Popular Post GB_Amateur Posted January 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2022 It's become a tradition of mine to write up a year-end summary of my detecting experience, and since most of my detecting is for coins and relics I keep it in this subforum. My plan for this past year was to experience some new detecting types (via longish trips) and find some new local sites to coin hunt. Thanks to Monte and Oregon Gregg I was welcomed to their June Ghost Town hunt in NE Nevada where I met about 20 like-minded, ambitious, and friendly detectorists. Besides co-organizer Gregg (unfortunately Monte was unable to attend), Utah Rich and Tom Slick were among the attendees who are members and posters here. My 6 days produced minimal coin finds but some decent relics. Next to the camaraderie I most enjoyed learning about a new kind of detecting in a site, soil, and intended target combination I had never previously experienced. In addition to that part of the trip I also spent some time in the Denver area, getting to hunt with the local Eureka club and particularly valuable -- meeting Jeff McClendon and picking his brain on the operation of the QED. Also on this trip I spent a couple days on a National Forest GPAA claim 8-9000 ft. up in NW Colorado. Unfortunately I came up empty handed (as far as gold) but learned quite a bit about site reading *and* how to deal with remote, rugged mountain roads and terrain. In August I headed East to NW Massachusetts on a 'blind date' (not literally, but was generously well taken care of by the land owners who I had never met) detect of an 18th Century homestead. Even dealing with hurricane Henri I was still able to get in several hours of detecting, finding my first USA Large Cent -- oldest coin to date -- 1803. I'll be writing up more on that in a couple days. On the way home I accepted an invitation by member dogodog to detect one of his old coin sites. Even though the heat and humidity was up there we still got in four productive hours with silver finds (mine a Merc and he did even better -- two silvers and a gold ring) along with lots of converstation/discussion. Just another perk of belonging here with such friendly, generous, and accomodating members. The other 10 1/2 months of detecting were done locally. (No photos in this post as I've shown many of those finds previously.) I did accomplish one of my 2021 New Years Resolutions of finding new sites. Eight of the 16 local sites I detected this year were ones I had never hunted. Another writeup I'll be posting shortly focuses in on one of those (muni park) and why I think it might have been previously unsearched. Now for some what I consider *key* statistics of these local hunts: 266 hrs of swinging at local sites, 104 Wheat pennies -- new record for one calendar year, 36 'other old coins' (silver content coins, Buffalo and earlier nickels, Indian Head Pennies) -- second to last year's record of 43, One interesting contrast between last year (where most of my detecting was done in a single, large park) and this year in regards to specifically silver coin finds -- 22 in 2021 vs. 27 in 2022, and more disparate are silver dimes -- 11 vs. 20. Magnifying the silver dime arena, I found 11 Roosies this year compared to 3 last year and 4 in all previous years. (OK, for those of you who stuck around, here's your eye-candy fix -- my 27 silver finds of the year: ) My goals this year include another trip West (ghost-towning and gold prospecting), another trip to that Massachusetts Colonial site, and locally getting enough guts to ask for permissions to private properties. I know of one that (if undetected) is going to be a real 'silver mine' but I need to 'practice' my people skills first so that one may have to wait for 2023. 20 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPT_GhostLight Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Nice haul, GB! Hope 2022 brings you much detecting joy! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCR Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 A man with a plan. Continued success & enjoyment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCtoad Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 That’s a nice bunch of finds and some nice camaraderie. I have the same issue you have with asking permissions. I just don’t have the “people skills” as you mentioned. Yeah I’ve asked and have gotten a few, but it’s just not me to ask for things. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F350Platinum Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Excellent recap GB. I enjoy your thoughtful and insightful musings and reports. ? 2022 should be a great year! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valens Legacy Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Nice hunting and good plan for this year. Good luck and good hunting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogodog Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Nice job GB, That's some good silver my friend. I would love to have you back in 22, To help root out some more silver in the old park before they turn it into a 100 soccer fields. This time I want to see you run your Vaquero or the F75. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 sounds like a great year, and a lot of really nice coins. I’ll have to do more of that this year… if I found a silver coin in 2021 I don’t remember it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Line Paul Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 I kept a diary of my first year detecting. I plan to do a similar summary when I’m bored some snowy day. But, trust me, I won’t be posting it! My year probably won’t amount to what some of you guys call an average day??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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