4.56$ in clad this month but still no silver!

[MackDigger]

Starting to get frustrated. Been at it for two months but still no gold or silver. I have found a few wheats at a older site (oldest 1923) but no coins any older and no silver coins. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?

 

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[cjon455]

I wouldnt say youre doing anything wrong, youre finding nickels which is difficult in itself. This was my experience when i first joined this site and started detecting last may. I had a bounty hunter and my deepest targets were 2 to 2.5 inches at best. I dont know what type of metal detector you are using but that was my experience until I upgraded to my Ace350. Also It can be the sites you are hitting, parks/public places are going to be rare for silver unless theyve never been hit by other detectors in the past, plus they are usually loaded with trash which is par for the course. Getting permission to do some private properties should yield you better results. Im still basically new myself (only at it a year) but my advice is keep at it, get some permission if you can, and be persistent. Itll eventually pay off! Goodluck

 

[vpnavy]

Nice finds MackDigger!

 

[wheatfinder13]

Don't get frustrated, It was 3 months till I found my first silver. Remember, you can only find what has been lost, therefore, if there was no silver lost, there is one to be found. I do wish you the best of luck

 

[pennyfarmer]

Don't get frustrated. My first silver was in a yard that I had gotten permission to hunt. I had been detecting for almost 2 months or so before I found silver. It is few and far between. Just enjoy it and don't force it.

I will often times hunt for new stuff just to keep tuned up. Find someone near you who is willing to go out with you. Get permission to hunt an old yard by just asking around. I am sure you know someone who has an old house. If they say its already been hunted then tell them you don't mind. After you hunt it ask if you can invite a friend and bring someone who has more experience and ask them to let you check the signals before they dig anything they think is good.

There is a reason that things are still there to be found. This hobby is not as easy as it looks.

 

[oldsalty19]

 

[MackDigger]

Thanks for the encouragement everyone. How deep are silvers (on average) can they be two to four inches (like most of my targets are) or are they normally deeper?

 

[cjon455]

Thanks for the encouragement everyone. How deep are silvers (on average) can they be two to four inches (like most of my targets are) or are they normally deeper?

im not nearly as experienced as some of the people on here but i can say that some of my dug silvers were 2-3inches which i would consider shallow and/or luck lol and others at 4-6 and even up to 8 inches on one rare occasion. I believe 8 is the limit of my ace 350 but ive read where others with top notch detectors were snagging silvers at 10+ hope that helps

 

[dustytrails123]

Keep hunting the sites that produce the wheats and dig dig and dig sooner or later the silver will come out

 

[spootyooty]

I found my first silver a month ago. It was about 10" down. Awesome feeling. MD was hitting hard on the Rosy almost like it was laying on the surface. Don't give up. It is well worth it when you finally find your first.

 

[MackDigger]

Thanks Spooty. What era could it be from?

 

[g-olden years]

You'll probably find silver where & when you least expect it! My son found lots of silver coins before I found any, though sharing same detector for first 2 years. Month after month, I found a little silver jewelry but no silver coins, boo-hoo. After many months detecting together & concentrating often on a rough old field with building foundations on it, I found my first silver while slowly eyeball-searching that field while my son had his turn with detector. What was my surface eyeball find, my first silver? A big lovely 1923 Peace Silver Dollar!!! It looked like a dusty old poker chip just lying on top of the dusty field. That same day I dug my first 2 wheats a few feet from that silver dollar, so those advising you to keep hunting for silver wherever you find wheats are correct. If took me more than another year to actually DIG UP a silver -- my first Mercury dime, this time in a tiny neglected park. YOU'RE GONNA FIND SILVER COINS AND GOLD!!! I dug my first gold this week after over two years detecting, a huge gold ring buried in the same hole with a crummy old spoon on a beach that I hate to detect due to it being full of old iron -- well, I persisted in returning to that frustrating beach, cussed the iron, muttered when I dug the corroded spoon, and yelped with glee when, by rechecking that hole in the sand, the gleaming golden ring emerged!
As to detectors, our low-budget Bounty Hunter has found silver & other small items as deep as eight to ten inches -- it's partly a matter of fiddling with your dials to get more used to whatever machine you're using. For example, seed some silver coin or jewelry at various depths under the dirt and experiment using different settings on your detector to discover the best setting for finding small silver! My son recently upgraded to a Teknetics and is digging even more silver, but keep in mind that my Bounty Hunter found my gold ring in midst of a trashy, iron-infested beach! HAVE FUN AND LET US KNOW WHEN YOU DIG THE SILVER OR GOLD! Andi-who-is-older-than-the-hills-& can't-climb-them-very-well-anymore