maxxkatt
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Ok, for those of you who don’t know me, I hunt in North Metro Atlanta. So let me take a minute of your time and describe the environment I am hunting. Most of our parks were only built in 1980’s so finding silver in them is near impossible. Actually, I have never found silver in a park in North Metro Atlanta. Atlanta does have some old parks dating back to the early 1900’s but they are all in the ghetto areas of Atlanta. Where are those ghetto areas? Just watch the evening TV news and you will find out. Short of going in there with a platoon from the 82nd or 101st Airborne, I will pass on those parks.
Civil war relics are also hard to find. This being a fact in spite of Atlanta being a huge civil war battle field area. Only problem there is one National park, Kennesaw and of course no body in their right mind will hunt that park. Most of the other places are private property covered by expensive neighborhoods where permissions to dig their perfectly sodded lawns are difficult to come by. There are some farms with civil war relics around Resaca, GA you could hunt, but you almost have to be related to the farm owners to get those permissions and all my relatives are in Ohio. No oceans or deserts near Atlanta so no really good jewelry drops or gold finds.
Here is my new plan and it is a surefire plan that will work! It is called reverse metal detecting. You don’t even need a metal detector, pin pointer or digging tool and certainly no earphones.
Back in 2010 I was convinced by a friend to buy silver. Well you guessed it, I took his advice. I bought about $3,000 in quarters and dimes. He said in bad times silver would go up and nothing would make it go down. I took his word and purchased t nice big bag of silver coins.
But the unthinkable happened. I bought my silver at about $28 an ounce and then those brave seal team members shot and killed Bin Laden and silver price dropped and dropped. I have lost half of my investment in silver. No biggie, my step son in-law tops that loss by a considerable amount so much that I am embarrassed to even talk about it.
I hunt about 2-4 hours a week and mainly find clad and on a rare occasion will find some silver jewelry, like maybe once a year. I like metal detecting, love the hobby and have liked most detectorists that I have met personally and even more of you guys on this and other metal detecting forums. Special shout out to Calabash Digger, Mud Puppy, Tom in CA and Vferrari and also the guy who mentioned the TV series “The Trailer Park Boys”. My wife hates “The Trailer Park Boys” so I get to watch it alone with my dog. My do loves the opening credits where the cat walks across the sepia screen and wakes up when he hears that intro music and barks at the cat. That alone proves to me that my dog is smarter than my wife. Gad, I hope she never visits this forum.
I have decided to become Johnny Silver Seed. Instead of looking for silver which is hard because here in Gwinnett county you do have to dig a ton of trash in my hunting areas before you even find clad.
I will do the opposite. I will now visit parks in North Atlanta (actually just Gwinnet county) and take my Hesche digging tool, make a 6” slit and deposit silver quarters or dimes in many areas of the park where a detectorist would normally hunt.
This will confuse the hell of out my fellow detectorists here in Atlanta. I will also bury close to the silver coin a single clad penny with an “X” stamped on it so they will know they found a Johnny Silver Seed seeded coin.
For my fellow Equinox guys, I will bury the quarters and dimes along with a few rusty nails and dig down about 14 inches just to make it interesting. I will also take some silver quarters and put them in a stack so the non- Equinox equipped hunters can find these. I may even make videos of me burying these silver coins to post on Youtube.
I will get a lot of exercise, zero frustration since there will be silver in every shovel slit and the satisfaction of helping my fellow detectorists. Kind of like Lance on “The Detectorists” when he got the Gold Curse put on him after he found a major gold ancient artifact. After this spectacular gold find he couldn’t find anything (not even a pull tab) until he took his reward money and exchanged it for gold coins which he buried in a field.
Maybe I will start a GoFundme page to get more money for more silver coins in my Johnny Silver Seed adventure. Any creative suggestions to aid me on this journey are welcomed. What ever happened to Johnny Appleseed?
Civil war relics are also hard to find. This being a fact in spite of Atlanta being a huge civil war battle field area. Only problem there is one National park, Kennesaw and of course no body in their right mind will hunt that park. Most of the other places are private property covered by expensive neighborhoods where permissions to dig their perfectly sodded lawns are difficult to come by. There are some farms with civil war relics around Resaca, GA you could hunt, but you almost have to be related to the farm owners to get those permissions and all my relatives are in Ohio. No oceans or deserts near Atlanta so no really good jewelry drops or gold finds.
Here is my new plan and it is a surefire plan that will work! It is called reverse metal detecting. You don’t even need a metal detector, pin pointer or digging tool and certainly no earphones.
Back in 2010 I was convinced by a friend to buy silver. Well you guessed it, I took his advice. I bought about $3,000 in quarters and dimes. He said in bad times silver would go up and nothing would make it go down. I took his word and purchased t nice big bag of silver coins.
But the unthinkable happened. I bought my silver at about $28 an ounce and then those brave seal team members shot and killed Bin Laden and silver price dropped and dropped. I have lost half of my investment in silver. No biggie, my step son in-law tops that loss by a considerable amount so much that I am embarrassed to even talk about it.
I hunt about 2-4 hours a week and mainly find clad and on a rare occasion will find some silver jewelry, like maybe once a year. I like metal detecting, love the hobby and have liked most detectorists that I have met personally and even more of you guys on this and other metal detecting forums. Special shout out to Calabash Digger, Mud Puppy, Tom in CA and Vferrari and also the guy who mentioned the TV series “The Trailer Park Boys”. My wife hates “The Trailer Park Boys” so I get to watch it alone with my dog. My do loves the opening credits where the cat walks across the sepia screen and wakes up when he hears that intro music and barks at the cat. That alone proves to me that my dog is smarter than my wife. Gad, I hope she never visits this forum.
I have decided to become Johnny Silver Seed. Instead of looking for silver which is hard because here in Gwinnett county you do have to dig a ton of trash in my hunting areas before you even find clad.
I will do the opposite. I will now visit parks in North Atlanta (actually just Gwinnet county) and take my Hesche digging tool, make a 6” slit and deposit silver quarters or dimes in many areas of the park where a detectorist would normally hunt.
This will confuse the hell of out my fellow detectorists here in Atlanta. I will also bury close to the silver coin a single clad penny with an “X” stamped on it so they will know they found a Johnny Silver Seed seeded coin.
For my fellow Equinox guys, I will bury the quarters and dimes along with a few rusty nails and dig down about 14 inches just to make it interesting. I will also take some silver quarters and put them in a stack so the non- Equinox equipped hunters can find these. I may even make videos of me burying these silver coins to post on Youtube.
I will get a lot of exercise, zero frustration since there will be silver in every shovel slit and the satisfaction of helping my fellow detectorists. Kind of like Lance on “The Detectorists” when he got the Gold Curse put on him after he found a major gold ancient artifact. After this spectacular gold find he couldn’t find anything (not even a pull tab) until he took his reward money and exchanged it for gold coins which he buried in a field.
Maybe I will start a GoFundme page to get more money for more silver coins in my Johnny Silver Seed adventure. Any creative suggestions to aid me on this journey are welcomed. What ever happened to Johnny Appleseed?
