tnt-hunter
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- Apr 20, 2018
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- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
DAY 1
I went back to the park where I found the heavy silver necklace and tried the other swimming area. This trip I used the ATPro. It was drizzling, but I was in my wet suit and in the water so no problem. I spent 3.5 hours gridding the swimming area. The first 1.5 hours I found 1 quarter, 1 sinker, 2 tabs and some foil. Boy was that section of the swimming area dead. Almost no iron signals either. After that I did find a couple of small spills and so I ended up ok.
All together I found 17 coins with a face value of $1.83, 2 rings, 3 earrings, 1 earring back, some sinkers, a few small pieces of miscellaneous metal, 4 tabs and some foil.
One ring is just plated copper, but the other is silver. It is marked s925 ALE so it is a Pandora ring. I found it on line and it sells for $50 new. Not terribly heavy, but a nice find to make the hunt a better one. Things in this park have been very quiet this year. I believe there are 2 reasons. More and more people are paying for everything with a card and because of the poor economy fewer people are wearing a lot of jewelry. While we were camping last weekend I noticed that people were not wearing much bling when swimming. In the past when things were better, it looked like everyone, even the little kids, had on gold or silver jewelry.
DAY 2
I decided to do another water hunt. This time I went to a park I haven’t been to for a while because it dried up early last summer. Every year this lake drains off water and the swimming area is dry by mid August. Last year it was in July. I went hoping there had been some activity, but not expecting a lot. The water in the swimming area was down about 30% so more beach exposed, but strangely enough the same amount of water that is huntable. This lake swimming area has a sharp drop off so when the water is at the normal full level the deepest part of the swimming area is about 16-20 feet deep. That means that the deepest part of the swim area can only be detected when the water is really low or you use a scuba tank. I have found a lot of good jewelry here over the years including 3 nice diamond rings so there is always hope.
I covered the entire beach and the detectable part of the water in 3.5 hours using a grid pattern and the new Equinox 800. Things were really quiet, very few target including iron signals. Altogether I found 9 coins with a face value of $0.77, 2 tabs, 2 earrings, a screw in earring back, 2 sinkers, an aluminum punch out, a cheapie claw necklace, and a few pieces of foil.
The flower earring looks like silver and I’m pretty sure it is, but the only mark on it is a weird one that I don’t recognize. It has the the feel of silver and the tarnished look of silver, but it is possible it is only plated. Any help with the mark would be appreciated.
DAY 3
I spent most of the week setting up and having a yard sale to help clean out the house. I went back to the school for a short Father’s Day hunt before the grandkids came for dinner. I keep gridding sections and finding the usual assortment of trash, some coins and with luck a goodie or 2. The finds are getting fewer, but the goodies keep popping up so I have to keep going.
I spent 5 hour with the CZ21 and found 35 coins with a face value of $1.72, a civil war bullet, a copper nail, a 2005 dog license, some junky jewelry, tabs, an slaw, bottle caps, aluminum fence wire and assorted junk.
The civil war bullet is a Williams Type III missing the zinc plunger. It is a drop in good shape. We had some rain at the beginning of the week, but the ground is still very dry. The bullet was about 8 inches down and the signal from the CZ was a mid tone. When it was out of the ground it gave a nice high tone. There were a lot of eaten up zinc pennies 4 or 5 inches down that gave a mid tone as well. The ground conditions really do affect the signal you get from your detector. I’m glad I dig all the high and mid tones. The nail is an old style copper nail. It is in great shape. I’m not sure of the exact time frame, but it could be late 1800s up until about the 1940s if my info is correct. Not a super find, but an interesting one.
So a decent week, not much gas money and not as much hunting as I would like, but I do need to have the yard sales to clear out some of the 50 plus years of accumulation. I will be busy the rest of the week and may get out a time or 2 but we will see how things work out. Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.
I went back to the park where I found the heavy silver necklace and tried the other swimming area. This trip I used the ATPro. It was drizzling, but I was in my wet suit and in the water so no problem. I spent 3.5 hours gridding the swimming area. The first 1.5 hours I found 1 quarter, 1 sinker, 2 tabs and some foil. Boy was that section of the swimming area dead. Almost no iron signals either. After that I did find a couple of small spills and so I ended up ok.
All together I found 17 coins with a face value of $1.83, 2 rings, 3 earrings, 1 earring back, some sinkers, a few small pieces of miscellaneous metal, 4 tabs and some foil.
One ring is just plated copper, but the other is silver. It is marked s925 ALE so it is a Pandora ring. I found it on line and it sells for $50 new. Not terribly heavy, but a nice find to make the hunt a better one. Things in this park have been very quiet this year. I believe there are 2 reasons. More and more people are paying for everything with a card and because of the poor economy fewer people are wearing a lot of jewelry. While we were camping last weekend I noticed that people were not wearing much bling when swimming. In the past when things were better, it looked like everyone, even the little kids, had on gold or silver jewelry.
DAY 2
I decided to do another water hunt. This time I went to a park I haven’t been to for a while because it dried up early last summer. Every year this lake drains off water and the swimming area is dry by mid August. Last year it was in July. I went hoping there had been some activity, but not expecting a lot. The water in the swimming area was down about 30% so more beach exposed, but strangely enough the same amount of water that is huntable. This lake swimming area has a sharp drop off so when the water is at the normal full level the deepest part of the swimming area is about 16-20 feet deep. That means that the deepest part of the swim area can only be detected when the water is really low or you use a scuba tank. I have found a lot of good jewelry here over the years including 3 nice diamond rings so there is always hope.
I covered the entire beach and the detectable part of the water in 3.5 hours using a grid pattern and the new Equinox 800. Things were really quiet, very few target including iron signals. Altogether I found 9 coins with a face value of $0.77, 2 tabs, 2 earrings, a screw in earring back, 2 sinkers, an aluminum punch out, a cheapie claw necklace, and a few pieces of foil.
The flower earring looks like silver and I’m pretty sure it is, but the only mark on it is a weird one that I don’t recognize. It has the the feel of silver and the tarnished look of silver, but it is possible it is only plated. Any help with the mark would be appreciated.
DAY 3
I spent most of the week setting up and having a yard sale to help clean out the house. I went back to the school for a short Father’s Day hunt before the grandkids came for dinner. I keep gridding sections and finding the usual assortment of trash, some coins and with luck a goodie or 2. The finds are getting fewer, but the goodies keep popping up so I have to keep going.
I spent 5 hour with the CZ21 and found 35 coins with a face value of $1.72, a civil war bullet, a copper nail, a 2005 dog license, some junky jewelry, tabs, an slaw, bottle caps, aluminum fence wire and assorted junk.
The civil war bullet is a Williams Type III missing the zinc plunger. It is a drop in good shape. We had some rain at the beginning of the week, but the ground is still very dry. The bullet was about 8 inches down and the signal from the CZ was a mid tone. When it was out of the ground it gave a nice high tone. There were a lot of eaten up zinc pennies 4 or 5 inches down that gave a mid tone as well. The ground conditions really do affect the signal you get from your detector. I’m glad I dig all the high and mid tones. The nail is an old style copper nail. It is in great shape. I’m not sure of the exact time frame, but it could be late 1800s up until about the 1940s if my info is correct. Not a super find, but an interesting one.
So a decent week, not much gas money and not as much hunting as I would like, but I do need to have the yard sales to clear out some of the 50 plus years of accumulation. I will be busy the rest of the week and may get out a time or 2 but we will see how things work out. Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.
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