A so so day, barely found anything worth anything

[dirtlooter]

So it was one of those hunts where you are glad to see a memorial. a lot of pull rings and tabs. wire, foil, can slaw etc. Ended up with one wheatie and a 1968 25 cent from the Philippines. thought that I had a war nickle for a moment but no. a couple of clad dimes, two memorials rounded it out...oh wait, the military 30-06 brass was something from the WWII finds found here. Still very wet but it is what it is. I call these hunts, reality hunts because they make up a lot of our hunts. They also make your good finds so much more meaningful to you when you find them. But I really prefer not to have very many of them if possible LOL. I did get to break in a new pair of overalls. Good luck All. DL

 

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[smokeythecat]

I played internet all day after playing "financial advisor" and Ebay.

 

[sandchip]

Sounds familiar, DL. Like my hunt yesterday.

 

[Truth]

Boy do I know what you mean. It’s those hunts that makes me look at a marble like a gold coin. I’ve been there soooo many times.

 

[GaRebel1861]

Well, At least you got out. I haven’t yet found anything while sitting in my office.

 

[DetectingGodlikeOnOlympus]

I hear you brother. I often come in from hunting, and the wife says "What didja find?"

To which I reply something along the lines of "I got heckled and found two zinc cents." or "Someone anonymously called the police on me for burying a body and I found a wheaty penny and some broken glass."

It's a tough game, but they don't advertise that in the Garrett marketing.

 

[smokeythecat]

They don't advertise that with any manufacturer.

 

[dirtlooter]

I always like their faces when they ask if you found anything good and you say, "Yeah, up to 27 cents now, found another penny." Or they begin telling me how they have this detector that tells them exactly what is in the ground. Then they look at me like I am crazy when I pull out all the trash for that 27 cents. I never show them the good stuff, it was too hard earned. I keep waiting to get slim and trim from all of this up and down plus digging but I think that I am losing ground right now.

 

[smokeythecat]

When asked I pull out a penny like it's gold, and then proudly display the aluminum and announce some poor animal won't get hurt on that now. Then I'm the loco hero not to be messed with.

 

[Truth]

I always like their faces when they ask if you found anything good and you say, "Yeah, up to 27 cents now, found another penny." Or they begin telling me how they have this detector that tells them exactly what is in the ground. Then they look at me like I am crazy when I pull out all the trash for that 27 cents. I never show them the good stuff, it was too hard earned. I keep waiting to get slim and trim from all of this up and down plus digging but I think that I am losing ground right now.

If I come home after 5 hours and I don’t say anything neither will the wife lol

 

[eman1000]

This is my favorite thread! So glad I'm not the only one. 3 hours Sunday for two clad quarters ground still frozen hand hurts. Iron audio sounds like someone had a roofing convention in the backyard.

My goal this year is to train my self to dig more iffy signals.

 

[Truth]

This is my favorite thread! So glad I'm not the only one. 3 hours Sunday for two clad quarters ground still frozen hand hurts. Iron audio sounds like someone had a roofing convention in the backyard.

My goal this year is to train my self to dig more iffy signals.

And see I’m trying to train myself not to dig so many iffy signals. But it’s hard because my best finds have be iffy signals. Trying to find and middle ground lol

 

[bologna321]

My Sunday was not that fruitful either. $.57, and an old milk glass cosmetics jar my wife claimed. The rest was scrap.

 

[Whyme]

At least you got to swing! Congrats!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nothing for me. Ground is frozen solid here.

 

[smokeythecat]

At least you *probably* weren't in the aluminum grave yard this weekend. It's going to be warm today, but the ground is still frozen rock solid hard.

 

[SD51]

No detecting here anytime soon. Went from below zero last weekend to 50 above yesterday.

Had a friend years ago that would ask what I found after a day of detecting, and his favorite comment was, "that didn't even pay for your gas." Then I would say, "you went golfing today. How did that pay for your gas?"

 

[against the wind]

Last week it was too cold, now it is frozen ground. Next week it will be too muddy. Like you said, "it is what it is"
Congrats on getting out.

 

[Dennis1209]

This is my favorite thread! So glad I'm not the only one. 3 hours Sunday for two clad quarters ground still frozen hand hurts. Iron audio sounds like someone had a roofing convention in the backyard.

My goal this year is to train my self to dig more iffy signals.

Iffy signals... I'm old and only have so many up's and down's before the ground swallows me up. But, for some reason I dug a target at about 2 inches last Saturday and it was a 1898 Barber dime. I seldom dig shallow targets.

 

[dirtlooter]

At least you *probably* weren't in the aluminum grave yard this weekend. It's going to be warm today, but the ground is still frozen rock solid hard.

ah but I was, after about ten pull tabs etc, I left about sixty or so similar targets in the ground and moved to another area about 75 yards away and still dug em. the 1st spot was an old parking spot and I know there has to be more than pull rings and tabs there. I'll just weed them out 10-15 at a time and move one.