Back this afternoon on the same lawn where I found the 4 silvers and a wheat in the same hole http://www.findmall.com/read.php?58,1418092. I wasn't having luck in much of the other parts of the lawn.. most of my finds were rust encrusted iron nails, bolts, and aluminum scraps.
I was taking it slow.. I figured there HAD to be more silver that the iron had masked during my last hunt. Still armed with my Delta 4000 and stock 8" concentric coil (boy I wish I had the 5" DD), I was digging everything that wasn't an "obvious" iron signal. I used stock settings (you turn on the machine and go), with two exceptions: I included iron in the discrimination so I could hear the low grunts the Delta makes when it passes over ferrous targets (discrimination set at 10) and the volume was increased from 8 to 10.
I had a good dime signal (finally) and dug a 1948 Rosie at 3 inches. Then I came across a target that gave a jumpy signal. It bounced from the 20's to high 80's in all directions. I was so sure that it was a nail that I said to myself, "I know this is a rusty nail". Remember I'm still learning this Delta 4000 (the only one I own) and I try to play games by betting what the target is BEFORE I dig it up. I am getting much better at winning these bets, but this time - boy was I wrong!
To prove to myself that it WAS a rusty nail I started cutting into the grass. It wasn't in the plug so I laid out my cloth and started piling dirt from the hole on top of it. My pro pointer didn't beep when I lowered it into the hole, so I knew it had it had to be on the cloth. Sure enough laying there was a 1926 Mercury silver dime!
But WHY had the signal been so jumpy? I started filling the hole when I noticed on the cloth was the bottom half of a pull tab! It must have been buried next to the dime. Lesson learned... never take anything for granted. Just because you are sure that your target is trash doesn't mean it actually is! We all probably pass up plenty of valuable targets with erratic signals that we assume are junk signals.
Oh well, that just leaves some for the next guy! Oh yeah, I bagged another Merc (1936) before the afternoon was through
MickTwin
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I was taking it slow.. I figured there HAD to be more silver that the iron had masked during my last hunt. Still armed with my Delta 4000 and stock 8" concentric coil (boy I wish I had the 5" DD), I was digging everything that wasn't an "obvious" iron signal. I used stock settings (you turn on the machine and go), with two exceptions: I included iron in the discrimination so I could hear the low grunts the Delta makes when it passes over ferrous targets (discrimination set at 10) and the volume was increased from 8 to 10.
I had a good dime signal (finally) and dug a 1948 Rosie at 3 inches. Then I came across a target that gave a jumpy signal. It bounced from the 20's to high 80's in all directions. I was so sure that it was a nail that I said to myself, "I know this is a rusty nail". Remember I'm still learning this Delta 4000 (the only one I own) and I try to play games by betting what the target is BEFORE I dig it up. I am getting much better at winning these bets, but this time - boy was I wrong!
To prove to myself that it WAS a rusty nail I started cutting into the grass. It wasn't in the plug so I laid out my cloth and started piling dirt from the hole on top of it. My pro pointer didn't beep when I lowered it into the hole, so I knew it had it had to be on the cloth. Sure enough laying there was a 1926 Mercury silver dime!
But WHY had the signal been so jumpy? I started filling the hole when I noticed on the cloth was the bottom half of a pull tab! It must have been buried next to the dime. Lesson learned... never take anything for granted. Just because you are sure that your target is trash doesn't mean it actually is! We all probably pass up plenty of valuable targets with erratic signals that we assume are junk signals.
Oh well, that just leaves some for the next guy! Oh yeah, I bagged another Merc (1936) before the afternoon was through
MickTwin http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/1497/rye2011030800213.jpg
Tom
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