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Good evening folks. I made it out for another quick hunt after work tonight. Sure wish all my hunts yielded this ratio of keepers per hour. :yes: I shifted over a few feet from the area I did last time and walked a line out and back. Five keepers in this zone. :happydance01:

All day long I was thinking about some property I just received permission to hunt. Finally at 5:00 I was able to grab the metal detector and get to it. The first swing after noise canceling gave me a nice solid target. Out pops the Merc. :happydance01: I picked up a few wheats over the next...

I went out last Thursday with Dave to a few sites here in town. Had one of those days where I just couldn't hear any good signals. crying01 I did however manage one lonely keeper for the day... a token. Also snuck out at sunrise on Father's Day for two hours before the girls woke up. Found two...

Yep... found another counterfeit coin tonight. :dontknow: A 1912 Barber dime. I finished a project earlier than expected this afternoon and got a free pass from Dana to go detecting tonight. :happydance01: Put about an hour in at a yard I have detected a few times over the last couple of...

Sunday night hunt at the park produced some keepers. :happydance01: As you can see the Merc was entombed in moist clay. Lots of sulfide build up. I used the cleaning method described Here to remove most of the tarnish and keep the natural looking patina. Quite a difference in the before and...

First of all... it was nice to get back out swinging again. The 95 degree heat that we have had for several days finally broke yesterday. :clapping: Tonight almost felt like fall weather. :happydance01: I wanted to go back to the yard I found some Barbers last weekend and use my 5 coil. Last...

Made it out today much later than I wanted. :( At 10:00 this morning the temperature was well into the 80's and humid. :stretcher: Last weekend I hunted a yard that gave up some nice keepers including some Barbers and IH's. While hunting that yard I couldn't help but notice how promising the...

Talk about a gorgeous evening to get out and detect. <: The weather was perfect. We grilled out for dinner tonight and afterwards took our daughter to the park. As always, she had fun on the swings and slides and I had fun digging holes. A couple of those holes contained silver. :happydance01:

Got out at 5:00 tonight for a couple hours of detecting. Headed back to the yard that produced some nice keepers yesterday. I few more popped out tonight. :happydance01: Although the Rosie is a little out of place with the rest of the older coins I have found there, I'll take it. The Buffalo...

The past 3 weeks I've been primarily hunting several of the parks and a few commons in town with some nice results. But today I wanted to hunt a property that looked like it might hold some fun finds. About a week ago I received permission to hunt a few properties owned by one person. Today I...

It rained all day here. crying01 But when the rain turned to a mist/drizzle this evening, I thought good enough and grabbed my gear and headed to a park that has been giving up some silver these last couple of weeks. At least the ground is nice and soft again. It had been getting quite hard in...

You have to love the extended sunlight we are getting as we approach the solstice. <: Plenty of detecting time at the end of the day now. :cheering: Worked another hour in tonight at one of our parks and surprisingly came up with two silver dimes but no wheats this evening. :confused:

A busy schedule kept me from any serious hunting these last 3 days, but I did get a short hunt in tonight. crying01 With an hour to search, I headed to the closest old park that has produced some keepers for me in the last few weeks. I wish an hour of work would go by as fast as an hour of...

Counterfeit. crying01 Got in an hour of swing time at the park tonight before it was too dark to see into the hole. lol This was a deep target, probably 9-10. I think it is made of lead. :confused: Were these made as actual counterfeit coins, tokens or some other purpose? It is the same...

6:30 came rolling around tonight and I asked Dana what her plans were. :thinkingabout: She laughed a little and said, You can go out metal detecting if you want. lol Off I went to try a new park tonight. In the last few weeks I have been on a quest to find silver at every older park in my...

I went to a new site this morning. A small, overgrown baseball field in an older neighborhood of Dubuque. When I arrived, the old trees in the common area immediately caught my attention. Once I got geared up and machine on, I had to choose which direction to hunt. Old trees or ball field...

Today Dave, Ron the new guy and I went back to a small Wisconsin park that I hunted a few weeks ago. Last time there I found an IH and some early wheats. I have to admit that I was a little disappointed the silver did not show up for me on the first trip. So this time I brought reinforcements...

Miss SLQ! <: I've been waiting for this one for almost two years. It was still close to 90 degrees at 7:30 tonight when I decided to head out and hunt until dark. Sure glad I did. I didn't get my coil over many 'dig me' signals, but the SLQ finally graced me with her presence. :smitten: It...

I split my time evenly between two parks this morning. The first hour I hunted a park I did earlier this week and managed to find some additional keepers. :happydance01: Next stop was a different park in town that I had not been able to find silver at last year. Over the course of an hour, I...

I've been busy with work these last several days, so I thought I would catch up with my recent hunts in one post. :yes: Saturday I made it out for just a tad more than an hour to test drive an old foundation. See it here. Hunting these types of locations is a WHOLE different ball game. :yes: I...