Last week, had allot of rain, went out to some farm fields and found some nice seated lib's, barbers, Indians, a civil war token, and a real nice fire opal cuff link, nearly 1000 dollars in coins; a great 2 days
. This week, Wednesday was my birthday and my 20 year old son who is always too busy with his life to go metal detecting with me calls me up and says dad, I am going to spend the whole day with you metal detecting. So I decide to take him to my latest, greatest, bestest farm field just to see his face light up when he digs up a 300 dollar, 140 year old coin!!! We hunt for 4 or 5 hours, all I have is two civil war era bullets, two buckles and a cruddy 1890 Indian head. All he found was two pieces of shotgun brass and a piece of horse tack
. When I was finding all the great finds last week, I was also digging several dozen shotgun brass and 22 shorts, some at over 6 inches in each hunt. This week, in this hunt, I had only found a couple of shotgun brass and a few 22 shorts, all close to the surface. Well, between last week and this one, we had several continuous days of high winds, and they effectively sucked the moisture out of the surface of the field and in doing so, cut my depth I was getting by more than half!! Which put 90% of the targets out of the reach of my machines. Even my enormous coils didn't seem to help any, other than increasing the surface coverage; but on depth, Nada. So if you guys are hunting farm fields and you have some back to back days of wind, it maybe a better choice to hunt a grassy area that doesn't let the wind rob the needed soil moisture. If it's a newly plowed field, there is probably enough surface stuff to keep you busy. But if it is a very hunted site that other's have hunted for years, it is probably best to skip it on such days. Of all the days to get skunked, my damn birthday, while trying to get my son hooked on this addictive, healthy hobby.
You live and you learn. It has been raining for a day and a half, I'll bet I'll go out to this same field tomorrow and be getting a ton of deep signals again. I am calling Ralph at Sun Ray, when I bought this thing; he told me it was a metal detector; he didn't say anything about no damn fishing pole.
. This week, Wednesday was my birthday and my 20 year old son who is always too busy with his life to go metal detecting with me calls me up and says dad, I am going to spend the whole day with you metal detecting. So I decide to take him to my latest, greatest, bestest farm field just to see his face light up when he digs up a 300 dollar, 140 year old coin!!! We hunt for 4 or 5 hours, all I have is two civil war era bullets, two buckles and a cruddy 1890 Indian head. All he found was two pieces of shotgun brass and a piece of horse tack. When I was finding all the great finds last week, I was also digging several dozen shotgun brass and 22 shorts, some at over 6 inches in each hunt. This week, in this hunt, I had only found a couple of shotgun brass and a few 22 shorts, all close to the surface. Well, between last week and this one, we had several continuous days of high winds, and they effectively sucked the moisture out of the surface of the field and in doing so, cut my depth I was getting by more than half!! Which put 90% of the targets out of the reach of my machines. Even my enormous coils didn't seem to help any, other than increasing the surface coverage; but on depth, Nada. So if you guys are hunting farm fields and you have some back to back days of wind, it maybe a better choice to hunt a grassy area that doesn't let the wind rob the needed soil moisture. If it's a newly plowed field, there is probably enough surface stuff to keep you busy. But if it is a very hunted site that other's have hunted for years, it is probably best to skip it on such days. Of all the days to get skunked, my damn birthday, while trying to get my son hooked on this addictive, healthy hobby. You live and you learn. It has been raining for a day and a half, I'll bet I'll go out to this same field tomorrow and be getting a ton of deep signals again. I am calling Ralph at Sun Ray, when I bought this thing; he told me it was a metal detector; he didn't say anything about no damn fishing pole.
