Digger Don
04-08-2018, 01:13 PM
Friday was my son's 18th birthday and at dinner he told me he wanted to go out for some detecting Saturday. I called Tony and asked if he would like to join us and unlike a lot of the house we knocked on Saturday, I Got a Yes!!
We met up at an 1891 courthouse at about 8:00AM. My very first good target was a wheat and my second was a my first silver of the day, a 1912-D Barber dime. After that, it slowed down to nothing but clad. But before we left, I did get a nice 12-45 and dug a very small piece of silver from the University of Illinois. It looked like it should have been attached to someting bigger so back in the hole I went. I was right, in the same hole was the ring it came off of.
Alec dug two indians there, an 1886 and a 1906.
After the courthouse, we started door knocking and boy was it rough, tons of no answers!!
We did a get into a few yards. Tony took the prize for the most silvers, but I did manage a 1959-D Rosie, a 1935 Washington and 3 tokens from the Star bakery, all from the same yard.
The last house of the day I pulled an older watch FOB. at first I thought it was from the YMCA but then realized that the large Y on it represented the three branches of the chicago river.
All in all it was a great day hunting with Alec and Tony. Thanks Guys!!
We met up at an 1891 courthouse at about 8:00AM. My very first good target was a wheat and my second was a my first silver of the day, a 1912-D Barber dime. After that, it slowed down to nothing but clad. But before we left, I did get a nice 12-45 and dug a very small piece of silver from the University of Illinois. It looked like it should have been attached to someting bigger so back in the hole I went. I was right, in the same hole was the ring it came off of.
Alec dug two indians there, an 1886 and a 1906.
After the courthouse, we started door knocking and boy was it rough, tons of no answers!!
We did a get into a few yards. Tony took the prize for the most silvers, but I did manage a 1959-D Rosie, a 1935 Washington and 3 tokens from the Star bakery, all from the same yard.
The last house of the day I pulled an older watch FOB. at first I thought it was from the YMCA but then realized that the large Y on it represented the three branches of the chicago river.
All in all it was a great day hunting with Alec and Tony. Thanks Guys!!