I managed a couple outings this week.
The First was Memorial Day morning. I tried to get out a little early while everyone was taking the opportunity to sleep in.
I first stopped by a large park that I have been frequenting. I wanted to try a new area and thought it would be the perfect time since there were only a handful of visitors there this early. A couple of deeper targets were very difficult to recover, the soil was already hardening after the last rain. This area would need to wait for a good rainstorm to soften it up.
I packed back up and drove out to another area I had been hunting off and on. I wandered around for a couple hours only picking up clad coins and decided to move over to the far side of the property and see if I may have some better luck.
Finally I stumbled across a deep target between a couple very old trees that was in the 8" range and reading with a high tone. it was coming up with a 10-18/40-42 reading. I messed around with my settings to see if I could clean up the signal a bit. The target turned out to be a 40's wheatie. At least it was something. About 50' away I came across what I was sure was a silver coin but it was with a large null and was being impossible to pinpoint. I finally gave it a best shot pinpoint in motion mode and cut a deep plug. Nothing. And Nothing with the pinpointer. I brought the big coil back around and it seemed like the coin was more on the right side of the hole. I took a bunch of dirt out and tried the pinpointer again. Ah, a target. but way off center. I found a silver Rosey at 7" on edge.
I rescanned the hole with my pistol probe. Nothing. I cleaned up my mess and putt everything back and swung one last time over everything and Bing, another silver sound but this time over to the left. i went through the same trouble as with the other Rosey, about a foot away to the left of the first and also sitting straight up and down.
That was a headache. but I did get to silver Rosey's out of it. My first Rosey's with the E-trac. All the other coins have been Merc's and a Barber.
I moved around the corner of the building and began sweeping the barren dirt underneath an old pine. It was adjacent to a sidewalk. I picked up a shallow zinc'er reading and about walked away but popped it out and was surprised to find an old Utah Sales Tax Token only 2" deep. I search around the tree a little more carefully and found a low conductive target reading around 9/25. It was also very shallow. Out popped a 194x-S silver Jefferson Nickel. I need to clean off some sap with some turpentine when I get a few minutes to get the rest of the date. This is the first silver nickel I've found with my E-trac. I've been trying to 'focus' on low conductors and see if I can start turning up more old ones to match all the silver dimes and old pennies. So far, so good.
I hunted up and around the corner back to where I had started when first arrived and hunting a steep little embankment the went down to a sidewalk. I've hunting this area dozens of times. But somehow I missed a Silver Rosey, my third of the morning. I picked up some more clad and a couple more Sale Tax tokens. Finding the small tokens is always a good sign since they are small like a dime and usually indicate there are other goodies in the area.
The take for the day was 3 silver dimes, 1 silver nickel, 1 wheat, a few sales tax tokens and a handful of clad quarters and dimes.
This evening I swung over to an old neighborhood and decided to see if I couild get permission to hunt some private yards. I've had my eye on a house with a grassed lot next door for a few years but have never caught anybody home. I stopped and rang the bell and ...... nobody came to the door ... again. So, I worked my way up the street hoping to find somebody home. Nada.
I spotted an old house across the street that had my name all over it. And they weren't home either. But the neighbor was. And she was as nice as could be. The house was built in 1904 on a sandstone foundation. The original family lived in it until 1927 when it was sold. The new family moved in on May 21st, 1927, the day Charles Lindburgh landed the Spirit of St. Louis in France.
She had very little huntable front yard because of her gardening and flower beds but said I was more than welcome to hunt the large parking strip area between the old stone sidewalk and the gutter.
The EMI was AWFUL. I tried to noise cancel 3 times and had no luck. I turned down the sensitivity to 15 and set in on chan 2 and finally received some reprieve and began hunting.
The ground was very clean. I was sure that it had been hunted before. I picked up a couple shallow rotting zinc'ers; depth 3". I slowly made my way along and finally got a good signal on the lower half of my depth meter, reading like a deep wheatie. I shouldn't have been surprised when up popped a 1927 wheatie. Thank you Mr Lindburgh. I picked up a couple pieces of trash and then came across a real if'er. Big null with a high coin reading for one direction. I pinpointed as best I could and took a 5" plug. Target still in the hole. I pinpointed with the pistol probe and found the target off center. I popped up the large token in the picture, Good For 12 1/2
The First was Memorial Day morning. I tried to get out a little early while everyone was taking the opportunity to sleep in.
I first stopped by a large park that I have been frequenting. I wanted to try a new area and thought it would be the perfect time since there were only a handful of visitors there this early. A couple of deeper targets were very difficult to recover, the soil was already hardening after the last rain. This area would need to wait for a good rainstorm to soften it up.
I packed back up and drove out to another area I had been hunting off and on. I wandered around for a couple hours only picking up clad coins and decided to move over to the far side of the property and see if I may have some better luck.
Finally I stumbled across a deep target between a couple very old trees that was in the 8" range and reading with a high tone. it was coming up with a 10-18/40-42 reading. I messed around with my settings to see if I could clean up the signal a bit. The target turned out to be a 40's wheatie. At least it was something. About 50' away I came across what I was sure was a silver coin but it was with a large null and was being impossible to pinpoint. I finally gave it a best shot pinpoint in motion mode and cut a deep plug. Nothing. And Nothing with the pinpointer. I brought the big coil back around and it seemed like the coin was more on the right side of the hole. I took a bunch of dirt out and tried the pinpointer again. Ah, a target. but way off center. I found a silver Rosey at 7" on edge.
I rescanned the hole with my pistol probe. Nothing. I cleaned up my mess and putt everything back and swung one last time over everything and Bing, another silver sound but this time over to the left. i went through the same trouble as with the other Rosey, about a foot away to the left of the first and also sitting straight up and down.
That was a headache. but I did get to silver Rosey's out of it. My first Rosey's with the E-trac. All the other coins have been Merc's and a Barber.
I moved around the corner of the building and began sweeping the barren dirt underneath an old pine. It was adjacent to a sidewalk. I picked up a shallow zinc'er reading and about walked away but popped it out and was surprised to find an old Utah Sales Tax Token only 2" deep. I search around the tree a little more carefully and found a low conductive target reading around 9/25. It was also very shallow. Out popped a 194x-S silver Jefferson Nickel. I need to clean off some sap with some turpentine when I get a few minutes to get the rest of the date. This is the first silver nickel I've found with my E-trac. I've been trying to 'focus' on low conductors and see if I can start turning up more old ones to match all the silver dimes and old pennies. So far, so good.
I hunted up and around the corner back to where I had started when first arrived and hunting a steep little embankment the went down to a sidewalk. I've hunting this area dozens of times. But somehow I missed a Silver Rosey, my third of the morning. I picked up some more clad and a couple more Sale Tax tokens. Finding the small tokens is always a good sign since they are small like a dime and usually indicate there are other goodies in the area.
The take for the day was 3 silver dimes, 1 silver nickel, 1 wheat, a few sales tax tokens and a handful of clad quarters and dimes.
This evening I swung over to an old neighborhood and decided to see if I couild get permission to hunt some private yards. I've had my eye on a house with a grassed lot next door for a few years but have never caught anybody home. I stopped and rang the bell and ...... nobody came to the door ... again. So, I worked my way up the street hoping to find somebody home. Nada.
I spotted an old house across the street that had my name all over it. And they weren't home either. But the neighbor was. And she was as nice as could be. The house was built in 1904 on a sandstone foundation. The original family lived in it until 1927 when it was sold. The new family moved in on May 21st, 1927, the day Charles Lindburgh landed the Spirit of St. Louis in France.
She had very little huntable front yard because of her gardening and flower beds but said I was more than welcome to hunt the large parking strip area between the old stone sidewalk and the gutter.
The EMI was AWFUL. I tried to noise cancel 3 times and had no luck. I turned down the sensitivity to 15 and set in on chan 2 and finally received some reprieve and began hunting.The ground was very clean. I was sure that it had been hunted before. I picked up a couple shallow rotting zinc'ers; depth 3". I slowly made my way along and finally got a good signal on the lower half of my depth meter, reading like a deep wheatie. I shouldn't have been surprised when up popped a 1927 wheatie. Thank you Mr Lindburgh. I picked up a couple pieces of trash and then came across a real if'er. Big null with a high coin reading for one direction. I pinpointed as best I could and took a 5" plug. Target still in the hole. I pinpointed with the pistol probe and found the target off center. I popped up the large token in the picture, Good For 12 1/2
