Spring has sprung again!

After a week of cold rains, I finally got out for a couple hours today and wow the ground is so easy to open up. The sports complex was kind to me too, as I pulled 30 quarters, 4 dimes, 1 nickel, and 6 pennies for a grand total of $8.01 YTD TOTAL-$53.56 Oh ya, and a large mens 18 carat gold ring that will fetch a pretty penny!HH~ANDY~

50 mile an hour gust stops me short!

Went down to the complex again today but only lasted for a half hour cuz of wind. A gust came up and brought a huge mass of an infield dirt swirl my way and most ended up in my eyes....OUCH, enough. $1.01 with 4 quarters and a penny. YTD $45.55HH~ANDY~

Working hard to find job, better luck with coins tho!

I have not been getting out as much this year due to extensive job searching, so far no good! Yesterday I spent 3 hours at baseball park with alot of beeps so I just focused on quarters and I ended up with 20 extra coins due to coin spills. $7.05 with 23 quarters, 10 dimes, 5 nickels, and 5 pennies. I am going to do this more often as it produced alot more $ than I usually get, and this complex is huge so I can do it again and again! Today I got out for 2 hours at same complex and got another $3.37 with 11 quarters, 5 dimes, 1 nickel and 7 pennies which brings my YTD to a total of $44.54......Special note (After digging a quarter in a hole, I got a dime read and dug that and also a penny all around 2" deep. I scanned again and got a faint read of quarter at 7" and dug deeper and found a 1936-s quarter and a 1935-s buffalo nickel almost stuck together! Weird as this sounds....it has happened to me alot over the years, so always check and recheck and listen real hard to your headset, if you don't have a good headset......get 1 cuz it is the only way to hear some of these faint beeps!HH~ANDY~

Clad before the storm

Went to a nearby park today for 1 and a half hours before rain sent me running. Basic clad finds but still fun. 8 quarters, 6 dimes, and 15 pennies for a total of $2.75. YTD- $34.12..HH ~ANDY~

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~

After nasty flu bug struck me, I got back to business yesterday before violent storms moved in. Hit an older park and found out it had been hit many times before but still gave up 4.40 in 3 hours. 12 quarters, 13 dimes, 4 nickels and 10 pennies. YTD-$20.70....HH!ANDY!

Most face value for year!

The weather finally got back in 50's today and since I had no old sites lined up, I thought I would hit one of the 2 parks that I have not hit around here. Three hours produced $4.16 with 10 quarters, 13 dimes, 6 nickels, and 6 pennies. Oh ya, and 31 pull tabs. All newer clad, but it was nice to get alot of hits and do some digging. Two holes produced coin spills, the first was 3 quarters, 2 dimes, 3 nickels, and a penny. Second was 1 quarter, 2 dimes and a nickel. I love those holes. Suppose to be near 70 or better for next few days before rain this weekend so I be there! YTD total-$16.30 HH~ANDY~aka(Lovesdiggingdeep)