Hunted a site yesterday afternoon that was originally an 1840's adobe, and was later expanded to service two stage routes, from the 1850's to 1860's the Butterfield Overland Stage between San Francisco & Los Angeles, and later the Bixby Overland Stage line.
I ended up getting an 1867 seated half dime. I wish I could say it was 8" deep and covered with rusty square nails, but it wasn't, it was only a few inches deep, oh and the best part....it rang in at 82! Also picked up an old Victorian screw-back earring in the shape over a clover leaf, marked STERLING. Other then that nothing too exciting, although I found it interesting that it was nailing these small little lead piston balls(?)
For 90% of the hunt I used the 5" coil on the Racer to see how it did in iron. Unlike my site I detected last weekend that was a sea of nails with many on the surface and overloads galore, overloads were few and far between at this site. Actually at a "normal" site void of surface debris I'm finding the overload is actually helpful, as I can quickly discern a shallow target. Iron wasn't super thick at this site, if I hunt it again I'll use the 11" DD with the gain cranked up as I suspect there are probably deeper targets, as the lantern part I dug with the 5" coil was a good 8-9" deep (sounds deep for a 5" coil, but it's a pretty big target).
Later I met up with a friend who's learning his Xterra, and we did some target checking at another site, but it was already dark so I was testing out the backlight on the Racer. Even at the lowest setting of 1, it's bright, almost too bright IMHO, BUT at least it can be switched off. Initially with the backlight set to on, it would only come on when hitting a target. Then I inadvertently pulled the trigger and thought I hit the up button to enable the flashlight, but hit another button(s) apparently. No idea exactly what button sequence I pushed, BUT it made the backlight stay on constantly, vs only coming on when hitting a target. I think I'd prefer this operation, does anyone have any idea what sequence of trigger/red arrow buttons to use to engage this feature ??
Seated half dime after it was dug:
Cleaned up:
All the targets dug:
Sterling silver Victorian earring, also does anyone know what fired those small lead balls next to the seated half dime?
Dug this two piece Navy button at another site, the back mark just says "SUPERIOR QUALITY" any idea on the date?:
Thanks for looking and happy hunting,
Brian
I ended up getting an 1867 seated half dime. I wish I could say it was 8" deep and covered with rusty square nails, but it wasn't, it was only a few inches deep, oh and the best part....it rang in at 82! Also picked up an old Victorian screw-back earring in the shape over a clover leaf, marked STERLING. Other then that nothing too exciting, although I found it interesting that it was nailing these small little lead piston balls(?)
For 90% of the hunt I used the 5" coil on the Racer to see how it did in iron. Unlike my site I detected last weekend that was a sea of nails with many on the surface and overloads galore, overloads were few and far between at this site. Actually at a "normal" site void of surface debris I'm finding the overload is actually helpful, as I can quickly discern a shallow target. Iron wasn't super thick at this site, if I hunt it again I'll use the 11" DD with the gain cranked up as I suspect there are probably deeper targets, as the lantern part I dug with the 5" coil was a good 8-9" deep (sounds deep for a 5" coil, but it's a pretty big target).
Later I met up with a friend who's learning his Xterra, and we did some target checking at another site, but it was already dark so I was testing out the backlight on the Racer. Even at the lowest setting of 1, it's bright, almost too bright IMHO, BUT at least it can be switched off. Initially with the backlight set to on, it would only come on when hitting a target. Then I inadvertently pulled the trigger and thought I hit the up button to enable the flashlight, but hit another button(s) apparently. No idea exactly what button sequence I pushed, BUT it made the backlight stay on constantly, vs only coming on when hitting a target. I think I'd prefer this operation, does anyone have any idea what sequence of trigger/red arrow buttons to use to engage this feature ??
Seated half dime after it was dug:
Cleaned up:
All the targets dug:
Sterling silver Victorian earring, also does anyone know what fired those small lead balls next to the seated half dime?
Dug this two piece Navy button at another site, the back mark just says "SUPERIOR QUALITY" any idea on the date?:
Thanks for looking and happy hunting,
Brian
