Short Saturday hunt

[BillF]

Went to the lot close to home. Its been cold and wet lately. Using the 705 and Digger I went over old ground. Obviously the damp, wet ground brought up some good signals.
Found 4 dimes, 6 pennies, an 1891 IH, half of an old Chinese coin, the ever popular and elusive Chuck Cheese token, and a pirate derringer. I know the derringer is real and was used by a pirate because it has a pirate's picture on the handle. Aarghh!

 

[Old Longhair]

Great little hunt Bill!
I always get a little nervous putting an old toy pistol in my pouch in a public place. The over-reaction that has been known to occur isn't what I signed on for.

 

[BillF]

Thanks OLH,
I didn't hunt for more than an hour. Been fighting a cold and winter is coming on here.
I want to thank you for pointing out that I won't lose a coin hunting in tracking GB. I use it all the time now. Here in Washington the GB can change dramatically in 20 feet.
I always appreciate the info.

 

[Old Longhair]

Nice full LIBERTY on that IH too!

Though our ground is very different from yours, the glaciers gouged out our lakes and tore this area up pretty well. So we can go from sand to clay to gravel to mucky topsoil in a relatively short distance here, making Tracking a godsend. Substrate makeup varies hugely. Right out back I can dig 8" of topsoil, and hit sandy gravel. 60yds away you can dig 10ft and not get through the peat, which sits on a shelf of blue clay.


But all of this adds up to why I say "Experiment" with all that Minelab has given us with our Xterras. If what you're doing isn't working "Change Something!"
With the coils that we now have available, I have yet to find an area that's "un-huntable", due to anything but extreme EMI.

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

Congrat's on the nice IH

 

[tjhoosier]

Boy those Chuckie Cheese tokens are everywhere!

 

[atomicscott]

Dammit Bill! Awesome hunt for such a short time. More nice finds to get me motivated! I'm beginning to believe that SoCal just sucks for finding old coins!

 

[Jack Beam]

That's a good lookin Indian! Keep it up!

 

[BillF]

I am afraid that the state is going to come in here soon with the scrapers. Not that that would necessarily be bad thing, but across the street from this particular little honey hole is another lot that had a house on it years ago. Never found more than a handful(small) of wheats. In the past month they started dumping truck loads of dirt, then last week they brought the loaders and scrapers in. Flattened everything out, probably removed dirt in some places, added it in others. I need to get in there and see if something shows up, but I feel it won't be long before they hit my little spot before I can get it "cleaned" out.
Oh well, can't stop progress.