Mark K
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Post by Mark K on Jul 6, 2017 15:51:52 GMT -5
Or maybe trashure hunting.
I have been metal detecting hard and heavy for about 2-3 weeks. I have almost filled a big yogurt container with coins. Plus lots of trash.
Today I dug up over 100 coins.
High humidity and 90's.
I still am hunting.
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Post by wigglinrocks on Jul 6, 2017 16:23:10 GMT -5
Sounds like ya found a good hunting ground .
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 6, 2017 19:08:34 GMT -5
My office use to be in the FBI building on an old WWII military base with a big park and play fields. Used to love to metal detect and paid for my lunch almost every day with the more modern coins. Even found a few medals and man, I could not believe how much old live ammo was buried there. Coolest thing was, it was pretty windy there and I guess folks dropped a lot of paper bills when pulling stuff from their pockets because I used to find paper money fattened against the chain link fences all the time. Even found a $20 floating down the gutter after a rain one time. Got a box full of old coins I accumulated too. Treasure hunting is fun!....Mel
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Post by snuffy on Jul 6, 2017 21:19:15 GMT -5
Great hobby!! I've had a metal detector for many years. Checked out lots of old homesites around my area.Finally figured out the poor folks in the old days didn't have any money to toss around. Finally tired of kneeling down and digging and getting up again time after time every foot or so.They didn't have a shortage of iron tools and farm equipment to find,many pieces of iron stoves.Had only wagons,didnt pull keys out of their pockets and lose change. And damn those pull tops off cans in more modern times.Too old now to want to get up and down,enjoy it while you can!
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 6, 2017 21:41:56 GMT -5
Yeah, I had to stop doing metal detecting cause I have bad knees from basketball etc. All that squatting to dig up the coins etc had my knees so bad I had to start wearing a knee brace on one leg. Reached a point where it just was not worth it even though it was a ton of fun. Sold both my Garretts before my Texas move. Kind of miss them as there are some interesting old home sites here on the ranch and the Great Western Cattle Trail too but after stopping the coin shooting I got out of the brace after a few months. I don't miss the knee pain at all...Mel
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Post by agatemaggot on Jul 6, 2017 22:52:58 GMT -5
Started metal detecting back in the mid 70's. Have hunted with many brands of machines but only use the Bounty Hunter 505 now. Got tired of wasting time digging and carrying around junk. The 505 can be set to eliminate most trash and still pick up a very small silver or gold item. I do relate to the gimpy knee thing, I just finished cleaning $50.00 worth of Pennies before taking them to the bank.
THAT'S a whole lot of deep knee bends !
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Mark K
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Post by Mark K on Jul 7, 2017 5:42:44 GMT -5
At first the kneeling was kicking my butt. Then as I kept doing it, I began to adapt. Now it is not even difficult. I have lost enough weight that my duty belt is about to fall off of my ass. I will have to tighten it pretty soon.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2017 22:45:03 GMT -5
At first the kneeling was kicking my butt. Then as I kept doing it, I began to adapt. Now it is not even difficult. I have lost enough weight that my duty belt is about to fall off of my ass. I will have to tighten it pretty soon. What tool you using?
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Post by agatemaggot on Jul 8, 2017 0:27:20 GMT -5
Using a home made thing I call a coin spoon. I took a piece of 1/2 in. re-bar and bent a small bow peep style hook on one end that fits over your hand or jeans pocket, then flattened the other end like a small spatula. You stand your pin pointer on end and find the exact center of the coin and then take the side of the spatula end and push thru the soil until you make contact with the coin and continue across until your completely past the coin. Rotate the point of the spatula 90 degrees and push the end under the coin / target and pry up like removing a nail with a pry bar. The soil opens up like a clam and the target will be sitting on the end of the spatula. A very large screwdriver can be used but it is kind of awkward to carry around and is not as impressive hanging out of your pocket when you are hanging around an older neighborhood when it's getting to be about dark thirty ! If you can score a jumbo screwdriver in a goodwill or other similar store you might grind an edge on one side of the blade for forcing the grass roots apart easier and slightly round the corners so you don't score any of the better targets while pressing down to feel the coin before the turn, press forward and pry up move. The whole thing takes about 12 seconds from the detector signal , pin point, coin spoon moves and pocket the target, then depress raised grass. NO holes to fill in and no unsightly mess in a sensitive area. The only drawback is the getting back up off your grey haired old butt ! After a couple long days of ( curb surfing ) the old knees start to feel the gaff !
After you hit 70 or so, you will find that parking meters and street signs are your best friends !
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 8, 2017 16:11:08 GMT -5
I found some pretty good pennies around old farm houses and a of of silver quarters and dimes on the military base. Ventura County has a lot of Mexican history and it seemed every time I got a really good deep hit and dug up a really old coin, it was Mexican. Always wanted that silver dollar or gold coin but never found it. Was at the barbershop one day when I still had hair *L*, and a guy came in that had found a whole sack of $5 gold pieces while he was salvaging the bricks from a chimney on an old burnt out house. All the coins were heavily worn and only worth gold value but I woulda peed my pants to have found that treasure....Mel
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Post by Mark K on Jul 8, 2017 19:46:59 GMT -5
Using a home made thing I call a coin spoon. I took a piece of 1/2 in. re-bar and bent a small bow peep style hook on one end that fits over your hand or jeans pocket, then flattened the other end like a small spatula. You stand your pin pointer on end and find the exact center of the coin and then take the side of the spatula end and push thru the soil until you make contact with the coin and continue across until your completely past the coin. Rotate the point of the spatula 90 degrees and push the end under the coin / target and pry up like removing a nail with a pry bar. The soil opens up like a clam and the target will be sitting on the end of the spatula. A very large screwdriver can be used but it is kind of awkward to carry around and is not as impressive hanging out of your pocket when you are hanging around an older neighborhood when it's getting to be about dark thirty ! If you can score a jumbo screwdriver in a goodwill or other similar store you might grind an edge on one side of the blade for forcing the grass roots apart easier and slightly round the corners so you don't score any of the better targets while pressing down to feel the coin before the turn, press forward and pry up move. The whole thing takes about 12 seconds from the detector signal , pin point, coin spoon moves and pocket the target, then depress raised grass. NO holes to fill in and no unsightly mess in a sensitive area. The only drawback is the getting back up off your grey haired old butt ! After a couple long days of ( curb surfing ) the old knees start to feel the gaff ! After you hit 70 or so, you will find that parking meters and street signs are your best friends ! That is all fine and well for clad, but when you gouge a silver Barber or a Indian, you will wish you used a brass probe.
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Post by agatemaggot on Jul 8, 2017 23:51:50 GMT -5
Pulled quite a few silver and Indians no problems, the tool tip is all smooth and slightly rounded on all edges. Does not gouge what so ever. You don't lean on it with all your weight, just enough to get it thru the grass roots. Have quite a few lbs. of clad waiting for a bank run and there is not so much as a small scratch on any of it. Sounds like a crude method of recovery but it's fast and very efficient, don't plan on fixin it ! Deep targets I use the digging tool and stay wide and pin point my way down, barn hunts I use a small narrow shovel to work my way down to the plow line.
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