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Yesterday a great thing happened to me...I found a nickel.
The coin itself is not a big deal but what it represents to me is huge.
This was found in a very trashy and iron filled area at the entrance to my local park.
It is surrounded by power lines on three sides, WiFi problems and it also has that difficult mineralization all over plus we are in drought conditions so the site is hard to dig in and dryer than dry.
I have had great success here because I have been hunting this relatively small area constantly for more than a year, I found old coins, flat buttons and more but now there seems to be very little left compared to when I first came here.
Lots of solid signals still but mostly iron, I have been digging most of the trash signals for a long time and everything good I found before was masked to the hilt so even though this place is one that even I might start to think is kind of hunted out I just can't wrap my head around that and actually believe it.
There is always one more combination of settings, one more tweak, one more new or odd thing I might notice about target behavior that might help me dig just one more target that is not iron or trash that is masked even more than everything else I found so far.
Yesterday I had the disc at 0 and I was in DP tones...both settings I am currently practicing with because I have not done much with these in the past so time to try to get better and who knows...maybe one or both might make a difference.
I dug some trash on this short hunt, a couple pieces of iron too that I guessed correctly about before I dug them but nothing else till I hit this signal.
A bit strange, jumpy, nothing you can consider solid but it was at the right depth for older coins, 6", and it was not iron.
It was in an area right near an old stone bench I had been over a million times before but even though at this point I am digging everything I find here that seems not to be iron and have been doing that for months for some reason I missed this one in the past.
Was it these new settings, was it just luck or was it both?
I am a big believer that you make your own luck when you can and I am using these new combination of settings so I will go with that for now.
I dug down expecting trash because this signal even though not iron could have been anything but when a very dirty nickel popped up I got real happy.
Not a buff like I have found around here before but not really modern either... nickels don't get that deep or this dirty unless they are moderately old here.
I had to bring it home and scrub it hard to even see part of a date but after much elbow grease I got enough of that red clay off of it to see the third number is a 5.
A 1950's nickel out of this kind of site is a huge victory disguised as a little one.
Big victories are great in this hobby but the small ones can still count and make us very happy too.
They sure do for me.
The coin itself is not a big deal but what it represents to me is huge.
This was found in a very trashy and iron filled area at the entrance to my local park.
It is surrounded by power lines on three sides, WiFi problems and it also has that difficult mineralization all over plus we are in drought conditions so the site is hard to dig in and dryer than dry.
I have had great success here because I have been hunting this relatively small area constantly for more than a year, I found old coins, flat buttons and more but now there seems to be very little left compared to when I first came here.
Lots of solid signals still but mostly iron, I have been digging most of the trash signals for a long time and everything good I found before was masked to the hilt so even though this place is one that even I might start to think is kind of hunted out I just can't wrap my head around that and actually believe it.
There is always one more combination of settings, one more tweak, one more new or odd thing I might notice about target behavior that might help me dig just one more target that is not iron or trash that is masked even more than everything else I found so far.
Yesterday I had the disc at 0 and I was in DP tones...both settings I am currently practicing with because I have not done much with these in the past so time to try to get better and who knows...maybe one or both might make a difference.
I dug some trash on this short hunt, a couple pieces of iron too that I guessed correctly about before I dug them but nothing else till I hit this signal.
A bit strange, jumpy, nothing you can consider solid but it was at the right depth for older coins, 6", and it was not iron.
It was in an area right near an old stone bench I had been over a million times before but even though at this point I am digging everything I find here that seems not to be iron and have been doing that for months for some reason I missed this one in the past.
Was it these new settings, was it just luck or was it both?
I am a big believer that you make your own luck when you can and I am using these new combination of settings so I will go with that for now.
I dug down expecting trash because this signal even though not iron could have been anything but when a very dirty nickel popped up I got real happy.
Not a buff like I have found around here before but not really modern either... nickels don't get that deep or this dirty unless they are moderately old here.
I had to bring it home and scrub it hard to even see part of a date but after much elbow grease I got enough of that red clay off of it to see the third number is a 5.
A 1950's nickel out of this kind of site is a huge victory disguised as a little one.
Big victories are great in this hobby but the small ones can still count and make us very happy too.
They sure do for me.
Anyways just wanted to thankyou for the informative posts.