I decided to go Hunt on Good Friday, and had one of my best hunts ever. First, it was a hunted out spot that I frequent, because when you swing an Explorer, you're going to get results when you scan very slowly. It was a beautiful day, the sun was out, not a cloud in the sky and in the upper fifties. You can still see around you as the greenery was not taking hold, with the trees and the bushes just beginning to bud I knew I didn't have time before everything was to bloom, so I worked an area that looked promising according to my intuition . Sometimes you need to listen to that little voice inside or that feeling to hit an area as you look around. I decided to work around the trees that day, and we know trashy those areas can be, and it paid big time.
My Explorer was set up with the screen completely open and I work in iron mask set at -10, I also had my sensitivity set to a steady Tretch hold. When hunting with any of the MindLab Explorer's, it's very important to set your sensitivity according to the area where you are hunting, because in some areas, you can run high... like 29, to the max, but, there are areas where you have to bring it down to where your Explorer's Tretch hold tone is steady and constant and not chirping when you lay the detector down, or when you raise it up, by the way, I hunt in ferrous in heavy iron infested areas. OK, OK, I know, get back to how I dug this beauty.
I was weaving in and out of trees, when something told me to go right, and sure enough there was a large tree in front of me. and I said to myself, steady now, go slow, go slow, went around the tree with a few iron signals and as I spread out around the tree as I always do, I got this very nice nickel tone at about 6". When coin hunting I don't generally dig these signals, but when there's only one or two, I go for them. I dug into the ground making my plug and the signal was still there, so out with my trusty X-Probe, and I pin pointed the target, very seldom do you get a nickel tone that turns out to be a pull top, although I have dug them that deep, but not today.
I finally got the dirt out where the target was, and as I separated the dirt and twigs, low and behold I saw a gold color, but thought it was gold colored foil, and as I kept cleaning the dirt away, there she was... a 1911 2 1/2 dollar Indian Head Gold Coin with it's bezel. There is no feeling to describe how it feels to pull a coin like this out of the ground... After repeated thank you to the Lord, I let out a load yeah out of my mouth and had to look around to make sure I was still alone, hands still shaking I recheck the hole, but no chain to be found. I carefully return the dirt to it's plug and replaced the plug, and as I was filling the plug... I look to side and see this tree is down about 5 feet from me, and I went like a bee line to it. There I got a deep signal and I could not believe what I was hearing. The cursor was stuck to the right upper part of the smart find screen, and had to make sure, so I set the detector to the digital numbers and sure enough, it read a solid 29.3 at about 8 or 9 inches. Dug my plug and out pop a Barber Quarter and rechecked the hole and said, hey its got friends. yep, two Barber dimes in the same hole.
This was beginning to be a great day, then about five inches to the right, got another high pitch. Guys and dolls, I am saying no way, this can't be, this place has been hunted since the 70's... dug a plug and out pop a Merc and another Barber dime. I kept working around trees and bushes and got the silver nickel and another Merc. dime hiding at the base of a bush which was starting to bud. The Buffalo's were random and beside them a Wheatie and an Indian penny. I also dug some relics and all in all had one of the best days of hunting in a hunted out spot in a long time since finding Silverado where I dug more than 500 hundred silver coins, but that is another story. The guy's couldn't believe how much treasure I had dug in the same area where there was 4 or 5 of us hunting just a week ago. I thank the Lord always for all my finds and they are many in both Gold and Silver ... HH to you all.
Philo_NY
My Explorer was set up with the screen completely open and I work in iron mask set at -10, I also had my sensitivity set to a steady Tretch hold. When hunting with any of the MindLab Explorer's, it's very important to set your sensitivity according to the area where you are hunting, because in some areas, you can run high... like 29, to the max, but, there are areas where you have to bring it down to where your Explorer's Tretch hold tone is steady and constant and not chirping when you lay the detector down, or when you raise it up, by the way, I hunt in ferrous in heavy iron infested areas. OK, OK, I know, get back to how I dug this beauty.
I was weaving in and out of trees, when something told me to go right, and sure enough there was a large tree in front of me. and I said to myself, steady now, go slow, go slow, went around the tree with a few iron signals and as I spread out around the tree as I always do, I got this very nice nickel tone at about 6". When coin hunting I don't generally dig these signals, but when there's only one or two, I go for them. I dug into the ground making my plug and the signal was still there, so out with my trusty X-Probe, and I pin pointed the target, very seldom do you get a nickel tone that turns out to be a pull top, although I have dug them that deep, but not today.
I finally got the dirt out where the target was, and as I separated the dirt and twigs, low and behold I saw a gold color, but thought it was gold colored foil, and as I kept cleaning the dirt away, there she was... a 1911 2 1/2 dollar Indian Head Gold Coin with it's bezel. There is no feeling to describe how it feels to pull a coin like this out of the ground... After repeated thank you to the Lord, I let out a load yeah out of my mouth and had to look around to make sure I was still alone, hands still shaking I recheck the hole, but no chain to be found. I carefully return the dirt to it's plug and replaced the plug, and as I was filling the plug... I look to side and see this tree is down about 5 feet from me, and I went like a bee line to it. There I got a deep signal and I could not believe what I was hearing. The cursor was stuck to the right upper part of the smart find screen, and had to make sure, so I set the detector to the digital numbers and sure enough, it read a solid 29.3 at about 8 or 9 inches. Dug my plug and out pop a Barber Quarter and rechecked the hole and said, hey its got friends. yep, two Barber dimes in the same hole.
This was beginning to be a great day, then about five inches to the right, got another high pitch. Guys and dolls, I am saying no way, this can't be, this place has been hunted since the 70's... dug a plug and out pop a Merc and another Barber dime. I kept working around trees and bushes and got the silver nickel and another Merc. dime hiding at the base of a bush which was starting to bud. The Buffalo's were random and beside them a Wheatie and an Indian penny. I also dug some relics and all in all had one of the best days of hunting in a hunted out spot in a long time since finding Silverado where I dug more than 500 hundred silver coins, but that is another story. The guy's couldn't believe how much treasure I had dug in the same area where there was 4 or 5 of us hunting just a week ago. I thank the Lord always for all my finds and they are many in both Gold and Silver ... HH to you all.
Philo_NY
