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Just a touch of some Sunday morning delight.:fisher:

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jim tn

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Hit the demoed housing spot at first light and actually ran into a few targets from a wide block long stretch of turf between a sidewalk and a street. Save for 1 wheat cent, almost all the clad and cents came from that area. After I had worked that I drove to the other end of the site and started reworking some curb strips between driveways. These have been hit pretty good so I slowed way down and swung the coil in about a one foot sweep. Within a few minutes I got a faint high tone that repeated nicely and reading 80ish. That turned out to be the sterling marked ring....and couldn't find the stone. Dug the no date buffalo several feet out from the base of a big old oak, sniffed out another wheat and ended the hunt with the 46 Rosie that was almost touching the cement curb. Is slightly stained.

Was using the small coil and pretty much my usual settings and going real slow with narrow sweeps listening carefully for those whiffs and tic's.

One question. Anybody feel coins ting a little louder in very dry ground. I do feel there is some depth loss in dry ground, but I swear coins seem to hit a bit harder????????? HH jim tn
 
Nice hunt Jim. You sure are good at getting those soft signals. I don't think I know what soft signal is? When I was digging those deep signals it would end up being a tab/zinc or a can deep down there and I should have left them there. That is when I said to myself, I am not cut out for tunneling. I am a surface miner. Good detecting Jim.....Z
 
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Nice hunt,finding the stone for the ring would be sweet----------The whiffs and tic's do you get them one way or both ???????? after1---
 
Moat often they are a two way. The key for me on any hard hit site is to slow down, narrow the width of my swing and concentrate for those faint, soft hits. HH jim tn
 
In ref to the dry soil question I do believe coins have a bit sharper sound. It seems if the are 4" or less it is pronounced stacatto ping.
 
Another nice hunt Jim,

As you know we have been working your method here in our hunted out park in WV and my first time out I did okay, got a silver dime and 3 wheat cents. Then the next hunt my brother got a silver dime and a couple of wheat cents. Sense then we haven't done much of anything. Just by chance I found myself doing your short stroke in with a full swing, feels like I am doing something but nothing turning up.

We have been talking about using the same method and start trying for jewelry and thinking that may also remove some of the trash hiding the silver. We haven't give up but it could be that these guys running high end MLs are cleaning up the silver.

Ron in WV
 
Ron, the ML's are certainly good silver hunters, but I am not convinced for trashy site hunting there is a whole lot better then what we are swinging. Particularly, when it comes to un-masking and depth combined. As I mentioned to your brother, you can't dig something thats not there. When it comes to this hobby, there simply is nothing cast in stone. There are just so many variables that come into play and thats why nothing is ever truly hunted out. Direction, swing speed, ground conditions, detector settings, digging or passing up iffy signals, coil size, concentration, swing width and careful listening for those soft and faint tics and whiffs, to name some. HH jim tn
 
Did you ever think about opening up a school for detecting. :lol:

We will keep trying until we get it right.

Thanks Jim,

Ron in WV
 
Thanks Jim for your advice and your posts. I'm convinced that those faint signals you are talking about are the real key to getting that silver out, my last hunt I did get several of those hits but none turned out to be silver. Now when I hunt I'm not really looking for those hard signals because 99.9% of the time there clad and shallow, I want the faint signal with a high ID #.
 
What kind of confidence are you looking for on your machine meter, or are you using that at all to help decide to dig or not?

Ron in WV
 
Hi JIm - another great hunt!

I've noticed with my machine foil and iron will indicate a little too "hot" in bone-dry soil, but after a rain things go back to normal and the foil and iron seem to just "crackle" most of the time. I know there's a reason behind this, but why I have no idea...may be able to hunt early morning next Tues morning!
 
Pretty sure its from a toy cap gun. Have found several cap guns on the site and numerous pieces. HH jim tn
 
You got to love seeing a ring come out of the dirt.
HH
Mike
 
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