Headed off before daylight this morning to the Military housing demoed site. Shorts and T shirt on and noted my SUV was showing 56 degrees and had a nice breeze out of the north. Hmmmmmm!
Got to the spot and saw except for a 30 yard wide strip right at the front end of the spot that it hadn't been mowed for a while and the grass was well above my ankles, tall. Hence, opted to work the edges of a couple of driveways nearby the mowed strip. About ten yards up along the first driveway got a kind of broken tone hit that kept flashing some 76 and 77 numbers on the screen. Dug it, and had my first silver for the day, a 40s Merc. In the clod was also the bent strip of metal that is shown by the Merc. Out of that same driveway I dug a nasty looking cent that looked like zinc's do coming out of the ground. Since very few zinc cents turn up on this spot, I gave it spit rub and saw "one cent" on the reverse side. Perhaps the gravel ate it up, I don't know? And, I have yet to get a date off of it.
Over the course of the hunt working the mowed strip I got 4 other wheat cents, all in the 40's, save for 1 29d. Also got a couple pieces of junk jewelry and a lipstick tube. The lipstick tube has "kiss proof midget USA" on it and a quick google revealed it was made between 1933 and 1937. Nearing the end of the hunt I got a 66-67 reading, which, usually is a bottle cap. It, however, was a small sound reading 5", so I dug it. The target turned out to be a 1916 British large cent that was totally on edge. That neat find was followed up about 5 minutes later with 1944d war nickel. With that I was about to call it a day when a couple feet away I got a nice 76-77 lock on reading and promptly dug the 43 Merc. from about 4". Fun hunt on a spot that just won't say uncle for giving up a few older varieties of coins.
Was hunting along side of a major thoroughfare with power lines on both sides, a stretch that always gave any of my other detectors emi problems. Not so, with this F 75. I had on the small 5" coil and running 90 sen, 0 disc. and 3h tones. HH jim tn
Got to the spot and saw except for a 30 yard wide strip right at the front end of the spot that it hadn't been mowed for a while and the grass was well above my ankles, tall. Hence, opted to work the edges of a couple of driveways nearby the mowed strip. About ten yards up along the first driveway got a kind of broken tone hit that kept flashing some 76 and 77 numbers on the screen. Dug it, and had my first silver for the day, a 40s Merc. In the clod was also the bent strip of metal that is shown by the Merc. Out of that same driveway I dug a nasty looking cent that looked like zinc's do coming out of the ground. Since very few zinc cents turn up on this spot, I gave it spit rub and saw "one cent" on the reverse side. Perhaps the gravel ate it up, I don't know? And, I have yet to get a date off of it.
Over the course of the hunt working the mowed strip I got 4 other wheat cents, all in the 40's, save for 1 29d. Also got a couple pieces of junk jewelry and a lipstick tube. The lipstick tube has "kiss proof midget USA" on it and a quick google revealed it was made between 1933 and 1937. Nearing the end of the hunt I got a 66-67 reading, which, usually is a bottle cap. It, however, was a small sound reading 5", so I dug it. The target turned out to be a 1916 British large cent that was totally on edge. That neat find was followed up about 5 minutes later with 1944d war nickel. With that I was about to call it a day when a couple feet away I got a nice 76-77 lock on reading and promptly dug the 43 Merc. from about 4". Fun hunt on a spot that just won't say uncle for giving up a few older varieties of coins.
Was hunting along side of a major thoroughfare with power lines on both sides, a stretch that always gave any of my other detectors emi problems. Not so, with this F 75. I had on the small 5" coil and running 90 sen, 0 disc. and 3h tones. HH jim tn
