My Golden umax came home from repair with a nice message from Rusty Henry. The pot in the sensitivity dial had died and was replaced.
Today I put the 8" brown round on and went to a little park that had always seemed a little trashy. I was hoping that it was trashy enough to discourage other hunters.
Well, the trash was there, but I don't think it had slowed the other guys down too much. I dug tab after tab, aluminum chunks, several big, round pieces of iron. Then I hit a clad dime. Deep at 5.5" or so. Another at 5". And two more between 4 and 5 inches down. It was starting to become clear that you had to have coin sink to 4" or more before it was going to have a chance of being overlooked.
I got a nice lower tone, sunk the probe down and hit something solid at 5" or so. Up comes a dateless buffalo! Right on, red nickels are where it's at
. Up next came a deep buckle. Then I got this little high coin bleep. Repeatable from all 4 directions - but pinpointing was pretty iffy about location. I dug a big plug - no coin, but the beep was louder now. I used the pistol probe and sliced a slab of earth out and soon learned that it was out of the hole. A little bit of scrabbling around and I catch the lovely glint of silver - seeing the daylight for the first time in probably half a century was a 1923 merc. Ahhhhh!
A little bit later I got a pulltab sound and dug up the smiley-face. It was near dark and I decided it wasn't going to end any better than this and made for home.
I am really pleased with my Golden and the brown round. I know that this place has been beat up with gobs of other detectors and the Golden can more than hold its own.
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Today I put the 8" brown round on and went to a little park that had always seemed a little trashy. I was hoping that it was trashy enough to discourage other hunters.
Well, the trash was there, but I don't think it had slowed the other guys down too much. I dug tab after tab, aluminum chunks, several big, round pieces of iron. Then I hit a clad dime. Deep at 5.5" or so. Another at 5". And two more between 4 and 5 inches down. It was starting to become clear that you had to have coin sink to 4" or more before it was going to have a chance of being overlooked.
I got a nice lower tone, sunk the probe down and hit something solid at 5" or so. Up comes a dateless buffalo! Right on, red nickels are where it's at
. Up next came a deep buckle. Then I got this little high coin bleep. Repeatable from all 4 directions - but pinpointing was pretty iffy about location. I dug a big plug - no coin, but the beep was louder now. I used the pistol probe and sliced a slab of earth out and soon learned that it was out of the hole. A little bit of scrabbling around and I catch the lovely glint of silver - seeing the daylight for the first time in probably half a century was a 1923 merc. Ahhhhh!
A little bit later I got a pulltab sound and dug up the smiley-face. It was near dark and I decided it wasn't going to end any better than this and made for home.
I am really pleased with my Golden and the brown round. I know that this place has been beat up with gobs of other detectors and the Golden can more than hold its own.
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