woodbutcher
Well-known member
I don’t post here a lot, not in this main comparison forum cause I don’t see the relevance of it. We’re all lucky seasoned adults with our own test beds, etc..So I just don’t feel the need to watch or post synthetic test results..
But I wanted to share a real life hunt that lasted me a few weeks of going back.
I went to a local state park here in western Pennsylvania, about 5 minutes from my house, about two years ago..I had 4 machines at the time,all considered older tek by most..So, I had the Tesoro golden Umax and cleansweep that day and was headed to the tot lot in the state park..Got there and kid everywhere,so I started to leave the park..On the way out was a grassy area surrounded by woods, nothing there and about little over a half acre of grass. I stopped, just wanted to swing and not be bothered, and didn’t expect anything but just wanted to have some time by myself.
10 minutes into the hunt I found my first half cent, 1805. Tesoro pic is it..Found about 3 more colonial coins and some flat buttons, and left..stoked
Came back with the anfibio and tore it up for probably the next 10 days..All colonial coins, buttons, etc..And deep too..But I worked that spot until I got no more non ferrous signals,but It’s loaded with square nails by the thousands it seems…
So, I go back one day after a week or two with a whites Classic ID.. I find 3 more colonial coins about 3 inches deep, and could see holes right beside me where I dug up other stuff. No way I didn’t have that anfibio over those coins..
So, nothing left ,and I’ll bet I pulled 30 colonial coins from there,at least 50 flat buttons of all sizes but not one silver coin..
One last ditch effort I took the explorer SE and hunted for about two hours. Not a peep, didnt dig a signal..I was headed out ,swinging the grass I have for weeks and got a slight tinkle in the headphones. Dug down at least a honest 10 inches and found my first and only silver at that site,and my only Spanish reale to date..I went back with the explorer and hunted a good 8 hours more on separate occasion but absolutely nothing turned up..
This year I took the deus and deus 2 there, hunted a few days and scoured every inch of that half acre of grass..not a coin to be found, only finds were two flat buttons that were bent,corroded and seen better days..
Moral of my story is I believe all machines see things differently, and no matter how old or new I don’t believe one machine can get it all,and I don’t believe that just cause it’s newer tek it’s better than older tek..I like the newer machines, and I use them. I like the older ones too,and I use them. There’s no substitute for real hunt results, synthetic test are ok but just cause one machine will do this or that in a test that another won’t, it doesn’t mean you’ll ever come across that synthetic scenario and speaking for myself I put no stock in anything but field results.
I’m gonna post some pics of some of my finds from this site, I have a lot more but I’d hafto dig up the pics or take some,I don’t think I ever did take a pic of everything together.
But I wanted to share a real life hunt that lasted me a few weeks of going back.
I went to a local state park here in western Pennsylvania, about 5 minutes from my house, about two years ago..I had 4 machines at the time,all considered older tek by most..So, I had the Tesoro golden Umax and cleansweep that day and was headed to the tot lot in the state park..Got there and kid everywhere,so I started to leave the park..On the way out was a grassy area surrounded by woods, nothing there and about little over a half acre of grass. I stopped, just wanted to swing and not be bothered, and didn’t expect anything but just wanted to have some time by myself.
10 minutes into the hunt I found my first half cent, 1805. Tesoro pic is it..Found about 3 more colonial coins and some flat buttons, and left..stoked
Came back with the anfibio and tore it up for probably the next 10 days..All colonial coins, buttons, etc..And deep too..But I worked that spot until I got no more non ferrous signals,but It’s loaded with square nails by the thousands it seems…
So, I go back one day after a week or two with a whites Classic ID.. I find 3 more colonial coins about 3 inches deep, and could see holes right beside me where I dug up other stuff. No way I didn’t have that anfibio over those coins..
So, nothing left ,and I’ll bet I pulled 30 colonial coins from there,at least 50 flat buttons of all sizes but not one silver coin..
One last ditch effort I took the explorer SE and hunted for about two hours. Not a peep, didnt dig a signal..I was headed out ,swinging the grass I have for weeks and got a slight tinkle in the headphones. Dug down at least a honest 10 inches and found my first and only silver at that site,and my only Spanish reale to date..I went back with the explorer and hunted a good 8 hours more on separate occasion but absolutely nothing turned up..
This year I took the deus and deus 2 there, hunted a few days and scoured every inch of that half acre of grass..not a coin to be found, only finds were two flat buttons that were bent,corroded and seen better days..
Moral of my story is I believe all machines see things differently, and no matter how old or new I don’t believe one machine can get it all,and I don’t believe that just cause it’s newer tek it’s better than older tek..I like the newer machines, and I use them. I like the older ones too,and I use them. There’s no substitute for real hunt results, synthetic test are ok but just cause one machine will do this or that in a test that another won’t, it doesn’t mean you’ll ever come across that synthetic scenario and speaking for myself I put no stock in anything but field results.
I’m gonna post some pics of some of my finds from this site, I have a lot more but I’d hafto dig up the pics or take some,I don’t think I ever did take a pic of everything together.
