Hit the park on Saturday. The Omega does great multitasking!

[bubbadirect]

Well I did what alot of you have recommended for settings and "learning to listen to watch the machine is telling me" and hit the park on Saturday morning. It took me awhile to get the hang of things with this new information that you all have shared with me, as I started digging pull tabs and screw caps. But then I remembered the advice from sekypaleoabout giving it the 90 degree test, and the 3 categories test, jumping from 1 to another. I ended up not digging anything that jumped 3 categories and found myself unsure about some things that I dig saying out loud "gotta be another screw cap" but then it would end up being a penny! I only would dig the stuff that gave a solid signal and not anything that sounded "raspy", but rather dug the ones that had a nice ring to it. I ended up after 4 hours with $1.16 in clad, with finding 17 separate pennies within the same hole and within 1 foot of the original hole! I was very impressed with how well the 11" DD coil did in "MULTITASKING" and ringing iron, but then money. Iron,money,iron,money. Sure enough! There was a penny or a dime literally on top of a nail!

I didn't find any silver though, yet. But I did dig alot of broken pieces of aluminum cans and such though. BUT I ended up after about an hour or so, only digging one pull tab! Which is pretty good considering that I didn't know how to "listen to what the machine" was telling me before, and watching for the jumping 3 or more different categories. The pennies and other clad coins that I dug were any where from 2 inches down to around 7 inches down for the quarters.

I might be heading down to my old CW battlefield in KY again here later this week, and I CAN"T WAIT TO SEE what I might dig up this time, since you all have given me some better knowledge in relationship to this machine of ours! I am gonna try the setting of 16 of so on the disc too. I am gonna be using the 11" DD coil for better depth, and I hope that the 15/16 disc will keep out more of the barbed wire and nails away from my digging adventure. But I hate getting a good signal, only to dig a darn shotgun shell, yes, I dig those alot too when relic hunting in KY. But I think they are brass some of them, right? So then I would dig them anyway with the good signal that the Omega would be giving me, as it could be an old button!

Come on up and join me if anyone can make it to central Kentucky Thursday this week! Seriously!

Give me more advice! Please!
David

 

[Monte]

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[bugg]

I was at a park yesterday, got an 80's coin tone, turned 90 degrees, the signal dropped into the 60's. I dig the plug,scrapped some dirt loose, and in the loose dirt about 4" were 2 clad dimes! Im wondering if one of them was on edge, that I was getting a 60's read? There was no other metal in the hole. There are other times also, I get a read in the 60's, the depth meter shows 5+ inches, and its a coin. 2 days ago, in a park, I get the large target, overload signal, I probe down 1/2" and hit a solid 1" x 2" solid pewter medallion. Sometimes its just best to let your curiosity take over. Remember, this is a hobby, and it should be fun!

 

[bubbadirect]

I went MDing on Thursday in Kentucky at a CW area and found a few goodies. I will post pictures here in a bit.

 

[bubbadirect]

bugg--You said something very important for me to remember. Remember, this is a hobby, and it should be fun! That is just strange that you had a signal in the 80's and then it dropped into the 60's on the dimes though. HMMM. At least you got your 80's original signal to begin the dig, but it makes me wonder how many times I have started digging a 4-6 inch deep hole, only to have the ID drop, and STOP DIGGING because it must be junk, or so I think and move on. UGHH.

 

[jensman86]

Hi David
I just got my first metal detector to look for civil war stuff, I also live in kentucky i noticed you were talking bout going to a battlefeild if you dont mind me asking which battlefeild is it? Im new to the hobby like i say but would like to learn of good places to go.

 

[Andy Sabisch]

David,

Sounds like you are getting the hang of the Omega . . . as with any detector it is not 100% accurate under all conditions and if a target has the same electrical characteristics as what is tells you it is, that's the nature of the beast. A copper washer will read like a penny as will some pieces of can slaw read like a coin.

I made a post last year showing how much trash I wind up digging to get the goodies . . . . . check out the link.

A few months of digging trash to fins goodies!


And as far as finding shotgun shells when you are out relic hunting . . . . . don't you know you have been throwing away Civil War buttons every time you toss one of those into the woods or the garbage can? You must not have hunted with some of the "good old boys" that relic hunt here in the South . . . . . . and had them pull the ol' Georgia regimental button trick on you . . . . .

Here's a nice example of a Confederate button . . . . . from the 12th Georgia Regiment . . . . . you know, the 12 GA

Hope you do well this week . . . . let us know how you make out

Andy

 

[jensman86]

any one know of places in kentucky to look for civil war relics?

 

[bubbadirect]

Andy! Holy crud! That is alot and I mean ALOT of junk that you pulled out! WOW!

As to the 12th Georgia, I actually did find one of those too! i got excited when I saw it too, only to realize that it was a bullet, but not of the CW era! It rang true as a CW bullet though.