Today I drove to the site of a one-room schoolhouse that an 1877 map showed on the southwest side of the road. With the owners name in hand I stopped at his farm house to ask for permission to hunt. He was somewhat surprised that the old map showed it to be on his property. He informed me that it was actually located across the road and to the North, and also directed me the the owner of this other property. After driving to the house of the owner and being given permission ,I returned to site wandering if it had ever been hunted because of being mapped incorrectly. As soon as I stepped into the field I noticed that there was broken glass in every direction but no pieces of brick to guide me to the schoolhouse "ground zero". It soon became apparent that the long gone schoolhouse was a wooden structure and not brick because of the large amount of nail type targets that caused the F75 to sound off in a machine gun array of hits. I switched from All Metal to a Disc setting of "0" and set it to 2F Tones in DE Process. All the loud nail hits then became more workable low pitched buzzes. While enduring the constant buzzing, I listened for any high pitched hits that came in at 25 or above. After a short time my ears became accustomed to hunting this way and the diggable targets became easier to pick out.. The Indian Heads and early Wheats gave readings of 45-57 unless they were close to the surface and then they gave loud 60-68 readings. This field seemed to have more buttons than usual and the flat buttons were giving readings in the low 40's. I feel that the Mercury may have been a farmer drop because it didn't fit the time frame of the other coins I did a lot of digging in the 8 hour hunt and many relics were found. It looks like this field has never been hunted because of the large number of targets that were found today.....thanks for looking
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