It has been a fantastic run of unbelievable weather over the past week and a bit here in Victoria.
The daily temperatures have been hovering between 15 and 22 degrees Celsius which is 60 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit.
During the 7 days of this post I have been averaging around 4 and a half hours of swing time every day.
Not every day has seen a keeper (Monday and Wednesday were bupkus days) but that makes those days with keepers all that much sweeter.
This will give you an idea of the types of sites that I hit during the 7 days.
Monday was the firing line and there were nothing but old shell casings to be found.
And Sunday was the training range were almost all of the finds were empty training rounds. Tuesday was the best day.
It started out with a surprise and continued onto the best hole of the week.
The surprise was a fall coloured maple leaf pin that I thought was brass because it was totally brown when it came out.
You will have to forgive me here.
Due to having waited far to long to make this post my pictures are just going to showcase the highlights of the week. Not 5 minutes after pulling that pin there was a sweet high tone at 6 inches.
Well the target was buried between two roots, and it took over 5 minutes to extract.
I mistakenly thought that there was only one target in the hole and continued to wiggle my small digger between the roots until the pinpointer no longer registered the target.
This is what I first noticed. I had laid the pinpointer down to take this picture and when I picked it up it went off as it passed over the discard pile of dirt.
Well it turned out to be 3 dimes all nestled together between those roots. Thursday saw the second coin spill.
This one was not as spectacular as it was only a 46 Canadian dime and a 61 Rosie.
There was one peculiar find though.
I have found many different religious pendants before but never one that could be confused with pocket change. Friday had its ups and downs.
The downs were a thimble that turned out to be aluminum and not silver
And this WWI collar badge.
Tacoed is one way to describe its condition.
The daily temperatures have been hovering between 15 and 22 degrees Celsius which is 60 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit.
During the 7 days of this post I have been averaging around 4 and a half hours of swing time every day.
Not every day has seen a keeper (Monday and Wednesday were bupkus days) but that makes those days with keepers all that much sweeter.
This will give you an idea of the types of sites that I hit during the 7 days.
Monday was the firing line and there were nothing but old shell casings to be found.
And Sunday was the training range were almost all of the finds were empty training rounds. Tuesday was the best day.
It started out with a surprise and continued onto the best hole of the week.
The surprise was a fall coloured maple leaf pin that I thought was brass because it was totally brown when it came out.
You will have to forgive me here.
Due to having waited far to long to make this post my pictures are just going to showcase the highlights of the week. Not 5 minutes after pulling that pin there was a sweet high tone at 6 inches.
Well the target was buried between two roots, and it took over 5 minutes to extract.
I mistakenly thought that there was only one target in the hole and continued to wiggle my small digger between the roots until the pinpointer no longer registered the target.
This is what I first noticed. I had laid the pinpointer down to take this picture and when I picked it up it went off as it passed over the discard pile of dirt.
Well it turned out to be 3 dimes all nestled together between those roots. Thursday saw the second coin spill.
This one was not as spectacular as it was only a 46 Canadian dime and a 61 Rosie.
There was one peculiar find though.
I have found many different religious pendants before but never one that could be confused with pocket change. Friday had its ups and downs.
The downs were a thimble that turned out to be aluminum and not silver
And this WWI collar badge.
Tacoed is one way to describe its condition.
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