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mountain home, idaho

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Let me add to my original request. I am looking for a hunting partner who truly wants to dig history. I don't want to detect parks or playgrounds. I like going to old sites and finding what ever I can. Whether its the lid to an 1890's shoe black or the buckle from a suspender. It is the challenge of finding such old places thats half the fun. I'm tired of having to almost beg people to go. Then after you drive back into some place for two hours people want to go home after two hours. Or they just metal detected 2 acres in twenty minutes and didnt find anything and now they want to go home. I'm 63 and have both knees replaced and I want to hunt all day.
The site im currently working is 30 mi driving, about 5 miles of crazy 4 wheeling, and a half mile hiking through weeds. Once you get there you are greeted by piles of rocks and weeds that were 1870 settlers shelters. I can't get any
one to go with me,
Garry
 
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I surrender. Either I don't write with enough tact or no one in sw idaho who reads this wants or needs a hunting partner. I guess its back to me and the dog.
Garry
 
Saw your post about detecting. Don't have much free time but give me a call might be able to give it a try I live in jerome idaho so not to far away . I do not do this email stuff very well if you want give me a call any time if I do not answer leave me a message will give you a call back. 208-358-2181 thanks Gene
 
Have a whites mxt. A minelab safarie and a minelab etrac I like the safarie use it with the five inch coil they are all good . Went out today in town in front of some older homes right next to the street in the gravel areas between the pavement and where the cars park will usually net me a few older coins no seems to say much about me being there. If they ask I will usually get a yard to detect. Gene
 
You have a pretty good arsenal for a guy who doesn't have much free time. I have a tesoro compadre, Whites m6, Fisher F19, and the Tejon. For a simple machine the compadre is really a good detector. It was my first machine and i keep it in case someone wants to go with me but has no detector. The m6 is a real coin machine. I got the Tejon and fisher at about the same time. I'm trying to decide which machine I like the best. I need a good relic detector. I went out today in a well detected park in the oldest part of town. I got 2 pieces of rusty metal, a glass lined mason jar lid, a dollar coin, 1clad quarter, 1 clad dime, 1 clad penny, 2 wheat pennies. Not a big haul, but i wasn't expecting one. I'm just trying to understand how the tejon talks. I recently went detecting with a guy named mike. He is fun to detect with. He has a CTX 3030 and a etrac. He keeps trying to convince me I need an etrac. I detect railroad stops. One I've detected several times has always disappointed me. Ive found a few things but not as much as I expect. Its out in the middle of nowhere and all that is left is a hole in the ground. No pictures exist that I'm aware of . But now I've found it listed on a different map and it shows it on the other side of the tracks. So now I'm going to out and do some hiking and see if it is on the other side. Google earth is no help. I hope to go before the first. But the weather is not cooperating.

Garry
 
It all comes down to if you put it under the coil with any luck it will beep . If you found wheats silver coins must be close by seems if I am finding wheats I will find silver every once and a while after I run my small coils it hard to go back to the bigger ones less chatter better discrimination in the trashy areas . The amount of junk in the ground is just amazing . I how deep where your wheat penny's you found . Gene
 
the wheats were only about 6 inches. i believe that if you buy a detector from a major manufacturer that its a matter of practice and more practice and zen with your detector. but you have to also be in the right place. it takes research and lots of luck. the area im searching is big. a small coil isn't practical. i'm using a 12 x 10 and going slow. this is a heavily detected area. but im not looking for clad. the mason jar lid and dollar coin surprised me. they should have been already found. i can come to jerome one of these days and we could detect there.
 
If you are detecting in a park what are you looking for. That is a huge coil . We will have to try and meet up some time try and meet in the middle do not know where that would be. Will be lucky if this weather does not freeze us out soon rain here tonight. Do you have allot of people detecting in M. H.. Allot here and it is starting to grow.
 
The park is next to a hotel built in about 1900. The park itself is fairly new. Across the street is a handball court from the same era as the hotel. I'm hoping to find at least one OLD coin. I'm using the big coil because I just got it. I'm testing it. The tejon is kind of odd. It can get great depth. However as illogical as it is the depth doesn't seem to be affected by coil size. If it is going to find a dime at 10 inches it will with a 5", 9" or 12" coil. How well it finds a dime in trash can be helped with a smaller coil. Today I pulled a dime perfectly under a clad penny. But it had disc'd out as a dime. only copper pennys and dimes read the same. I have 3 coils for the tejon. i'm trying understand it with all three.
 
I'm searching just before zincs. The tejon has dual discriminators. The first is set allowing zincs the second is set for copper and silver. When I get a strong signal on #1 I switch to #2 to see if its silver. None the less I dig it.
 
That ok with me might have to go sooner by then farming is taking off . You never know some winters I have detected every weekend without being frozen out.
 
actually i was trying to be nice to you. most people don't want to detect in the cold. personally if the wind is not blowing and the ground isn't frozen i'll go. ive even chipped through the frozen ground. no we don't go south. after christmas i can go. actually im going tomorrow.Either back to the old hotel or out by basuka (train stop by stage stop freeway exit). Im going to be using my F19. I want to sell either theTejon or the F19. I got both as relic detectors. I don't need 2 relic detectors. I can use the money for other toys. I just can't decide which one to sell. The Tejon is supposed to a great relic detector. Fisher advertises the F19 as best relic detector made. A little boisterous I admit. But I want one as my relic detector. My m6 is my coin machine.
 
No I do not care about the weather to much ground not frozen good time to detect. I even try to save some places back to go if the wind is blowing protected places in town lots of trees out of the way behind buildings. Any where a person can get a little detecting is better than nothing. Had some other questions about places to go but not going to go there on open detecting site. Give me a call maybe we can go after Christmas gene
 
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