Great day at an old picnic grove! WL/BBQ

litefire56

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Posted last night in IL. forum

After seeing all the great finds you guys are making at the "trash pit" (wish I knew where that was at) ;D I decided to get out and hit the woods today before they get too grown over. So I went back to a place both Brett and I had pounded pretty good last year. The finds there slowed down then so we moved on to greener pastures.
I figured the growth would be less this time of year, and boy was I right. The first signal was the
'17 Walker. So as I'm dialing Brett's # I look down and see the Buffalo laying in the bottom of the hole. Sweet!

So we're talking for 5 mins or more, (as I'm freaking out) and I tell him, "hold on, while I probe the hole". Nothing in the hole, but get a screamer at the edge. I look down and see the quarter laying there,,, I thought I had my first SLQ along with my first Walker, but I really didn't know what they were or would be, until I washed them off at home. I knew the Buff was a '17 at the time, so was just hoping throughout the day, they would be.
As I was rinsing off the quarter I was a bit disappointed to see the Barber head and not my 1st SLQ,
until I saw the date. Holy Cow, please be an S !! I turn it over slowly and it's a plain. Oh well, I can't complain after the day I just had. :icon_pirat:
Ended up with 7 wheats, '18 '36 '39 '44 '50-d 2-'58-d

Close to the end of my hunt, I met a Gentleman "hunting" for wildlife with a 400mm telescopic lens.
He was kind enough to take my picture holding my stash, and email it to me. But he had to get at least 100 yards away to be able to focus. Thanks Gordon!
Here's a link to some nice photo work by him.

http://www.pbase.com/gordg3

Hope you guys made some great finds today!
 

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A great day by anyone's standerds! Congrats. :thumbsup:
 

hey, that looks like a real fun day. nice big silver. i WAS hoping there was gonna be a pic of some BBQ...
 

Great hunting and really cool pic.slq's are very elusive,I think they only made them for a few years so there really werent many to begin with. I have found 2 of them,my first one worn so thin I actually thought it was a punchout from an electrical box and just threw it in my pouch. It was'nt untill several weeks later that I caught of glimpse of it laying in my treasure bucket and noticed the very light outline of the eagle on the back,keep looking and one will come,HH...Shoot
 

you guys kill me with all this cool stuff i have only been MDing for a few weeks and still looking for that first old coin..the old Axe head was cool and the 1927 dog license was cool but i crave that first coin other than the clad i have got..i get to hunt a House today that was built in 1851 so i hope that i will hit something nice
 

Congrats on the BIG silver :headbang:

I would POUND that spot signal-less :laughing7:

HH,
Brian
 

Nice finds! That last pic of you looks like something you would see in a MD gear advertisement :tongue3:
 

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