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Still mostly crippled but I am able to walk around a bit for short times now so still hunting when I can.
The park down the block from me is way old but I know an area on one edge where homes used to stand going back to at least the 20's but I suspect way before that.
I have found old wheaties here, a couple of Indians and one of the guys in the local club supposedly found a trime or something else really old here years ago.
Most won't hunt here because the trash amount is almost unbelievable consisting of bits of iron of all sizes leftover from the homes they knocked down, tabs from modern to way old beaver tails, foil and can slaw in all shapes and sizes and other junk.
If you had to pick a site for a nice relaxing no hassle hunt most wouldn't even think about this place but me, I am crazy and I love the challenge.
I come here hoping to find more Indians, Barbers or some other old coins and jewelry is secondary but I will sure take some if I find it.
This morning I hunted this place with the F70 and some settings I like to use at trashed out sites like this.
Most use high disc at sites like this and I did near the end and plucked out a few modern coins but what works even better for me is something that most wouldn't even attempt..but like I said I am crazy.
I go the other way and turn everything up as high as I can go.
For you F70/F75 guys that would be...
Sense 99, Threshhold at 9, SL speed and all metal AT.
Sure I get tons of signals this way with every slight movement of the coil, lots of false ones too, but i learned to watch the screen closely for patterns and any decent numbers that seem to repeat especially those not iron, hit them from a second direction to make sure they are still there and if they are I dig those.
This took tons of time and practice to get good at this but over time I got very comfortable doing it this way and it has worked very well in many different challenging sites with both huge amount of iron and also tons of just regular park trash.
I call this the blast through method and I am not saying everyone should do it like I do but like I said what works, works.
All the other times I used this in the great soil back when I lived in Kansas and I was hoping it work work here in the much hotter soil in Alabama and I am thrilled that it does.
Not only that but even though I was using the sniper coil I seem to be getting really deep doing this.
I had several targets that pinpointed at the 10-12" depth area this morning.
Didn't dig them because the numbers weren't all that interesting, (high), and I still only have the use of one arm but considering when I lived here before and hunted I rarely dug or even saw any targets much past 5" this F70 still seems to surprise me on what it is capable of.
I wonder what I can hit with the big DD coil mounted in this devil dirt.
Someday soon I will go after some of those deepies and see what they are.
Could be great for all I know.
Anyhow I get there and GB'd which here is way higher than Kansas soil in the low 70's with 3 bars on the dirt meter, (Kansas soil was mostly in the 50's with one bar on the dirt meter...if that), and proceed to hunt blast-through style and the very first signal I choose to dig was this thing which was slightly below my normal low 70's copper cent numbers and more like the high 60's but they repeated from 2 ways so it got dug.
Like I said only a wheatie but an old one...1911 as far as my old eyes can tell because it is well worn.
A short but great hunt for me.
I found out there are still older coins hanging out at a place close to home, also that blast-through method still works well even in this dirt and the depth I acquired some of those deeper targets surprised me even if I didn't dig them...this time.
Only one arm and hobbling around like a drunk but this hobby still makes me happy no matter what I find.
Finding coins more than 100 years old in heavy trash is the cherry on top of the icing on the cake for me.
Forgive the pic quality....still using my cell because my camera is still packed away somewhere.
The park down the block from me is way old but I know an area on one edge where homes used to stand going back to at least the 20's but I suspect way before that.
I have found old wheaties here, a couple of Indians and one of the guys in the local club supposedly found a trime or something else really old here years ago.
Most won't hunt here because the trash amount is almost unbelievable consisting of bits of iron of all sizes leftover from the homes they knocked down, tabs from modern to way old beaver tails, foil and can slaw in all shapes and sizes and other junk.
If you had to pick a site for a nice relaxing no hassle hunt most wouldn't even think about this place but me, I am crazy and I love the challenge.
I come here hoping to find more Indians, Barbers or some other old coins and jewelry is secondary but I will sure take some if I find it.
This morning I hunted this place with the F70 and some settings I like to use at trashed out sites like this.
Most use high disc at sites like this and I did near the end and plucked out a few modern coins but what works even better for me is something that most wouldn't even attempt..but like I said I am crazy.
I go the other way and turn everything up as high as I can go.
For you F70/F75 guys that would be...
Sense 99, Threshhold at 9, SL speed and all metal AT.
Sure I get tons of signals this way with every slight movement of the coil, lots of false ones too, but i learned to watch the screen closely for patterns and any decent numbers that seem to repeat especially those not iron, hit them from a second direction to make sure they are still there and if they are I dig those.
This took tons of time and practice to get good at this but over time I got very comfortable doing it this way and it has worked very well in many different challenging sites with both huge amount of iron and also tons of just regular park trash.
I call this the blast through method and I am not saying everyone should do it like I do but like I said what works, works.
All the other times I used this in the great soil back when I lived in Kansas and I was hoping it work work here in the much hotter soil in Alabama and I am thrilled that it does.
Not only that but even though I was using the sniper coil I seem to be getting really deep doing this.
I had several targets that pinpointed at the 10-12" depth area this morning.
Didn't dig them because the numbers weren't all that interesting, (high), and I still only have the use of one arm but considering when I lived here before and hunted I rarely dug or even saw any targets much past 5" this F70 still seems to surprise me on what it is capable of.
I wonder what I can hit with the big DD coil mounted in this devil dirt.
Someday soon I will go after some of those deepies and see what they are.
Could be great for all I know.
Anyhow I get there and GB'd which here is way higher than Kansas soil in the low 70's with 3 bars on the dirt meter, (Kansas soil was mostly in the 50's with one bar on the dirt meter...if that), and proceed to hunt blast-through style and the very first signal I choose to dig was this thing which was slightly below my normal low 70's copper cent numbers and more like the high 60's but they repeated from 2 ways so it got dug.
Like I said only a wheatie but an old one...1911 as far as my old eyes can tell because it is well worn.
A short but great hunt for me.
I found out there are still older coins hanging out at a place close to home, also that blast-through method still works well even in this dirt and the depth I acquired some of those deeper targets surprised me even if I didn't dig them...this time.
Only one arm and hobbling around like a drunk but this hobby still makes me happy no matter what I find.
Finding coins more than 100 years old in heavy trash is the cherry on top of the icing on the cake for me.
Forgive the pic quality....still using my cell because my camera is still packed away somewhere.
