DirtFlipper
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Howdy,
We had another nice rain this evening, and with the extended daylight hours, I got the itch to get a little hunt in. So I headed to the nearest place with some age and had at it.
The finds have been steadily dwindling here for the time put in, but it was so nice out, it was pleasant enough just to be out. This time I tried to focus on an area that had produced before, so I just crawled through a small spot slowly.
About 15 minutes into it, I got a basically naked silver sounding signal, which really surprised me. Out popped a Merc, so now I could relax and enjoy the evening even more (yeah, no more nagging sensation of needing to find SOMETHING).
A half hour after that and I was tooling around a tree and picked up a surface sounding quarter signal. Normally I don't spend much time with shallow signals, as at this location the older coins are very consistently at depth. But it was a quarter, I wasn't feeling rushed, so I recovered it. I went to rescan the area and then got a low flutey tone, which I thought was possibly a nickel.
I've not yet gotten the hang of discerning nickels from Stay-Tabs on the SE, but this one just had that 'tone' to it - flutey, but low, and pinpointed small, so I thought maybe recovering it would be a good test. I opened the plug, put the X-1 in, and now I got a nice twinkling high tone. What? Tried again, and there was the high tone. I rooted around in the dirt a bit, and then I spotted the silver rim of a dime. This being totally unexpected, it took a moment to register, but sure enough, here was another Merc.
But where'd the low tone go? I checked with the X-1 again, and there was the low tone again, still in the ground. Recovered some more dirt and finally a nickel did appear. Turned out to be a '46-D Jefferson. Checked again with the X-1, and just got nulls and threshold, so that was it. But if I hadn't stopped to recover that quarter, wouldn't have found the Merc!
I'm really surprised that the nickel overcame the dime in the signal mix. This will make me think twice when I encounter a good flutey tone that is in the low range. Ya just never know!
HH,
DirtFlipper
We had another nice rain this evening, and with the extended daylight hours, I got the itch to get a little hunt in. So I headed to the nearest place with some age and had at it.
The finds have been steadily dwindling here for the time put in, but it was so nice out, it was pleasant enough just to be out. This time I tried to focus on an area that had produced before, so I just crawled through a small spot slowly.
About 15 minutes into it, I got a basically naked silver sounding signal, which really surprised me. Out popped a Merc, so now I could relax and enjoy the evening even more (yeah, no more nagging sensation of needing to find SOMETHING).
A half hour after that and I was tooling around a tree and picked up a surface sounding quarter signal. Normally I don't spend much time with shallow signals, as at this location the older coins are very consistently at depth. But it was a quarter, I wasn't feeling rushed, so I recovered it. I went to rescan the area and then got a low flutey tone, which I thought was possibly a nickel.
I've not yet gotten the hang of discerning nickels from Stay-Tabs on the SE, but this one just had that 'tone' to it - flutey, but low, and pinpointed small, so I thought maybe recovering it would be a good test. I opened the plug, put the X-1 in, and now I got a nice twinkling high tone. What? Tried again, and there was the high tone. I rooted around in the dirt a bit, and then I spotted the silver rim of a dime. This being totally unexpected, it took a moment to register, but sure enough, here was another Merc.
But where'd the low tone go? I checked with the X-1 again, and there was the low tone again, still in the ground. Recovered some more dirt and finally a nickel did appear. Turned out to be a '46-D Jefferson. Checked again with the X-1, and just got nulls and threshold, so that was it. But if I hadn't stopped to recover that quarter, wouldn't have found the Merc!
I'm really surprised that the nickel overcame the dime in the signal mix. This will make me think twice when I encounter a good flutey tone that is in the low range. Ya just never know!
HH,
DirtFlipper
