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DeepTech

Almost got skunked...

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Topdecker

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Last Saturday was stacked against me. I got up early to go hunt only to find slate grey skies and a steady rain. I waited a few hours for the rain to disperse only to discover that I had a flat tire. I got the car dropped off for some tire repairs and my hunting buddy took us west, out of the rain, to a former military academy to hunt.

I searched for over 4 hours and never found a single coin. But I did find this:

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22 grams of 14k gold. It should sell for melt at $420-$450 or so, depending on the deal I manage to get.

I found it with a Deleon using a big honking DD coil - I pin pointed it with my Golden which kept me from scarring it up on recovery. (I find targets with the Deleon, drop flags, and come back and recover with the Golden. The DD coil is poor for target isolation.)

My hunting buddy got a '43 quarter and a wheat penny and a bit of other change. It was a muddy, sunless day but it worked out :)

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Which coil are you using on the golden and how deep was that item ?

I myself like the golden with the csc. And find pinpointing a snap...
 
Jim -

The site goes back quite a ways, so I wasn't using the CSC because it had the potential for deeper targets. I ended up digging very few things deeper than 5 inches. Those that were deeper were older military junk (a brass backplate and part of an ammo clip). Anyhow, I was using a 15"x12" DD coil - same net effect as the CSC, just with at least twice the depth (and about twice the weight).

Anyhow, the hunk 'o gold was only around 2" deep. Showed up as a 50-52 on the Deleon's meter. I'd dug 4 tabs just prior (all of them deeper), so I was little surprised not to get another piece of aluminum. I like surprises like that :)

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That nice piece of gold jewelry makes up for a lot of slow days. WOW! :cheers:

tabman
 
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Not every dark cloud has a silver lining, yours had a Gold lining.................... WTG :tesoro:
 
Topdecker,

Did you have to send your DeLeon into Tesoro to have it re-calibrated for your CSC?
 
CladDog said:
Did you have to send your DeLeon into Tesoro to have it re-calibrated for your CSC?
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No, it works great on the Deleon. I've got two other Tesoro metal detectors (a Silver and a Golden) and it works great on all of them, but I like it least on the Golden (too much tone shifting).

I went out over lunch and cashed the gold out for $425.00. That's $375 once the wife tax was deducted.

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Now that is nice, it wasnt all badd luck
 
Awsome find. I like when them detectors pay for themselves!
 
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