10-02-2017, 07:45 PM
Went back to the area where I found the barber half and spent some time doing a little better job of detecting only to find more bullets and one lonely 1906 IHP.
Moved on from that area and scoured all the high spots thinking that maybe they camped in a different area. No such luck.
After the third hour it was already around 4:45 p.m. and I thought I better start the trek to the truck. I was close to the road so I decided to stay about 40 feet from it and work this drainage gully edge on the woods side about a hundred or so feet long. About halfway to the truck I get a pretty good penny signal. Dig it, at 3 inches up comes a wheat. Re-sweep and now about 4 inches away I'm getting a quarter signal but it's bouncy. Dig it and it's a 34 Washington with a 41 Jeff right next to it. And in the tailings I find another wheat! Re-sweep and about 12" away I get a 78 through 84 and 86. Can't successfully target it so I just dig out a big swath of dirt! Out comes a no date SLQ and two more wheats! Re-sweep and about another 12" away I am getting a 78 thru 83 and again can't target it. Dig out another wide long mess of a plug and get a wheat, 46 Roosie and another wheat! This spill was probably just in one spot some time ago but over time I think the water from the drainage moved it along as the digs looked like a big mole moved in pretty much a straight line along the ditches top wood side edge.
Anyway, I'm happy! But it's strange because as I started the trek back to the truck I was saying to myself, "Someday's you get the bear, and someday's the bear gets you!"
And I thought I'd hammered this area 3 years ago. Shows you how much I know!
Have fun out there and HAPPY HUNTING!
Ed
Moved on from that area and scoured all the high spots thinking that maybe they camped in a different area. No such luck.
After the third hour it was already around 4:45 p.m. and I thought I better start the trek to the truck. I was close to the road so I decided to stay about 40 feet from it and work this drainage gully edge on the woods side about a hundred or so feet long. About halfway to the truck I get a pretty good penny signal. Dig it, at 3 inches up comes a wheat. Re-sweep and now about 4 inches away I'm getting a quarter signal but it's bouncy. Dig it and it's a 34 Washington with a 41 Jeff right next to it. And in the tailings I find another wheat! Re-sweep and about 12" away I get a 78 through 84 and 86. Can't successfully target it so I just dig out a big swath of dirt! Out comes a no date SLQ and two more wheats! Re-sweep and about another 12" away I am getting a 78 thru 83 and again can't target it. Dig out another wide long mess of a plug and get a wheat, 46 Roosie and another wheat! This spill was probably just in one spot some time ago but over time I think the water from the drainage moved it along as the digs looked like a big mole moved in pretty much a straight line along the ditches top wood side edge.
Anyway, I'm happy! But it's strange because as I started the trek back to the truck I was saying to myself, "Someday's you get the bear, and someday's the bear gets you!"
And I thought I'd hammered this area 3 years ago. Shows you how much I know!
Have fun out there and HAPPY HUNTING!
Ed