Met up with Brad (Big Digger) and Dave-IL for some hunting.
Beautiful day today after 2 days of rain. It was about 42 degrees with no wind...but the ground was soaked and had water standing in many places.
Had to deal with a lot of falsing and chirping because of the saturated ground...and didn't even like what I heard in semi auto...so I ended up dropping the sensitivity to manual 22.
The first thing I got was a wheatie/Washington quarter pocket spill...and the quarter was very deep.
I popped out the wheatie first and was disappointed because I was sure I'd heard the "silver warble".
I did get a cheap thrill though when I saw it was a 1914.
I tried for nearley 5 minutes to make a "D" appear but it never did.
I then ran the probe again and from way down came the warble.
I then stuck the Lesche down as far as I could and when I pried a pile of goop out and the quarter came out in a "muck pile" right at the end of the digger. I was very lucky not to have stabbed it or scratched it...but all was okay.
It was about that time that Brad and Dave both decided to help me hunt my spot.
As you can see...they weasled their way to within 15 feet of where I was hunting
... so I decided to snap a pic.
Brad ended up popping out a Washington quarter of his own...and he did so AFTER invading my turf.
A while later I got the "silver hidin' in iron warble"...and it hit from only one of 4 angles as I circled the hole...BUT it repeated on both the swing and return swing of each and every pass at least 10 times in sucession of said angle....so I gave it a shot.
Before digging I called over B-Rad to let him listen to what I felt was a possible silver coin hidin' in iron.
My trusty ID'ing all metal pinpoint feature which is exclusive the SE that you always hear me speak so highly of...well it was rendered usless because of the heavy iron.
In fact pinpointing was impossible...so I did the "minelab wiggle" until I felt I had honed in on the sweet spot....and dug a nice deep plug from the muck.
There was trash and iron everywhere in the hole, including a straw...cigarette pack...and part of a smashed can
I finally pulled out a mud clod with two corroded old nails in it from a measured 10.5" down.
After picking away at the muck and separating the dime from the pile....
one of the nails pulled from the clod had been laying directly on the front bottom right side where you see the little iron stain.The other one was laying on the reverse side as you can see from the indent line along the top left of the pic below where I pulled it out.It looked cool where the
iron had seeped down onto the coin as you can see from the stain on back as well as on the SWEET imprint left when I popped it out of the muck.
To me this is what makes the hobby rewarding and fun...to find a previously masked coin...and to have to work for it to do so.
I ended up with 4 silvers and 6 wheaties
We all had a good day and found some keepers...and Herky got to chase squirrels
...so it was all good.
The only thing that would have made the day better is if my old hunting buddy Phil could have come along with us.
We have yet to hunt with the 4 of us together...but it will happen this year.
One more note: In the pic you see my gloved hand...then Daves hand on top....now look at the size of B-Rad's big mit on the right holding his coins.
Here's the link to my field test post containing over 60 different hunts of various coil tests...comparisons...nicer finds...etc..: http://www.findmall.com/read.php?19,1055627,1055627#msg-1055627Been swingin' the coil since 1972Started out in 1972 with a Jetco Detector...then the late 70's with a Whites 6000
....then in 1981 went to a Bounty Hunter VLF TR 840
...then in the early 1980's I went to a Whites 6000 Di Pro...mid 80's I went to a Whites Eagle II SL...Late 80's/Early 90's I went to the Whites XLT...1990's I used the Fisher CZ5, CZ6, CZ7, 7aPro, and CZ70Pro
...Started using Minelabs in 1999
with a brief stint on the Musketeer while also using the CZ's...then in 2002 I switched to the Minelab Explorers and currently use an Explorer 2, SE, SEPro, and E-trac with an arsenal of coilsHere's the story of my BEST FIND EVER.:
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?19,876944,876944#msg-876944"Metal detecting is an escape for me and allows me to find some much needed peace and solace.
Being able to clear my head...even if only for that short while...is much more meaningful than any amount of finds that end up in my pouch"
"Quote ME"
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/08/2012 05:36PM by Bryce-IL.
Sounds like it was a fun hunt. When I take my pooch out he's always "helping" me dig my plugs..... I spend a lot of time fixing his poor pinpointing abilities...
Great info as always....
You guys did well.