celebrating also if I ever pulled off a day like that. Congrats

[Valens Legacy]

Fantastic hunt and with all the silvers I know that you are one happy person.

One of these days I will come across something like that.

Good luck and happy hunting.

[Raphis]

Congrats on your best silver day ever! 👍🏼 

Your hunt brings back quite a few great memories for me...I’ve hunted parks in my locale for years that produced silver days from the low teens to the mid twenties...even one park nearly 150 miles from me that produced a 31 silver day (my PB).  All of these parks were just regular, old parks from the ‘20’s-40’s era, without any ground movement.  Those days around me are long gone, unfortunately.  I wish I could go on extended road trips like you do, but that’s not possible for me at the moment...maybe someday! Anyway, I’m rambling......Congrats again on your memorable hunt!

HH,

Dan - Raphis

 

 

[phrunt]

Small town ball parks have paid off well for me, looks like you're onto something 🙂

[rvpopeye]

Well done !

If I send you a map of my town can you show me where the silver is ? 🤩

(All I usually find at schools is a janitor telling me to get my shoveling azz outah thayah ...)

 

 

[mh9162013]

I think you did ok, if you ask me.

 

 

No, j/k. That's definitely an unbelievable day! I can only fantasize about a hunt like that. Well done!

[Rick N. MI]

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?

[GB_Amateur]

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.

[locator]

👀 WTG, Dan. Looks like a lot of work... ahmm FUN!😉 Congrats!