Dig O' The Day 7/23/04

lordmarcovan

Link to MD forum thread.

It's a coin this time, and I got "silvered", but it ain't anything spectacular. Thought I'd post it anyway, since I've been doing "Dig O' The Day" threads here for a while now, as an incentive for folks to c'mon over and visit us on the Detecting forum a little.

epicrecipe

LM,

Cool story - thanks for sharing! I've considered buying a detector. I'm a total MD newbie though. What kind of equipment do you use?

hamiltonjh

cruise over to the MD forum. it's recently awoken, with the coming of summer I suppose. There are lots of tips and suggestions on equipment over there.

100proof1957

OT,but i wanted to post this for M' LORD
Sissy is right here !

Proof

lordmarcovan

epicrecipe- I use a Garrett GTAx-550 for coinshoooting, at the moment, with a TinyTec probe for close-in pinpointing.

100proof- there's a pretty kitty.

granddad

LM

Have a Garrett GTAx1250 myself. Love those Garretts, had one Garrett or another for 30 years.

Louis

relayer

millennium

LM.........Fair warning......stay away from my parks!...LOL...JK. Still hate the fact you found that behind me....I missed that with two different detectors! WTG!

Catch22

I used a Garrett way back in the early 80's when I was a serious TH'er. Picked up another one about a year ago but, haven't used it much. The local powers that be do not allow hunting in the city parks. I just might have to violate a city ordinance before long....

lordmarcovan

Our city issues permits. I have one. I hunt county parks too, without a permit- nobody's ever said anything to me. Such is the benefit of living in a smaller city with a lot of history. The bigger historical cities like Savannah and Charleston and Richmond all have anti-detecting ordinances. I wonder if this is the case up north, too, in places like Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, NYC, Providence, etc.?

Weiss

Well done, Lordmarcovan!

We've got two cities close to each other. Technically it is against the rules to hunt in either's parks. But I met and spoke with the supervisor of grounds for one city park dept, explained what we do, showed him how we detect and dig, and lo and behold, he gave me and the people in my club exclusive rights to hunt in his parks. Said if we were stopped, just to tell the person that *his name* told us we could detect. Worked like a charm. In March of 2002 (on my birthday and the birthday of another guy in our club), we hunted the yard in front of the park dept headquarters! It is located in the corner of an 1880s era-park, and was about as virgin as you could imagine. That afternoon he, I, and one other club member pulled a seated quarter, a barber quarter, a SL quarter, and a silver Washington, not to mention one of my best multi-coin targets (see below), out of that 30 x 30 yard area!

lordmarcovan

WTG!

I'll bet that little hotspot had y'all's adrenaline up!

Coinerww

Nice dime.