5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100s of Wheats!!

[Captn SE]

5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

Hello My Friends!

Today, I reached another milestone for the year with my 203rd silver coin recovery. I had to give the silver park a rest because the finds are getting real slim there now. I was hoping to try and continue my silver digging frenzy this year, and by chance, I stumbled upon a spot which has greatly exceeded my expectations. All the finds in my post have come from one site in the last 7 hunts there.

Today, I dug my best barber dime from the site, an 1895 S, which is in real good shape...maybe a $250 coin? I have found barber dimes in 5 out of my last 7 hunts there(only 1 on each of those days), which amounted to 5 dime trifectas, including a semi-grand slam, with the '47 Canadian dime on one of the trifecta days.

I have dug nearly twice as many Mercs as Rosies from this spot, and only 1 silver quarter, which is a sign that this spot must have been pillaged in the 80's and 90's by weekend hunters. Most of the coins were in the 7-9" range. If I wasn't keying in on deep, one-way whisper signals, I would have missed a good number of these coins, so you really had to concentrate hard to find them. Out of over 200 wheaties dug, I have found just 3 Indian head pennies, an 1892, 1900, and 1906. I forgot to mention that I broke my own record one day for wheat pennies found in one hole. After digging down around 8", I ended up removing 10 wheats from one plug. I also dug 2 silver rings, one being a sterling band, and the other a hand-made piece with a tiger's eye stone.

What a spot is all I can say!! Never in my 2 years of hunting has a site produced so much for me in such a short amount of time. I hope everyone can stumble upon a site like this at least once in their detecting lives. No research was required. The willingness to re-work a site that a couple of my buddies and I thought was previously hunted out was the key to "old coin" bliss.

Thanks for Looking!!
Keep The Passion High!!

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

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[Captn SE]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

You sure have a great place for hunting. Over 200 silver pieces. That is great. I wold also like to know what you mean by one signal. Do you only get it going one was like moving the coil to the lefy and then nothing going right. I there has been times when I am out and I think I heard a signal and ehen I look at my screen it may show a penny or dime icon. But when I try to find it againb I can not so I move on. Is this what you are talking about....Matt

Thanks for the reply, Matt.

Check out my reply above to terpfan. I elaborate a little more on the one-way signals. They were choppy sounding while swinging back an forth over the target while facing the target on one swing plane. With the Minelab machines, the technique is to swing back and forth over the target, trying to get that fluty sound. It's a unique sound. It will also help to isolate your signal and get a better read on it. I'm constantly swinging back and forth over the target from various swing planes, while circling the target.

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

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[Captn SE]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

Captn,
Your postings always blows me away.
I just got the E-Trac and have been out 3 times and have found 3 silvers, which I have not posted yet.
You are sure to find more spots with your skills I know you will probably exceed this posting.
That is one sweet 1895 Barber.
HH.
Rob

Hey Rob. Thanks a bunch! Good luck to you with that E-Trac!! Great start for you already! The more you use it, the better you're going to become.

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[STH69]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

Very impressive! congrats

 

[silverfreak]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!


That is amazing Dan.
Congrats on finding a new spot to cough up some shiny stuff to you.

What a cool post

Take care buddy

 

[Roger Mn.]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

Congrats. Thats a lot of silver. Talking about one way whispers. I Have had a tone one way and blanks out on the back swing. Maybe I've been missing something with the dfx. With a spot like that do you keep looking in the rear view mirror when you head out to that site ?

 

[oddcoins]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

Wow Dan! That is AWESOME!! You are one successful treasure hunter! SO EXCITING!!!! WOOHOOOOO!!!

 

[prolab69]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

So what are you? the only guy in your county who owns a detector?
jimminy crickets man!! thats some crazy silver

 

[Dr. Ace]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats

Hi Dan! Wow. Your posts are just blowing me away. Your finds are spectacular. I am both inspired and depressed by your finds. I know it takes hundreds and thousands of hours in the field to gain your level of skill (not to mention talent, too!)

If my year totals look like this post, you'll probably hear me yelling all the way in California.

I hope you'll pardon me while I go out and pound the turf some more.

Congrats on more exceptional finds. You deserve it!!!

HH!!

Dr. Ace

 

[Detectingfreak]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

Dude that is a very awesome job!!!!!!! Congratulations on all of the silver, indians and wheaties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Goldiver]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

Man, sweet spot you have there! That '95-s is a beauty too! Keep up the hard work, you are definatly getting the results. 8)

Steve

 

[wyattrr]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

Holy Smokes!!! I think I just went blind!! The glare from all that Silver is very impressive. That my friend is what dreams are truly made of. Congrats and HH at one of your many honeyholes

 

[drodda777]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

Dan,

A word of caution, perhaps you should pace yourself a little. This is a marathon not a sprint. Leave a few to find tomorrow?

Awsome post as usual, That is another great spot you have found there. Keep swinging low and slow and I think you will be over 500 soon.

Just the wheats would be a banner day for me!

HH,

Dave

Bruce did say pound the "TURF" didn't he? Had me worried there for a minute? 8)

 

[gold nuggets]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

I can't add any more to what others have said Dan about your post.
It is totally AWESOME
Congratulations on the silver "cache" you pictured.....WOW!!
Gold Nuggets

 

[Big E]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

Wow!! That is simply amazing. Looks like you have another great spot for finding silver. You have found a lot of silver and a sweet barber there. Great job! You did say in a reply it's hard on your hands and upper body digging that many deep plugs. If I wasn't so far away, I could help you find some of that silver, save your back for many more years of detecting.

Nice haul on the silver.

Big E

 

[IAsoldier]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

Holy cow and WOW I envy you so much LOL but hey cool finds and HH to ya.

 

[Nate in Ohio]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats

No mercy huh? Very awesome, what a roll you're on.

 

[ringfinder]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

Dan, Awesome finds, Thanks for a interesting post. The Explorer is doing a fine job for you.

I just bought a Explorer II and am waiting for the rain to stop so I can try my luck with it. I also use a F-75 which I have found some really good items with it.

My buddy and I found a spot here in Ohio like the one you have. Many, many months of research, we finally got permission to hunt the site and it has never disappointed us everytime
we go there.

Again, Congratulations on all your finds.

HH, Ringfinder

 

[Captn SE]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

Wow, I can't see from the silver glare. Super spot you found. Great digs. HH
JDD

Thanks, JDD! Good luck out there!

Cool lookin little token also..

Thanks, jazdo! I like the token too. I didn't say anything about it in my post. The front says "Emergency School Tax Token On Purchase of 25 Cents", "1935", "5 Mills".

Captn. , I'm just completely blown away --- Speechless ----!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice work ! Argentium.

Thanks, Argentium.

Congrats on all of that sweet silver !!!!!!

Thanks, Allen. Good luck to you!

Great finds, very impressive. I'm new here so I hope I didn't ask stupid questions but could you clarify a little more on a one way signal? EX. one way on a 180 degree axis(right swing with beep , left swing back with no beep) or beeps on both righ and left swings with none or one direction beep at 90 degrees. Have I totally confused you now? I have confused myself.

Thanks, Drdepth. Check out some of my replies to the others above about one-way signals. Good luck!

its time to say woww thats a lot of wilver

Thanks, AA ! I really got my "Wilver Fix" this time.

Simply amazing!!! Looks like another killer spot! Cant wait to see more. Keep up the good work!

Thanks, Mike! I will try my best, as always. Good luck to you!

Nice Finds WTG

Thanks, Bob. Hope you make another trip to our local beaches soon. You always do well!

Holy!!! Awesome finds Dan! congrats on some great hunts! and a semi Key Barber very cool and in awesome shape! Thats just a ton of silver! congrats again on some awesome finds keep it up. best of luck and HH

Thanks, coltdavis! Appreciate it! Good luck out there!

Utterly a superb haul, Dan. YOU ARE THE KING OF SILVER IN MY BOOK I wouldn't know how to act if I did that good. That must make a person really feel good . You are off to a record setting year for sure

Thanks, Ron. Yeah, it's a great feeling. Very hard on the hands though. Lots of digging.

I'm not sure if I'm living in the right spot. Yeah I'm sure. I spent this evening hunting a place I swore I would never go back to and coaxed up two wheats for a couple of hours and they were in the same hole. Just hugh what you are doing there Congrats!

Thanks, mcmurphi! Congrats on going back to a previous site and making some finds. No place is ever hunted out. As your skill gets better, you will find more in the ground.

Incredible, and here I thought with silver park drying up I'd have a slim chance of catching up! Wow, wow, wow. Hard to be happy with my finds today now, even though I did get a fun one, a steel cent.

Congrats!

Thanks, Nick! Congrats on your steelie. Whenever I dig up a wheat that has a pile of iron attached to it, I know it was from a "steelie". Very cool!

My research sucks...
My motivation is low...
And you just pounded the stake through my heart (which is silver as well...)

Seriously though,
Great finds Colonel!!
You are the man!

Thanks, plumloko. Never give up!

Boy, what would you be worth Dan if I didn't share all those secret spots I left for you in California?

Just kidding! Those are some awesome finds! We all know that when you post it's gonna be something good!

If you keep it up you'll be able to start your own mint soon.

Ray

Thanks, Ray. Keep you silver streak going!

That's just fantastic!! I would love to find a spot that good again. Good luck! HH!!

Thanks, HH! Keep finding that silver!!

Very impressive! congrats

Thanks, STH69!

That is amazing Dan.
Congrats on finding a new spot to cough up some shiny stuff to you.

What a cool post

Take care buddy

Thanks, Bryce! There are so many potential spots where I live, I was bound to find a "glory spot" in time. I'll continue searching after this spot begins to go dry. Take care, my friend!

Congrats. Thats a lot of silver. Talking about one way whispers. I Have had a tone one way and blanks out on the back swing. Maybe I've been missing something with the dfx. With a spot like that do you keep looking in the rear view mirror when you head out to that site ?

Thanks, RodgerDodger! It has a lot to do with your machine and discrimination level when you hear signals like that. Only through experience of digging those signals repeatedly, will you begin to understand better what is typically creating that signal on your machine.

Wow Dan! That is AWESOME!! You are one successful treasure hunter! SO EXCITING!!!! WOOHOOOOO!!!

Thanks, Neil! It has been very exciting each time I hunt there.

So what are you? the only guy in your county who owns a detector?
jimminy crickets man!! thats some crazy silver

Thanks, Prolab! I'm just one of many who own Explorers here. Competition for silver in our parks is very high amongst my hunt buddies. We do have many sites in our locale that have produced old coins. These coins were overlooked because they weren't giving the typical "dig me" tone. Most were broken sounding signals that wanted to null out from all the nearby iron and ground mineralization. After digging a few of those signals, and finding out that they were coins, I started to get them all.

 

[Captn SE]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

Hi Dan! Wow. Your posts are just blowing me away. Your finds are spectacular. I am both inspired and depressed by your finds. I know it takes hundreds and thousands of hours in the field to gain your level of skill (not to mention talent, too!)

If my year totals look like this post, you'll probably hear me yelling all the way in California.

I hope you'll pardon me while I go out and pound the turf some more.

Congrats on more exceptional finds. You deserve it!!!

HH!!

Dr. Ace

Thanks, Bruce! You're right about how the more time you spend with your machine, the more you're going to find. Two years ago, I would have missed all of these coins I found in my past 7 hunts at this spot. I was a newbie then, and didn't understand how to target the fainter, deeper, iffy signals. I was only digging the perfect sounding ones back then. Keep plugging away. Good luck to you, my friend!

Dude that is a very awesome job!!!!!!! Congratulations on all of the silver, indians and wheaties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks, DF. Good luck up there!

Man, sweet spot you have there! That '95-s is a beauty too! Keep up the hard work, you are definitely getting the results. 8)

Steve

Thanks, Steve. I've got to go back to some of my old spots again that I haven't detected since I was a newbie with my Explorer back in '07. Good luck!

Holy Smokes!!! I think I just went blind!! The glare from all that Silver is very impressive. That my friend is what dreams are truly made of. Congrats and HH at one of your many honeyholes

Thanks, wyattrr! It's a good feeling just to put all the silver I dug in my hand, and think that all of this could have still been in the ground if I hadn't given an old spot another try.

Dan,

A word of caution, perhaps you should pace yourself a little. This is a marathon not a sprint. Leave a few to find tomorrow?

Awesome post as usual, That is another great spot you have found there. Keep swinging low and slow and I think you will be over 500 soon.

Just the wheats would be a banner day for me!

HH,

Dave

Bruce did say pound the "TURF" didn't he? Had me worried there for a minute? 8)

Thanks, Dave! I was pacing myself...I only found one barber on any given hunt there. 500 is a long, long way off. If I don't find another spot like this, it won't be do-able, but I'm not going to even try to match what I did back in '07.

I can't add any more to what others have said Dan about your post.
It is totally AWESOME
Congratulations on the silver "cache" you pictured.....WOW!!
Gold Nuggets

Thanks, Richard. Continued success to you up there!

Wow!! That is simply amazing. Looks like you have another great spot for finding silver. You have found a lot of silver and a sweet barber there. Great job! You did say in a reply it's hard on your hands and upper body digging that many deep plugs. If I wasn't so far away, I could help you find some of that silver, save your back for many more years of detecting.

Nice haul on the silver.

Big E

Thanks, Big E! I've been taking days off to allow my body/hands to recover. So far so good, but when I get older, I think I might end up with arthritis from all the digging I have done. Oh well. I'm not going to let that stop me right now.

Holy cow and WOW I envy you so much LOL but hey cool finds and HH to ya.

Thanks, IAsoldier! Good luck to you!

No mercy huh? Very awesome, what a roll you're on.

Thanks, Nate!

Dan, Awesome finds, Thanks for a interesting post. The Explorer is doing a fine job for you.

I just bought a Explorer II and am waiting for the rain to stop so I can try my luck with it. I also use a F-75 which I have found some really good items with it.

My buddy and I found a spot here in Ohio like the one you have. Many, many months of research, we finally got permission to hunt the site and it has never disappointed us everytime
we go there.

Again, Congratulations on all your finds.

HH, Ringfinder

Thanks, Ringfinder! The Explorer II is a great machine. Learn it well, and it will reward you. Continued success at your site!

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Re: 5 Dime Trifectas and a Semi-Grand Slam! 51 Silvers, Injuns, 100's of Wheats!!

Insane, crazy.... Your getting virgin sites, no one has ever been to these parks. I can't find sites like these to save my life.... I think the most silver I pulled in one day was 4 or 5, man take me with you next time....

Keep @ it and HH!!