Soft ground again

[BlackX]

Got out again last night at "my spot". Think it's finally starting to come together more for me now. (Probably helps that I don't have to chisel through the ground to test how something sounds and find out what it is.) I like my ratio at least, even if there isn't anything particularly exciting. Sorry, didn't take a picture of the hot rocks I found in the holes too. (Seems to fool me mainly with the probe.) I'm getting so I can start to tell what things are before I dig them. The buffalo fooled me a little though. First buffalo with the Explorer and it sounded nice! Was interesting to see that the screen showed it higher ferrous than I would have expected compared to a regular Jefferson. Found that via a casual scan while walking out.

.27 clad, sq. nail and a third, 2 doohickeys (one maybe a trigger from a toy gun?), undated buffalo, and wheats dated '18(?), '34, '40, '45, and '53.

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[GaryL]

WTG BlackX, the 18?? should be a IH, wheats start in 1909. Will have to check out the nickel reading on my SE.

Good Hunting.

GaryL ....

 

[minelab locust]

yea if you can see an 18 on the wheat then its a 1918 ..because if it was 18 first then it would be an indian or if ya were way lucky a flying eagle cent,,,,still good finds for cold weather tho

 

[minelab locust]

ooops clicked it twice lol

 

[tab-nabit]

I'd take a wheat or buff any day - Nice finds - WTG !

 

[Old Sox]

Good finds BlackX.. I cant wait to get back out!!

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[BlackX]

What state are you in?

Was just glancing at a Explorer II manual i'd printed out before I got the SE and it got me thinking... The Explorer seemed to click more that night and I just remembered that I had tried noise canceling on the ground like others have mentioned. I wonder if it made a positive difference. I'll have to test that.

 

[Old Sox]

"The Explorer seemed to click more that night and I just remembered that I had tried noise canceling on the ground like others have mentioned. I wonder if it made a positive difference. I'll have to test that."



How do you mean? Actually holding the coil on the ground instead of in the air? Thanks

 

[Elton]

Northern Ohio........up on Lake Erie, saying 14" plus up to 2'..Wow I have never seen that much snow. I was thinking maybe weather man wrong, but this morning found out the Weather channel people were here for the"BIG" event..so we might be going to get nailed big time.. CintiSteve will get it first, maybe he can give us a heads up on whats running this way..usually we can add a few inches above what he gets in his area........but then again sometimes he gets 3 4 inches and we get 10", but thats rare..usually maybe 3 4 inches is all we get..We are just getting out from under the Ice Storm from two days ago..Now that was interesting....darn Ice covered everything about 1/2 thick, then 2 inches of slush on the ice, with 3 inches of snow on top of ice, and slush.If we get 14" or more it will be a mess here for sure.It took city two days on cleaning up the streets just getting the 3" of snow plowed off over the ice.Oh well..Just what I wanted to do, stay home watch a snow storm LOL.....

 

[BlackX]

[quote Old Sox]"The Explorer seemed to click more that night and I just remembered that I had tried noise canceling on the ground like others have mentioned. I wonder if it made a positive difference. I'll have to test that."

How do you mean? Actually holding the coil on the ground instead of in the air? Thanks[/quote]

Exactly.

If I understand correctly, that was the method prescribed for the Exp II but Minelab changed their directions for the SE.

Also remembered on the way in to work that I'd dropped the gain from 8 to 6 as well. (Thought it had been on 7.) I'll have to play around with that too.

It's kind of fun in that I feel a bit of camaraderie w/ you and Greg since we all got SEs right about the same time.

 

[BlackX]

[quote Elton]Northern Ohio........up on Lake Erie, saying 14" plus up to 2'..Wow I have never seen that much snow. I was thinking maybe weather man wrong, but this morning found out the Weather channel people were here for the"BIG" event..so we might be going to get nailed big time.. CintiSteve will get it first, maybe he can give us a heads up on whats running this way..usually we can add a few inches above what he gets in his area........but then again sometimes he gets 3 4 inches and we get 10", but thats rare..usually maybe 3 4 inches is all we get..We are just getting out from under the Ice Storm from two days ago..Now that was interesting....darn Ice covered everything about 1/2 thick, then 2 inches of slush on the ice, with 3 inches of snow on top of ice, and slush.If we get 14" or more it will be a mess here for sure.It took city two days on cleaning up the streets just getting the 3" of snow plowed off over the ice.Oh well..Just what I wanted to do, stay home watch a snow storm LOL.....[/quote]

Man, I hope it stays there. If a bit rainy/sleety here and there, we've had relatively warm weather for almost a week. I'm tired of winter this year and quite ready for spring. But we usually get a good bit of your weather here a day or so later. (It was funny, when my GF lived in Charleston, IL, I could pretty much predict our weather here by what she had a day or two earlier. When she moved to Collinsville (nearer St. Louis) she was in a different climate and it never matched up the same any more.)

I'm hoping to get out somewhere nice with the kids this weekend in between bouts of precipitation.

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[Old Sox]

Yea, I have often thought the same thing BlackX. Good luck this weekend!

 

[BlackX]

Went out for about 45m while waiting for the kids to come over. I dug every signal that was remotely repeatable.
Total:
- 1 twist tie
- 1 mousetrap spring
- 1 zinc penny
- 1 piece of flashing
- 1 unknown piece of iron/steel
- 7 nails/screws

I don't think what i learned the other night translates to my extremely trashy yard. Have to get your coil over it to find i, i guess.

Be nice to get out again this weekend inbetween rain spells.