Last time I took my NOX to an older park, one that had been slammed over the years, I found a Walking Liberty Half, my first in literally decades. It was a huge surprise, because this park seemed to have been "hunted out," as far as the older coins go. We had a good rain on Saturday, so thought I'd go back and see what else I and everyone else missed. I found a total of seven coins...two zincs and Five (5) Wheaties! I am baffled. How did these get missed? They were all in the same general are where I dug the Walker. All were 6-8" deep. The real puzzle was that they rang up in the high 20s and lower 30s. I was in Park 2, using a 6" coil. It's been many a day since I dug that many wheats.
Everyone has their all-time favorite detector. Mine has to be the Minelab Equinox 800. It has literally made detecting a new hobby for me. I have dug more silver and wheats since owning the machine, than I did in the previous five years.
I'll attempt to post a pic of the Walker and the wheats (dates 1958-D, 1952-D, 1945-D, 1934-D and 1919-S). As I stated in an earlier post, the soil in that park is brutal on silver and not much better on other coins, copper or clad.

Nice finds I had the same thing happen a park by my house with a huge camping area surprisingly very few silvers but I just hit my second walker of this year in there surprised the heck out of me !
But I knew it was a half when I went over it and had a good 33-35 signal so I filmed the dig!!!
I’m with you I’ve already dug over 30 silvers this year with mine people are fooling themselves if they don’t try a Nox!
Mark

Works good for me too but, I primarily use on my area beaches.I don’t have near the opportunity like I use to hunting for silver. I’m not riddled with the kind of history like you guys have.

Dave congrats on the Walker and the clean up Wheaties. Hit that area from a different direction and most likely it will give up more oldies. Seems the Equinox is doing great cleaning up at well hunted sites. As far as wheats ringing in with high tones and numbers, here in Pa for me, wheats, Ihps, and even deeper memorials all hit 29-31 and higher. If you massage the signal a bit you will see the numbers drop down to their respective ids once or twice. Just yesterday in a well hunted area, Field 2 rec. 4 ib 0 I got a 34-35, popped the plug, rescanned the hole got a nice 39-40.Thought this has to be silver for sure, nope a slick green wheatie. Last week same site, old square type pull tabs were giving good tones and high numbers. Although not perfect, I have to say Minelab did a great job with the Equinox. HH Mark

That's a good day

markinswpa said:

Dave congrats on the Walker and the clean up Wheaties. Hit that area from a different direction and most likely it will give up more oldies. Seems the Equinox is doing great cleaning up at well hunted sites. As far as wheats ringing in with high tones and numbers, here in Pa for me, wheats, Ihps, and even deeper memorials all hit 29-31 and higher. If you massage the signal a bit you will see the numbers drop down to their respective ids once or twice. Just yesterday in a well hunted area, Field 2 rec. 4 ib 0 I got a 34-35, popped the plug, rescanned the hole got a nice 39-40.Thought this has to be silver for sure, nope a slick green wheatie. Last week same site, old square type pull tabs were giving good tones and high numbers. Although not perfect, I have to say Minelab did a great job with the Equinox. HH Mark

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Yep same thing happens here in Ct many high tones sometimes give an ID higher than it should your using the same settings as I do to
Mark

Another great report, I'm not a park hunter for say but sounds like I should get on board and enjoy the fun. I am have similar results relic hunting.
HH Jeff

DaveNV said:

Last time I took my NOX to an older park, one that had been slammed over the years, I found a Walking Liberty Half, my first in literally decades. It was a huge surprise, because this park seemed to have been "hunted out," as far as the older coins go. We hadView attachment 1314View attachment 1313 a good rain on Saturday, so thought I'd go back and see what else I and everyone else missed. I found a total of seven coins...two zincs and Five (5) Wheaties! I am baffled. How did these get missed? They were all in the same general are where I dug the Walker. All were 6-8" deep. The real puzzle was that they rang up in the high 20s and lower 30s. I was in Park 2, using a 6" coil. It's been many a day since I dug that many wheats.
Everyone has their all-time favorite detector. Mine has to be the Minelab Equinox 800. It has literally made detecting a new hobby for me. I have dug more silver and wheats since owning the machine, than I did in the previous five years.
I'll attempt to post a pic of the Walker and the wheats (dates 1958-D, 1952-D, 1945-D, 1934-D and 1919-S). As I stated in an earlier post, the soil in that park is brutal on silver and not much better on other coins, copper or clad.

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There are a couple of folks on the forums who claim the 6" coil is worthless. You just proved them wrong.

Nice hunt, DaveNV. Once again proving that city parks are never hunted out.......especially when one has a Nox to go at it.

Nice finds. Congratulations on the goodies.