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I wrote up my first silver coin find the other day, a severely masked dime in a hole with what I think was a rusted steel cent and other bigger iron deeper under it.
Found in an area that I have been over a ton which surprised me.
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?37,2346381
On this hunt I was using the same settings...some different settings that I never used before in disc mostly because it was always too noisy even for me but for some reason now my rig is really quiet this way...why I have no clue.
No DST on mine so most of the time on my usual high settings and using at 0-1 disc it is usually a pretty Chatty Cathy but I learned to deal with it.
F70, big DD coil, DE speed, sense at 97, thresh at +9, disc up to 65 but with the whole nickel range notched back in.
Coin shooting settings from heck, although that nickel notch is actually for finding gold because every target here is up-averaged into the high 80's to low 90's usually if it is 4" or more in depth...even nickels.
I am going to miss gold and whatever else at foil, tabs, zinc or even iron which bothers me a little but this is only an experiment...I might be hitting up some sites this year that have old coins but might be a one time thing and I won't have a lot of chances to visit over and over as per usual so I gotta go with the numbers if I decide to use heavy disc at any of these sites.
There's more coins out there than gold.
I still don't know why this is so quiet at these high settings, could be an effect from all that disc so I will start adding in some more sections on future hunts and see what happens but yesterday I used these settings as is throughout my hunt to see what happens.
Pretty cool, found a few clad coins in areas I have scoured before so that was nice, trash was all identified easily and I avoided the real jumpy stuff and dug a few of the odd number trash because it repeated, somewhat, stayed high out of iron and it didn't drop to iron at all even when switching to all metal to check.
All trash like can slaw and whatever but good to know I can target non ferrous targets when I want to.
Dug some iron too, pretty big pieces that stayed in a high range like coins do here, dropped to iron when checking in all metal but I went after them anyway if only to see if those were masking something else hanging around the area.
Fun hunt, depth seemed decent but even my oldest targets here don't lie much deeper than 5-6" most of the time.
This was more about unmasking than depth for the most part, anyway.
On my way home I walked by a permission house I hunted a lot last year.
Got all kinds of great targets out of this place over many hunts, almost a dozen wheats, 5 silver dimes and a silver war nickel, an old cheap pocket watch, a silver religious medallion plus I cleaned up the lawn pretty well and got most of the trash out of here too except the most obvious iron signals.
I hit this lawn a lot, every direction you could think of many times, used three different coils on the F70, got the Vaq and the Compadre out there at least once too, I usually don't hit it anymore because for the last several times I scanned it on my way home out of the park I got no signals at all except iron.
Not that I believe any site is true ever hunted out but this is not a huge lawn and I believed I cleaned it out pretty good...close enough for government work.
Yesterday I hit that lawn one more time on my way home just for the heck of it.
I expected nothing, even though it is a relatively small lawnI didn't even cover a lot just quickly walked around trying to get any decent signals and came across one, some iron that stayed high mostly but actually was iron and that was about it...till I hit this thing.
Jumpy a bit high numbers that repeated from two directions and switching to all metal the same but with a few drops to iron.
Pinpointing I realized there was two targets here close, iron definitely but an inch or two away something else that seemed to be the source of the higher numbers so I went after that one and about 4" I came up with this thing which was in the high 80's in the ground but a steady 68-69 when freed and a little over 2" long.
It looked like a hair barrett to me, maybe a sash pin because it only had one single piece of metal in the back to close it and not a clasp or a double pin setup like most barretts but still cool.
It was dirty so I thought junk like maybe zinc or something else cheap but I rubbed it a bit and all the dirt came off easily and I saw no evidence of flaking.
I turned it over and rubbed the dirt off the back and then I saw the word sterling...could have knocked me over with a feather!
How did I miss this thing in all my previous adventures in this lawn?
I wandered, gridded, overlapped, hit this area from every direction possible so many times and never had a clue it was there.
Was it the high thresh that made it possible..does this setting have unmasking abilities that are even better for hunting in my mineralized iron filled devil dirt?
I am pretty good at doing that, I have many hours of experimentation using a huge amount of settings, coils and coil manipulation techniques in this stuff and I consider myself more than just successful at this unmasking stuff.
I have found plenty of great and surprising things in many sites that have been scoured for decades by some very skilled hunters so working hard I have gained some needed skills for hunting in this landscape...a place where masking is the rule not the exception.
But finding this thing in disc was relatively...easy.
High thresh...might be more to that feature than I ever knew before.
I use it all the time in all metal but I need to explore it more in disc.
Silver target number two for the year...on a roll so now it's time to rock.
Found in an area that I have been over a ton which surprised me.
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?37,2346381
On this hunt I was using the same settings...some different settings that I never used before in disc mostly because it was always too noisy even for me but for some reason now my rig is really quiet this way...why I have no clue.
No DST on mine so most of the time on my usual high settings and using at 0-1 disc it is usually a pretty Chatty Cathy but I learned to deal with it.
F70, big DD coil, DE speed, sense at 97, thresh at +9, disc up to 65 but with the whole nickel range notched back in.
Coin shooting settings from heck, although that nickel notch is actually for finding gold because every target here is up-averaged into the high 80's to low 90's usually if it is 4" or more in depth...even nickels.
I am going to miss gold and whatever else at foil, tabs, zinc or even iron which bothers me a little but this is only an experiment...I might be hitting up some sites this year that have old coins but might be a one time thing and I won't have a lot of chances to visit over and over as per usual so I gotta go with the numbers if I decide to use heavy disc at any of these sites.
There's more coins out there than gold.
I still don't know why this is so quiet at these high settings, could be an effect from all that disc so I will start adding in some more sections on future hunts and see what happens but yesterday I used these settings as is throughout my hunt to see what happens.
Pretty cool, found a few clad coins in areas I have scoured before so that was nice, trash was all identified easily and I avoided the real jumpy stuff and dug a few of the odd number trash because it repeated, somewhat, stayed high out of iron and it didn't drop to iron at all even when switching to all metal to check.
All trash like can slaw and whatever but good to know I can target non ferrous targets when I want to.
Dug some iron too, pretty big pieces that stayed in a high range like coins do here, dropped to iron when checking in all metal but I went after them anyway if only to see if those were masking something else hanging around the area.
Fun hunt, depth seemed decent but even my oldest targets here don't lie much deeper than 5-6" most of the time.
This was more about unmasking than depth for the most part, anyway.
On my way home I walked by a permission house I hunted a lot last year.
Got all kinds of great targets out of this place over many hunts, almost a dozen wheats, 5 silver dimes and a silver war nickel, an old cheap pocket watch, a silver religious medallion plus I cleaned up the lawn pretty well and got most of the trash out of here too except the most obvious iron signals.
I hit this lawn a lot, every direction you could think of many times, used three different coils on the F70, got the Vaq and the Compadre out there at least once too, I usually don't hit it anymore because for the last several times I scanned it on my way home out of the park I got no signals at all except iron.
Not that I believe any site is true ever hunted out but this is not a huge lawn and I believed I cleaned it out pretty good...close enough for government work.
Yesterday I hit that lawn one more time on my way home just for the heck of it.
I expected nothing, even though it is a relatively small lawnI didn't even cover a lot just quickly walked around trying to get any decent signals and came across one, some iron that stayed high mostly but actually was iron and that was about it...till I hit this thing.
Jumpy a bit high numbers that repeated from two directions and switching to all metal the same but with a few drops to iron.
Pinpointing I realized there was two targets here close, iron definitely but an inch or two away something else that seemed to be the source of the higher numbers so I went after that one and about 4" I came up with this thing which was in the high 80's in the ground but a steady 68-69 when freed and a little over 2" long.
It looked like a hair barrett to me, maybe a sash pin because it only had one single piece of metal in the back to close it and not a clasp or a double pin setup like most barretts but still cool.
It was dirty so I thought junk like maybe zinc or something else cheap but I rubbed it a bit and all the dirt came off easily and I saw no evidence of flaking.
I turned it over and rubbed the dirt off the back and then I saw the word sterling...could have knocked me over with a feather!
How did I miss this thing in all my previous adventures in this lawn?
I wandered, gridded, overlapped, hit this area from every direction possible so many times and never had a clue it was there.
Was it the high thresh that made it possible..does this setting have unmasking abilities that are even better for hunting in my mineralized iron filled devil dirt?
I am pretty good at doing that, I have many hours of experimentation using a huge amount of settings, coils and coil manipulation techniques in this stuff and I consider myself more than just successful at this unmasking stuff.
I have found plenty of great and surprising things in many sites that have been scoured for decades by some very skilled hunters so working hard I have gained some needed skills for hunting in this landscape...a place where masking is the rule not the exception.
But finding this thing in disc was relatively...easy.
High thresh...might be more to that feature than I ever knew before.
I use it all the time in all metal but I need to explore it more in disc.
Silver target number two for the year...on a roll so now it's time to rock.
