Woodstock said:
Airscapes ... So then you'll never find a detector that will get deeper than 7" ?? Then I feel sorry for you and everyone who swings a detector in Delaware County, PA . I've been detecting since 1982 all over the mid-west ... out west and far north and find that all coins will stop dropping or going deeper than the compaction of the soil in the area will allow and that actually can vary greatly from spot to spot , even in the same county . I scrub the surface and pulled IH cent at ten inches and a tad deeper now and then . Truthfully , if that was the deepest coin I've ever found (7 inches) using a DFX then I'd sell it and buy a BH Tracker II cause that is about there best depth ... or I'd have to ask myself if I was not using my DFX right (operator error) or it was a faulty machine . I feel that even though I never detected in your area a properly tuned and a non-faulty DFX should do better judging by the tons or reviews from coast to coast and even the east coast where you reside . And if I had to have a 1500 dollar detector to find coins deeper than 7 inches it's not worth the investment and I wouldn't have stayed in the hobby .
That being said I know my MX5 will hit soundly on a US Quarter in the ground at 10 inches (test garden) so I feel even 11 or 12 inches it will find one . IMHO , Woodstock
Well tell that to the clay, trash,iron and EMI where [size=large]I[/size] hunt. We have over 200 years of people moving dirt building roads and buildings tearing down and building again in the same spot, to the point of no open space left to speak of with virgin soil. I am sure there is good soil out in Chester county on private farms but I don't hunt there.. I hunt my Schools and local parks that have 80 years or trash and have been hunted over the decades.. Do you really think digging 10" holes in the foot ball field is a good idea? Not sure what I would find as the field is from the late 60s..
The point I was making is air tests and reviews don't mean much, the GT and the DFX perform about the same in My soil.. the site's conditions are the real factor in overall dept of the machine and the depth of targets, have you ever hunted in HIGH EMI, you don't get dept when you have your machine backed WAY down so it works.. When EMI is not a problem, picking up large iron at 12" is not helpful it masks anything that may be withing the depth good targets can sink.. so running a machine just under instability to try and find something that is not there or you can not dig up does not really work well.
The 2 half pennies I found were both in the front yard of a 200 year old house and neither was more than 4" deep.. Found them with the 4x6 as there were nails every 2-3 inches.. from 200 years of roofing replacements. Are there more deeper coins there, I am guessing yes! Will I find them, no, as I can not strip mine my relatives front yard to remove all the nails.
BTW I feel sorry for me too, I don't live at the beach or out in the country .. nor do I like doing research.. I am just a clad hunter, something to do to get out of the house..
