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A little trophy for me today

WV62

WV62

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Still working Jim Tn’s method, but today I was running my new NEL Snake coil on the F75.

Settings, Disc 0, Sensitivity 80, Processor some de but most of the day JE, and 3 tones

My brother and I were hunting in a local park that has given up some silver in the past. I don’t know how I found that buffalo nickel, I got a high tone off of it and some high ID jumpy numbers and I called my brother over and he put his F5 on it and got the same thing. When we got it out of the ground it would not high tone anymore and the ID number was about 28 and the hole was clean.

Then just about the end of the day the snake strikes again, this time it was the 1914 silver dime.

As for the little NEL snake coil, it wasn’t the deepest coil, but man it liked little things and it made them sound big. I had one target that was holding high tone and the ID numbers close enough to the half dollar range that it got my attention. My brother put the F5 on it and he could hardly hear the signal and he checked the depth and was getting 10”. We didn’t dig that one, because I couldn’t even get a depth reading on it with my machine but it was loud and clear in disc mode. I would guess it was another 22cal bullet case.
The separation is about like swinging a razor blade.

Ron in WV
 
Congrats the Buffalo and Barber Ron!! Sounds like the snake coil is a good one for target separation.
 
Ron forgot to mention we also found 5 wheat pennies on our hunt and we noticed that the wheat pennies had a lower ID # that the non wheat pennies(wheats ran about 57 to 61 and regular pennies came in 66 it 70). We hunted all day and Ron didn't find that silver dime until about 15 minutes before we quit.That silver is hard to find but this new chirking method is squeezing us out a little here and there.
 
Thanks all, that was a good way to end the day on high note. I will be heading back to that same hill side with the 5" coil and cover the whole area.

I like that little snake coil but for old silver like that dime I don't want my learning curve to get in the way, I will go with the 5" coil I understand it better.

Also big thinks to Jim Tn for putting us on to this method of hunting, this is my second silver hunting this way.

Ron in WV
 
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Congrats on the silver! That NEL snake is a nice looking coil! If I didn't already have the 5" and a NEL Sharpshooter, I would add this to my arsenal. Thanks for posting your results with it!

My sharpshooter LOVES nickels. I believe I have found more nickels with it than any other coin combined aside from pennies of course :smoke:

diggindad
 
WV62 said:
I would guess it was another 22cal bullet case



That's really interesting WV. Were you setup in 4h tones? My 70 with the 10" elliptical hits hard on shallow 22 cal's at 22 VDI. Do you think because of the depth your coil identified them in the nickel area and then deferred to the high tone?-----------------IB
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For my F75 I also have several coils, 11"DD, 5"DD, 6.5" elliptical concentric, NEL sharpshooter, 5x10 and now the little snake. I only had the snake out the one time so I am not an expert on it.
I can say when I run any of the other coils the response is about the same to targets, but the snake makes little things hit with a lot louder sound.
I also had way more than normal targets that would disappear when I would go to AM pinpointing, and yet they were still there when I went back to disc.

I was running 3 tones and not trying for the nickels, I have been in the same area and tried to run 3h which will bring the nickels in with a high tone. Just to much trash and to many high tones coming at me. So with 3 tones when I get a hint of a high tone I would work over the target area trying to clean it up as much as I could and watch my ID numbers.
In the ground I was getting those 22cal casings to come in high tone and I can't remember the ID numbers but they were jumpy and at least in the 60's or higher. I didn't check one after I got it out of the ground but my guess is it would be like that nickel it would drop way back on the ID number.

Now some may start to think that this coil is broken, but I think not. I had no problem over any of the coin targets and I pulled several out of a area that my brother had just walked away from with his F5, he said it was too trashy and he had a spot that he was real interested in working.

Kind of hard to put into words, but it is a different animal.

It may be better suited for Jewelry hunting.

Maybe a few others will try the snake and we can get some more info going on this little coil.

Kind thinking now of getting one for my Lobo

Ron in WV
 
Nice digs, I always enjoy finding Barbers.

I have the NEL Snake for my F75, but haven't really tested it much.

I have seen old nickels hit in the high coin range many times, and on various machines, so I don't think it's that unusual. Not sure why, as they TID correctly when out of the ground :shrug:
 
I found one of those 22 cal cases still in my pouch from the other day and I put it under the detector and it ID at 22. Wonder if it would ID a 44 mag at 44?:lol:

Ron in WV
 
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