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Some have been following my adventures in learning to hunt in this difficult clay filled red southern dirt. It is going well and I have been getting better with more and more great targets showing up. I must say that at the rare times I do come across some better soil I like to take advantage of it and a few days ago that happened.
In a local park that is made up of mostly the bad stuff I showed up with my F70 and my standard coil which I decided to use because I was going in with the goal of finding a silver ring of any kind.
I didn't need any major depth and I was using some high disc to make things easier and quieter so shallow targets were what I was aiming for.
I walked up to the park and started next to a fire station that was built on this site a few years after this park was dedicated in the 20's and I didn't realize it at the time but all around this thing they had evidently brought in some nice black fill dirt and deposited it all around this structure when it was constructed.
I dug no jumpy signals at all but soon enough I got a solid, stable repeating high tone from two directions and the numbers on my screen did not jump more than 2 and stayed between 90-91.
This was a half dollar signal back in the great Kansas black dirt and the fact that it didn't jump much at all was also unusual.
When I hit the pinpoint button and saw a depth reading of 7" I was surprised...shocked actually.
Rusty iron of all sizes comes in here in this bad dirt but jumps around a lot and usually shows up as a shallow depth reading.
I dug into this ground and realized it was the nice black stuff instead of the red garbage but I still expected some sort if rusty target to pop out.
When I got down to the 7" level, and every bit of 7" too because I measured, I saw this thing.
I pulled it out and realized it was silver and smiled.
Just like old times hunting back in Kansas, with a great memory at the bottom of that hole.
It turns out this is a pretty rare item and I did a lot of research on it and I believe it was probably lost in the 30's or 40's.
Here is the info I found about it in this thread.
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?91,2240767
For you Fisher guys it is ironic that I was looking for shallow targets but happened to find one of the deepest targets I ever found hunting in this state, (except for one other target a clad dime also found in black dirt in another park).
My coil was the standard 10" elliptical, my settings were sense at 89, thresh at -2, disc at 50, 3 tones.
The signal was as loud an solid as a silver half would have been at 2" deep so again a great surprise when I found this thing at 7" deep.
That black dirt was also a great surprise so I am spending a bit more time in that area now looking for more deeper, hidden gems.
In a local park that is made up of mostly the bad stuff I showed up with my F70 and my standard coil which I decided to use because I was going in with the goal of finding a silver ring of any kind.
I didn't need any major depth and I was using some high disc to make things easier and quieter so shallow targets were what I was aiming for.
I walked up to the park and started next to a fire station that was built on this site a few years after this park was dedicated in the 20's and I didn't realize it at the time but all around this thing they had evidently brought in some nice black fill dirt and deposited it all around this structure when it was constructed.
I dug no jumpy signals at all but soon enough I got a solid, stable repeating high tone from two directions and the numbers on my screen did not jump more than 2 and stayed between 90-91.
This was a half dollar signal back in the great Kansas black dirt and the fact that it didn't jump much at all was also unusual.
When I hit the pinpoint button and saw a depth reading of 7" I was surprised...shocked actually.
Rusty iron of all sizes comes in here in this bad dirt but jumps around a lot and usually shows up as a shallow depth reading.
I dug into this ground and realized it was the nice black stuff instead of the red garbage but I still expected some sort if rusty target to pop out.
When I got down to the 7" level, and every bit of 7" too because I measured, I saw this thing.
I pulled it out and realized it was silver and smiled.
Just like old times hunting back in Kansas, with a great memory at the bottom of that hole.
It turns out this is a pretty rare item and I did a lot of research on it and I believe it was probably lost in the 30's or 40's.
Here is the info I found about it in this thread.
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?91,2240767
For you Fisher guys it is ironic that I was looking for shallow targets but happened to find one of the deepest targets I ever found hunting in this state, (except for one other target a clad dime also found in black dirt in another park).
My coil was the standard 10" elliptical, my settings were sense at 89, thresh at -2, disc at 50, 3 tones.
The signal was as loud an solid as a silver half would have been at 2" deep so again a great surprise when I found this thing at 7" deep.
That black dirt was also a great surprise so I am spending a bit more time in that area now looking for more deeper, hidden gems.
