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Went here yesterday and tried a new method to get through the ridiculous amount of iron at this old home site which is now part of a public park.
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?91,2087664
Huge iron, small iron other garbage all over and also about a million nails.
I set the F70 on all metal and amped it up all the way on the other settings, 4H tones in disc was my check and dug any numbers that weren't iron, or didn't jump back to iron on every swing.
Still dug a bit of iron because there are some neat tools and other things I have dug here before, but mostly avoided that.
Really jumpy on everything, bone dry soil and iron and other garbage shallow, mid-range deep, huge, small, next to, over and under most targets.
When you open a hole in the densest area and 5 or 6 nails come out...that's trashy.
Still found a rim lock that all the skeleton keys we find fit into, a cool insurance emblem for a plate or bumper and some other neat odds and ends.
I found some wheaties here in the past but that's about it except for a few modern coins.
At least 3 members from my club have hunted here...once.
One even found a silver dime but I believe all of them gave up after that one time and moved onto easier pastures.
Never give up...Never surrender...my motto.
Went back today, decided to dig a little iron because a lot of it is interesting stuff.
Also I like to dig up pocket knives which are always iron for me.
Still super jumpy, lowered the sense a bit to 90 but not much difference, not one target came in stable like a regular site usually does.
Iron usually always jumps, but even a few zincolns and a couple other things were wacky today.
All that iron everywhere, I guess.
I dig dig some of the bigger iron signals but mostly stuck to my plan that worked yesterday and looked for signals that stayed up in the higher ranges with little or no jumps down to iron.
One target I came across was some iron signals mixed in with a few higher ones into the 30's.
Sounded good in all metal, that time I dug my knife.
Another one had 80's and 90's numbers mixed in with some iron grunts and jumpy back and forth...classic big iron in the ground signal.
However pinpointing showed me it wasn't all that large and I supertuned the Propointer and that said it wasn't big either.
Stood back up and switched to 4H tones in disc and still god some iron grunts, still jumping from low iron numbers into the 80's and 90s so if I went by that it was junk and would have moved on.
The thing that stopped me was the high tone was sweet and pretty repeatable from 2 ways even though there were a few iron grunts still there.
My digging instinct kicked in and I opened a hole.
Supposed to be at 6" whatever it was, a good depth for coins at this site I would think and dug down expecting some kind of small thick iron but hoping for something else.
Got down to about 5 or 5.5 inches and pulled out a beautiful green wheaty.
1928D...alright!
One of the more expensive ones in good shape, too.
Despite the color, this one is pretty sharp.
I stood up and swung over the hole again and got that sweet high tone and a couple grunts and a bit more stable on the numbers in the high 70's this time but still jumpy.
Dug about an inch down, flipped out some dirt and an early merc popped out.
Way cool!
Stuck the Propointer in the hole and got a signal about 2 inches away from where the coins were.
Now I know why I got the iron grunts...a nice size rusty nail.
Dug big iron, small iron and few other cool things
And a bit of trash..
A very good day for me.
Now that I have a method that works I can't wait to go back.
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?91,2087664
Huge iron, small iron other garbage all over and also about a million nails.
I set the F70 on all metal and amped it up all the way on the other settings, 4H tones in disc was my check and dug any numbers that weren't iron, or didn't jump back to iron on every swing.
Still dug a bit of iron because there are some neat tools and other things I have dug here before, but mostly avoided that.
Really jumpy on everything, bone dry soil and iron and other garbage shallow, mid-range deep, huge, small, next to, over and under most targets.
When you open a hole in the densest area and 5 or 6 nails come out...that's trashy.
Still found a rim lock that all the skeleton keys we find fit into, a cool insurance emblem for a plate or bumper and some other neat odds and ends.
I found some wheaties here in the past but that's about it except for a few modern coins.
At least 3 members from my club have hunted here...once.
One even found a silver dime but I believe all of them gave up after that one time and moved onto easier pastures.
Never give up...Never surrender...my motto.
Went back today, decided to dig a little iron because a lot of it is interesting stuff.
Also I like to dig up pocket knives which are always iron for me.
Still super jumpy, lowered the sense a bit to 90 but not much difference, not one target came in stable like a regular site usually does.
Iron usually always jumps, but even a few zincolns and a couple other things were wacky today.
All that iron everywhere, I guess.
I dig dig some of the bigger iron signals but mostly stuck to my plan that worked yesterday and looked for signals that stayed up in the higher ranges with little or no jumps down to iron.
One target I came across was some iron signals mixed in with a few higher ones into the 30's.
Sounded good in all metal, that time I dug my knife.
Another one had 80's and 90's numbers mixed in with some iron grunts and jumpy back and forth...classic big iron in the ground signal.
However pinpointing showed me it wasn't all that large and I supertuned the Propointer and that said it wasn't big either.
Stood back up and switched to 4H tones in disc and still god some iron grunts, still jumping from low iron numbers into the 80's and 90s so if I went by that it was junk and would have moved on.
The thing that stopped me was the high tone was sweet and pretty repeatable from 2 ways even though there were a few iron grunts still there.
My digging instinct kicked in and I opened a hole.
Supposed to be at 6" whatever it was, a good depth for coins at this site I would think and dug down expecting some kind of small thick iron but hoping for something else.
Got down to about 5 or 5.5 inches and pulled out a beautiful green wheaty.
1928D...alright!
One of the more expensive ones in good shape, too.
Despite the color, this one is pretty sharp.
I stood up and swung over the hole again and got that sweet high tone and a couple grunts and a bit more stable on the numbers in the high 70's this time but still jumpy.
Dug about an inch down, flipped out some dirt and an early merc popped out.
Way cool!
Stuck the Propointer in the hole and got a signal about 2 inches away from where the coins were.
Now I know why I got the iron grunts...a nice size rusty nail.
Dug big iron, small iron and few other cool things
And a bit of trash..
A very good day for me.
Now that I have a method that works I can't wait to go back.