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Pulled out the F70 just for a change from the Nox.
Headed to a small park near me that used to be a huge older neighborhood that was all knocked down when they built Interstate 65 through here around 1960, hundreds of 1800's era homes were razed when they did...man would I love to have a time machine to go back and hunt just a handful of those front lawns, but I don't.
The site I was hunting was a small area next to a street that used to be the front lawns of a couple of those homes and it is filled with an amazing amount of junk.
Black fill dirt in top for a few inches but then the red mineralized clay and the amount of iron around here is...daunting.
Not to mention a ton of normal park trash so this is a very challenging site.
Still, I have visited here dozens of times because I pulled an old, thick, pocket watch case and even a V nickel out of here among other cool things so I keep returning hoping luck will be with me.
Everything good is masked to the hilt, everything is hiding with ninja, level skill but fortune favors the bold so I return from time to time.
Just one more cool thing to end my year was the goal.
I set up my F70, (and the Sharpshooter coil), with my iron hunting Blast-Through settings...All metal, Sense on 99, Thresh at +5, SL boost speed on program 2.
Program 1 were my Silver Slayer Settings....Disc at 65 with nickel and zinc notched back in, Sense at about 80 and Thresh around -2 and Monotone...basically my best shot at finding coins.
I was going to hunt on program 1 using disc and it was way quieter but I had the feeling I was just missing too much so I used that program just as a check and hunted in all metal.
Crazy, huh, maxed out everything in an area with massive iron, trash and mineralized dirt but I got good at doing it this way over the years and it definitely works and works well...once you get used to the jumping and noise which I have after many, many hours of practice in iron infested sites.
So I dug a few signals, junk and trash, also a bit of iron because with these settings it can sometimes wrap around and come in at some pretty solid 90's numbers.
Then I hit this signal, multiple iron hits in a small one foot square area but some high 30's numbers kept popping up in the middle...a very short quick 30's that only hit from a couple of directions and only after some coil manipulation.
I dug the 30's target in the middle and a dirty nickel pops up, maybe 3" deep. ..no more than 4".
I ran the coil in a circle around that hole and I got 6 separate iron signals close surrounding it with numbers going from 04 to 12...iron.
Despite the small coil size I definitely hit some of those iron targets along with the nickel signal in every swing from all directions but luckily I was on my game enough to notice the very short nickel signal.
Like I keep saying massive iron and masking is our major nemesis around here.
Hoping for another V but I rub the dirt off and I see part of the Monticello dome under a big black stain.
Just a dirty modern nickel I said to myself, but I flip it over and brush off the front and that side cleans off nicely plus I see some shiny coming through.
I clean off the area with the date and see 1944 so I flip it back over and scrub the area hard over the dome and finally see that large P.
Coooool....mission accomplished, got me something great out of a very challenging site.
Love it when a plan comes together!
Headed to a small park near me that used to be a huge older neighborhood that was all knocked down when they built Interstate 65 through here around 1960, hundreds of 1800's era homes were razed when they did...man would I love to have a time machine to go back and hunt just a handful of those front lawns, but I don't.
The site I was hunting was a small area next to a street that used to be the front lawns of a couple of those homes and it is filled with an amazing amount of junk.
Black fill dirt in top for a few inches but then the red mineralized clay and the amount of iron around here is...daunting.
Not to mention a ton of normal park trash so this is a very challenging site.
Still, I have visited here dozens of times because I pulled an old, thick, pocket watch case and even a V nickel out of here among other cool things so I keep returning hoping luck will be with me.
Everything good is masked to the hilt, everything is hiding with ninja, level skill but fortune favors the bold so I return from time to time.
Just one more cool thing to end my year was the goal.
I set up my F70, (and the Sharpshooter coil), with my iron hunting Blast-Through settings...All metal, Sense on 99, Thresh at +5, SL boost speed on program 2.
Program 1 were my Silver Slayer Settings....Disc at 65 with nickel and zinc notched back in, Sense at about 80 and Thresh around -2 and Monotone...basically my best shot at finding coins.
I was going to hunt on program 1 using disc and it was way quieter but I had the feeling I was just missing too much so I used that program just as a check and hunted in all metal.
Crazy, huh, maxed out everything in an area with massive iron, trash and mineralized dirt but I got good at doing it this way over the years and it definitely works and works well...once you get used to the jumping and noise which I have after many, many hours of practice in iron infested sites.
So I dug a few signals, junk and trash, also a bit of iron because with these settings it can sometimes wrap around and come in at some pretty solid 90's numbers.
Then I hit this signal, multiple iron hits in a small one foot square area but some high 30's numbers kept popping up in the middle...a very short quick 30's that only hit from a couple of directions and only after some coil manipulation.
I dug the 30's target in the middle and a dirty nickel pops up, maybe 3" deep. ..no more than 4".
I ran the coil in a circle around that hole and I got 6 separate iron signals close surrounding it with numbers going from 04 to 12...iron.
Despite the small coil size I definitely hit some of those iron targets along with the nickel signal in every swing from all directions but luckily I was on my game enough to notice the very short nickel signal.
Like I keep saying massive iron and masking is our major nemesis around here.
Hoping for another V but I rub the dirt off and I see part of the Monticello dome under a big black stain.
Just a dirty modern nickel I said to myself, but I flip it over and brush off the front and that side cleans off nicely plus I see some shiny coming through.
I clean off the area with the date and see 1944 so I flip it back over and scrub the area hard over the dome and finally see that large P.
Coooool....mission accomplished, got me something great out of a very challenging site.
Love it when a plan comes together!