Outstanding Omega Performance in Bone Dry Ground

[RLOH]

I finally had to put my Etrac down because of persistant elbow and shoulder pain so I took my Omega to an old trashy park. The oldest coin I have found at this park was a 1895 V nickle so I wasn't expecting anything but clad. The ground here is clay and it is bone dry so digging was like chipping concrete. Dry ground seems to make depth suffer on most of the detectors I have used so that really kept my expectations low. This place was an old school that was torn down in 1961 and has been a park since. The modern trash and rusty iron is staggering so slow hunting is how I do it here. The Omega ground balanced at 62 , sens at 80, disc at 15 , and three tones. I started picking clad coins at a steady rate and sometimes when you dig nothing but two or three inch deep clad, you start to lose your deep signal groove. I really have to concentrate to hear the deepies when in this type of place. Finally I got bouncing 82 signal that would not repeat from all angles. I chiseled down to about six inches and found a small rusty screw. Rechecked to hole and got a signal deeper. Out pops an old green wheatie. On most detectors I use the depth gauge is way exagerated(shows 8 inches and is only 5 inches), but the my Omega is just the opposite. When it pinpoints at 5 or 6 inches the coin is many times closer to 8 inches. I ended up finding three more old wheaties from like depths. No blaring signals, but quick high pitched ticks. I have complained in the past about the loudness of deep coins with the Omega, but when you can find three or four deep coins in a row, it helps you get dialed in. I was just about ready to quit when I got a very faint signal that would occasionally hit in the mid 70's. These are usually zincs, but it was too faint and it pinpointed at six inches. I found a rusty nail at four inches and rescanned the hole to find a consistant 78 signal. A couple of inches off the side and three or four inches deeper, I popped another green disc out. I figured another old wheat, but when I turned it over I saw an indian. Nothing great, but it was a 1891 IH which is the oldest coin I have found in this park. I had the 11 inch dd coil and considering the amount of trash, it did great. Considering the bone dry clay ground, it did great. I am going to get the 5 inch coil and go back to this exact spot. If I can get 6 inchs of depth with the small coil, I should be able to make a killing here. Swinging a light weight high performing detector is a joy after muscling a heavy detector. I hunted four hours this morning and was not in pain at all. R.L.

 

[reltolbert]

Congratulations. I also have a Omega 8000 with all 3 coils and I use the 5"DD coil as much
as I can in junk areas because it works great and is lighter than the 11"DD coil.
The 11"DD coil only goes about 1"-2" deeper and is a good discriminator but not as
good as the 5"DD.

 

[Jackpine Savage]

I know what you are saying about getting dialed in on the deepies RL. Regardless of the detector, hitting a spot where you can get a few sure helps imprint the response they give.

As you found out it is hard to beat that 11" DD for those deeper iron co-locate targets... a fantastic performing coil !!

Tom