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  1. PL8MAN

    I found a first for me in 15 years ! It was on my wish list !

    I'm still doing a dance after today's find ! I have been trying to hunt some old areas of San Jose while I have been off work the past month . Today I hunted a place that 8-10 years ago I found a Seated half & quarter dating from the 1850's ! I have only been back once and only found a few...
  2. PL8MAN

    6 rings , silver jewelery , silver coins & wheats ! Great weekend hunt

    It's been awhile since I have found a school that looks to have been not hunted ! The last time I hunted this school was back in 1999 with my old detector . I have not been back due to it now becoming a private school . Well as it turns out it is still owned by the local school district and open...
  3. PL8MAN

    Silver & Gold weekend , Rings #124 - #126

    My friend Ryan and I hunted the hood schools this weekend and it payed off ! Yesterday after only 15 minutes I had a +8 VDI on my M6 at 3 inches , I was thinking come on GOLD ! It was GOLD thumbsup01 ! A small 14K pendent that had been hit by the lawn mower and almost looks like trash in my...
  4. PL8MAN

    14k Gold Ring found today , ring #123

    The schools are closed for Labor Day , so off to hunt my friend Ryan and I go ! We hunted a school that we had not been to in about 2 years . The clad was everywhere !! I came away with $17.81 in clad in only 2 1/2 hours ! The big find of the day was a 14K gold ring ! It was a +12 vdi at 3...
  5. PL8MAN

    GOLD in the hole ! Silver & rings #117 & #118

    Another day off from work and another day of hunting with my friend Ryan . We hunted the same park that Ryan had found his gold and I had found that silver Lion ring early this week . It's in the hood and I think it's not getting hunted . We were both finding clad when I got a nice +85 at 5-6...
  6. PL8MAN

    Fresh dropped Seated !

    Well summer vacation is coming to an end for my kids . My Daughter started back today at high school but my Son does not start back to junior high till next Monday . Since we were both home we got the Whites detectors and hunted a local middle school :grin: . We didn't hunt long due to the heat...
  7. PL8MAN

    Silver San Quentin State Prison ring ! #100 ring for the year

    What great three days of hunting ! Tonight was the topper . I hunted with my friend Ryan tonight for about an hour and a half at a local school . Ryan struck GOLD right away , 14K bracelet . I was finding quarter after quarter for a total of $10.47 ! The sun was down so we started heading back...
  8. PL8MAN

    1 oz. Fine Silver One Dollar Eagle found today !!! Ring #99 for the year

    Today's find is why I love hunting elementary schools , show & tell items get lost in the field ! I'll start with yesterday's hunt . My Son Carson , friend Ryan and I hunted a school that we had not hunted before and it payed off for all of us ! Carson found a old pendent with Sanford University...
  9. PL8MAN

    4th of July GOLD ! Rings #93 & #94

    I got out early this morning and hunted with my friend from Tahoe . He is in town for the week working so we thought we would hunt some older schools today . The first school had a ton of clad but not much more . We moved to a little school that dated from the 1940's . When we pulled up we saw...
  10. PL8MAN

    Cool relic from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

    Hey everyone this is a cool find I made back in 2006 in San Francisco at a job site I was working on at the time . One of the sub contractors was excavating under the building we were working in . They dug down a good 20 feet or so . As the dirt was being taken out and put off to the side I...
  11. PL8MAN

    Silver from the last few hunts

    I got out for a few hunts over the last few days and did alright thumbsup01 . I found a nice old sterling spoon ring that was about 6 inches deep at a old park . Today I got the sterling chain that weighs 31.9 grams and the 1946D silver Rosie dime . Found many other junk rings this weekend...
  12. PL8MAN

    Found more GOLD today ! Ring #71

    This has turned out to be my gold month this year ! Today I found my 4th gold item in May . My hunting buddy Ryan and I found a new school to hunt this morning , it's in the hood . We try not to hunt very much in the bad side of San Jose but this school has been on our mind for awhile now . As...
  13. PL8MAN

    Ring #70 is GOLD with diamonds !

    This year I have been hunting different . I have been re working schools that I have hunted over the past 14 years looking for gold . The school I hunted today is from the 1950's and is in a bad side of San Jose . The field is almost all weeded or just dead . I hunted it last year and pulled a...
  14. PL8MAN

    GOLD RING , #53 ring for 2012

    What a great weather day here in California ! My Son and two hunting friends hunted a school field that gave up my only silver dime trifecta two years ago . Last time I was just looking for silver and clad , this time I was out for gold ! We hunted for 2 and half hours and about one hour in I...
  15. PL8MAN

    Past week silver coin finds

    This has been a great week of hunts for me |:cheering: . Last weekend it started with a 1951D silver Washington . This past Friday I found a 1964 Rosie thumbsup01 . Saturday I found a 1956D Washington and a 1942S Walking Liberty Half dollar ! Then today , Sunday , I hunted a school that always...
  16. PL8MAN

    Found a GOLD ring today and my detector broke !!! Rings #38 & #39

    I did some digging the last two day . Yesterday only clad ( $17.49 ) and two wheats , 1945 & 195:clapping: . Today was a gold and bad day . My friend Ryan , Carson my Son and I hunted a school field hoping for gold and silver . We found it ! I found a nice 14K gold ring with 13 small diamonds...
  17. PL8MAN

    GOLD , clad & a lot of trash ! Ring #32 for the year

    Well work is slow this week and the weather is just right for hunting ! I got out this morning for a two hour hunt at a local park . This park has a huge soccer field and has given up silver in the past . I thought today I would go for the GOLD ! I dug almost every solid VDI from +10 to +90 and...
  18. PL8MAN

    Another class ring found , GOLD

    I can't believe it ! I found a third gold class ring in the past month ! I found this one on the 8th of January at a local elementary school that I have hunted many times . It was a +42 at 3 inches . I'm going to try my best to find the owner . HH Glen
  19. PL8MAN

    2nd 10K Gold class ring this week !! Rings #179 , #180 for the year

    I still can't believe it ! Last Sunday I found a 10K gold class ring and this morning another 10K gold class ring !! This one might be a bit harder to find the owner . It is from Vermont , 1977 . It has initials inside so I'm going to try and see if I can find the owner . It was in the middle of...
  20. PL8MAN

    FOUND A 10k GOLD CLASS RING TODAY ! Some silver on Friday

    I decided to hunt a school that I had never hunted before . I found the best find of the three hour hunt in the first 30 minutes ! I had a +26 VDI on my Whites M6 at 5 inches and thought maybe gold ? I was right !! I saw a beautiful gold ring at the very bottom of the hole . I didn't know it was...

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