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Proving Ground/No Spot hunted out/

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lerafe

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I have to agree with a few posts lately about no place being hunted out. I went to one of my stand by local city parks that has been "hunted out"
Yesterday I found a 1935 Merc and a 1935 Canadian penny. Today I snagged a 1926 Standing Liberty, dang though I scratched it while digging it out.

It is a first for me......-finding a Standing Liberty, NOT scratching a coin

Also found a Model T key that fit cars from 1919-1927

This is as as Old Longhair calls it "my Proving ground".

Try to go back those old stand bys, try those coners of the park, dig the junk up, then come back after a "little healing" time for the round and hit it again.
HH
Lee
 
Congrats on the silver and Canadian cent. Those SLQ's are hard to find.
 
Congrats. On your keepers! I generally agree with you about parks not being hunted out. I have however had to start hunting areas that are less accessable like fairly steep hills which recently yielded an Indian but climbing these hills really saps my energy.
HH
Chuck
 
Went out for a hunt at the ol standby, before I left I hit a small area, got a nickle signal looked down and ON TOP of the ground, I saw something white and round, almost walked on, decieded to pick it up and it was a 2 cent Kansas tax token. Still given up the goods!!
 
Funny how stuff comes back up to the surface isn't it?
Congrats Lee! Keep hitting that spot and you'll be suprised at what turns up.

All I got from mine yesterday in two hours was another buck and a half or so in clad and 1/ea '56 & '36 Wheaties. I can't wait to hit that place with one of the new LF DD coils....or both of 'em for that matter. :lol:
 
Old Longhair said:
Funny how stuff comes back up to the surface isn't it?
that matter. :lol:
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Thanks,
I am not sure, but this was near the road, and I think there had been some work done in the area before. It looks like they had done some drainage work sometime ago, so the ground looked as if it had been turned over in the past
 
Have to agree with hunting the out of the way areas of so called hunted out parks, the same goes for hunting the hillsides above them. Last week while swinging the XT-70 on the way back to the truck after having finishing up detecting a very small hard hit campground, I found a "42" Merc. well away from any of the campsites. The very next time out while searching the hillside trails above another so-called hunted out park, I found a "45" Merc. that time out. Am finding out more and more that searching away from the high traffic areas of searched out parks will produce far better results.
 
It is funny that you mentioned about some drainage work having been done where you found your token at. The "42" Merc. I found was only 2" down and about 3 feet from a water line they had put in about 15 years ago. My guess is they dug it up while digging the ditch for the water line and the fill the Merc. was in never got put back in the ditch made for the new water line. Not long ago at a ball field complex, I found quite a bit of clad in the fill from a drainage ditch they had made a little deeper.
 
Mtnmn said:
It is funny that you mentioned about some drainage work having been done where you found your token at. The "42" Merc. I found was only 2" down and about 3 feet from a water line they had put in about 15 years ago. My guess is they dug it up while digging the ditch for the water line and the fill the Merc. was in never got put back in the ditch made for the new water line. Not long ago at a ball field complex, I found quite a bit of clad in the fill from a drainage ditch they had made a little deeper.
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TRUE, none of my finds were more then 2 inches deep, the token on top of the ground
 
Good finds! Sill waiting to find my first standing liberty. It's out there, just have to find it.

Congrats!!
 
It seems like soil conditions change from time to time when rehunting a site. I found out recently, by slowing down on my swing, and making tighter sweeps,
I've pulled a few more targets out of places worked previously. Sometimes the signal may be faint, but by slowing down, its easier to zero in on it.
 
Lem said:
It seems like soil conditions change from time to time when rehunting a site. I found out recently, by slowing down on my swing, and making tighter sweeps,
I've pulled a few more targets out of places worked previously. Sometimes the signal may be faint, but by slowing down, its easier to zero in on it.
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Excellent point.....and it's worked for me as well!
HH
Chuck
 
Lem said:
It seems like soil conditions change from time to time when rehunting a site. I found out recently, by slowing down on my swing, and making tighter sweeps,
I've pulled a few more targets out of places worked previously. Sometimes the signal may be faint, but by slowing down, its easier to zero in on it.
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Soil conditions DO change, but it's mostly the moisture level that varies. Magnetic mineralization levels don't change, but the "halo effect" caused by metals leaching into the ground is less a factor in dry conditions.

Theoreticlly, rain after a drought could cause the soil to swell unevenly as the water seeps in unequally, which could cause a coin on edge to shift to a more easily detectable position. I believe that some of us experienced this over the summer in some areas here in the states, but it's hard to prove.
Here in the cold country, we also have the element of frost. The ground heaving with freeze/thaw cycles has items in the ground shifting under the sod annually, which is my explanation for why I'll find good stuff next year at sites seemingly hunted out this year.

Your slowing down and overlapping your sweeps will account for more finds in any situation, regardless of conditions. If you slow to the point of being able to isolate each detected signal, avoid swinging to a rythm, and overlap your passes by two thirds, you will be amazed at what you've been letting get past you. The machine is processing so much information, that it needs time to do so. Much like trying to listen to someone that talks too fast, the machine can only listen to the response from targets exposed to the transmitted frequency accurately if it has time to.
 
Lem said:
.......... I found out recently, by slowing down on my swing, and making tighter sweeps,
I've pulled a few more targets out of places worked previously. Sometimes the signal may be faint, but by slowing down, its easier to zero in on it.
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I have noticed this too. And being fairly new to the xterra I am sometimes overwelmed with all the signals that I am getting that I am worried that I am passing over good targets. I run in usually 3 tones (99 was to much for me to process, lol).

But I have found in trashy spots when I get, lets say (for an example) a quick 42 or higher signal mixed with a BUNCH of other signals I stop and raise discrimination and can pick up the quarter signal.

Along with that, if after I raise the discrimination and the first signal was higher than 42, is lost or very week, I find it is usually a rusted nail or something similar.
 
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