I've never really viewed a detector as truly "mine" until I recover a nice old coin with it. That finally happened yesterday at a heavily hunted school yard in a nearby small town.
I was searching in IM all metal, sens manual, 25, variability 10, vol 10, gain 8, Ferrous sounds, deep mode with my new 12.5 Excelerator coil, going slow and griding the playground/field. Grass was higher than I like, and the soil was on the dry side. The signal was a pretty definite high pitch which I was able to repeat from several different angles. The cursor jumped a bit, as of course, did the digital reading, but I was able to get some 00-high twenty readings to come up frequently. When pinpoint mode was used, the signal was solid, but broader than I expected it to be for a coin. That's one thing I'm not used to with the SE yet. Other machines I've had reduce the target width considerably in pinpoint mode on coins, but I got a broader response than that. I've noticed this on other coin recoveries with the SE, even with smaller coils. The depth gauge was pretty accurate, even with the 12" coil and read around 8". That's just where I found this nice Barber quarter.
Its been so long since I found one, that it was really unexpected. Looking back I was a bit anxious to see what the target was and could have easily scratched it from carelessness...but luckily, I didn't.
There has to be some nice deep dimes overlooked by others there, and I'm going to do my best to make sure they see the light of day, right before I put them in my pouch!
Knipper
I was searching in IM all metal, sens manual, 25, variability 10, vol 10, gain 8, Ferrous sounds, deep mode with my new 12.5 Excelerator coil, going slow and griding the playground/field. Grass was higher than I like, and the soil was on the dry side. The signal was a pretty definite high pitch which I was able to repeat from several different angles. The cursor jumped a bit, as of course, did the digital reading, but I was able to get some 00-high twenty readings to come up frequently. When pinpoint mode was used, the signal was solid, but broader than I expected it to be for a coin. That's one thing I'm not used to with the SE yet. Other machines I've had reduce the target width considerably in pinpoint mode on coins, but I got a broader response than that. I've noticed this on other coin recoveries with the SE, even with smaller coils. The depth gauge was pretty accurate, even with the 12" coil and read around 8". That's just where I found this nice Barber quarter.
Its been so long since I found one, that it was really unexpected. Looking back I was a bit anxious to see what the target was and could have easily scratched it from carelessness...but luckily, I didn't.
There has to be some nice deep dimes overlooked by others there, and I'm going to do my best to make sure they see the light of day, right before I put them in my pouch!
Knipper
