I had a chance to get out for a few hours about 2 weeks ago. Been a little slack in getting it posted here. The winter weather was unusually nice and gave opportunity to hunt the private yard of a beautiful two story house built in 1900. The new owner was renovating the yard and had removed all the grass in the front and the large parking strip and tilled the dirt mixing everything left together.
I had my Racer 2 with me, set up with the 7" concentric coil. Detector settings were Two Tone mode. ID Filter at 12. Tone break at nickel. Sensitivity was down at 65 due to some emi.
The VERY first beep and target of the day was 64-65 and right on top of the dirt, I could see the edge of the coin. I was thinking low zinc penny reading. Imagine my surprise when the coin turned out NOT to be a zincoln, but an 1896 IHC.
Things were pretty slow from there. The yard appeared to have been cherry picked by one or more detectorists as most of the conductive signals I was getting were disintegrating zincolns, various tabs and pieces of aluminum. Still, careful searching turned up some “good” clad tucked in close to garbage. The Racer 2 does a nice job separating close targets. Looking in some unlikely spots turned up a very clean 1908 IHC. I turned it over hoping to discover an S on the back, but no luck this time.
The two IHC’s were nice to find. Not a single wheatie though. And no silver. Lots of zincolns and pull tabs though. A small handful of clad. Also a 1 mil Utah Sales tax token, a nice marble and a couple odd and ends.
HH
Rich -
I had my Racer 2 with me, set up with the 7" concentric coil. Detector settings were Two Tone mode. ID Filter at 12. Tone break at nickel. Sensitivity was down at 65 due to some emi.
The VERY first beep and target of the day was 64-65 and right on top of the dirt, I could see the edge of the coin. I was thinking low zinc penny reading. Imagine my surprise when the coin turned out NOT to be a zincoln, but an 1896 IHC.
Things were pretty slow from there. The yard appeared to have been cherry picked by one or more detectorists as most of the conductive signals I was getting were disintegrating zincolns, various tabs and pieces of aluminum. Still, careful searching turned up some “good” clad tucked in close to garbage. The Racer 2 does a nice job separating close targets. Looking in some unlikely spots turned up a very clean 1908 IHC. I turned it over hoping to discover an S on the back, but no luck this time.
The two IHC’s were nice to find. Not a single wheatie though. And no silver. Lots of zincolns and pull tabs though. A small handful of clad. Also a 1 mil Utah Sales tax token, a nice marble and a couple odd and ends.
HH
Rich -