wasatchau
Senior Member
I don't post often because all I find is clad and a little .925. But May was an exceptional month, $355 in clad, 6 silver and my first 950. First the talkie-talkie and then the pictures.
After doing the stay home stay safe thing for March and April, I decided to try a closed middle school across town. It was damaged by earthquake in March. No one allowed in the building, grounds mostly empty and unkempt and lots of ground to wander around on.
The location was a good choice. As it turned out I could only work it evening hours and on Saturday and Sunday. I wasn’t the only one to find the place either. Pick-up soccer games started the first weekend (during 'stay home-stay safe') and got bigger and bigger, until the school cops showed up and ran them off. There was a cop there for a few days so I found another place until he left. But that school really paid off. I had multiple consecutive best clad hunts and some really nice silver. Final results for the school was $220 with $30, $33 and $35 days with lots of dollar coins.
On off-days I drove around looking for another school to hunt and ran across a fairly new looking junior high and gave it a shot for a full Saturday. My new best clad day at $51.91!!! (88 quarters and 23 dollar coins) And even better, I got a ring that I thought was stainless steel, but has a 950 stamp in it. My first platinum ring; 5.2 grams of sorta dull looking metal.
The last two days of the month, working both schools, produced $86 including 37 dollar coins. There is still a lot of ground to work, and once the high tones are gone, I’ll work both locations for gold. Man, that dumpy little school has spoiled me! All locations for the month gave up 83 dollar coins.
Final tally: $355 in clad, $7+ in pennies (mostly copper), 6 silver rings (35.5gm) and the 950 platinum ring. Oh, there was a gold ring. One of those sick moments of discovery. OMG! 18K…what are those letters? HGE ? Oh well, nice try. Maybe next month.
I’ll never have another month like May 2020.
I apologize for poor photos. I use an old flipphone and my camera is an old digital. Good enough for a 74 yo OCD hunter.
After doing the stay home stay safe thing for March and April, I decided to try a closed middle school across town. It was damaged by earthquake in March. No one allowed in the building, grounds mostly empty and unkempt and lots of ground to wander around on.
The location was a good choice. As it turned out I could only work it evening hours and on Saturday and Sunday. I wasn’t the only one to find the place either. Pick-up soccer games started the first weekend (during 'stay home-stay safe') and got bigger and bigger, until the school cops showed up and ran them off. There was a cop there for a few days so I found another place until he left. But that school really paid off. I had multiple consecutive best clad hunts and some really nice silver. Final results for the school was $220 with $30, $33 and $35 days with lots of dollar coins.
On off-days I drove around looking for another school to hunt and ran across a fairly new looking junior high and gave it a shot for a full Saturday. My new best clad day at $51.91!!! (88 quarters and 23 dollar coins) And even better, I got a ring that I thought was stainless steel, but has a 950 stamp in it. My first platinum ring; 5.2 grams of sorta dull looking metal.
The last two days of the month, working both schools, produced $86 including 37 dollar coins. There is still a lot of ground to work, and once the high tones are gone, I’ll work both locations for gold. Man, that dumpy little school has spoiled me! All locations for the month gave up 83 dollar coins.
Final tally: $355 in clad, $7+ in pennies (mostly copper), 6 silver rings (35.5gm) and the 950 platinum ring. Oh, there was a gold ring. One of those sick moments of discovery. OMG! 18K…what are those letters? HGE ? Oh well, nice try. Maybe next month.
I’ll never have another month like May 2020.
I apologize for poor photos. I use an old flipphone and my camera is an old digital. Good enough for a 74 yo OCD hunter.
