staydetuned
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Howdy y'all... I've been lurking around here watching all the finds for a few months now; living in California it's pretty appetizing watching all the old stuff coming up from back East. I've been hunting for about a year and a half now, and have been doing pretty well. I post pretty regularly on the Kinzli California forum, which is a great site, and have had the opportunity to learn a lot about my machines from the people there. I get to hunt pretty regularly with the CAPTN (CAPTN_SE on here...); I taught him everything he knows... 
Yeah, he really gets that much silver... :P
I had the chance to go back to the midwest (Iowa) last week for a family reunion and decided to bring my detector along to try some of the local parks. After a frustrating lack of signals at the first (and oldest park) I decided to try my luck at another. For the first hour it was equally as frustrating and I was beginning to think it had either been hunted out completely, was irreparably covered with trash, or had been filled. I dejectedly walked into the middle of a meadow that looked anything but promising, and turned on my detector. A few inches to the right I got the deep signal I'd been waiting for, reading a bit zincy, but deep enough to be enticing. At around 6.5" out popped a nice green Indian Head... there was hope.
It wasn't much later that I got another deep signal, reading that familiar deep silver blurble. I dug down and was greeted by a reeded edge. And when a chunk of dark dirt fell from the face I saw the beautiful "ONE DIME", my first Barber of the day... (And then a teens wheat in the same hole! Nice!)
To make a long story short, I ended the day with 7 Barbers (including a 2 Barber sandwich in one hole-1904 and 1905), a Roosie (that came from another part of the park) 13 Indian Heads (!) and a handful of teens wheats (all were in the teens except one 40's). This is by far the best day I've had with older silver, and altogether a hunt straight out of my dreams. We mostly dig Mercs and Roosies here in California; we get a good number of them, but the barbers are few and far between, as are the Indian Heads. Older parks are rare and what there are have been hit pretty hard my many detectorists. This Iowa park was beautiful as there was hardly any surface clad or trash. I met a local detectorist who told me stories of old-timers taking milk bottles full of silver coins out of the park in the old days. I got a few Indians and a barber that were no more that 5' deep, so I can only imagine what they used to get. This detectorist had just got an Explorer XS a year ago and had pulled a handful of Barbers and Indians the old-timers had missed; he also got all the quarters apparently as I couldn't get one at this park during my trip.
The following pics are of the first day alone. I posted the entire story as it happened on the Kinzli Forum. In all, I came home with 19 barbers, 30 Indians, an 1874 with arrows Seated dime, 4 Mercs, 2 Roosies, a Buffalo (couldn't get any good nickel signals!) and a nice uncirculated Washington. I really got spoiled... My first day back at the old home park (where the CAPTN got that 1858 Seated half) and all I could get was a couple wheats...
(Oh yeah, another thing about Iowa - the coins come out FLAWLESS; almost every coin here in CA is corroded at least a little bit; this place spoiled me so bad...)
Anyhow, a taste of getting toward the East has inspired me to start posting here. I have a lot more; if you can, check out the whole story on the Kinzli forum, it's a pretty good one.
Looking forward to future posts... Thanks for looking!
Jayson
Yeah, he really gets that much silver... :PI had the chance to go back to the midwest (Iowa) last week for a family reunion and decided to bring my detector along to try some of the local parks. After a frustrating lack of signals at the first (and oldest park) I decided to try my luck at another. For the first hour it was equally as frustrating and I was beginning to think it had either been hunted out completely, was irreparably covered with trash, or had been filled. I dejectedly walked into the middle of a meadow that looked anything but promising, and turned on my detector. A few inches to the right I got the deep signal I'd been waiting for, reading a bit zincy, but deep enough to be enticing. At around 6.5" out popped a nice green Indian Head... there was hope.
It wasn't much later that I got another deep signal, reading that familiar deep silver blurble. I dug down and was greeted by a reeded edge. And when a chunk of dark dirt fell from the face I saw the beautiful "ONE DIME", my first Barber of the day... (And then a teens wheat in the same hole! Nice!)
To make a long story short, I ended the day with 7 Barbers (including a 2 Barber sandwich in one hole-1904 and 1905), a Roosie (that came from another part of the park) 13 Indian Heads (!) and a handful of teens wheats (all were in the teens except one 40's). This is by far the best day I've had with older silver, and altogether a hunt straight out of my dreams. We mostly dig Mercs and Roosies here in California; we get a good number of them, but the barbers are few and far between, as are the Indian Heads. Older parks are rare and what there are have been hit pretty hard my many detectorists. This Iowa park was beautiful as there was hardly any surface clad or trash. I met a local detectorist who told me stories of old-timers taking milk bottles full of silver coins out of the park in the old days. I got a few Indians and a barber that were no more that 5' deep, so I can only imagine what they used to get. This detectorist had just got an Explorer XS a year ago and had pulled a handful of Barbers and Indians the old-timers had missed; he also got all the quarters apparently as I couldn't get one at this park during my trip.
The following pics are of the first day alone. I posted the entire story as it happened on the Kinzli Forum. In all, I came home with 19 barbers, 30 Indians, an 1874 with arrows Seated dime, 4 Mercs, 2 Roosies, a Buffalo (couldn't get any good nickel signals!) and a nice uncirculated Washington. I really got spoiled... My first day back at the old home park (where the CAPTN got that 1858 Seated half) and all I could get was a couple wheats...
(Oh yeah, another thing about Iowa - the coins come out FLAWLESS; almost every coin here in CA is corroded at least a little bit; this place spoiled me so bad...)
Anyhow, a taste of getting toward the East has inspired me to start posting here. I have a lot more; if you can, check out the whole story on the Kinzli forum, it's a pretty good one.
Looking forward to future posts... Thanks for looking!
Jayson
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