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I haven't gotten in much detecting in lately but I did manage to get in a short hunt this evening. Between dropping my son off and picking him up from an evening activity I hit my favorite school; a spot that gave up its 3,000th coin in an earlier hunt this year. This was hunt number 64 at this...

Getting back from our two weeks at the beach has been hectic to say the least. Things have been nuts at work and at home; especially the latter as my step daughter is getting married next weekend so the Mrs is in full blown crazy wedding mode. This has meant no detecting since getting back from...

We got back yesterday from our annual beach vacation - hands down the best two weeks of the year. It was sad heading home and I'm already looking forward to next year. The beach is a great place and we swam, played, partied, and relaxed just about non stop. Of course, the added perk for me and...

I got out for a bit this evening. The location I had in mind was full of people when I arrived so instead I wound up at an old spot I have hunted many, many times before. Targets were sparse, but I still managed a few wheats and older nickels along with a beat up piece of silver jewelry. I'm not...

It was another gorgeous week and I was able to take advantage with some nice week night hunts and a bit of digging over the weekend as well. Traffic from the PGA over at Oak Hill made a few hunts shorter than they otherwise would have been but I'm not complaining. Monday evening I drove a...

Last weekend I had great luck at two sites I'd hunted many times before and had pretty much written off as hunted out. So I figured I give them both a few more chances this week. I got in a few week night hunts and some good digging both Saturday and Sunday mornings. Once again I proved to...

I didn't get in any hunting at all on Saturday but short hunts on Friday evening and Sunday morning and afternoon proved to be very productive. All told I wound up with 12 wheats, 6 (well, 5 and 2/3 at least) silver coins, 2 silver rings, a silver St Christopher medal, and some nice relics. For...

I didn't get in as much digging as I would have liked over the past week or so... but then again, I usually don't I suppose. Anyway, I had two nice evening hunts last week, an afternoon hunt on Sunday, and another nice hunt this evening. No show stoppers but I did get three Rosies, two small...

Is this a thing? Meaning some kind of identifiable object with a know use and probable age? Or is it just a random scrap of metal? The quarter is for size. As always, any insight is appreciated. Thanks!

The heat broke a bit on Friday but Saturday and Sunday were back to being hot, humid, and nasty. I had plenty of free time for detecting but was not really able to decide where to hunt, and when I did decide on spots I had a hard time getting settled in and relaxing as I struggled with wet...

I was able to get out today for a nice evening hunt. I was hoping to have a few hours but it was a busy day and I didn't get started until 7pm. I headed to a new spot that seemed like it might have potential. My first target rang up around 12-36 and sounded like a wheat penny - sure enough, it...

I was out the door early for detecting today, and had planned on hitting a new tot lot I had found as well as a new turf location that I hoped would yield silver. The tot lot was productive. The turf not so much. The grass was soaking wet and it was hot and so humid that I was dripping with...

After the amazing coin spill I dug on Tuesday there was no place else in the world I would have opted to hunt over that same spot. I had Friday off so I headed there in the morning. The weather has been and continues to be brutal - temps in the high 80's, horrendous humidity, and beating sun in...

My friends! My friends, please read my story and share in the near delirious, stunned bliss I now find myself steeped in. Because of the holiday and a busy schedule of family events, this was to be the only evening this week I would be able get in a hunt. Sadly, it was raining heavily as I...

I had Saturday morning free and although the forecast called for on and off showers all day I took a chance and headed several towns over to an old school I had hunted the weekend before. It was pouring when I started driving but had stopped by the time I arrived. The hunt started pretty slowly...

It was too hot tonight to hunt anywhere in the sun. So I headed to a wooded spot that had given up 1 wheat and an old pocket watch on my first hunt there a few weeks ago. I doused myself in bug spray knowing the mosquitoes would be bad. I had no idea. Within 15 minutes I had a swarm of them...

It was a hot weekend in Upstate NY and I only had limited time for detecting but I had some real nice hunts regardless. Saturday I had to head a ways south to pick up a sheep from my farmer. While I was in the area I hit an old school in a small town. Things started slow before I realized that...

I seem to be getting a fair number of these this season. I don't get the sense that any are particularly old but it never hurts to hear what the experts say. Is anything in the lot of particular interest or quality? Thanks!

I must confess I've looked down on war nickels in the past. They seem like a halfway kind of silver coin (heck, not even halfway). I've even called them the booby prize of failed silver hunts. Well, for whatever reason I've had a real knack for them this season. I have to say they are kind of...

Wait, is that how that song goes? lol Another good weekend of digs, plus one weeknight hunt in there too. The '67 half is my first 40% silver half, I was surprised by how shiny and clean it came out of the ground... I guess I would have expected it to look more like a war nickel. I'm putting...