EladSwerdna
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I was going to return to the fields this today, but Jason called me and changed my mind. He gave me a tip to hunt a spot where he pulled out 12 buttons in a hour. He described the location and as it turns out it was the first spot I ever hunted with my E-Trac, a little over a year ago. Inspired, I returned to the spot where I had once learned to use my machine. The last few times at this spot I was skunked or found very little.
FYI my E-Trac is set up with Andy's pattern, a 12x15 SEF coil, deep on fast off, trash high, ground difficult, and maxed out manual sensitivity.
After about 3 hours of digging shotgun shells and other random junk I came across an iffy signal. The signal was just a whisper, and I almost passed it up because I thought it was iron. I analyzed the signal in every way possible for about 5 minutes. Out of curiousity, I switched to Auto +3 to see if it would pick it up - it didn't. This deep target was invisible to E-Trac's auto feature! (This is not the first keeper I found in this situation.) I dug a generously sized plug and the target was still in the hole. I used my hand shovel to dig a little bit deeper and there it was - a pleasant surprise. It was thick, heavy, and encrusted with dirt - I figured it was a large cent. Cleaning it revealed that it was a Marton Head but the date was corroded away.
I wandered off from that spot and about 30 minutes of finding more of nothing I went back to the large cent hole. I started going over every bit of ground real careful like. I came across another whispering DEEP target. This time instead of deep copper it seemed like deep SILVER. Once again, I switched it to auto and my machine was silent. (Once again, another deep coin invisible to auto mode!) Pinpointing on this target was also a faint whisper. I dug a rather large plug, scanned, but it was still in the hole. At this depth (10inches) the ground was sandy, so I could just scoop it out with my hand. Then in one scoop I could feel something - a coin! Right away I could see the sun-ray pattern and I knew it was something good. I picked it up and the dirt fell off the eagle side and I saw silver - cleaning it later at home revealed a 1825 2 Reales! My second Spanish silver ever! The date side is kinda dark and rough but it has decent detail all around. Ironically, in my last post here I mentioned I am waiting for my first old silver of the year - I should mention things more often here. Now I am after my first gold of the year! Yeah! Grin
Thanks for the inspiration, Jason!
FYI my E-Trac is set up with Andy's pattern, a 12x15 SEF coil, deep on fast off, trash high, ground difficult, and maxed out manual sensitivity.
After about 3 hours of digging shotgun shells and other random junk I came across an iffy signal. The signal was just a whisper, and I almost passed it up because I thought it was iron. I analyzed the signal in every way possible for about 5 minutes. Out of curiousity, I switched to Auto +3 to see if it would pick it up - it didn't. This deep target was invisible to E-Trac's auto feature! (This is not the first keeper I found in this situation.) I dug a generously sized plug and the target was still in the hole. I used my hand shovel to dig a little bit deeper and there it was - a pleasant surprise. It was thick, heavy, and encrusted with dirt - I figured it was a large cent. Cleaning it revealed that it was a Marton Head but the date was corroded away.
I wandered off from that spot and about 30 minutes of finding more of nothing I went back to the large cent hole. I started going over every bit of ground real careful like. I came across another whispering DEEP target. This time instead of deep copper it seemed like deep SILVER. Once again, I switched it to auto and my machine was silent. (Once again, another deep coin invisible to auto mode!) Pinpointing on this target was also a faint whisper. I dug a rather large plug, scanned, but it was still in the hole. At this depth (10inches) the ground was sandy, so I could just scoop it out with my hand. Then in one scoop I could feel something - a coin! Right away I could see the sun-ray pattern and I knew it was something good. I picked it up and the dirt fell off the eagle side and I saw silver - cleaning it later at home revealed a 1825 2 Reales! My second Spanish silver ever! The date side is kinda dark and rough but it has decent detail all around. Ironically, in my last post here I mentioned I am waiting for my first old silver of the year - I should mention things more often here. Now I am after my first gold of the year! Yeah! Grin
Thanks for the inspiration, Jason!
in Auto. My opinion is you will lose depth in Auto.