Got a big one this morning!!!!

[jim tn]

Since I hunt for old coins and relics throughout the week, what detecting I do on weekends is usually on ball fields and wood chips for some battery money and jewelry. This morning, however, I decided to revisit the old military housing site that I hadn't been to for a couple of months or more. It had grown pretty frugal and I have been hunting greener pastures of late. Upon arriving at the site I found it in dire need of mowing and decided to check out a couple of other spots just down the road. One of those spots had recently been mowed, but was a spot that emi always was a problem. Power lines and light poles are all around this particular spot and about the only way I was ever able to hunt it with my F 75, T2 and F 75 LTD was to go to a small coil and run with some disc and somewhat lower sen. Although I had the small 5" coil along, I decided to try the 11" DD which was already on the LTD. Emi right off was a bit of a problem, but with a frequency shift and running disc up to 6 and sen down to 70, the LTD hunted fairly stable. After about three hours of hunting and little to show for my efforts but a few clad dimes, nickels and Memorial cents, I got what I'll call a pretty funky signal. There was a mix of mid and high tones and vdi readings bouncing from 40's to the mid to upper 80's. I circled the signal(s) trying to determine if I wanted to dig the thing on such a hot and muggy morning. I finally decided the high tone tic's were enough justification to dig and as it turned out, I'm surely glad I did. Upon flipping over the clod, the first thing I saw was a good chunk of the Franklin half showing as well as what appeared to be a tab ring. After pocketing each target I re-scanned the hole and clod and got another hit from the clod. This time using my Pro pin pointer I located the dime and then the revet. 4 targets, but none touching, all in the same clod. All the targets were within a 5" deep cut clod. When driving home, I couldn't help but wonder how many times I may have passed digging that same target(s) previously. There and elsewhere, as a matter of fact. The 42 Mercury was dug a couple days ago. HH jim tn

 

[mudpuppy]

By Jove you did! Thats a great write up like usual, really helpful to us in a real world situation. WTG.
Mud

 

[Tim LeBlanc]

awesome finds jim tn. there's too much rain here for me this weekend which is a bummer.keep digging.........HH.......Tim

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Beautiful finds!! Thanks for posting!

 

[jmaryt]

ben looks content to be found! certainly a nice surprise on a muggy day!
nice digs!..jim!

(h.h.!)
j.t.

 

[f75usr]

NIce!

 

[Furious T]

That's great hunting Jim....real detecting ! I too sometimes wonder what I leave behind at times, wondering about "that" signal. Well done !

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[Cajuncoinhunter]

Great job Jim. I appreciate the post and the useful info that goes along with each of your finds. CCHunter

 

[TerraDigger]

Well..........looks like someone was not a 'clod', by choosing to dig that 'funky' signal. Congratulations