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Went out in the back yard for about 45 minutes found a silver quarter and two dimes silver. 1957,1957 1964. This Cortes is pretty nice. Keep Diggin
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Thank you for your help. Im sure I missed a few, I am so new at it and still getting use to which signal is which. Thanks
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You are off with a bang! I'm glad to hear you figured out the interference thing. If you are finding silver where you are you want to make sure you keep going over the area. Set the disc down just above iron and dig any repeatable signal. You will pull your fair share of junk but you want to get as much junk out of there as possible, they could be masking some of the deeper coins. Also, listen for tose low, almost whisper type signals. These are the deep signals that will give up the older coins or jewelry. The Cortes is what I call a jewelry magnet, so make sure you dig even the foil/pulltab targets because this is where alot of those jewelry finds will be. Great Hunting to you and I hope to see more posts of some great finds!
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I dont know how much deeper I can go, I pulled a quarter today that was about 10 inches down which is great, but the thing is the date was the year 2000, as I have stated before the ground here is so soft and that quarter has gotten that deep in just a few years, thats why the construction sites are so popular here. They dig up the first few inches of soil which makes for better hunting. That quarter was not the only new money that was deep. I found a 99 dime no where near the quarter that was just as deep and a penny. You can literally push your fingers in the ground here up to your knuckles. I am still learning the Bulls Eye method. so far Im doing so so. the coins have been almost in the hole i dug. lol. They were right there in the wall but not in the hole. I got a lot to learn about the tones. I do get beeps then go back over it and there is no beep. I love those big signals and as the book says every signal i get i dig it, so I am pretty sore right now and tired. My yard looks like a war zone with all the holes, which i plugged back. Thanks for all your help.
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<BIG><BIG><BIG><STRONG><CENTER><EM>"Beep-<BIG><FONT COLOR="#ff0000">DIG!</BIG></FONT>"</EM></CENTER></STRONG></BIG></BIG></BIG>
Silent search detectors ignore what we've rejected. They tend to remain silent. When you get a BEEP, simply recover the target and take a look at it. Then it's <span style="background-color:#ffff00;"><STRONG><EM>"identified!"</STRONG></EM></span>
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Silent search detectors ignore what we've rejected. They tend to remain silent. When you get a BEEP, simply recover the target and take a look at it. Then it's <span style="background-color:#ffff00;"><STRONG><EM>"identified!"</STRONG></EM></span>
<CENTER> <img src="/metal/html/wink.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="
"> ... <img src="/metal/html/tongue.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":b"> ... <img src="/metal/html/clap.gif" border=0 width=20 height=30 alt=":clap"> ... <img src="/metal/html/razz.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":razz"> ... <img src="/metal/html/tongue.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":b"> ... <img src="/metal/html/wink.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=""></CENTER><EM><STRONG>Monte
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I can remember when I was a 'newbie' too! I can even remember my very first outing with my very first detector, a Silver Sabre 2. Man, I was digging EVERYTHING I HEARD! <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=""> by the end of the day, I was weighted down with what felt like half a ton of iron, shotgun cartridge caps, and loads of other 'junk' stuff! I did find a musket ball and a lead bag seal though, so I was pretty pleased with myself <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> It took me a couple of months practice before I finally figured out the subtle nuances of what I was hearing through my headphones. I found that often, some bigger iron targets would get past the discrimination, and give me an audio report. By passing the coil over the target just at the edge of where it was picking it up, it would usually give a 'choppy' broken kind of signal. This method seems to have worked well with the 3 different detectors I have used over the last 10 years or so. SS2, DFX, and now the Laser Hawkeye. some big iron targets will give you a good audio response anyway, and this seems to be the case with whatever brand or model you use. Iron rings from farm machinery for instance, along with big pieces of plough and some horseshoes! big pieces of iron pipe will fool even the Explorer ... I saw a guy on one of the club digs dig a hole a good 2 foot deep, only to find a length of iron pipe! (He was hoping for a bronze age axe) <img src="/metal/html/tongue.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":b"> Another time, when I was using my SS2, I got what sounded to me like a good target, my friend came over with his Eagle spectrum and swept his coil over my target ... "IRON" he declared, and walked off. I was still curious though, as it sounded good to me. I decided to dig it anyway, just to satisfy my curiosity and see if my friend was right. It turned out to be a lovely old iron key about six inches long <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=""> it cleaned up well, and now hangs on the wall by my back door! So I think maybe it's not so bad to dig the occasional piece of iron. Most times it will just be 'junk', but sometimes it's 'Desireable Ferrous' like my key, or a nice Medieval or Saxon horseshoe! I wonder how many 'Desireable' iron targets I have missed when the discrimination 'knocks them out' <img src="/metal/html/confused.gif" border=0 width=15 height=22 alt=":?"> I'm not advocating that we all turn our discrmination off here!, Just saying that on the odd occasion, I end up being pleased that I dug that 'iffy' signal <img src="/metal/html/wink.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="">
HH to y'all charlie(UK)
"> by the end of the day, I was weighted down with what felt like half a ton of iron, shotgun cartridge caps, and loads of other 'junk' stuff! I did find a musket ball and a lead bag seal though, so I was pretty pleased with myself <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> It took me a couple of months practice before I finally figured out the subtle nuances of what I was hearing through my headphones. I found that often, some bigger iron targets would get past the discrimination, and give me an audio report. By passing the coil over the target just at the edge of where it was picking it up, it would usually give a 'choppy' broken kind of signal. This method seems to have worked well with the 3 different detectors I have used over the last 10 years or so. SS2, DFX, and now the Laser Hawkeye. some big iron targets will give you a good audio response anyway, and this seems to be the case with whatever brand or model you use. Iron rings from farm machinery for instance, along with big pieces of plough and some horseshoes! big pieces of iron pipe will fool even the Explorer ... I saw a guy on one of the club digs dig a hole a good 2 foot deep, only to find a length of iron pipe! (He was hoping for a bronze age axe) <img src="/metal/html/tongue.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":b"> Another time, when I was using my SS2, I got what sounded to me like a good target, my friend came over with his Eagle spectrum and swept his coil over my target ... "IRON" he declared, and walked off. I was still curious though, as it sounded good to me. I decided to dig it anyway, just to satisfy my curiosity and see if my friend was right. It turned out to be a lovely old iron key about six inches long <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=""> it cleaned up well, and now hangs on the wall by my back door! So I think maybe it's not so bad to dig the occasional piece of iron. Most times it will just be 'junk', but sometimes it's 'Desireable Ferrous' like my key, or a nice Medieval or Saxon horseshoe! I wonder how many 'Desireable' iron targets I have missed when the discrimination 'knocks them out' <img src="/metal/html/confused.gif" border=0 width=15 height=22 alt=":?"> I'm not advocating that we all turn our discrmination off here!, Just saying that on the odd occasion, I end up being pleased that I dug that 'iffy' signal <img src="/metal/html/wink.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="">HH to y'all charlie(UK)