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In between the rain we have been having for the last few days I have been trying to get in a little hunting when it slows.
The wife had me drive her to get a manicure and pedicure and pick her up afterwords so I had about 1 1/2 hours to kill and the rain had quit temporarily.
I drove to a very small park a mile away I have been to more than 1/2 a dozen times with a small grassy area that I have hunted with 3 different detectors...My F2 3 times, my Compadre twice, my Vaquero 2 times using the standard concentric and my 10X12 DD coil.
I have covered this area well, gridded and hit the main grass from 2 directions, over time I have dug every signal I have come across including the trash.
At this site I have found junk rings, lots of clad, a junk watch and one one silver ring, lots of tabs, bottle caps, foil and canslaw.
I am a dig it all hunter most of the time, you just never know 100% what you have till you dig it.
Needless to say, I think I cleaned it up pretty well.
My theory, however, is no site is ever really hunted out, it is a statistical impossibility.
I wasn't expecting much, but I just had to get some hunting in if I could, even if it was a little more trash.
You know how it is...when ya gotta dig, ya gotta dig.
I started at one corner and went in a diagonal direction this time, some signals I missed before might show up because I have seen this happen before many times in some of my favorite sites I have hunted over and over.
The first signal I got was in the 20's and I figured it was some foil and it was, but it could have just as easily have been small gold.
My second signal was a solid 74-76.
Might have been a big piece of can, but it sized out to be very small with the pinpoint tone, and my Propointer said the same.
I bent over dug a small plug in very wet and muddy soil, flipped over the plug and used the PP to find it.
The signal was gone.
Not in the hole, not in the plug, WTH?...I never lose signals.
Searched around for about 1/2 a minute and I was about to pick up my F2 and scan again when I looked about a foot to the right where I had laid my Lesche and right next to it in the grass was a muddy round ring that had a little silver showing through the mud.
Evidently it had stuck to the Lesche when I pried up the plug and it came out and I never knew it.
I thought I was going crazy for a second, that was a very solid tone I was chasing.
I took that ring over to one of the many puddles that had formed around me, dipped it and it came up clean and shiny.
Silver baby...number 8 for the year and the season is just starting!
Remember, no site is ever truly "hunted out".
Go slow, really overlap, search in several directions and use different coils or detectors if you have them.
Most of all, have patience.
The treasure is out there and we need to use our ears and brain and all the tools at our disposal to find it.
Sometimes, you might be very surprised on what the knowledgeable and patient hunter can find!
The wife had me drive her to get a manicure and pedicure and pick her up afterwords so I had about 1 1/2 hours to kill and the rain had quit temporarily.
I drove to a very small park a mile away I have been to more than 1/2 a dozen times with a small grassy area that I have hunted with 3 different detectors...My F2 3 times, my Compadre twice, my Vaquero 2 times using the standard concentric and my 10X12 DD coil.
I have covered this area well, gridded and hit the main grass from 2 directions, over time I have dug every signal I have come across including the trash.
At this site I have found junk rings, lots of clad, a junk watch and one one silver ring, lots of tabs, bottle caps, foil and canslaw.
I am a dig it all hunter most of the time, you just never know 100% what you have till you dig it.
Needless to say, I think I cleaned it up pretty well.
My theory, however, is no site is ever really hunted out, it is a statistical impossibility.
I wasn't expecting much, but I just had to get some hunting in if I could, even if it was a little more trash.
You know how it is...when ya gotta dig, ya gotta dig.
I started at one corner and went in a diagonal direction this time, some signals I missed before might show up because I have seen this happen before many times in some of my favorite sites I have hunted over and over.
The first signal I got was in the 20's and I figured it was some foil and it was, but it could have just as easily have been small gold.
My second signal was a solid 74-76.
Might have been a big piece of can, but it sized out to be very small with the pinpoint tone, and my Propointer said the same.
I bent over dug a small plug in very wet and muddy soil, flipped over the plug and used the PP to find it.
The signal was gone.
Not in the hole, not in the plug, WTH?...I never lose signals.
Searched around for about 1/2 a minute and I was about to pick up my F2 and scan again when I looked about a foot to the right where I had laid my Lesche and right next to it in the grass was a muddy round ring that had a little silver showing through the mud.
Evidently it had stuck to the Lesche when I pried up the plug and it came out and I never knew it.
I thought I was going crazy for a second, that was a very solid tone I was chasing.
I took that ring over to one of the many puddles that had formed around me, dipped it and it came up clean and shiny.
Silver baby...number 8 for the year and the season is just starting!
Remember, no site is ever truly "hunted out".
Go slow, really overlap, search in several directions and use different coils or detectors if you have them.
Most of all, have patience.
The treasure is out there and we need to use our ears and brain and all the tools at our disposal to find it.
Sometimes, you might be very surprised on what the knowledgeable and patient hunter can find!