Strange Day With Omega

[RLOH]

Today I took the Omega to a park where I have found hundreds of 40's- 50's wheats and a handful of silver roosies - mercs. It has been two years or so since I have found more than two wheats, but the park hosts a large fair and many weekend car shows and such, so I can always find some clad. I found four clad coins and since the wheats and silver finds have diminished, I just hap hazardly wander. I use to grid and hunt it hard, but those days are long gone. I was hunting along the black top road that circles the park and I got a distict 84 signal that pinpointed at 4 inches. Turned out to be a 1920 wheat. Most wheats I find here are from the 40's-50's so this was old for this park. I have hunted like this many times in the past and have never found much of anything in this small section. I slowed down as I started hunting again and within a minute or so, I got another similar signal. This one was a 1912 wheat! I made three more passes(about thirty feet long) and found four more wheats. What is amazing was I absolutely am positive that I have covered this small area with many different detectors. Since I hunt with nothing notched, the Omega sounded like a machine gun and maybe this is why I picked the high tones out of the trash. By the way, I use the 11 inch dd coil and most of today's coins had trash in the near vicinity. A couple had tabs and nails in the same hole. I only had a couple of hours to detect so I left this small hotspot. Sometimes I think that finding a good coin will cause me to slow down, listen and hunt more slowly. It is possible that since I never found anything very good in this spot, that I was not paying close attention there. I will pay close attention when go back. Settings:ground balance 61-sens80, nothing notched, disc 15, and three tones.

 

[bigtim1973]

Well I kind of see it as, maybe you passed over exactley where those coins were before. I know you gridded it and worked it real slow but have you ever just placed a coin in the middle of a lot and stepped back and looked at how tiny it is where it lays??? That is what I am talking about, every inch must be covered in order to find all of it. HH, Tim

 

[RLOH]

Tim, you are 100% correct. You miss a coin by an inch, you might as well miss it by a mile. Sometimes I will find a silver coin with an absolutely perfect signal four or five inches deep at spots I have been to twenty times. I have detected my main spots for over 15 years and while I don't find a pocketful of coins anymore, I still find wheats and an occasional silver. Sometimes I don't get serious until I find something good. R.L.

 

[bigtim1973]

Yeah I know what you mean. I had a set up with a 6" DD coil once. It was real good for finding those little coins that were missed previously. I went to one of my favorite spots that I had thought was searched out. It was only an area about 25 ft by 50 ft. About the first 10 steps I got a good hit and out came a 1903 IH penny. I like you at the park, could not believe it as I have passed over this area about 10 times or more the previous year. That same day, I found my first barber dime on the same property. I guess if you put your coil over it, you can find it!!! HH, Tim.

 

[itbeme]

Hello R. L., The previous owners of my house had 2 small kids, apparently throwing coins and hot wheels was daily activity! My wife purchased a Bounty Hunter Landstar w 8" & 4" coils when I purchased my Delta.[ I'm not allowed ta use her detector! lol ] We have been lucky to have somewhere to practice and learn together. Some areas of our yard had an amazing amount of tot lot finds, we have been over these areas many times and still finding coins [ although finds are getting ''thin''] For myself at least it seems like EMI, moisture, wifi etc. sweep speed and direction constantly changing our finds. Now I am trying to learn with 11 & 5dd compared to my 8"concen. I'm ''green", this being my first det. but I'm still finding coins where we have been ''many times''. I wonder if a different det. could start getting hits that our det. are not.

 

[RLOH]

Mike, I have had more detectors than a normal person should have in a lifetime. I have been hunting the same places for many years and I always take any new detector to these spots. I am always amazed when I turn up something good. I guess this is the theme of my strange day. I have hunted this spot many times as it is close to my house and it always will turn up at least a wheat of two. I live in northeast Ohio and I have read and experienced what many old timers call "frost heave". Some of my best finds ever have come in the spring, just after the frost leaves the ground. I do believe that frost will lift a coin a couple of inches and when the weather and warm spring rains come, they start sinking again. I also believe that a larger dd coil will find coins missed with a small concentric coil. I have an 11 inch dd on my Omega and you don't have to overlap nearly as much as say an 8 inch concentric coil. Again, most of my better finds have been with a larger dd coil. In this small area, I distinctly remember hunting it hard with an 8 inch coil on a CZ 70 and Coinstrike. Both of these detectors are extremely deep, but have the 8 inch concentric coil. I just plain missed them because of lack of coverage. It was not a depth issue as both are more than capable of finding deep coins. I always grid an area and hit it from two or more angles. I sometimes hunt it many times if I find older coins from all kinds of angles. Do a small unscientific experiment on your yard and try hitting spots from different angles. You will find coins missed and you too will be amazed. R.L.

 

[itbeme]

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