I wanted to share a little story on pocket spills especially since some friends here are getting or just obtained a new Digger 6" 3 khz coil.
I was on a slight hillside that overlooks a tennis court. I figured people may sit up there and watch the matches. I dug a couple quarters, lincolns and dimes. Just clad as usual here. Then I get a prominent response on the 705 with digger. High, high, mid, mid low mid , high, high and a little whoop! ,,,,What the heck kind of trash now! I'm complaining, most likely from digging a couple hrs already that day and getting hot in the sun. This mix had a whooping sound but just a couple, most sounds were clean, bright, you know the ones that get your attention. With trash I can really make the 705 especially with the digger really warble and blooop, sounding by doing that dd wiggle and pulling the coil toward me. Not on this one. So, I look at my VDI numbers and they're all coin #s. Hmmm. Repeating 42, 42, 32, 34, one sort of low in the teens, then 38, 42. I think maybe its a pocket spill or a rusty nail near a coin? Sure was, a pocket spill and so tight together I have no idea how this little coil read these coin numbers off of this clump! Youd think it would have seen it as one big strange shape object. But I swear I saw it and dug,,,, four quarters very close together, a couple dimes, lincoln pennies and even a nickle. Obviously must have trickled out of a pocket close to the ground. About 3 to 4 inches deep it was now. Silver would be great but I get really excited on spills. Why its so significant to me is, spills are usualy spread out at least a foot or two. This digger rocks, go slow, nice an slow and it just works.
That's how the digger taught me a neat tight pocket spill signal. No joke...
I was on a slight hillside that overlooks a tennis court. I figured people may sit up there and watch the matches. I dug a couple quarters, lincolns and dimes. Just clad as usual here. Then I get a prominent response on the 705 with digger. High, high, mid, mid low mid , high, high and a little whoop! ,,,,What the heck kind of trash now! I'm complaining, most likely from digging a couple hrs already that day and getting hot in the sun. This mix had a whooping sound but just a couple, most sounds were clean, bright, you know the ones that get your attention. With trash I can really make the 705 especially with the digger really warble and blooop, sounding by doing that dd wiggle and pulling the coil toward me. Not on this one. So, I look at my VDI numbers and they're all coin #s. Hmmm. Repeating 42, 42, 32, 34, one sort of low in the teens, then 38, 42. I think maybe its a pocket spill or a rusty nail near a coin? Sure was, a pocket spill and so tight together I have no idea how this little coil read these coin numbers off of this clump! Youd think it would have seen it as one big strange shape object. But I swear I saw it and dug,,,, four quarters very close together, a couple dimes, lincoln pennies and even a nickle. Obviously must have trickled out of a pocket close to the ground. About 3 to 4 inches deep it was now. Silver would be great but I get really excited on spills. Why its so significant to me is, spills are usualy spread out at least a foot or two. This digger rocks, go slow, nice an slow and it just works.
That's how the digger taught me a neat tight pocket spill signal. No joke...