ZenoSilver
Tenderfoot
- Aug 9, 2012
- 9
- 17
- Detector(s) used
- Radioshack Discovery
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Hi all. I just started treasure hunting. A friend invited me to go play on the Chattooga river with him this past week. I hadn't been to the mountains in a while and we had been talking about how much gold is still in the area. I decided to bring my metal detector with me. It's a Bounty Hunter 505 that my grandfather gave to me about 13 years ago and I pretty much had never used it. We grabbed some batteries at walmart and drive about an hour to his favorite spot on the Chattooga. It was about a mile to the spot we were going so I went ahead and turned on the bounty hunter and headed down the trail. Ten feet down the trail I dug up a 30-30 Winchester round with a polymer tip. It was my first metal detecting discovery in ages. My next was a spam top 
We kept hiking and our elevation had dropped by about 100 feet. We crossed a really awesome creek and I heard a beep on the trail. I dug about 3 inches and pulled out a small shiny object that looked like somewhat like lead. It was too hard and too shiny to be a bullet. I thought it might be special so I put it in my pocket. LONG STORY SHORT: I found 6 genuine silver nuggets in multiple locations all within 6 inches of the surface 
They are more silver than anything else. The first one was almost a solid nugget! 
I brought them to a gold buyer who confirmed they were silver but couldn't buy them because they weren't coin or jewelry. I'm happy to say that there is LOTS more where they came from and I may be making good money from silver soon. Perfecting a nitric acid silver extraction method is next! Can't wait to find that piece that takes two men a day to haul up the trail 
So yeah, I'm stuck on treasure hunting.
We kept hiking and our elevation had dropped by about 100 feet. We crossed a really awesome creek and I heard a beep on the trail. I dug about 3 inches and pulled out a small shiny object that looked like somewhat like lead. It was too hard and too shiny to be a bullet. I thought it might be special so I put it in my pocket. LONG STORY SHORT: I found 6 genuine silver nuggets in multiple locations all within 6 inches of the surface They are more silver than anything else. The first one was almost a solid nugget! I brought them to a gold buyer who confirmed they were silver but couldn't buy them because they weren't coin or jewelry. I'm happy to say that there is LOTS more where they came from and I may be making good money from silver soon. Perfecting a nitric acid silver extraction method is next! Can't wait to find that piece that takes two men a day to haul up the trail So yeah, I'm stuck on treasure hunting.
South Carolina
