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Anyone see a minnie ball?...

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this is no joke.
this thing was about 11" deep. my shovel blade is 9" long.
i found two today at about 11". i can't believe it.
marc came over while i was digging one. before i had it out, he said he was thinking something like, 'that's quite a hole and there's no way a minnie ball sunk that deep.' <img src="/metal/html/wink.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=";)">
now i'm impressed with the explorer finding minnie balls.
 
i was concerned that the explorer wouldn't do it on minnie balls after going over some in my test area, (probably because they're freshly buried), but it will do it.
i was using the stock coil.
i felt better last year when one day i got a minnie ball from about 8", that was the deepest i had found until yesterday.
oh...and the deep ones i found yesterday just barely pinpointed.
 
I had the perfect site to dig them deep...and a lot of them too. I can't say the deepest ones I've dug but I know over a foot easy, and no way would any of those pinpoint. (I don't pinpoint anyway)
 
At a certain site in VA, I was getting them at 14-15 inch range, but that was in some nice sil by VA standards at least... I use a wilcox 201 and plenty were at the full length of the coil... I was using stock coil... I know that Carl Matheis was there when he worked for minelab with a wot and dug 3 plates that were over the 2 foot range... When the ground is right and you can maintain a fairly steady threshold, those little faint hits are deep targets.
However in places not far from that spot getting one at 7 inches is a feat... so yeah you can certainly get them deep, when conditions are right
 
I know many of mine had the be that deep. I guess it does take experience but you also need the site and conditions.
PS The more I dug the deeper I seemed to be able to get so I guess experience does play a little bit of a role. Back than the little things I was learning I thought of as tricks, now it's just knowing the detector and normal.
 
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