First silver w/ SE

[BlackX]

It finally warmed up enough lately that I could get out for a real hunt and dig more than a couple of inches down. So after my LDGF went to bed, I headed out to my secret spot--a place close to where I live that I don't think has been detected because people think the building next to it owns it but it's actually town land. After a call to the police so that I don't get the "HANDS IN THE AIR" routine--including a short conversation with the dispatcher who sounded interested in what I was finding--I headed out for a bit with the X-5 on.

Went directly to the spot where I'd found my first SLQ with the Sov about a month ago (shortly before the police incident) and within 5 minutes had my first signal that said "dig me!". My oldest Merc yet--a 1935. (I keep hitting WWII year stuff.) Shortly thereafer dug a 1919 (I think--the 2nd 1 is awful small if that's what it is) wheat. A bit later a '47 wheat. Kept going downhill: a nail, a '75 memorial, and then an early '70s quarter and memorial. Thought I had a good, deep signal on the way out but I couldn't find it after digging it twice--might not have gone deep enough but it might have been another **** hot rock. (Dug tons with the Sidewinder, not sure I ever dug one with the Sov, but now they've come back with a vengeance with the SE. Going to have to figure that one out.)

Sorry for the bad pics but I did it quick before bed.
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I'd also gone out Saturday and Sunday where I could usually only dig a few inches. This is stuff from Saturday: a washer, some sort of screw, part of a toy gun, a '62 and '64 Jefferson, clad quarter, 2 clad dimes, a couple of memorials, a '57 wheat (my first find of the day) and a fragment of a penny.

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[NH Bob]

Nice digs,
In my neck of the woods, a hot rock comes in at 00-31 if that helps any. Also seems to give a higher than silver tone. More squeaky and less VOLUPTUOUS.

 

[Old Sox]

Good finds!! I am sure that silver find is the first of many to come!! Those ghost signals are gettin me too

 

[BlackX]

[quote NH Bob]In my neck of the woods, a hot rock comes in at 00-31 if that helps any. [/quote]
It might. That sounds familiar. Do most of those look like granite? (I presume we're both in roughly the same glacial morain material.)

Had a dream last night where a detectorist had been disgusted by yet another hot rock and left a gold filled quartz nugget thinking it was just another hot rock. (Dreams can be awful strange at times.)

Also seems to give a higher than silver tone. More squeaky and less VOLUPTUOUS.

Yes, they sort of sound like a "dink" sound to me. Not as much resonance or sustain or something compared to a good target. But I'm digging more signals now than I likely will later since I need to learn what everything sounds like.

That reminds me. I keep running into patches that in normal mode give kind of odd signals around the edges but, when I turn it to pinpoint, a huge area will sound off as if there are plates of iron under the ground or something like that. While I have literally run into iron/steel plates on occasion, this is so frequent that I'm wondering if I'm getting that reading from large rocks, mineralization, or some other ground effect. Any thoughts on that?

[quote Old Sox]Good finds!! I am sure that silver find is the first of many to come!! Those ghost signals are gettin me too[/quote]
We just got snow again, and that, combined with my lower back going out again (and I'm home from work for the 2nd day in a row), is going to keep me from going out again much soon I suspect. (It hadn't bothered me for months but was starting to come back and I tried to push through it on those digs when I got the Merc. Don't think that was a good idea. Think I'll have to spring for a Swingy Thing or jury rig one up again like I did for the Sov. (Eventually ended up hipmounting it to get the weight off--which I can't do w/ an Explorer.)) Please keep posting what you're learning as you go!

 

[NH Bob]

Usually a deep signal that is not IDing correctly, will most often come in lower than a shallower target of the same kind. Both in Tone and in Digital. That's why if it's deep and not a 00-31 I dig.
As for the Low iron tone having a nice high pitch tone on the edge of it. Usually means just that, the edge of the iron. If you work your way around the target most times you can trace the outer edge and see the size of the target. Also, if you get that nice tone on the edge of a low iron tone and you can not make it trace the outer edge of the target. Dig it as it may be a good find beside a piece of iron.
Hope this is clear enough. I almost confused myself.

 

[BlackX]

[quote NH Bob]Usually a deep signal that is not IDing correctly, will most often come in lower than a shallower target of the same kind. Both in Tone and in Digital. That's why if it's deep and not a 00-31 I dig.
As for the Low iron tone having a nice high pitch tone on the edge of it. Usually means just that, the edge of the iron. If you work your way around the target most times you can trace the outer edge and see the size of the target. Also, if you get that nice tone on the edge of a low iron tone and you can not make it trace the outer edge of the target. Dig it as it may be a good find beside a piece of iron.
Hope this is clear enough. I almost confused myself.[/quote]

Well, trying to figure out if that nice tone is coming from the edge of iron in one direction is the iron itself or something next to it sure can be confusing, at least for me. I think that was pretty clear considering the issue.

But I don't I was as clear as I could have been. I was speaking of things that seem so large that they can't be traced while standing roughly in one place. And, come to think of it, often don't seem to have clearly defined edges (but if you swing the coil over them in pinpoint they seem to cover huge areas of ground).

 

[NH Bob]

From what you're saying, it's not a coin for sure but maybe a rusted area where there was or still is iron . (Also the term Hot rock is used alot when it is the cold rock that gives the high tone and hot rock that gives the low tone.) I am QUOTING what I read just the other day. And for the life of me, I can't remember where. I should have saved it. Hot rock as described was rusty red and magnetic. Cold rock was black and heavy and magnetic.
Cold rock more like a solid piece of iron would come in high tone. Rusty hot rock would come in like just that, rusty old iron, low tone.
If any one can help us all out with this one, I would gladly except the correction.

 

[DFX-Gregg]

Glad to see the se is clicking for you....With all the snow here my first goal is to see the ground again then get my se out again.......keep up the good work.