daytondigger
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My buddy Brandon called me up this past week saying he had a Ace 250 and wanted to go metal detecting. I said great, do you have a place in mind? He wasn't prepared to supply the hunt site, but quickly thought of a friend of his that owned an old home in Arcanum. He gave his friend a call and set up the hunt. We rolled out to the 1902 city property with a nice sized lot and started swinging. My first coin was a wheat penny and I thought this was going to be a good hunt. After a couple hours of swinging and digging all I had was a few wheats and some clad, BUMMER! We were then giving permission to detect the grandmother's house . Located right behind the house we just detected, we were told it was newer than the home just searched, but it was on Main street and had limestone curbs. Between the curb and sidewalk I quickly dug an 1888 Injun, in the front lawn I dug some wheaties and an 1891 Injun. On I went in search of silver vowing not to leave until I dug some. On one side of the house I dug an 1881 Injun and some wheats, on the other side I dug a 1936 Buffalo. Not long after the '36 nickel, I got a nice silver sounding target, and in the hole I spied the silver edge of an..........ugly looking sterling ring. Oh well, it's silver, I was freezing from the strong cold wind that was blowing and tired of digging up pennies in frozen ground. Brandon dug a bit of clad while learning how to use the Ace, but managed to score permission to search the second story of the old carriage house where he found a nice art deco antifreeze gallon can from Union Carbide, I see these sell for 60 bucks or more.
Last week I got out to the old picnic grounds which still gives up on average one silver per hour after countless hunts.
Last week I got out to the old picnic grounds which still gives up on average one silver per hour after countless hunts.
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