And I thought mud clad stabbing

[WV62]

My brother and I started off hunting silver in a yard we had permission to hunt, no luck there so we moved over to the park and was below a couple of ball fields. We were still hunting slow along the road looking for silver, and again nothing. I moved over closer to the ball field and found a quarter and a dime right off the bat. That's when I thought mud and clad stabbing.
We took a break and I changed to the 11"DD coil and I pulled the shaft out as long as it would go, set to de mode, disc at max and sensitivity to 40 and off I went. For some reason with these settings I was pretty much only getting quarters.

So in the last hour of hunting I stabbed 20 quarters, 2 dimes and some pennies from the slow silver hunting.

Thanks mud, I had a good time stabbing today.

Ron in WV

 

[Elton]

Battery money is good..4 batteries every 40 hours you can be way ahead real fast at that pace

 

[mudpuppy]

Quarters are good! Especially when you can knock down 5 bucks per hour!

Thats more than your first job ever paid you right? And its FUN! And you will still manage to find some silvers every year just from all the ground you will be covering...more silver jewelry than coins but still, a coin every now and then.
try... disc 4 sens 50 thresh -3, DEmode and as many tones as possible, and you will be just happy as a kid on all the money jumping out of the ground!...your coil will be flying pretty fast, and the pings will stop you.

Mud

 

[WV62]

Yep, my first job was at a local brewery making .53c per hour, but our beer was free, for real and we could drink on the job.
I did have a good time racking up those coins.
I am running the F75 so I don't think I have thresh adjustment on the disc side, but I can do all the other settings.

I got to ask why so low on the disc? The coins all come in above max except nickels and zinc's.

Ron in WV

 

[Ed Steinhoff]

The settings at 4 and 20 have a built extra sensitivty that will pick up small gold and silver, especially chains. these will be missed at the higher settings. By using the dp tones setting, the seperation of tones will keep you from digging trash.

 

[mudpuppy]

Ah yes, drinking on the job! Memories, memories...

Yeah, Ed's giving you the right scoop, Revier came across that tidbit a few weeks ago and us 70 users go by that..

I was running 1 disc for the past few years, but went up to 4, and it works great. Anyway, a low sens does affect depth, but 40-50 is perfect for clad stabbing/jewelry hunting targets in the top 4-5...you will still get the Q pings deeper than that, especially with a faster coil swing...the low sens tightens up the target profile so a guy can easily stab it and really helps hunting in the trash, or along a sidewalk, near big metal like in a totlot or around a storm drain...and, you dont need to use the PP button either! Just tap that big coil right on top of the ping until it sounds the loudest.

This may open up a whole new world for you, Ron. You came up during the big silver rush of the 70's and no doubt you knocked the stink out of old silver. Us poor guys who just started this sport have to hunt clad and gold and jewelry if we wanted to have a good productive day. If a fellow ever finds good old dirt with deep silver in it, at least we are getting to know the machine and we will be ready for that day!
Mud

 

[zeekeys]

Ron running with low sens settings helps when looking for coins in that your not picking up those deep down signals that usually spend a lot of time looking for and end up not being worth the dig. Almost all my good finds have been about 5" mark. If you really look at the forums most of the finds are in the 5" range. You are running high sens for the 5% good finds. Running the Thresh@-3 helps in cutting down those false signals. It is about having fun. Isn't there enough frustration without having it in your hobby too???
I know that this kind of hunting runs against the norm. I have never been the norm. It is what you want from metal detecting Ron. Your the one out there alone with the Universe. Enjoy.... Happy Trails....Z