Metal Detecting - Sometimes I just have really a bad day :(

Hello everyone,

Well yesterday I did a 7 hour Metal Detecting hunt at a brand new location for me. Bronx River Park. When I got home my wife asked me why my eyes were red? I told her it was allergies. In reality, I cried on my way back home.

It was a bad hunt. I was so excited to go detecting on my day off and I didn't acquire any of what I really love.. silver

These were all my finds.
$4.32 in coins
2 Bullets
Junk jewelry


This is a item that is a craft piece. A copper tube with wire wrapped around it and a figure of a woman holding a staff.


6 Wheat Cents
5 - 1950's and a 1913


I will not be returning to that location

I have only detected 5 Silver coins for 2024.
4 Silver War Nickels
1 Silver Washington 25C

 

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Oh well. Win some lose some. Cool copper piece though!
" A bad day of metal detecting is better than a day at work".

 

Oh, come on man; get a real disappointment. I've been getting skunked on the lotto for 30 years.

 

Yeah, I've been skunked on both lotteries and metal detecting for longer than that. And for the same reason, come to think of it. ("You can't win if you don't play...")

 

@paddyman98 the metal figuring on that copper piece isn't silver? Seems like the sort of work that would have been done in sterling...

 

I get skunked every time. I am at the point that I ONLY metal detect to get outside and some time to think because I expect to find nothing of value. In the past two weeks I found one clad quarter, two clad dimes, seven decrepit zinc cents, and a whole load of trash. The quarter is as good as it ever gets for me. Based on my experience, you've done pretty good this year!

 

I think it could be. I haven't check yet. I have a gold and silver tester. I will check later. Interesting.

 

"Don't worry be happy." 5 pieces of silver in '24 is five more then you had in '23...Do not become a Hunt brother, you cannot corner the market on silver because will not give mine up! Better luck next time around the park.

 

We all have those days at times with whatever the hobby is it sucks because real days off are Hard to come by.

 

Still not bad though, so far i've only come up with random metal junk left 50 + years ago haha

 

Not to rub it in, but any gold yet?

 

I feel your pain, I have a new detector, the ground is frozen, and my Spring work schedule looks absolutely ridiculous! I don't see a lot of detecting time in my near future.