Hit old faithful and then tried a new spot on a local beach here in Oklahoma.

Saturday went out with one of my detecting buddies to Old Faithful and found a Merc and a small silver ring. My buddy found the only gold ring for the day.

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Sunday I hunted by myself and decided to go to a beach that looks good but has never paid off in the 1 to 2 trips we have made to it. I started my day by going to church with hopes by the time church was over maybe Mr. Sunshine would have the air a little more to my liking when playing in water. Well when church was over I looked outside and it was cloudy and didn't look good, I almost decided to just be lazy and lay around and do nothing. Boy am I glad I followed my original plan and went to that old beach. I got to the beach about 2:00 and headed right down to the waters edge and got in. After about 1 hour of hunting and not finding anything I was ready to head to old faithful and try my luck when I finally found a Rosie. Then I started finding the good stuff right until I made myself head home at about 7:30. This is my best silver coin hunt to the best of my knowledge in my 11 years of hunting. I did find several other things including 4 good rings and the other jewelry. I think the one ring is maybe one that was given to a fire fighter for his years of service, because it is shaped like a fire fighters emblem and it say years and has some number in front of years(it is to wore out to tell). The top part looks like it maybe gold.

Thanks for looking,

Dave



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that is a great haul. I know you're glad that you went detecting instead of doing nothing. Your silver count is fantastic and the jewelery is some icing on the cake.

WOW! You killed it!

WOW! :shocked04:

Look at all that silver! :notworthy:

You hit the mother lode for sure! :thumbsup02:

:congrats:

:wow:Now that's a hunt!!
Lottsa silver dimes and wheaties... Silver rings, silver and gold ring!!, some jewelry... Nice all round hunt!!
Congrats!:grin:
Are both necklaces and bracelet silver too? :huh:

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Originally Posted by Ill Digger

:wow:Now that's a hunt!!
Lottsa silver dimes and wheaties... Silver rings, silver and gold ring!!, some jewelry... Nice all round hunt!!
Congrats!:grin:
Are both necklaces and bracelet silver too? :huh:

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Thanks Ill Digger, I am not sure about the St. Christopher. The 4 leaf clover is junk and the small thin bracelet is gold in color after I got it cleaned, but I can't find any markings on it.

Dave

Thanks everybody for the comments.

Dave

WOW! It takes me all summer to collect that many silver dimes.

Wow, what a fantastic day Dave and congrats! Agree that the ring may be related to a firefighter due to the octagonal badge shape on the gold(?) inlay. You mentioned the site was rather unproductive the first few times you hit it. Did you try another location along the beach this time?

John

WOW great hunt silver galore. Always a good I idea to follow your gut Congrats

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Wow, what a fantastic day Dave and congrats! Agree that the ring may be related to a firefighter due to the octagonal badge shape on the gold(?) inlay. You mentioned the site was rather unproductive the first few times you hit it. Did you try another location along the beach this time?

John

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John, I had been visiting with another guy that kept claiming he found Merc's and Rosie's out in the water. I tried it once with my ATpro and all I could find was cans, so I thought he was full of hot air. Then I ran into him at the same spot claiming he was finding both again, so I decided to give it one more try, this time I used my 3030, I dug all tones that was high, even the high chirps. This place is loaded with old rusty bottle caps and the more of them that I removed, the better the hunting got. I was only in water 2 ft deep max. That is about as deep as I will take my 3030 since I fried my first one, the first time I took it to the water. I won't get started on how the 3030 is really not too waterproof in my opinion. lol I did ask God for his forgiveness after thinking that guy was nothing but a liar and just liked to make up great sounding stories.



Dave

Thanks everybody for the comments. I hope to go back to that same spot this weekend and see if I can manage some more great finds. I plan on digging as much of the junk signals as I can to just see if my theory is correct. I think the old rusty bottle caps that are everywhere are masking a lot of good signals, so bottle caps here I come. lol

Dave

Wow, What a fantastic hunt. Thats one heck of a lot of Silver. Not to mention the rings. Great Job

thats a great hunt Dave :clapping::clapping:, I hope you have continued success there :yes: