Road tripped to St. Louis Sunday to do some hunting with Guvner....DrBobinMO.....and Bob's cousin Mike. We had a great time checking each other's signals..and comparing what they sounded like with different coils.
We first went to O'Fallon Park for a couple of hours and fought through the trash. I didn't bring my trusty 6" Excelerator coil but still did okay with the 10 x 12 SEF. I found ONLY one coin here..but it was an 1877 Seated quarter.
I called Bob's cousin over to listen to the signal and we could hear a nice high tone coming through the trash at times if you wiggled the coil just right. I dug down about 7"...and popped out an old style round tab
....not good.
I then ran the probe again in the 7" hole and it sang the silver song this time. I plopped out another 2" of dirt...and from almost 9" down...out popped the seated quarter. 
I then headed to Forest Park to meet up with another feller"..and he and I hunted the Worlds Fair Pavillion hill for a couple of hours.
I hunted a little washed out gulley that ran from the top of the hill to about 30 feet from the bottom. I ended up finding a few wheaties...1 silver Roosey...and the 1889 Injun at this spot.
About 1:30 or so...he and I met up again with Guvner...Bob...and Mike..at a spot outside Forest Park where I pulled two half dimes out of last year. This is where we wanted to do some more comparisons...experimenting...and just piddling around listening to each other's signals.
I wasn't there 1/2 hour before getting a nutty hit that I wanted to investigate. It wasn't deep...but it sounded goofy..and it was near the spot where the first half dime came from. I dug down about 7" and popped out a nasty corroded zinc cent.:angry: I then rechecked the hole and kept getting a weird signal off the side of the hole.
I let Bob run his machine over it...but he didn't get much of a signal. I was getting just enough of one that I decided to dig the hole a little more around. It seemed to be off to the far edge so I dug more out...then stuck the Lesche towards the bottom edge. I pried up a couple of roots...and as they broke... this little thin silver slug literally popped out and landed right on top of the dirt pile. I picked it up and could not believe how worn it is. In my 30+ years of hunting I have never found a silver coin this worn thin...so much so that it has a hole in it. Bob thought it was a worn Barber dime...but I could make out 185? as the date...so it couldn't be a barber. I then held it just right and looked at the back and saw Half Dime barely ledgible. It may be UGLY and worn...but it IS a Half Dime..and it's all mine.
I later looked at it under a jewelers loop and see it is an 1856. If you look at the first pic of it..you can make out most of the date at the bottom. The second pic which shows the back...if you look closely...you can make out the H of half dime. I couldn't get the scan to show it...but you can read the whole Half Dime if you hold this beauty just right in the light
I then moved to a different area that had more open ground. Bob was hoping I would locate a real deepie so he and Mike could hear what I was talking about when I mention the sounds in some of my posts.
After wandeing around for another 2 hours or so.... having Guvner call me over to watch him dig up trash once
....and ME calling HIM over to watch ME dig up crap MORE than once
.... I finally located a "deepie". All of us messed around with this signal for a while...so much so that after a half hour ...I was tired af gibbering..and was itchin' to dig
. Anyway...it was the exact sound I always talk about in my posts. It was a higher pitched...yet faint..."warbly" sound that tells me "deep coin"...and the depth meter was absolutey buried. I remember saying "I've probably dug 50 silver coins this year that sounded like this...but also 100 pieces of trash that sounded like this...so we'll see what pops out".
I dug a deep plug ...then ran the probe as Bob and Mike watched. It sang "coin" this time. Finally...I knew I had a deep coin.
With Guvner...Bob...and his cousin watching...I dug down another 2" ...and the probe still sang. By now I was down 9"...so I dug another clod out...and the probe still sang. I dug yet another clod out and Bob said..."there it is". From a very honest 11" down...out came an 1883 Injun.
I am thankful and happy I was able to find it with Bob...his cousin...and Guvner there.
All in all...a GREAT day meeting and hunting with Bob... his cousin Mike...and Guvner. Although it wasn't silver...I was very happy...and LUCKY...that I was able to locate an 11" deep injun so Bob and his cousin could hear what I was talking about in my posts.
My total for the day was 1 Seated quarter...a few wheaties...2 injuns...a roosey...and the beautiful MS65 1856 Half dime. I also found a sterling lobster clasp from a broken bracelet at 7"deep..and also part of the broken bracelet... and showed Bob....but I must have lost it in the shuffle of leaving and heading home
I really think we all benefited from comparing signals...and that we all learned some things. I know I did anyway.
The main thing is that we all had fun.
Thanks for viewing and good luck on your next hunt.
We first went to O'Fallon Park for a couple of hours and fought through the trash. I didn't bring my trusty 6" Excelerator coil but still did okay with the 10 x 12 SEF. I found ONLY one coin here..but it was an 1877 Seated quarter.
I called Bob's cousin over to listen to the signal and we could hear a nice high tone coming through the trash at times if you wiggled the coil just right. I dug down about 7"...and popped out an old style round tab
....not good. I then ran the probe again in the 7" hole and it sang the silver song this time. I plopped out another 2" of dirt...and from almost 9" down...out popped the seated quarter. I then headed to Forest Park to meet up with another feller"..and he and I hunted the Worlds Fair Pavillion hill for a couple of hours.
I hunted a little washed out gulley that ran from the top of the hill to about 30 feet from the bottom. I ended up finding a few wheaties...1 silver Roosey...and the 1889 Injun at this spot.
About 1:30 or so...he and I met up again with Guvner...Bob...and Mike..at a spot outside Forest Park where I pulled two half dimes out of last year. This is where we wanted to do some more comparisons...experimenting...and just piddling around listening to each other's signals.
I wasn't there 1/2 hour before getting a nutty hit that I wanted to investigate. It wasn't deep...but it sounded goofy..and it was near the spot where the first half dime came from. I dug down about 7" and popped out a nasty corroded zinc cent.:angry: I then rechecked the hole and kept getting a weird signal off the side of the hole.
I let Bob run his machine over it...but he didn't get much of a signal. I was getting just enough of one that I decided to dig the hole a little more around. It seemed to be off to the far edge so I dug more out...then stuck the Lesche towards the bottom edge. I pried up a couple of roots...and as they broke... this little thin silver slug literally popped out and landed right on top of the dirt pile. I picked it up and could not believe how worn it is. In my 30+ years of hunting I have never found a silver coin this worn thin...so much so that it has a hole in it. Bob thought it was a worn Barber dime...but I could make out 185? as the date...so it couldn't be a barber. I then held it just right and looked at the back and saw Half Dime barely ledgible. It may be UGLY and worn...but it IS a Half Dime..and it's all mine. I later looked at it under a jewelers loop and see it is an 1856. If you look at the first pic of it..you can make out most of the date at the bottom. The second pic which shows the back...if you look closely...you can make out the H of half dime. I couldn't get the scan to show it...but you can read the whole Half Dime if you hold this beauty just right in the lightI then moved to a different area that had more open ground. Bob was hoping I would locate a real deepie so he and Mike could hear what I was talking about when I mention the sounds in some of my posts.
After wandeing around for another 2 hours or so.... having Guvner call me over to watch him dig up trash once
....and ME calling HIM over to watch ME dig up crap MORE than once.... I finally located a "deepie". All of us messed around with this signal for a while...so much so that after a half hour ...I was tired af gibbering..and was itchin' to dig. Anyway...it was the exact sound I always talk about in my posts. It was a higher pitched...yet faint..."warbly" sound that tells me "deep coin"...and the depth meter was absolutey buried. I remember saying "I've probably dug 50 silver coins this year that sounded like this...but also 100 pieces of trash that sounded like this...so we'll see what pops out". I dug a deep plug ...then ran the probe as Bob and Mike watched. It sang "coin" this time. Finally...I knew I had a deep coin.
With Guvner...Bob...and his cousin watching...I dug down another 2" ...and the probe still sang. By now I was down 9"...so I dug another clod out...and the probe still sang. I dug yet another clod out and Bob said..."there it is". From a very honest 11" down...out came an 1883 Injun. I am thankful and happy I was able to find it with Bob...his cousin...and Guvner there.All in all...a GREAT day meeting and hunting with Bob... his cousin Mike...and Guvner. Although it wasn't silver...I was very happy...and LUCKY...that I was able to locate an 11" deep injun so Bob and his cousin could hear what I was talking about in my posts.
My total for the day was 1 Seated quarter...a few wheaties...2 injuns...a roosey...and the beautiful MS65 1856 Half dime
. I also found a sterling lobster clasp from a broken bracelet at 7"deep..and also part of the broken bracelet... and showed Bob....but I must have lost it in the shuffle of leaving and heading homeI really think we all benefited from comparing signals...and that we all learned some things. I know I did anyway.
The main thing is that we all had fun. Thanks for viewing and good luck on your next hunt.
I think Nick was able to get a tiny tick with his soveriegn equipped with a 12" sunray coil over the 11" injun...but whether or not the machine would have actually seen it if I hadn't shown the exact pinpoint spot...I don't know. On the other machines...I think the E-trac chirped over it. The same thing on an EX2. There's no way to really know if the other machines would have hit it while actually hunting in order to stop the hunter....but I think a couple of the guys did get a sound when shown the pinpointed spot....but I don't know if it repeated consitantly. One of the fellers' with an EX2/pro coil combo did get a little chirp. He said he didn't think he would have dug it though. It's hard to say...but Nick did say his machine gave a little "tick" over it. I know Bob said he wouldn't have dug it 9 out of 10 times. The sound I got with my SEF coil was a nice...faint...high...warbly sound..and it repeated all the way around the hole...and I mean all the way around