Frodov
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Hi gang! I had a Great Day today! I got to make not one but TWO hunts with the metal detector. Being a day off and at loose ends, (IE my wife was otherwise busy and didn't need me around or to run errands)... I took full advantage of the beautiful if somewhat dry weather and headed to the park. Well, to one of the local parks for my first hunt anyway, I picked a stretch of grassland that has two soccer fields on it. Right from the start I'm getting hits with my Prizm IV in the parking lot! (which, by the way is grass too). I work my way from one end to the other and back down the other side, don't want to miss any loose change now do we? From there it was to the passageway in the fence to where the mobile concession stand usually sets up. That was pretty much a bust. Oh well, when I trolled along the sidelines and swept around the bleachers (in grass) I picked up coin after coin after coin.. and of course the assorted bottle caps, pull tabs, ace bandage clips, hair clips, and other goodies. All told it was 47 hits that I took the time to dig.. 23 gave up coins.. not the best percentage perhaps, but I was happy with it, and would have kept sweeping the entire pitch had it not been for an insistant rumbling void (hunger) and a very dry cotton mouth that even chewing gum wasn't helping anymore. No need for a heat stroke! I called it done and headed for some fast food! FAST! <smiling>
After a fine meal at Chez Wendy's I took a drive in the country, to visit with my folks. I'd been meaning to get up to see them this week anyway. And, it was starting to look like rain. *sigh* Kentucky! IF you don't like the weather.. stick around, it's going to change in a minute anyway!. Anyway. I visited with the folks and found out that the county fair (for the county they live in) was just last week.. and I missed it! (*explicative*) Not that I was terribly hurt at missing the carney games, fair food and smell of livestock and diesel fuel. What I missed was my opportunity to see the layout of the fair and the traffic flow patterns. You know WHERE everything was set up and WHERE everyone walked. Now I'd have to just try to figure it out forensically.. by the remains. <grin> I drove the ten miles from my parents home to the fairgrounds and through two thundershowers . The skies were still pregnant with rain and threateningly ugly clouds.. Thunder in the distance but it was dry at the Fairgrounds, so I got out my magic wand, my digging tool, my knee pad, and my nail pouch (for my finds), and began sweeping. I started off near the permanant concession stand building and worked haphazardly down and back a couple of imagined routes from the concession stand to the "midway" and to the bleachers for the tractor pulls. It was definitely a hit or miss situation, fortunately I was getting a few hits. Eventually I was able to follow the crushed and flattened grass (from the herds of fairgoers feet) past the still green and upright grassy areas where the games and other carney stands and booths were set up. I started finding easy coinage here.. just under the bent carpet of grass in most cases, but due to the recent rains (today) I was also getting some pretty good targets a little deeper too.. some that I KNOW I've missed before as I've been over this area several times in the past months. By now it's raining, albeit lightly, but it's still thundering in the distance... distance that suddenly seems to be quiet close now! As a bolt of lightning stabs the trees about a quarter mile from where I was swinging this electrified metal pole.. with no trees anywhere near me!
? <shrug> but I was getting good targets and I was on my hands and knees more often than not.. that's pretty low to the ground isn't it?? They always say to get down low to the ground if you are out in the open like that during a storm with lightning. <chuckle> besides, my very next target turned out to have a surprise in store for me! What I thought was a quarter only turned out to be a dime.. a recent clad dime at that, about three inches down.. but... there was a surprise as I said. Along with the dime in the bottom of that hole was a penny. A Wheat Penny! A 1943 Wheat penny! YEEEHAAAAWWW. I was surprised to see that it was in such good shape. I had to clean it with a rag and some warm sprite to see the date, but I knew that it was a war penny because it wasn't brown like the other pennies I'd been finding. It's pretty clean, but I would like to clean it better, Anyone have any suggestions as to how to clean a steel penny? (steel Zinc <shrug>whatever) I'm not about to tumble it with my other pennies or with my clad.
Well that was the highlight of my second hunt in ONE day. A very good day it was too, even if I got rained on and was late getting home and had to apologize to my dear wife for not being home sooner for dinner, and nearly got zapped by fire from the sky!.. oh and nearly getting hit by lightning too.. Sheesh! late for dinner two or three times in one week and women get testy! NO dear! I don't mind doing the dishes.. <smile> (gives me a chance to clean some of my finds for the day) <wink wink>
Sorry about the quality of the photos of the steel penny.. but it *IS* a 1943 Wheat penny!
HH all and keep your heads down during lightning storms.. <grin>
Frodov
After a fine meal at Chez Wendy's I took a drive in the country, to visit with my folks. I'd been meaning to get up to see them this week anyway. And, it was starting to look like rain. *sigh* Kentucky! IF you don't like the weather.. stick around, it's going to change in a minute anyway!. Anyway. I visited with the folks and found out that the county fair (for the county they live in) was just last week.. and I missed it! (*explicative*) Not that I was terribly hurt at missing the carney games, fair food and smell of livestock and diesel fuel. What I missed was my opportunity to see the layout of the fair and the traffic flow patterns. You know WHERE everything was set up and WHERE everyone walked. Now I'd have to just try to figure it out forensically.. by the remains. <grin> I drove the ten miles from my parents home to the fairgrounds and through two thundershowers . The skies were still pregnant with rain and threateningly ugly clouds.. Thunder in the distance but it was dry at the Fairgrounds, so I got out my magic wand, my digging tool, my knee pad, and my nail pouch (for my finds), and began sweeping. I started off near the permanant concession stand building and worked haphazardly down and back a couple of imagined routes from the concession stand to the "midway" and to the bleachers for the tractor pulls. It was definitely a hit or miss situation, fortunately I was getting a few hits. Eventually I was able to follow the crushed and flattened grass (from the herds of fairgoers feet) past the still green and upright grassy areas where the games and other carney stands and booths were set up. I started finding easy coinage here.. just under the bent carpet of grass in most cases, but due to the recent rains (today) I was also getting some pretty good targets a little deeper too.. some that I KNOW I've missed before as I've been over this area several times in the past months. By now it's raining, albeit lightly, but it's still thundering in the distance... distance that suddenly seems to be quiet close now! As a bolt of lightning stabs the trees about a quarter mile from where I was swinging this electrified metal pole.. with no trees anywhere near me!
? <shrug> but I was getting good targets and I was on my hands and knees more often than not.. that's pretty low to the ground isn't it?? They always say to get down low to the ground if you are out in the open like that during a storm with lightning. <chuckle> besides, my very next target turned out to have a surprise in store for me! What I thought was a quarter only turned out to be a dime.. a recent clad dime at that, about three inches down.. but... there was a surprise as I said. Along with the dime in the bottom of that hole was a penny. A Wheat Penny! A 1943 Wheat penny! YEEEHAAAAWWW. I was surprised to see that it was in such good shape. I had to clean it with a rag and some warm sprite to see the date, but I knew that it was a war penny because it wasn't brown like the other pennies I'd been finding. It's pretty clean, but I would like to clean it better, Anyone have any suggestions as to how to clean a steel penny? (steel Zinc <shrug>whatever) I'm not about to tumble it with my other pennies or with my clad. Well that was the highlight of my second hunt in ONE day. A very good day it was too, even if I got rained on and was late getting home and had to apologize to my dear wife for not being home sooner for dinner, and nearly got zapped by fire from the sky!.. oh and nearly getting hit by lightning too.. Sheesh! late for dinner two or three times in one week and women get testy! NO dear! I don't mind doing the dishes.. <smile> (gives me a chance to clean some of my finds for the day) <wink wink>
Sorry about the quality of the photos of the steel penny.. but it *IS* a 1943 Wheat penny!
HH all and keep your heads down during lightning storms.. <grin>
Frodov
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Bob
FrodoV is my husband and I am so happy that he got this Prizm IV! He has had such a good time finding treasure! I just hope how soon he can get together with some of you from Kentucky to do some detecting. 
