Equinox - The Eagle Has Landed!

[Chase Goldman]

6 minutes ago, steveg said:

GREAT report, GREAT story!  Sounds like just an INCREDIBLE day, and from the looks of your finds, that's exactly what it was!  

SUPERB, Chase!

Steve

Yeah, I am beginning to realize just how unique it was.  It just came together at once and in the moment, I just felt like it was going to happen, as improbable as especially the last two finds were.  It was like a golfer repeatedly sinking 40 ft. putts down the stretch.

[steveg]

You gotta love it when that happens!  Both with the 40-foot putts, AND with the finds, while detecting!

Great day Chase!

Steve

[mn90403]

There you go!  You had a great day.  Thanks for sharing it.

Even a Goldman can chase down good targets with the Equinox.

You help and you are helped.  Thanks.

Mitchel

[Cal_Cobra]

Incredible find, BIG CONGRATS !!! 

[NSC]

Well done indeed Chase

A really nice CW relic 

[IdahoPeg]

What an incredible hunt! Thanks for sharing your adventure with us....congrats!

[Mark Gillespie]

Fantastic  I've never found an eagle, wow you've got a great place to hunt.  Thanks for sharing your story.....

[Chase Goldman]

First off, thanks everyone for the kind words and congrats.  I am still pinching myself to have finally broken through with a plate.  But now with the post plate hangover setting in, just wanted to say a few more things about the circumstances as they relate to the Equinox.

None of the finds shown was very deep.  They mostly tumbled out with the plug.  That is the nature of this site.  If you are digging to china, then you have probably stumbled onto the gas line that runs diagonally through the property.  It sounds sweet to every detector and we are all embarrassed to say it has fooled most of the repeat visitors to this site at least once.  That being said,  the 40 foot putt analogy by me was WAY over the top (still giddy and punch drunk at the time, I guess) because I am sure any beep-dig machine would have heard those targets because they were not whispers or peeps.  But the Equinox factor still stands, it was the way the targets sounded that made them no brainer digs with the Equinox because for the plate, at least, I believe many before me have given up on the area because of the aluminum blobs.  To get an idea of what I was dealing with see the attached pic.  Those are not rocks.  Those are solid, molten aluminum blobs except for the bolt and the crushed can.  Those are the targets I dug in the vicinity BEFORE I started hitting the CW targets.  I am still amazed that plate had not been badly dinged by the plow after all these years.

The silver was just pure persistence.  I knew the area were others before me had pulled 19th century silver in three hunts before, and I was not going to be denied this time.  I had found everything in that keeper pic except the Seated and one of the minie's in about the first 1/2 hour of the hunt.  We spent 2.5 hours there.  I found the second minie and the Seated in the last 1/2 hour of the hunt.

 

 

 

[bado1]

WOW! Unreal. Congratulations!! 

Dean