My wife and I spend a couple weeks a year at St Simon's Island, usually for a week in the early spring and then again in the fall. And, we have been since 2006 when I retired.
Aside from the beaches, which I do swing over a few times each trip, there are a couple of small parks that I spend most of my hunting time with. I have hunted them many times since we began going to the island and no doubt, other detectorists do as well. Ultimately, to come up with a few goodies takes some solid coaxing.
This trip, I decided to concentrate on deep sounding and reading targets rather then every co-located target tic. I had on the 5 x 10 DD coil and stayed with it the entire week and while I didn't walk away with a boat load of silver and old coins in general, I did manage 13 wheat cents dating from 1910 to the early 50's, 2 nice buffalo nickels, a 1928 and a 1937, as well as 3 silver dimes. 1, a 1917, a 1941 and a 1916 Barber. From the clad and Memorial cent shot, one can see I and others passed up a lot of nickels. 34 in total for the week and several were 5-7" deep.
The 17 Merc. and 16 Barber were my two deepest coin digs. Both were reading around 12" and in reality were 9-10" deep. Either that sandy dirt aids in deep recoveries or my old ears have gotten keener, as I seldom dig coins deeper then 8" in my Tn soil. As a side note, the two deepest dimes were showing readings in the low to mid 80's.
All in all, I dug numerous deep sounding and reading targets. Many of such weren't coins. My misc. target shot is characteristic of what a lot of the targets were. Some of the deep sounding small targets weren't as deep as they sounded and read and were located in the first 5-6" of removed dirt. If it was deep sounding and not in the removed dirt when checking the pile, most often they turned out to be a coin still down in the hole. I also dug several deep rusty iron nails that are not shown. In closing, I will state it is a real pleasure to dig targets in that coastal sandy dirt. HH jim tn
Aside from the beaches, which I do swing over a few times each trip, there are a couple of small parks that I spend most of my hunting time with. I have hunted them many times since we began going to the island and no doubt, other detectorists do as well. Ultimately, to come up with a few goodies takes some solid coaxing.
This trip, I decided to concentrate on deep sounding and reading targets rather then every co-located target tic. I had on the 5 x 10 DD coil and stayed with it the entire week and while I didn't walk away with a boat load of silver and old coins in general, I did manage 13 wheat cents dating from 1910 to the early 50's, 2 nice buffalo nickels, a 1928 and a 1937, as well as 3 silver dimes. 1, a 1917, a 1941 and a 1916 Barber. From the clad and Memorial cent shot, one can see I and others passed up a lot of nickels. 34 in total for the week and several were 5-7" deep.
The 17 Merc. and 16 Barber were my two deepest coin digs. Both were reading around 12" and in reality were 9-10" deep. Either that sandy dirt aids in deep recoveries or my old ears have gotten keener, as I seldom dig coins deeper then 8" in my Tn soil. As a side note, the two deepest dimes were showing readings in the low to mid 80's.
All in all, I dug numerous deep sounding and reading targets. Many of such weren't coins. My misc. target shot is characteristic of what a lot of the targets were. Some of the deep sounding small targets weren't as deep as they sounded and read and were located in the first 5-6" of removed dirt. If it was deep sounding and not in the removed dirt when checking the pile, most often they turned out to be a coin still down in the hole. I also dug several deep rusty iron nails that are not shown. In closing, I will state it is a real pleasure to dig targets in that coastal sandy dirt. HH jim tn
HH jim tn
