Recently got back from Minnesota for my annual fall hunt with Michelob (aka cousin Mike). As usual, we hunted hard each day and tore it up!!! I was expecting between 12 and 15 silver but set a high goal for myself of 20 really not expecting to hit it. But by the end of the week I was sitting on 25, all dimes. The big silver eluded me this trip (or maybe Michelob just found it all before I could). All in all it was a wonderful trip. When we get together it is always a blast, road tripping, detecting and laughing as much as we can.....never a dull moment.
Here is one story I'll tell about one of our hunts. We did a small road trip to hit a few parks a few hours from his house. one park we hit for about 8 hours total and between the two of us I think we pulled out 13 silver coins, 9 of those being Barber (including Mike's Barber half). At one point, an older gentleman who grew up in the area told me of how someone with a detector back in the 70's cleaned that place out and found "buckets of silver" (and I do believe him) then he tels me he also detects but has given up on that place because all anyone finds there anymore are thousands of rusty bottlecaps.
This just reaffirms to me how good the E-trac is. I never heard one rusty bottlecap. The only one I dug was in a hole with a wheat penny. It is obvious that there was plenty of target masking there because very few of the signals were "clean" and most all of the silver we found was between 4" to 6".....not very deep. Heck, Michelob's Barber half was only about 4 inches deep and sounded pretty crappy but there was still enough "silver" sound to investigate it.
This machine is the best detector I have ever used at ignoring rusty bottlecaps and pulling masked silver in them.
I did take some video of the trip and here is a pic of my silver coins. Other finds included a buffalo nickel, 7 injuns, 2 silver rings, and an iPod shuffle (sounded like a quarter and was buried 1" deep)
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMrCS2XU9Fk[/video]
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdh_qaG566o[/video]
Here is one story I'll tell about one of our hunts. We did a small road trip to hit a few parks a few hours from his house. one park we hit for about 8 hours total and between the two of us I think we pulled out 13 silver coins, 9 of those being Barber (including Mike's Barber half). At one point, an older gentleman who grew up in the area told me of how someone with a detector back in the 70's cleaned that place out and found "buckets of silver" (and I do believe him) then he tels me he also detects but has given up on that place because all anyone finds there anymore are thousands of rusty bottlecaps.
This just reaffirms to me how good the E-trac is. I never heard one rusty bottlecap. The only one I dug was in a hole with a wheat penny. It is obvious that there was plenty of target masking there because very few of the signals were "clean" and most all of the silver we found was between 4" to 6".....not very deep. Heck, Michelob's Barber half was only about 4 inches deep and sounded pretty crappy but there was still enough "silver" sound to investigate it.
This machine is the best detector I have ever used at ignoring rusty bottlecaps and pulling masked silver in them.
I did take some video of the trip and here is a pic of my silver coins. Other finds included a buffalo nickel, 7 injuns, 2 silver rings, and an iPod shuffle (sounded like a quarter and was buried 1" deep)
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMrCS2XU9Fk[/video]
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdh_qaG566o[/video]
Super Great Hunt..........WTG.........Hawkeye Jim.
