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Barber Dime Hat Trick...and a few Injuns'

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Hotcz70

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Met up with silverfix (Kennon) at one of our parks for an all day hunt.

"Heavy D" was on the road... and the Yeti was workin'...so it was just me and Kennon for the day.

This was my kind of hunt...a keeper at a pace of about one per hour..and they were ALL oldies.:)

NO wheaties...and NO new silver.....just old stuff. :clapping:

I really had to work for everything I dug....so I really feel like I learned a little more of the SE language:biggrin:

Again all the coins I dug were in the 8" to 10" range and there was a reason that each and every coin was still in the ground...and had been walked over before.

A couple on edge...3 masked by iron...and one masked by trash...and all at nice depths.:)

Kennon dug an injun and 2 v-nickels and he had to work hard too. I was impresed with his V's...and I too tried a few nickel hits...but ended up getting punked by 8 beaver tails.:smoke: :cool:

Would have been an even more awesome day if we wouldn't have had to spend a bunch of time filling in some "ham & egger's" nasty UNFILLED holes.:thumbdown:

Some freakin' goof left at least 10 holes with dirt piled up off to the side...AND they also left their trash next to many of the holes. :ranting:

This kind of crap really ticks me off and it ruins it for the rest of us.:confused:

Not sure which is worse....leaving unfilled holes...or hunting without permission at a place that you know you should have it. :thumbdown:

It doesn't matter...cause' I make sure I don't do either one.:cheers:

I hope everyone is getting some good huntin' in while the weather is still cooperating.
 
I totally agree with you about filling in holes and permission. I went to Menard's today and saw cheap metal detectors for sale. I'm assuming it is usually the newbie/cheapies that cause most of the problems. Wish they would include a book of coin values with each cheap detector. If you are out to make some dollars..... Way more lucrative to pick up aluminum cans. Guess you need to learn this from experience. But people can cause lots of damage and that hurts us all.

Three barbers and three IHs without a wheatie is very impressive. Says alot about your sites and skills. Any Clad?

Chris
 
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Congrats on the Barber dime hat trick Bryce. :thumbup:
Unusual that you found Barbers, IHs and no
wheat cents. And thanks for filling the holes and
packing off the trash from someone elses digs. :beers:
Gold Nuggets :wiggle:
 
probably get most of the 1" to 2" clad at my parks.
To be honest...I rarely dig any clad at all...and in fact don't even hear much clad ringing through the headphones.

I often see other hunters at these spots so I'm sure they keep the park wiped out of surface to 7" coins of any type..and that's fine by me:)

My parks are no secret...pretty much just the same bunch of parks I've been hunting since the late 70's...and are pretty much devoid of all mid to higher conductors at depths less than 8"....and most of the wheaties I have found in the past at these spots are in the 5" to 7" range.

When I go to these beat up spots...I am always hopeful that it will be freshly mowed so I can get a little better depth.

The last 6 months or so I have been able to go back to these parks and head directly for the "nasty zones"...that being the strips that no one else wants to hunt...where the iron is thick or trash is terrible. I say this with complete honesty...the spots that everyone else usually strays from...dense iron/trash.....are the spots I now make a direct line to:thumbup:

It's never a large area to hunt...but I have to move so slow...that I can spend hours hunting just one of these nasty zones...hoping to sniff another keeper from the crud.
 
Awesome hunt! I've been trying that method of finding the dense signal areas and creeping along and have had some success so far. It's slow going though, that's for sure!

But I'm still getting fooled by iron that I think might be a deep silver, just because it chirps high a bit, but isn't so repeatable. When you find these that are somewhat masked, is the tone breaking up at all, or just really narrow?

Pinpointing the ones on edge drives me nuts... I may as well factor in a 4 inch offset.

Good stuff - can't get enough.

HH,
DirtFlipper
 
I am disappointed when I come across an uneducated or uncaring 'treasure hunter' that has left unsightly holes, piles of dirt and garbage for everybody else to deal with. I feel like I'm cleaning up after somebody elses dog. But I don't want the mess there, and I don't want to be blamed for leaving the mess, so I clean it up and get back to my own hunting.

Appears that the good karma came back around for you. Nice job.


Rich (Utah)
 
So, you pulled the rabbit out of the hat huh? Nice hat trick Bryce.:clapping: Makes my lone barber look like the barber shop is going out of business.:rofl: HH.

Eddie
 
Thanks D.F.

"But I'm still getting fooled by iron that I think might be a deep silver, just because it chirps high a bit, but isn't so repeatable. When you find these that are somewhat masked, is the tone breaking up at all, or just really narrow?"

Trust me...I still get fooled too...but not nearly as much as I used to.
At these parks...I either chase some iffy hits...or go home with an empty pouch. Sometimes I do BOTH:bouncy:

The chirp or "warble" as I call it IS repeatable..but it might only hit and repeat in one spot and from one angle. From all other angles it might break up...null...etc...but if I can get it to repeat both on the sweep AND return sweep consistently from just that one spot...I'm a diggin':biggrin:

If it breaks up...I move on...UNLESS it is a sweet repeater from one angle as I explained.

As for the other part of the question....yes...it is usually a very tiny window of a warble...but if it repeats as described...I'll dig it.:)
 
Bryce-IL said:
Thanks D.F.

"But I'm still getting fooled by iron that I think might be a deep silver, just because it chirps high a bit, but isn't so repeatable. When you find these that are somewhat masked, is the tone breaking up at all, or just really narrow?"

Trust me...I still get fooled too...but not nearly as much as I used to.
At these parks...I either chase some iffy hits...or go home with an empty pouch. Sometimes I do BOTH:bouncy:

The chirp or "warble" as I call it IS repeatable..but it might only hit and repeat in one spot and from one angle. From all other angles it might break up...null...etc...but if I can get it to repeat both on the sweep AND return sweep consistently from just that one spot...I'm a diggin':biggrin:

If it breaks up...I move on...UNLESS it is a sweet repeater from one angle as I explained.

As for the other part of the question....yes...it is usually a very tiny window of a warble...but if it repeats as described...I'll dig it.:)
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Thanks for the info, Bryce. One more thing - how's the pinpointing working out on these types of signals for you? Seems like when I get one of these iffy ones, the cursor will flutter along the top edge, and dance with the IM boundary a bit, but show some signs of hope dashing over to the right. But when I open up the dir flap and stick in the Sun Ray probe, then I'm greeted with a solid null. It's at that point that I don't usually spend much more time with it and move on. Are you busting past that null to get down to another target, or are they showing their true silver selves right away after opening it up?
 
What you described about pinpointing is exactly what I experience on about 50% of these hits I'm talking about.

I never chase these hits unless the depth meter shows at least 6" or more...so because of that fact I dig a nice deep plug to start with.

I then switch the probe on and give it a shot. If I get no warble....then I'll give it one more shot by switching to pinpoint with the probe. If the probe nulls in pinpoint... I always walk on.

If however I don't get a null when switching the probe to pinpoint...I will always dig the hole a little deeper or dig out the sides some more to broaden the hole. I can't tell you how many times I have found silver on edge off to the side or bottom side of the hole after widening the hole.:)

I also can't tell you how many times the target ended up being crap after doing so.:smoke: :cool:
 
Bryce-IL said:
What you described about pinpointing is exactly what I experience on about 50% of these hits I'm talking about.

I never chase these hits unless the depth meter shows at least 6" or more...so because of that fact I dig a nice deep plug to start with.

I then switch the probe on and give it a shot. If I get no warble....then I'll give it one more shot by switching to pinpoint with the probe. If the probe nulls in pinpoint... I always walk on.

If however I don't get a null when switching the probe to pinpoint...I will always dig the hole a little deeper or dig out the sides some more to broaden the hole. I can't tell you how many times I have found silver on edge off to the side or bottom side of the hole after widening the hole.:)

I also can't tell you how many times the target ended up being crap after doing so.:smoke: :cool:
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When I switch to the probe, but still in detect mode, if the target is in the disc'd region it will null (go silent). But with my SE, I haven't had it null when in pinpoint mode - that seems to be all metal mode for me. If there's a target in the hole, it'll still sound, but the cursor will bury itself on the far left in the disc region (which explains the null while using the probe in detect mode). But when I flip back to detect mode (still with the probe), it will null. Now, if there's actually a decent target in there, I'll get a warble or chirp, and get down to business.

Is there a setting that causes pinpoint mode to null? When I'm using the coil in pinpoint mode, I don't recall it nulling either (seems to enjoy picking up the trash signal I don't want though). Or by 'null' do you just mean no target signal? (I run with some threshold tone, so a 'null' goes silent).

Hmm, now I have an urge to go 'tecting again. Imagine that...
 
I'm sorry... I messed that ALL up. I apologize for the confusion.

We ARE on the same page...I just goofed at what I was trying to say.

Here is what I MEANT to say:smoke:....If when I switch the probe on..check the hole and get no warble...BUT get a null...I walk on.

If however I check the hole with the probe and get no warble OR NO null...I then switch to pinpoint to see if I can get a sound of some kind.

If I still get no sound after switching to pinpoint...I will sometimes dig the hole wider to see if there is something on edge off to the side of the hole....or possibly deeper still.

To quote you...."Now, if there's actually a decent target in there, I'll get a warble or chirp, and get down to business".

I could NOT have said it better myself:clapping:
 
Bryce-IL said:
My parks are no secret...pretty much just the same bunch of parks I've been hunting since the late 70's...
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Good thing you live so far away.... Would have to slap a GPS tracker on your car :) WTG on another great set of finds Bryce!
 
2 of those coins Bryce but you know what you are doing in the iron more than I do.
You are always fun to hunt with and at least I did find 2 nickels and an indian head. Cant read the dates but at least I can see the V on the nicks.
Later---Kennon
 
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