Time to update!

Have not posted in a while and need to catch up. I have only been out 4 times in last couple weeks and 3 were at local parks which produced nothing but clad.....$10.38 with 26 quarters, 31 dimes, 11 nickels, and 23 pennies. This past weekend I took my wife up to the Mississippi in Prairie Du Chien to visit step daughter and MD since she got a cheaper whites detector. She knew of a place in Iowa across the river that was way out in boonies and we hiked 2 miles along RR tracks tucked between the mighty Miss. and bluffs that went straight up 50 stories or more. Absolutely as isolated as I have ever seen and a half-mile across the river was Wisconsin in its original pristine state as far as your eyes could see. Here we found an old abandoned homestead that blew me away. The people that lived here left abruptly as there was every kind of trash strewn everywhere and we harvested alot of old ruins. We detected for an hour and I came up with an 1869 shield nickel, 1905 barber dime, 1893 Indian head penny, 1918-D merc dime and my 2nd 3-cent nickel this year.....an 1868. The girls did not have the same luck and got frustrated with detecting and started scavenging artifacts. This is when the best detectors come thru as I could go deeper and disc out iron alot easier. I will go back again sometime and take more ruins and hopefully more coins! HH~Andy~