Critterhunter
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Got out with my two Etrac friends and another who uses an SE Saturday. This is only my 2nd hunt of the season. We headed to a large field in the back of a school that used to be part of the site of an old fairgrounds in the 1800's prior to the school being built there. We had only hunted this site a couple times before using Whites in the past and had dug some deep wheats, so we were confident that with our Minelabs we might find some deeper silver there. I have been thinking of this site ever since getting my GT, and so had my friend since buying an Etrac. It had been fenced off for the last year or two as they were tearing down the school to build a new one. Imagine my disapointment when we discovered that the new school now took up 99% of the old field's location.
There was still a small area in the back with grass, and the ground had been moved to make a sloping hill here. We thought it was still worth a shot as maybe a bunch of silver had been moved around in that dirt and found it's way to the surface. Right off the bat I dug a wheatie which was a really good sign, but nothing else surfaced from this spot. Sad to see a good location like this be gone. I would have loved to hunt it while they were moving the dirt away for the school.
So we moved on to another building (school administration offices) down the street about ten houses. This land had also been part of the old fair ground area, and last year I dug a seated dime there only a few inches deep. I decided to grid the area where I found that dime Saturday and only came up with a few clad coins. My friends were working another section of this place. One guy got a buffalo and the other a merc.
Even though I only got the wheat it was still nice to get out for a long hunt, unlike my first hunt of the season where I was too tired to hunt for more than an hour, and ended up watching my friends hunt the rest of the time. Today I think I'm going to head for an old favorite spot of mine. I like this site because the coins sink deep here. It's where I got an indian about 11" deep in one hole and a v-nickle about the same depth in another. I haven't really used the 12x10 at known deep coin spots much yet, so I'm anxious to go there and see if this coil can find me some deeper coins. In my tests against the stock 10" Tornado the 12x10 does appear to be deeper. I buried a dime and with the sensitivity set at 3PM the stock coil couldn't sound off to the dime while the 12x10 did. I've also been digging wheats deeper in dry conditions than I usually did with the stock coil.
There was still a small area in the back with grass, and the ground had been moved to make a sloping hill here. We thought it was still worth a shot as maybe a bunch of silver had been moved around in that dirt and found it's way to the surface. Right off the bat I dug a wheatie which was a really good sign, but nothing else surfaced from this spot. Sad to see a good location like this be gone. I would have loved to hunt it while they were moving the dirt away for the school.
So we moved on to another building (school administration offices) down the street about ten houses. This land had also been part of the old fair ground area, and last year I dug a seated dime there only a few inches deep. I decided to grid the area where I found that dime Saturday and only came up with a few clad coins. My friends were working another section of this place. One guy got a buffalo and the other a merc.
Even though I only got the wheat it was still nice to get out for a long hunt, unlike my first hunt of the season where I was too tired to hunt for more than an hour, and ended up watching my friends hunt the rest of the time. Today I think I'm going to head for an old favorite spot of mine. I like this site because the coins sink deep here. It's where I got an indian about 11" deep in one hole and a v-nickle about the same depth in another. I haven't really used the 12x10 at known deep coin spots much yet, so I'm anxious to go there and see if this coil can find me some deeper coins. In my tests against the stock 10" Tornado the 12x10 does appear to be deeper. I buried a dime and with the sensitivity set at 3PM the stock coil couldn't sound off to the dime while the 12x10 did. I've also been digging wheats deeper in dry conditions than I usually did with the stock coil.