Sunday, December 27, 2009

2nd day out metal detecting


Max out searching near frozen pond.
Max finds first bottle cap....with many to come. Check out the open field.
Max out detecting.
The big tree in the background is where we found the 1965 quarter.
Max finds our first quarter!
Max and I went out metal detecting for the second day in a row-hitting three different spots. Our first hunt brought in 3 Lincoln pennies from a playground. The second stop gave us a big, fat zero in coins, but a bunch of junk aluminum. The final place we visited was a large dog park in Bothell. The new metal detector takes time to understand and get the feel of. We tried using different settings while we were hunting. Garrett recommends using the "all metal" mode when learning to use the detector at first. Max and I were getting all kinds of nails and rusted spikes in the all metal mode. After an hour of hunting, we switched it to the "coins" mode and Max came up with our first quarter within a few minutes. The next target we hit was a dime. Our final target was a 1965 quarter-one year shy of silver. The cool thing about our finds was that the first quarter was a 1983-the year I graduated...and the final quarter was a 1965-the year I was born.

We didn't do any above ground searching today.

Daily find: $.63
Grand total to date: $38.21
168 finding days averages out to $.23 per day.

Above ground finds: $37.12
Below ground finds: $1.09

2 comments:

  1. Good job on the first few hunts, you guys are definitely going to enjoy the hobby!! Welcome to the addiction, I'm NCBounty from the Friendly Metal Detecting Forum. Check out my blog too, it's at: http://detectingtheworld.blogspot.com/
    Can't wait to see your finds!
    Ashby

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  2. Ashby,

    Thanks for your note and checking out our blog. I've added your blog as one that I will follow. See you on the Friendly Metal Detecting Forum.
    Steve

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