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Anybody here use 35FE tones? Posted by: TrpnBils
Date: December 28, 2017 10:18AM |
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Re: Anybody here use 35FE tones? Posted by: Jason in Enid
Date: December 28, 2017 11:32AM |
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Re: Anybody here use 35FE tones? Posted by: TrpnBils
Date: December 28, 2017 12:33PM |
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Re: Anybody here use 35FE tones? Posted by: IDXMonster
Date: December 29, 2017 09:51PM |
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TrpnBils
I hit new ground almost every time I'm out. Rarely return to a site unless it's producing the first time... I have at least a couple hundred sites identified that I haven't touched yet, so it's always somewhere new.
Re: Anybody here use 35FE tones? Posted by: TrpnBils
Date: December 30, 2017 03:08PM |
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Re: Anybody here use 35FE tones? Posted by: IDXMonster
Date: December 31, 2017 09:13AM |
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Re: Anybody here use 35FE tones? Posted by: TrpnBils
Date: December 31, 2017 10:19AM |
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Re: Anybody here use 35FE tones? Posted by: IDXMonster
Date: December 31, 2017 01:19PM |
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Re: Anybody here use 35FE tones? Posted by: TrpnBils
Date: January 01, 2018 05:18PM |
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IDXMonster
Jeff,that’s excellent record keeping! It’s also a VERY clear indicator that If you have spent about the same time hunting these last 4 years,these particular sites are NoT going to allow for high coin counts. What they DO allow is a larger chance of finding those older coppers and weird denom coins that traditionally don’t show up as often on public ground(parks,schools,etc.)
It all depends on what you want to find. If you are going for it all and feel as if these defunct sites are the way to do it,I won’t argue. But if you’re looking for more silver,IMHO it has to be where a lot of activity occurred,and people had it in their pocket. To ME,it’s about return on my time,I won’t usually go hunt somewhere that MIGHT have something. I will go somewhere that DOES have something,because the odds of it having nothing are zero.
On your chart,the difference of 6 silvers to me isn’t an indicator of machine error or operator error,rather...the places you’re hunting do NOT have enough of what you want. Even though you seem to have access to a lot of them,it’s going to take a ludicrous amount of time to sort through them all and harvest the stragglers. Hunting a site with perhaps less area and more activity within that area will up your silver coins. The large coppers are big targets,any of those in public places are likely gone for the great part.
If you’re looking for that “spectacular find” or a “cache” or you don’t mind digging horse shoes,you’re on the right track,IMO. But the biggest thing you can do to change that “9” number is to NOT hunt where you’re hunting. I truly believe that.
Re: Anybody here use 35FE tones? Posted by: IDXMonster
Date: January 01, 2018 11:33PM |
Registered: 5 years ago Posts: 1,791 |
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TrpnBils
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IDXMonster
Jeff,that’s excellent record keeping! It’s also a VERY clear indicator that If you have spent about the same time hunting these last 4 years,these particular sites are NoT going to allow for high coin counts. What they DO allow is a larger chance of finding those older coppers and weird denom coins that traditionally don’t show up as often on public ground(parks,schools,etc.)
It all depends on what you want to find. If you are going for it all and feel as if these defunct sites are the way to do it,I won’t argue. But if you’re looking for more silver,IMHO it has to be where a lot of activity occurred,and people had it in their pocket. To ME,it’s about return on my time,I won’t usually go hunt somewhere that MIGHT have something. I will go somewhere that DOES have something,because the odds of it having nothing are zero.
On your chart,the difference of 6 silvers to me isn’t an indicator of machine error or operator error,rather...the places you’re hunting do NOT have enough of what you want. Even though you seem to have access to a lot of them,it’s going to take a ludicrous amount of time to sort through them all and harvest the stragglers. Hunting a site with perhaps less area and more activity within that area will up your silver coins. The large coppers are big targets,any of those in public places are likely gone for the great part.
If you’re looking for that “spectacular find” or a “cache” or you don’t mind digging horse shoes,you’re on the right track,IMO. But the biggest thing you can do to change that “9” number is to NOT hunt where you’re hunting. I truly believe that.
That all makes sense, but I have to wonder.... the vast majority of those public sites (schools, churches, parks, fair grounds, etc) that had a lot of people over the years are right there on everybody's radar that does this. You look at any "how to metal detect" site that covers even the basics and those are the spots they tell you to go to. My mindset over the past couple of years is along the lines of "find an untouched site"...one where nobody else has hit so everything that was lost there over the years of occupation is still there in one way or another. That's also the reason why I tend to not bother with homes that are still occupied...less hassle and less modern garbage with the unmapped sites that are sunk into the middle of a farm field somewhere or buried deep in the woods.
If I remember right, you and I started with the CTX right about the same time, right? What kinds of sites are you having success at? If I recall, the last video of yours I watched was a cellar hole in the middle of the woods in the snow, right?
Re: Anybody here use 35FE tones? Posted by: TrpnBils
Date: January 02, 2018 09:10PM |
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Re: Anybody here use 35FE tones? Posted by: diamondcutter
Date: February 15, 2018 03:03PM |
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Re: Anybody here use 35FE tones? Posted by: stephenscool
Date: February 15, 2018 07:03PM |
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Re: Anybody here use 35FE tones? Posted by: sgoss66
Date: February 15, 2018 08:52PM |
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Re: Anybody here use 35FE tones? Posted by: stephenscool
Date: February 15, 2018 09:27PM |
Registered: 4 years ago Posts: 638 |
Not really.. I primarily beach hunt. Trying a pattern out that is all blocked except 9,10,11,12,13,14. I'm going to dig everything that beeps in there. So I set the tone at 1200 so it would be nice and loud and unmistakable.Quote
sgoss66
Not sure what you are asking, Stephen. I think you are asking a deeper question than what it appears on the surface, because the simple answer of course is yes, that's what an audio tone is -- a "sound response" applied to a processed return signal received by the coil. So I'm pretty sure you are asking something deeper...
Steve