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In a little strip of land that used to have 5 or 6 old homes on it but old neighborhoods all over the place around here were knocked down when they built an expressway through the area.
Most areas were turned into commercial property after the road was completed but I use Historical Aerials to look for spots that still exist after everything was razed and this is one of them.
This site has some decent black dirt but still slightly mineralized as is everything seems to be around here and there is a ton of rusty iron junk and trash you find at any site where homes were knocked down.
I have hunted here before and never found much but now I came back with my F70, the 5" DD sniper coil and more skills, in this case my unmasking blast through method with all metal, thresh and sense turned up to max and on this one I had the SL, boost, turned on.
Got a good signal, jumpy in higher numbers in about a 6-8 number range right over the target.
All around with small movements of the coil I got drops to iron but over the target it stayed steady from two directions with no drops so I dug.
In the hole was a decent sized rusty nail, another smaller one and still more iron surrounding the hole but after I got those two pieces out the Propointer says still something down there about an inch into a sidewall and a bit further down.
At about 5-6" depth, about normal for the older stuff around here, I came up with a coin.
Hoped it was an Indian but it was just a wheat instead and yet after scraping the thick black dirt off the date area I saw it was a 1919...so I was happy.
It looks wrecked in the pic but underneath all that crud it is not really worn and is actually pretty sharp so not much circulation and I assume it was probably dropped and buried in the early 20's.
That's all I found here in the short time spent but I will go back and see what else is hiding...hopefully some silver.
This technique entails using very slow movements of the coil in all this iron so even though it isn't a huge site it will take time to do it right.
I had the Red Racer with me and tried it over that same signal before I dug and no way was I getting any good dig me indications using all metal, two and three tone with several different settings but I had the big DD coil on the thing...the small sniper will probably work much better so I will return with that one.
Plus, I still have nowhere near the understanding with this one as I do with that F70...yet.
Only a wheat but my oldest coin this year so far and covered up with iron and masked to the hilt so a nice little victory I think.
Most areas were turned into commercial property after the road was completed but I use Historical Aerials to look for spots that still exist after everything was razed and this is one of them.
This site has some decent black dirt but still slightly mineralized as is everything seems to be around here and there is a ton of rusty iron junk and trash you find at any site where homes were knocked down.
I have hunted here before and never found much but now I came back with my F70, the 5" DD sniper coil and more skills, in this case my unmasking blast through method with all metal, thresh and sense turned up to max and on this one I had the SL, boost, turned on.
Got a good signal, jumpy in higher numbers in about a 6-8 number range right over the target.
All around with small movements of the coil I got drops to iron but over the target it stayed steady from two directions with no drops so I dug.
In the hole was a decent sized rusty nail, another smaller one and still more iron surrounding the hole but after I got those two pieces out the Propointer says still something down there about an inch into a sidewall and a bit further down.
At about 5-6" depth, about normal for the older stuff around here, I came up with a coin.
Hoped it was an Indian but it was just a wheat instead and yet after scraping the thick black dirt off the date area I saw it was a 1919...so I was happy.
It looks wrecked in the pic but underneath all that crud it is not really worn and is actually pretty sharp so not much circulation and I assume it was probably dropped and buried in the early 20's.
That's all I found here in the short time spent but I will go back and see what else is hiding...hopefully some silver.
This technique entails using very slow movements of the coil in all this iron so even though it isn't a huge site it will take time to do it right.
I had the Red Racer with me and tried it over that same signal before I dug and no way was I getting any good dig me indications using all metal, two and three tone with several different settings but I had the big DD coil on the thing...the small sniper will probably work much better so I will return with that one.
Plus, I still have nowhere near the understanding with this one as I do with that F70...yet.
Only a wheat but my oldest coin this year so far and covered up with iron and masked to the hilt so a nice little victory I think.
