Second Day at "The Hole"

All day I had my mind set that I was going back to the Atlantic Shores field for round 2 of picking clad and whatever else may come. However, around 3pm, mother nature seemed to want to step in and keep me from it. For the next few hours we had some crazy downpour!

All while it was going on, I said to myself, "If it stop before 7pm I'm good to go for tonight." Well... it didn't. But around 930pm it did finally give up, so off I went.

I showed up, got my stuff together, and hit the field confident I would find a good amount of clad. Though it didn't come as quickly as the previous day, I was surprised that on my third hit, I pulled an unknown date wheat penny! It was mighty deep too, probly 7" or so. Definitely the deepest hit I've dug so far. It just sounded off so solid, at that depth I couldn't help but dig.

About 30 minutes in I got a feline visitor. A small white cat, very clean showed up. I figure it must have been an abandoned house cat, or snuck out from home, because with the storms we just had, any white outdoor cat would not have been that clean. It was friendly, but sketchy. Seemed very out of place. Poor kitty.

The rest of the hunt went as expected. Lots of clad and little trash. Unfortunately I have no small jewelry items like charms or what have you to share this time around, but $3.50+ in clad over 55 coins, I'll take it! Included in there is a 1970 Canadian Penny.

Atlantic Shores Honey Hole!

A little after 6pm tonight I get a message from Hollis wanting to meet up at the beach for an evening hunt. Well unfortunately, being tight on money, and the 20 mile trip to the beach each way, it was outta the question as far as gas goes.

But good for me, I had been thinking of a place hunt all day. There is a large multi-purpose field across the street from me that gets heavy use from the church school adjacent to it, and also by the church itself hosting events. Why I never hunted it before when it's a 5 minute walk away is beyond me.

I head on over, suit up, and bam, within the first 30 mins I'm over $1 in clad. I stayed hunting around for almost an hour forty five, just constantly landing coin after coin after coin. I scored 3, $0.50 spills or greater. One being a 10 coin spill equalling $1.08 under a big tree up by the roots.

Sadly there was no gold or silver to be had But I did manage a heavy Hello Kitty charm, nice and thick, rang up like a dime so I figured silver when it came outta the ground. No marks, and the "silver" is flaking off on the side. I also found the bangle bracelet and little heart button.

This was my biggest monetary clad total ever. I've easily dug more coins, I think 80 some is my most, but never this much in total amount. 47 coins @ $5.25. Two of the ugliest pennies I've ever dug, and not much trash either. One thing of note, is I landed 4 more nickels... the XLT is really good at nabbing them.

I'll be back to this site a few more times, plenty of clad around I'm sure to waste a few more hours!