Skippy SH13
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Last night, after dinner, I went detecting at a local high school. Drove around the building looking for a likely spot kids sit and lose stuff, and settled on a grassy patch at the building's edge toward the parking lot. These patches are all broken up by sidewalks to the doors. Each takes about 15-20 minutes to grid. Hope that makes sense...
First two patches I pulled a whopping $0.30 out of, but I wasn't expecting much, as I'd detected them last year and cleaned them out of a couple of bucks of change.
The third patch started just as badly, with nothing on the perimeter near bike racks and sidewalks. I hadn't detected this patch before, though, so I figured someone else had come through. Rather than just give up completely, I figured to do two diagonal passes through the patch to see if I could get any signals, indicating that someone hadn't been through. I'm now running the NEL Thunder, and it eats up coverage nicely, meaning it wouldn't take long for a coupe of passes. Glad I did!
First signal was a really strong 70 signal on the AT Pro. I dug it and found a pot metal bracelet (word band with a chain, like a diabetes bracelet, only it said something like "Harmony"). It was really corroded, but I figured if someone missed that, they'd miss more. I was almost dead in the middle of the grassy patch, so I stopped and simply turned perpendicular to the building and decided to grid one half of the yard. Immediately picked up a couple of quarters. On the pass back from the building toward the street, I hit a nice 58 signal that occasionally dipped to 55, but was solid. I should have video'd this one, once I saw it in the ground, but was too excited when I saw the gold color and stones. I pulled it out and popped the plug back before thinking. LOL
Here's the 5th gold ring this month! 14K gold, weighs 3.62 grams, but the stones did NOT test positive for diamonds. They appear to be CZ.
Straight out of the dirt
A better picture, once I had it cleaned and polished.
The weight
No matter what, now, I knew my hunt was worthy of the hour I had to give it! On the next pass, though, I hit a bouncy bunch of signals that were ALL OVER the place.. I figured coin spill, so I jumped down and popped the plug. At the bottom of it, was a single penny. You know the kind of plug where you open it up and the coin is just staring at you. That was this plug. Figuring a coin spill, though, I worked the dirt a little and down popped a ring into the hole! Here's the video from that point on:
https://youtu.be/fyHckd3LeGg
I added the above link, because this doesn't seem to want to work!
For those that don't do video:
3 rings
I don't know what the situation would be for those three rings in the same hole at a high school lot, but I'm thinking some Drama class play, and the kid left them out. They felt SOO cheap. Probably were like a buck a piece at some costume shop!
I finished the grassy grid, and managed to pull a total of $2.90 plus pennies out of the hunt. Add to it, the 14K gold, and it's not bad wages for an hour. wish they were all that good.
Skippy
First two patches I pulled a whopping $0.30 out of, but I wasn't expecting much, as I'd detected them last year and cleaned them out of a couple of bucks of change.
The third patch started just as badly, with nothing on the perimeter near bike racks and sidewalks. I hadn't detected this patch before, though, so I figured someone else had come through. Rather than just give up completely, I figured to do two diagonal passes through the patch to see if I could get any signals, indicating that someone hadn't been through. I'm now running the NEL Thunder, and it eats up coverage nicely, meaning it wouldn't take long for a coupe of passes. Glad I did!
First signal was a really strong 70 signal on the AT Pro. I dug it and found a pot metal bracelet (word band with a chain, like a diabetes bracelet, only it said something like "Harmony"). It was really corroded, but I figured if someone missed that, they'd miss more. I was almost dead in the middle of the grassy patch, so I stopped and simply turned perpendicular to the building and decided to grid one half of the yard. Immediately picked up a couple of quarters. On the pass back from the building toward the street, I hit a nice 58 signal that occasionally dipped to 55, but was solid. I should have video'd this one, once I saw it in the ground, but was too excited when I saw the gold color and stones. I pulled it out and popped the plug back before thinking. LOL
Here's the 5th gold ring this month! 14K gold, weighs 3.62 grams, but the stones did NOT test positive for diamonds. They appear to be CZ.
Straight out of the dirt
A better picture, once I had it cleaned and polished.
The weight
No matter what, now, I knew my hunt was worthy of the hour I had to give it! On the next pass, though, I hit a bouncy bunch of signals that were ALL OVER the place.. I figured coin spill, so I jumped down and popped the plug. At the bottom of it, was a single penny. You know the kind of plug where you open it up and the coin is just staring at you. That was this plug. Figuring a coin spill, though, I worked the dirt a little and down popped a ring into the hole! Here's the video from that point on:
https://youtu.be/fyHckd3LeGg
I added the above link, because this doesn't seem to want to work!
For those that don't do video:
3 rings
I don't know what the situation would be for those three rings in the same hole at a high school lot, but I'm thinking some Drama class play, and the kid left them out. They felt SOO cheap. Probably were like a buck a piece at some costume shop!
I finished the grassy grid, and managed to pull a total of $2.90 plus pennies out of the hunt. Add to it, the 14K gold, and it's not bad wages for an hour. wish they were all that good.
Skippy
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I'm hoping, though, that I can find a few pockets.
