Well everyone has been asking for some "real" in the ground tests. I know my videos have been mostly fresh beach burials because I've been under 2 feet of snow. I finally found a worked out park that the sun had hit the banks and melted the snow, the ground in certain spots was soft enough to get through. This park has been absolutely pounded and lots of silver and Indianhead's and wheats surfaced in the past. I was very excited to try the racer at this site. Coin and jewelry does remain under a lot of iron trash. I started out with the two-tone mode as that's what I always liked on my T2.when I got into a nail ridden area, I quickly found out how awesome running three tones on the racer is going to be. The presets on the three tone mode are a perfect starting point. 70 gain, disc 10. Leaving disc at 10 let me hear all the iron grunts. The mid & high tones sang right out loudly. Reminded me of using iron audio on the popular Garrett ATs. Coin shooters have hammered this site, so I wanted to dig mid tones because last time I was here I dug 2 buffalo nickels back to back around a bunch of old dig holes, and I know there's gold rings buried in that range too. I wore a nails pouch and began filling it with tabs from all eras. But then I began to get into some cool Victorian jewelry reading essentially the same as tabs. First good target was a small metal piece of the rosary beads, second was a gorgeous Victorian hat pin with green stone I pulled out of heavy trash. After a lunch break, I tried A Hillside that always produced a mixture of clad and deeper older coins. First coin was a silver Washington quarter, followed up a few minutes later by a silver war nickel. As I saw on the beach testing I did, coins on the racer stick to one number and lock in. I got a solid 85 reading on a well-worn path I know has been hunted by several detectors including myself. 8 inches down into the clay layer, out flips a 1918 Merc.
I was having a ball! I ended the hunt going back to the heavy trash where the hatpin came out and I found a Victorian sash buckle with two stones. It too was a solid lock on number 82.
Dominique filmed this hunt, and she should have a video out this week hopefully. I think she would admit that the racer really stole the show at this site with 3 pieces of jewelry & 3 silver coins. I took Friday off to try for more at the same place, stay tuned
I was having a ball! I ended the hunt going back to the heavy trash where the hatpin came out and I found a Victorian sash buckle with two stones. It too was a solid lock on number 82.
Dominique filmed this hunt, and she should have a video out this week hopefully. I think she would admit that the racer really stole the show at this site with 3 pieces of jewelry & 3 silver coins. I took Friday off to try for more at the same place, stay tuned
