GREAT start for the year!!!

[Louisiana Ken]

Returned to the circa 1820's house that I've personally hunted out over the past 11 years. Over the years I've had trouble with a certain lg. area of the side yard (an unbelievable amout of crazy continuous chatter and falsing - if I wanted a challange and a headache, I hunted that portion of the yard). Anyways, I glanced over Andy's book again the other day and read where it said that in some areas the only thing you can do is reduce your sensitivity way down. What the heck. I dropped my senitivity from 26 to 10 and guess what. It worked! 1st and 2nd pics show my 4th Battle of new Orleans era button from this site and in what I think is in awsome condition for it's age (1812-1815). I believe it's a scarce plain oval pattern Foliated "I" infantry button. The 3rd and 4th pics show the first spur I've ever found (brass and not sure of the age). The 5th and last pic show a 1915 D penny in decent shape and a toasted 1848 lg. cent. Also found was a small musket ball, camp lead, another wheat penny w/ no date and other brass/copper junk. All my finds were 4 to 6 inches down. I'll let you know what I find next.

Good luck at your sites!!!

Kenny

 

[Goes4ever]

that is pretty amazing! goes to show you don't have to have a high sensitivity to find good stuff!

 

[Ken in Georgia]

Sweet finds

 

[iskirkra]

Nice finds, I love to see those old relics. Thanks for sharing the pictures and congratulations.

 

[squirrel1]

Great stuff. The etrac users should take special note of your experience with the lower sensitivity. A lot of people always assume a site has been hunted previously. So what do they do? Drop their coil in there with high sensivity figuring everything left will be deep only to walk away leaving a lot of goodies behind. The auto, auto-1, auto-2, auto-3 settings do have their places in the metal detecting world. The minelab folks swung for the fences with the etrac and hit it out of the park.

 

[Louisiana Ken]

Thanks everyone and well said squirrel1.

 

[banditicey]

Thank You for bringing this option to our attention

What program were you using when you lowered your sensitivity and continued the hunt?

Great Hunt and Great Finds

 

[Rolladex]

Nice going. I always run in auto if you run hot you will miss targets to much falsing.

 

[Louisiana Ken]

Banditicey, I use Andy's program in TTF most of the time. All my best finds at this site were made using TTF (square nail city here).

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Nice button and finds!

 

[moose]

Sweet finds, Thanks for post...

Moose

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Real nice Kenny !