z118
06-18-2011, 03:49 PM
I am pretty tired right now and still doing the dance from this morning's hunt! <:
I was up before dawn intent on hitting the construction zone in a nearby park. They have scraped the top layer of soil in an area alongside a road at the edge of the park. I had a great day... one of my best ever! I wound up with 86 coins total, which includes 34 wheats, two Canadian pennies from the 40's, three Mercs, a silver Rosie, and a silver Washington quarter, PLUS a nice 10k ring with a green stone.
I hunted for about 4 hours total and covered most of the scraped area. The E-trac does not run well in this park. I can pretty much only run in auto, otherwise the falsing is more than I can deal with. Signals are pretty messy here - wheats a few inches down would give short, broken signals and oftentimes only in one direction. I'm beginning to wonder what's in the rest of this park if I have been able to pull this stuff from just a small area. But I also wonder how I would go about finding any of it given the conditions. I may give the grass a try outside the construction area tomorrow. Rest assured I'll be there again first thing in the morning, though I have little hope of repeating a day like today!
EDIT - the scratch in the Merc is not from me, though I did ding several of the wheats- the wonky signals and packed dirt and gravel made for some tough pinpointing and digging. Oddly the wheats from this spot come out in better shape than most I dig while the silver comes out in worse shape with an odd light grey tarnish. The button reads ":beerbuddy:uffalo City Police and the lion item is a junk ring. The 34 wheats is the most I've ever dug in one hunt.
I was up before dawn intent on hitting the construction zone in a nearby park. They have scraped the top layer of soil in an area alongside a road at the edge of the park. I had a great day... one of my best ever! I wound up with 86 coins total, which includes 34 wheats, two Canadian pennies from the 40's, three Mercs, a silver Rosie, and a silver Washington quarter, PLUS a nice 10k ring with a green stone.
I hunted for about 4 hours total and covered most of the scraped area. The E-trac does not run well in this park. I can pretty much only run in auto, otherwise the falsing is more than I can deal with. Signals are pretty messy here - wheats a few inches down would give short, broken signals and oftentimes only in one direction. I'm beginning to wonder what's in the rest of this park if I have been able to pull this stuff from just a small area. But I also wonder how I would go about finding any of it given the conditions. I may give the grass a try outside the construction area tomorrow. Rest assured I'll be there again first thing in the morning, though I have little hope of repeating a day like today!
EDIT - the scratch in the Merc is not from me, though I did ding several of the wheats- the wonky signals and packed dirt and gravel made for some tough pinpointing and digging. Oddly the wheats from this spot come out in better shape than most I dig while the silver comes out in worse shape with an odd light grey tarnish. The button reads ":beerbuddy:uffalo City Police and the lion item is a junk ring. The 34 wheats is the most I've ever dug in one hunt.