Danimal
Bronze Member
I've been getting out here and there and scoring quite a lot of silver the last month or so. Seems like one here one there though. Most every spot has produced something, but while they keep adding up, no real killer days and these are all pretty common silvers (still a thrill to see that white shine in the soil). So rather than showing a pic of single dimes, etc, I'll show a few pics of the ones that got me more excited.
First off...I have been having DFX troubles lately, with the headphone jack shorting out. What a pain in the ass. Taking it down to repair it I found out that the jack body itself is a plastic POS and the threads stripped on the body, allowing the jack to wobble and breaking a soldered connection. Added a few washers to get the nut on decent threads, resoldered the broken connections and we're good to go.
The guts exposed on the DFX. Look at the almighty Motorola main chip. You'd think that maybe the manufacturers could have designed something by now to make use of a P4 or better??
About a week ago I got a great hit and around 6-7" pulled my first multiple silver in a while. A Wash, Merc and early Rosie snuggled together.
Love that sight in the bottom of the hole!
Now that's a threesome
So this past Saturday I met Bob (Mirage) and Nate at the 'Berg and we did a nice long hunt. Weather was PERFECT...sunny and cool in the 60's. Nice change from sweat. Mosquitos were terrible though so constant baths in DEET were in order. Still though it barely stopped 'em. At one point I was on one knee retrieving a wheatie when Bob walked up and surprised me (he loves doing that) and I noticed a dime sized welt right under his eye and on his other cheek. They got him good!
I ended up with 4 silver. 56 Wash, 29 and 36 Mercs and a 64 Rosie. All but the Rosie were badly tarnished, but hey...love that sound. I got these working an area at the Berg I have barely touched, which was nice as it may mean there are some hot spots yet to be found.
Here's the Wash fresh from the hole
Berg finds
Closeup of the silver
That's it for now. While I am still having a blast doing this kind of hunting, I really long for more trips back into the past...beyond the age of Mercs. I think my next free weekend I'll head back and do an all-dayer with Bob at that Stagecoach stop...
HH all
First off...I have been having DFX troubles lately, with the headphone jack shorting out. What a pain in the ass. Taking it down to repair it I found out that the jack body itself is a plastic POS and the threads stripped on the body, allowing the jack to wobble and breaking a soldered connection. Added a few washers to get the nut on decent threads, resoldered the broken connections and we're good to go.
The guts exposed on the DFX. Look at the almighty Motorola main chip. You'd think that maybe the manufacturers could have designed something by now to make use of a P4 or better??
About a week ago I got a great hit and around 6-7" pulled my first multiple silver in a while. A Wash, Merc and early Rosie snuggled together.
Love that sight in the bottom of the hole!
Now that's a threesome
So this past Saturday I met Bob (Mirage) and Nate at the 'Berg and we did a nice long hunt. Weather was PERFECT...sunny and cool in the 60's. Nice change from sweat. Mosquitos were terrible though so constant baths in DEET were in order. Still though it barely stopped 'em. At one point I was on one knee retrieving a wheatie when Bob walked up and surprised me (he loves doing that) and I noticed a dime sized welt right under his eye and on his other cheek. They got him good!
I ended up with 4 silver. 56 Wash, 29 and 36 Mercs and a 64 Rosie. All but the Rosie were badly tarnished, but hey...love that sound. I got these working an area at the Berg I have barely touched, which was nice as it may mean there are some hot spots yet to be found.
Here's the Wash fresh from the hole
Berg finds
Closeup of the silver
That's it for now. While I am still having a blast doing this kind of hunting, I really long for more trips back into the past...beyond the age of Mercs. I think my next free weekend I'll head back and do an all-dayer with Bob at that Stagecoach stop...
HH all
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......you gotta be kidding me!
