Short after dinner hunt, "Golden" sunset

Boobydoo

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Short after dinner hunt, "Golden" sunset

Hello all!

After work, and the son's doctor appointment, dinner done for me and the kids, the weather was beautiful so went up the school that is close by that I noticed recently had a few play areas out back that I didn't see the first time I hunted there last summer.

When I arrived, there were lots of kids playing baseball, but none playing in the play areas, cool! There was one fairly large play area, two sets of swings and a slide. I did see traces of a previous hunter sometime lately. There were some loose holes with nice trash presents in the bottom, he didn't remove his trash...grrr. Anyway, the good news, there were quite a few targets and I was finding a lot of coins.

I covered all the areas completely and found three nice keepers. First, a nice gold hoop earring popped out. When I got home and looked at it with the loop, it says 10K MEX, woowhoo! Next, a very light signal like a small piece of foil turns out to be a very thin gold chain from about 3 inches down. It's broke, no clasps on the end. Another woowhoo! Finally, under the slide, lying on top, a sweet silver chain and religious pendant stamped Sterling. A nice find to end the day.

I wasn't expecting much except to get out and have some fun and clear out my head from a tough day at work. They layed off 8 of my co workers today. >:(

A great time was had in the 1 hour 45 minutes of hunting, $5.16 in clad 107 coins including a $1 Canada Looney, my 3rd of the year. I also got a double heart gold "china" pendant and another find... a piece of brass from 6 inches down that when I got it home and cleaned it, it was packed with dirt... it's a piece of a pot pipe, still partially filled with the illegal yucky. After the photos it got chucked deep into the woods behind my house.

Here's some photos of my cool finds in this short hunt tonight. Thanks for reading! HH!

Smiles!
BDoo
 

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Now thats a productive day...

silver, gold and some gas money!! Congrats!
 

Re: Short after dinner hunt, "Golden" sunset

dang thats a nice haul in that short of time. It would of kept me from thinking about work too! Seriously I do find this hobby keeps me a lot less stressed out now a days.
 

Re: Short after dinner hunt, "Golden" sunset

Nice finds Bdoo,

You have been cleaning up this spring. Don't think I haven't been keeping over the board even though I'm not posting often. Lots of good finds for you this spring already.

Good luck man

HH Jer
 

Re: Short after dinner hunt, "Golden" sunset

Sweet haul, BDoo!! That's better than the average hourly rate. Sucks about the layoffs. Detecting does clear the mind of clutter. Your so focused on the detector and what it's doing, that you allow yourself to forget the rest of lifes hiccups.

HH
Neal
 

Re: Now thats a productive day...

Jack(IN) said:
silver, gold and some gas money!! Congrats!

Thanks Jack!! That and a relaxing couple hours.

Smiles!
BDoo
 

Re: Short after dinner hunt, "Golden" sunset

txkickergirl said:
dang thats a nice haul in that short of time. It would of kept me from thinking about work too! Seriously I do find this hobby keeps me a lot less stressed out now a days.

Hi txkg!! It was such easy pickins today, relaxing and reqarding. Thanks for the read and comment!! Appreciate it!

Smiles!
BDoo
 

Re: Short after dinner hunt, "Golden" sunset

JerDfx said:
Nice finds Bdoo,

You have been cleaning up this spring. Don't think I haven't been keeping over the board even though I'm not posting often. Lots of good finds for you this spring already.

Good luck man

HH Jer

Hiya Jeremy! Congrats on that new baby, I hope everything is good at home with him and mama! I miss those days big time, mine a teenagers now. Thanks for the encouragement my friend. Rock on buddy!

Smiles!
BDoo
 

Re: Short after dinner hunt, "Golden" sunset

Scooby! 8) Your mind should be nice and mellow after all those finds! :o

Fantastic evening hunt! Congrats!

Nana :)
 

Re: Short after dinner hunt, "Golden" sunset

WTG BDoo. Nice haul... I agree with Neal about the lay-offs, went through several myself and recently lost 21 yrs of service as my job was sent over seas. :-\ Oh well, still have the wife and children, who are practically grown, to support me in pursuing a career in the railroading industry... ;D
 

Re: Short after dinner hunt, "Golden" sunset

Good deal on the finds - the work part is not so good. I can only imagine how stressful that must be. That is the nice thing with this MDing hobby - it takes you away from that stuff.

Last night I was reviewing my clad finds for the year. The best outing I had for Quarters was 7 for one outing. :D Pretty sad. New goal for the year - 10 Quarters for one outing! ;D ;D

Bob
 

Re: Short after dinner hunt, "Golden" sunset

Nice haul! Too bad about your coworkers :'( I got laid off when I was 62 and haven't been able to find a job since...no one wants to hire an old guy. So I had to take early retirement which cut the soc. sec. by over 400 per month (ouch!). At least you don't live in Michigan where there are no jobs. :D
 

Re: Short after dinner hunt, "Golden" sunset

nealb said:
Sweet haul, BDoo!! That's better than the average hourly rate. Sucks about the layoffs. Detecting does clear the mind of clutter. Your so focused on the detector and what it's doing, that you allow yourself to forget the rest of lifes hiccups.

HH
Neal

Hi Neal

Getting out swinging always takes me to my "happy place" and finding some nice keepers is always a bonus. My life has been pretty much a soap opera the past ten years, but it has made me a stronger person, and the goodness, for me at least, work is going good. Thanks for the friendly thoughts and comments.

Smiles!
BDoo
 

Re: Short after dinner hunt, "Golden" sunset

Man you better get a bigger pirate's chest to hold all this stuff you've been diggin up lately..that's a lot o' loot! Good stuff!

Nat
 

Re: Short after dinner hunt, "Golden" sunset

Excellent finds Bdoo!

Good luck and HH!

-CC
 

Re: Short after dinner hunt, "Golden" sunset

Natman said:
Man you better get a bigger pirate's chest to hold all this stuff you've been diggin up lately..that's a lot o' loot! Good stuff!

Nat
You should do that Bdoo...Grab a pirate's chest from the local craft store somewhere and load all the goodie's in it at the end of the year.....Nice haul once again!!!!
 

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