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Granted, I may never come acrost a coin burried deeper than seven inches, but If ever I do, I'd like to find as many settings that will at least margionaly I.D. it as possible. Then I'll at least feel confident that I know which way is up or should I say down as far as depth goes. Any targets I find at seven inches or less get a good hit in virtualy every setting I can come up with.
So what I'm asking all you kind folks for is if you have found coins deeper than me, what settings did you use, what size and material was the coin, and aproximately how deep was it. Any other details about soil conditions, temperature, powerline proximity stuff like that would be good too, and no details are too trivial for me.
Thanks everyone! HH
 
Todd,
Rather than be so preoccupied with the DEPTH you are finding targets at, you should step back and assess what you are finding. In past communications with you as well as what you have told others, you have found dozens of pre-1900 coins including 2c pieces, 3c pieces, seated silver coins, Indian Heads . . . . the list goes on and is quite impressive. You say that none of the targets were deeper than 7 inches. Guess what, there may not have been any deeper and that does happen. I have hunted in your area several times and found many old coins at 5 inches or less.
You seem to be very familiar with the operation of the Explorer and have gotten 1-on-1 instruction from one of the sharpest Explorer users out there. You have been out with local hunters who have shared tips and settings. In talking with you, you are way ahead of many Explorer users in terms of understanding the detector.
Don't get overly focused on finding something deep. The Explorer will hit it if you go over it but it can't find something that is not there.
We talked about you heading south towards Chicago and hunting some of the parks there where targets are deeper if you want to see what you can find with your Explorer.
I'm sure if you posted photos of your finds, you would get innundated with requests for your settings and techniques from other Explorer users.
My one tip for you is to stop worrying about strictly depth of targets - the proof of your proficiency is in the pouch and your pouch seems to have targets many of us would love to have in them.
Andy Sabisch
 
hunted this one small field all summer long, and a few friends of mine has hunted it also, prior to me hunting it , the place was open to anyone who asked.
UASUALLY when i hunt with my ex II i just turn it on and go.Always the same settings.I do find something every time i go there,but have never found many coins there. this one time i went there , i hunted in the same area, and i do know that i have been over the same SPOT, I hit a silver one reale at about 15 in. deep. i know it was at least 15 in. cauce i covered the hole back in when i reached the 12 in. mark on my shovel.after i covered it back up the clear silver signal re appeared ,and i dig it till i retreaved the reale.The ground could have been a little wetter than uasual. I also hunt in a postage stamp sized front yard. You think i would have cleaned it out long ago. the other day i tried it again and found a period B&O RR button, and a nice 1908 barber dime. I dont think there is any sure fire way to get it all,But i hope technology catches up before our uncle takes away our right to dig.
HH...............ED
 
with my Explorer XS about five years ago I took it to the local park. I dug a wheat cent at a measured 11 inches! I was uisng the factory preset except I bumped the sens up to 27. The signal was just a tiny high tone with a slight null on both sides of the good signal (as I did a three inch sweep directly over the target it sounded like this: null - tiny high tone - null, on each sweep).
The coin did not fall down there either because when I finally got down to it it was still impeded in the last lump of dirt I took out of the hole.
I was shocked. Best advise to you is, as others have said, find a spot with deep coins then listen very carefully and recheck all the tiny high tones. If it repeats dig it up.
Best of luck and HH - Robin
 
but i know.
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Here in Oklahoma i have gone about that deep on wheat pennies. The first time I had the Lesche hand digger up to the end of the handle before i found one , then two, then 3 then still another. They were all a few inches apart. What was really cool was that a brand new Garrett owner came over to se what was going on.
Then in the folkses back yard in a spot where Whites showed nothing I went all the way to the end of the handle before I found one wheat. I guess the copper makes one big halo.
 
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