Another site, another wheatie

[cheese]

Well, I got unlimited permission on yet another old site today.? The house and well are still there, and the house is occupied and maintained, as well as the large yard (acres).? So, I don't have to fight underbrush and vines here.? A nice mowed lawn!? I detected a short while there today, randomly and pretty fast just trying to find out where the goodies are.? I got hits all over the place, and dug only the ones that were pretty much unmistakeably coins.? I found a forty-something wheatie (haven't cleaned it up enough to read it yet).? Also some more modern clad from the late '60s up.? I also found an old brass belt buckle (was hoping it was a large coin, like a dollar, or half) and a couple of tin or aluminum bottle caps.? They don't look like anything modern and one is embossed with some logo on top.? No Pulltabs!!! (yet).? The site is also way out in the country on a old, old road.

That makes 12 wheats so far.? I gotta be close to a silver find soon.? I just figure I'm payin' my dues, lol.? I just get impatient, and find myself swinging fast and random.? It's not that I get tired of detecting, but I want to cover ground fast, and I keep seeing places I ought to go check, and I wind up hitting areas randomly all over, never really giving one area a thorough hunt.? I guess time restrictions also don't help much.? I rarely get to hunt anyplace for more than a couple of hours at a time.

 

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[Jim Cal]

Cheese, Hey good job in obtaining permiission to hunt another old site. I know you know this but if you are finding wheaties that old there has just got to be some siliver waiting to be found. I really would try to find the hotspots and then grid the area with little or no discrimination if the area isn't too trashy. I always concentrate on the dirt area beside drives, especially where people got in and out of cars on the drivers side, under clotheslines, where the old privy used to be if the site is old enough for one, around the front and back porches, under wooden porches and or steps, and around any old out buildings like detached garages, etc. Good luck and let us know what you find. Jim Cal

 

[cheese]

Aha! You just mentioned where the wheatie was found. Along the front drive.

There is a detatched garage way in the back. I hunted around it a little. Tons of iron hits. Trouble is, those rusted iron targets give false coin signals so much that I have a hard time finding a true good target. Sometimes the iron is so much that my detector sounds like a machine gun in my headphones.

I hope to get back this weekend with my wife in tow. She'll probably find all the silver, lol, but that's ok. The suspense waiting for silver is killin' me!

 

[Jim Cal]

I know what you mean about all of the old iron. I search lots of old houses and farm sites and sometimes I just work all of the other areas and then go back to the ones with tons of junk afterwards using a small coil so I can get in between the stuff or I dig everything. I have found some pretty good old iron toys by digging everything along with pieces of old cast iron stoves, tractor and car parts, hinges, locks and other assorted old junk. You can be sure if you take your wife back she'll find the good stuff. Good hunting! Jim Cal

 

[bigrig40]

you know the silver is there. keep it up,you'll get em.

bigrig