Cladiator (OR)
Member
Hi everyone,
I was able to spend a couple of hours this afternoon at the little "micro-park" that I've found a couple of goodies at before. I was running multi-conductive and set my machine to manual 18 because this area has a tendency for Auto +3 to start out at 18-19 and then within a couple of minutes be running at 13-15.
The first couple of digs turned out to be nails--no real surprise, but they did have that sweet silver sound even though the cursor in QuickMask was telling me "ignore it, it's just iron". About 30 minutes into the hunt I got a repeatable high pitch "dime" sounding signal that was a bit scratchy on both ends. I was able to turn 90 degrees and still get somewhat of the same signal, although it did get a little more intermittent. The ferrous number on the display was bouncing all over between 12 and 22, while the conductive number was fairly stable and usually showing 43 to 45. Depth indicated the target was down about 6". I pulled a 4" plug and checked the hole with the X-1--what a beauuuuuutiful sweet sound I heard through the headphones
. I watched the display as I checked the hole and it was now locked on 12/46--and with that, a bigger smile came across my face. I carefully popped out another 2" plug and checked with the X-1--oh yeah, you're mine! Gently opening the plug, I first see a silver reeded edge and then the legs of Miss Liberty standing over "1927". My third SLQ, and all from the same general area (the other two I previously found came from the park across the street). After putting the coin in my soft pouch for safe keeping, I rescanned the hole with the detector--sure enough, the scratchy part of the signal and the bouncy ferrous readings were being caused by a chunk of iron that was indicating a few inches deeper in the same hole--man, this machine is awesome!
The rest of the hunt was fairly uneventful with a couple pieces of clad and two Wheats (1926-S, and 1944-D). But that was fine by me because the SLQ kept me smiling all the way home!
Thanks for looking and good luck on your next hunt!
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I was able to spend a couple of hours this afternoon at the little "micro-park" that I've found a couple of goodies at before. I was running multi-conductive and set my machine to manual 18 because this area has a tendency for Auto +3 to start out at 18-19 and then within a couple of minutes be running at 13-15.
The first couple of digs turned out to be nails--no real surprise, but they did have that sweet silver sound even though the cursor in QuickMask was telling me "ignore it, it's just iron". About 30 minutes into the hunt I got a repeatable high pitch "dime" sounding signal that was a bit scratchy on both ends. I was able to turn 90 degrees and still get somewhat of the same signal, although it did get a little more intermittent. The ferrous number on the display was bouncing all over between 12 and 22, while the conductive number was fairly stable and usually showing 43 to 45. Depth indicated the target was down about 6". I pulled a 4" plug and checked the hole with the X-1--what a beauuuuuutiful sweet sound I heard through the headphones
. I watched the display as I checked the hole and it was now locked on 12/46--and with that, a bigger smile came across my face. I carefully popped out another 2" plug and checked with the X-1--oh yeah, you're mine! Gently opening the plug, I first see a silver reeded edge and then the legs of Miss Liberty standing over "1927". My third SLQ, and all from the same general area (the other two I previously found came from the park across the street). After putting the coin in my soft pouch for safe keeping, I rescanned the hole with the detector--sure enough, the scratchy part of the signal and the bouncy ferrous readings were being caused by a chunk of iron that was indicating a few inches deeper in the same hole--man, this machine is awesome!The rest of the hunt was fairly uneventful with a couple pieces of clad and two Wheats (1926-S, and 1944-D). But that was fine by me because the SLQ kept me smiling all the way home!
Thanks for looking and good luck on your next hunt!
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