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My new probe..

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JimGilmore

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Ok, got materials and made a new probe. Hoping this will hold up...
 
Very interesting. I may have to learn to "probe" and "pop coins," as I have a huge 1890 university in my town, whose police force told me "you can detect on University property all you want, but you can't dig..." When I asked him about a screwdriver to pop coins out of the ground, he just smiled...so I take that as a "if I don't see you digging, I won't stop you..." But, I have no idea how to do it! :)

Steve
 
use "jimmy sierra's" coin popper and get "under" 'em,and force 'em up thru the slit!
go to jimmysierra .com,and they have a little "tutorial" on the web site!

(h.h.!)
j.t.
 
kool Steve, that sounds like fun in there!! wish i could get in some skools / uni's :surrender:

find the target you think is a coin? mostly they are flat its about feel "listen to me the expert" :rofl: then push the screw driver down till you hit the coin work along till you feel it disappear and then push down deeper than the coin and pop it out, takes a bit of practice but it sure is fun when the whole thing works, i have been going to flatten out the screw drive on the end a bit more then it would look more like a jimmy tool.

i just brought a head cam wowsers hopefully it will be here soon so will be doing a gold bug vid should be interesting :unsure:

try find a park with some new coins and practice take it slow and the feel thing is important you will get to know how a coin feels and how junk feels :bouncy:

good luck and if it hasn't been done you will be poppin mad by the end of it hope the grass is coin hiding type for you :)

oh yeah a pro pointer is pretty handy in this kind of hunting for sure makes life much easier :thumbup:
 
if your going to a park and want to pratice pinpointing and using a probe..use the small 5" coil to start...it can speed up the learning curve...
 
it is a fiberglass shaft..
 
i am only hunting spending coins with the screw driver when i go in parks with "people" in them don't want to scare them with leshcie, i was laughing to today one come flyin out foot in the air got him good :unsure: their not deep coins 2 inches on av.

was thinking everyone looks now imagine when i am walking around doing a vid and talking to myself :rofl: they will stay clear then? :wiggle:

11in coil is good enough Steve i have found one US coin and it hit hard you will be right !! bit of practice it don't take long, the sweet sound of a coin and the screen numbers don't lie sure helps me using the TID numbers to sort out iffy ones! i have a 5in coil haven't needed to use it in the trashy parks am learning that this is where the gold bug is king that's where i am getting coins where no one else can or cant or don't want too hunt :wiggle:

how many times have i said i want a different detector than the bug and every time i start looking for one it always leads me back to the gold bug funny that!! now all we have to do is keep it a secret OK!!
 
The secret's out, I'm afraid, AJ!

Hey Jim, where'd you get a fiberglass-shafted tool like that?

Also, how deep of a coin can you hope to pop out like that? I'd be after older silvers, not clads, if I went to this University, so I'd need to be able to pop AT LEAST 3-4" coins...

Steve
 
Hey jim, have you heard a soft tone hunting all that clad?
 
So far Most coins have been under 4" but I have dug a few deeper. But never really found much beyond 5-6 ".
I bought some file handles and a 48" 1/4 " fiberglass shaft/rod.
Drilled the handle out them glued in a shaft after sharpening it in a drill.
 
Steve you will prob still have to cut the ground getting the silvers out? make a cut and pry both sides open shove the pro pointer down then pop from there, then close the cut it works good and you still cant see where you have been but you will have to carry more than a screw driver, prob best to go round get all the clad 1st then see whats underneath it?
 
Yeah, I hear you amberjack -- and that would be ideal. Though, given the situation, I'd like to avoid bending and the "appearance" of digging as much as possible -- maybe only cherry-pick the best-sounding coins, under the circumstances...

Steve
 
I ended up looking on amazon
doing searches...
As for coin retieval. I just probe till I hit the coin then find the edge and insert a finger to pull the coin back between the probe and finger..
 
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