Muddyshoes
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It was time for my second hunt.
You'd think growing up in Florida I'd learn to start detecting before 1pm because of the summer heat, but then again, I've never been the sharpest tool in the shed.
I hit some perimeter empty lots and medians outside of a local park that takes meticulous care of its grounds and frowns on metal detecting despite having done well there many years ago. At this point, anything in the park that's still there is very deep. But I'll make my way back there at some point. Today was just a perimeter hunt to try and wrangle a little more understanding of the AT Pro and its language.
Because of the trashy nature of these lots, the extreme sensitivity of the machine, the heat which hit upper 90s and my lack of experience with my AT Pro, I hunted in "Standard-Coin" mode. The machine makes too much noise otherwise that I can't interpret yet. I'll start easy and work my skill up.
This was after about 3 hours.. the first time in I can't remember, when I didn't find at least one quarter.
The first round thing is a watch face, the second thing is unidentifiable and is part of something. The third round thing is, I think a sight-glass for the top of a car AC unit on a compressor. The star of David is made of some kind of coated metal...not gold, unfortunately, and the penny is a pressed penny that say M&M Nascar New York.
About a dozen of the pennies were part of a 3 foot diameter spill and were all about 6-8 inches down. They were located on a part of the grass parking lot where water pools when it rains so that explains why they were so deep. Three of the keys were on one rusted ring. I just separated them to get rid of the rusty ring.
The second picture is the trash... just to keep it 'real' and a reminder that coins and cool things don't come without a lot of trash digging.
- Muddyshoes
You'd think growing up in Florida I'd learn to start detecting before 1pm because of the summer heat, but then again, I've never been the sharpest tool in the shed.
I hit some perimeter empty lots and medians outside of a local park that takes meticulous care of its grounds and frowns on metal detecting despite having done well there many years ago. At this point, anything in the park that's still there is very deep. But I'll make my way back there at some point. Today was just a perimeter hunt to try and wrangle a little more understanding of the AT Pro and its language.
Because of the trashy nature of these lots, the extreme sensitivity of the machine, the heat which hit upper 90s and my lack of experience with my AT Pro, I hunted in "Standard-Coin" mode. The machine makes too much noise otherwise that I can't interpret yet. I'll start easy and work my skill up.
This was after about 3 hours.. the first time in I can't remember, when I didn't find at least one quarter.
The first round thing is a watch face, the second thing is unidentifiable and is part of something. The third round thing is, I think a sight-glass for the top of a car AC unit on a compressor. The star of David is made of some kind of coated metal...not gold, unfortunately, and the penny is a pressed penny that say M&M Nascar New York.
About a dozen of the pennies were part of a 3 foot diameter spill and were all about 6-8 inches down. They were located on a part of the grass parking lot where water pools when it rains so that explains why they were so deep. Three of the keys were on one rusted ring. I just separated them to get rid of the rusty ring.
The second picture is the trash... just to keep it 'real' and a reminder that coins and cool things don't come without a lot of trash digging.
- Muddyshoes
