Get the Led out...

[Metal Militia]

it's been a long time, been a long time, been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time.

It's been at least a month since I found some silver. Checked out a swim beach at the lake I never hunted before. The lake is so low the beach had been condemned. The vegetation and erosion has taken over and you'd never know it was a swim beach if it wasn't for the 10' poles sitting on dry bank. Anyway, I was pulling in the lead as if it were pulltabs. I tried to grid the best I could around all the bushes, large rocks and crevices from erosion. Everything was found 1"-3" and the clay was flaking in easy layers to get to the finds. Lots of sinkers, couple lures, couple bullet heads, one .45 round intact. Found the cross pendant with stone, marked 925, found the toe ring with yin-yang symbols around it, marked 925, found the stainless steel ring. Speaking of rings, I've noticed some people counting junk rings in their ring count. I thought only gold/silver/platinum rings counted. OOPS! If that's the case, I need to go through my junk jewelry and get an accurate count. I'm amazed I dug less than a dozen pulltabs. There are still lots of sinkers to dig up and I plan to keep digging them. The sinkers usually come up in the notches(ACE350) I've found most of my gold, so I just had to dig. Anyway here's the pics(I do apologize for the craptastic pics) before cleanup.

Best of luck on all your hunts.

 

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[vpnavy]

Great finds! Thanks for sharing...

 

[ivan salis]

where the lead is often is where gold settles as well similar density

 

[beez0404]

The lakes here are too nasty to swim in. I don't actually know of a public swimming area around here. You did a LOT of digging but it paid off with a couple nice rings. Good going.

 

[unfound]

Sitting here trying to figure out why my ACE350 won't find nice rings like that.......(beating on the side of it, is this thing on).

That's a lot of digging you did, now all the gold will be easy to find !!!

 

[ivan salis]

unfound --using a ace 250 know that the "gold rings" will ring up anywhere from "nickel to pulltab range" -- so if you skip digging the pulltabs --more than likely you will also miss "rings" --with the ace 250 to get the rings --you gotta dig it all-- the delta 4000 ($279) is much better at splitting tabs from rings because of its 0 to 99 numbers display vs the 12 "block' display of the the 250 ($212) which tends to co-mingle good items with trash items --in the same "block".

 

[Davers]

it's been a long time, been a long time, been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time.

It's been at least a month since I found some silver. Checked out a swim beach at the lake I never hunted before. The lake is so low the beach had been condemned. The vegetation and erosion has taken over and you'd never know it was a swim beach if it wasn't for the 10' poles sitting on dry bank. Anyway, I was pulling in the lead as if it were pulltabs. I tried to grid the best I could around all the bushes, large rocks and crevices from erosion. Everything was found 1"-3" and the clay was flaking in easy layers to get to the finds. Lots of sinkers, couple lures, couple bullet heads, one .45 round intact. Found the cross pendant with stone, marked 925, found the toe ring with yin-yang symbols around it, marked 925, found the stainless steel ring. Speaking of rings, I've noticed some people counting junk rings in their ring count. I thought only gold/silver/platinum rings counted. OOPS! If that's the case, I need to go through my junk jewelry and get an accurate count. I'm amazed I dug less than a dozen pulltabs. There are still lots of sinkers to dig up and I plan to keep digging them. The sinkers usually come up in the notches(ACE350) I've found most of my gold, so I just had to dig. Anyway here's the pics(I do apologize for the craptastic pics) before cleanup.

Best of luck on all your hunts.

Reminds me of many days at the local lakes.
Thanks for "getting the lead out"
Davers

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Metal Militia- doesn't really matter it's your treasure count it the way you want. Some people have a total ring count, then break it down into, junk, gold, silver etc. others only count gold or platinum, some also count silver rings. It varies with each person.

Congrats on your finds! That is a lot of digging!
Some people sell their lead weights to people who fish some sell it as scrap metal. Others keep it.

I usually come home with a lot of aluminum trash.

 

[Metal Militia]

Msbeepbeep- Thanks for clarifying. I guess I'll just keep my ring count as is...precious metals. I'm still amazed, because aluminum is usually what I dig more of too.

 

[david680]

Check the price of a pack of 1 oz lead sinkers, they're definitely a better find than zinc pennies.

 

[Evolution]

Nice finds. There's bound to be more there. Love the Zeppelin reference by the way. Not lost on everyone.

 

[Davers]

Nice finds. There's bound to be more there. Love the Zeppelin reference by the way. Not lost on everyone.

Yea I overlooked that first line , just related it to my months of no silver.

Guess Ill just ( Ramble On) To the next site.
davers

 

[DigIron2]

see ya got a love for diggin,and good taste in music 2 "diggum all"I like that!You dig sinkers like I dig shotgun shells.sounds good, gotta digum.Nice silver finds!That next sinker sound,might be a lifter, having you floating on cloud nine!gl

 

[ivan salis]

if you don't want them fishing sinkers I do --- I fish a lot.