digger27
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I have been looking high and low for a Barber in earnest for nigh on two years now, from the day I got my F70 and depth was no longer an issue.
Living in Kansas I spent time looking in areas where they might be found from time to time, but so far no Barber showed up at all.
I moved to another state and since mid July I have been living in an older part of town in the south, Birmingham Ala, and usually hunt a park dedicated in the mid 20's 95% of the time because it is so close to me...1/2 block away.
There is good and bad about hunting the same park all the time.
It is huge, over 100 acres, but still even though I wander all over the place it can get boring at times and it is challenging because it is so loaded with iron, infused with iron in the soil, slag mixed in with most soil used to develop all the commercial, residential and public areas as the city built up from large iron and steel foundries plus bits of pieces large and small from earlier and old neighborhoods knocked down in these areas.
Plus it was built on an old landfill...you would not believe the amount of junk down there in certain areas and how shallow it is.
We also have heavy mineralization but that is not the worse problem I have to deal with around here, all that iron and about 100 years of common park trash is.
It is my private laboratory and I have vowed to use it to sharpen my skills used in hunting iron and have made great strides.
Now I am starting to dig the way more iffy signals I passed by before, the ones that seem like iron all the way but maybe just a hint of a good tone or fleeting stable numbers or something else that triggers my digging instinct.
This heavily masked target was almost a classic iron target but I was in 4H on the F70 and sniper coil and there was something in that high tone I kept hearing, fleeting as it was.
So glad I did...more digging of these mostly iron iffy targets in my future coming up for me I guess.
Before I dug this thing I also dug the back of an old pocket watch and a decent sized sterling Saint Christopher pendant, both would have made this a great hunt by themselves but the star of this hunt was my first freakin' seated dime and the fact that I am starting to not only figure out and dig the really difficult good targets that most missed for decades fairly easily now but also making progress in the area of recognizing the most heavily masked targets of all.
Not an inkling of hint of a clue this park held treasure like this 140 year old dime, I am looking at this old park with new eyes now.
Bodes well for me in the future...I hope.
Living in Kansas I spent time looking in areas where they might be found from time to time, but so far no Barber showed up at all.
I moved to another state and since mid July I have been living in an older part of town in the south, Birmingham Ala, and usually hunt a park dedicated in the mid 20's 95% of the time because it is so close to me...1/2 block away.
There is good and bad about hunting the same park all the time.
It is huge, over 100 acres, but still even though I wander all over the place it can get boring at times and it is challenging because it is so loaded with iron, infused with iron in the soil, slag mixed in with most soil used to develop all the commercial, residential and public areas as the city built up from large iron and steel foundries plus bits of pieces large and small from earlier and old neighborhoods knocked down in these areas.
Plus it was built on an old landfill...you would not believe the amount of junk down there in certain areas and how shallow it is.
We also have heavy mineralization but that is not the worse problem I have to deal with around here, all that iron and about 100 years of common park trash is.
It is my private laboratory and I have vowed to use it to sharpen my skills used in hunting iron and have made great strides.
Now I am starting to dig the way more iffy signals I passed by before, the ones that seem like iron all the way but maybe just a hint of a good tone or fleeting stable numbers or something else that triggers my digging instinct.
This heavily masked target was almost a classic iron target but I was in 4H on the F70 and sniper coil and there was something in that high tone I kept hearing, fleeting as it was.
So glad I did...more digging of these mostly iron iffy targets in my future coming up for me I guess.
Before I dug this thing I also dug the back of an old pocket watch and a decent sized sterling Saint Christopher pendant, both would have made this a great hunt by themselves but the star of this hunt was my first freakin' seated dime and the fact that I am starting to not only figure out and dig the really difficult good targets that most missed for decades fairly easily now but also making progress in the area of recognizing the most heavily masked targets of all.
Not an inkling of hint of a clue this park held treasure like this 140 year old dime, I am looking at this old park with new eyes now.
Bodes well for me in the future...I hope.
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I started MDing in May 2014 and in June 2014 I dug my 1st silver. It was an 1875 seated dime. Welcome to the seated club, now knuckle down and get that elusive Barber.
