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7 Hours of 95 Degree Heat, Lots of Keepers...a Few Silver Coins...and 5 Bottles of Gatorade!!!

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Hotcz70

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I waited until 3:00 in the afternoon on Sunday to get out for some detecting. I have been cooped up for the last 10 days or so and I wanted to hunt real bad. It was HOT but we had about 3" of rain Saturday night and I figured the signals would be good. I went back to the ball diamond and hit a different area than before. I started out using my 12.5" Excelerator coil and pulled a lot of wheaties and 3 Mercs. After the last drink break I popped on the 6" Excelerator and gridded the same area but in the exact opposite direction as I had done with the 12.5 coil. I popped out some more wheaties...a 1904 Barber dime from 7" (finally one other than a 1914)...and a nice 1934 quarter. I also pulled my first Indian cent from this site..a 1900. Not sure what the reason is for this...but all the indians I have found this summer are pretty corroded?? Doesn't matter what site I pull them from...they just don't look good at all. Seemed like a few years ago I would find some nice ones...but not so much anymore. I'm really liking pounding sites with the big coil/small coil combo. I think I'll give the 10 x 14 coil a whirl next time there. For some reason my 10 x 14 coil likes indian cents. My lady has been using my CZ70pro and found her first Wheatie at this site...but she didn't last long in the heat. She's pretty good about letting me hunt for hours on end...but she ended up going home to cool off and picked me up later.
Happy hunting and seriously...be careful in the heat.
 
Looks like a fine group of keepers to me.I am usually laid up in the AC about the time you go out. But I like to hunt in the early am. Just about first light.

HH BiLL IL
 
Looks like you had another great day!!And you helped gatoraide stock go up!!Good for you!!Keep plowing my friend!:beers:
 
before trying to hunt next time. It might be another 10 days or so before I get to hunt again though so I wanted to endure as best I could. Work has been hectic lately so I am not getting out as much. Have you been doing any experimenting with your detector settings?
 
You are lucky to get rain it is so dry and hot that ticks have water bottles on their backs around hear.Glad to see you getting out and finding all that nice stuff.Goodluck on your next hunt.
crowduck
 
the ground was great Sunday. It was just way too hot and humid. There's no way I would hunt in those conditions that long again.
Hope your summer's going well.
 
I know what you mean friend about the heat. Here in the kentuckiana area the temps has been up in the 90's and are expected to be triple digits tommorrow and thursday, and the ground is like brick. I tryed those settings you gave me and got in touch with James, he gave me some good advice also,I think you all!!! I'm just not satisfied with the ID of a good target jumping all over the screen.I just can't believe that my SE in working properly: so I contacted Minelab and returned it today to have it checked out.I know I'll get better control over the situation once I get the machine back and the weather gets better for detecting. I know the Explorer is a powerful machine: that is all but obvious that no other machine can compare to it,( for the Explorer Forum has postings of finds that no other forum can come close to)."All you Explorer veterans amaze me with your finds,especially James in ND and Charles in NY, and even all you guys"!! Question: does the dry hard ground affect the depth and ID? Thanks friend, and keep on a plowing and HH!!!
 
Well done , i also like to work sites out using different coil combinations , another tip , try working a patch of ground out with detectors with different frequencies. My own method is to pound a patch of land with 15 kHz . Then work the patch hard with 4.7 kHz , then finally a multi freq detector. After a few weeks of working a patch of land out like this i can just about clear everything out of the patch including most of the trash. I start by going for the higher conductive targets and picking all these signals out first and over time with each visit to the site i work my way down the conductive target range and start digging the aluminium out and eventually work my way down to digging the foil out. The foil area is my favourite conductive target range because i know a ring with a stone in will come out (sometimes quickly and some times it may take 30 visits to the site to get that ring that you or others have missed)
Have no mercy on trash and dig it all out.....
 
my work doesn't allow it. I usually have training appointments at the ymca in the mornings. My only choice is to leave on an afternoon or around 5:00 when the temp starts to back off some. What arera of IL are you in?
 
I gave conductive sounds a try today and I think I like it much better. I am in IL as well so maybe we can hunt sometime.
 
n/t
 
change coils...then change coils again....then pound it with my XL Pro...then pound it again with my CZ70Pro. I love swingin' different machines as each can do something the other one can't. My main unit is the SE though. I love this hobby.
 
affect depth somewhat. I always feel the signals are better when the ground is moist...of course so are trash signals though.
 
Nice finds Bryce! I haven't been around much lately. But, it's nice to see you're having some good finds!

-Bill
 
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