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Yesterday continued my excursions to shake off cabin fever and search for some silver. The pic above shows a Washington, a Rosie, a Merc, some wheats, and 4 mystery coins sitting off by themselves, two or three of which were about 8 to 8.5" deep (measured precisely). I'm hoping at least one of them turns out to be an indian once I clean them up better for inspection under a loop. The 1964 Rosie, if it's a double die error, is worth some decent change, but I haven't looked under a loop yet to see if I might have one of the lucky ones. Doubtful anyway, but I'll check it sooner or later here. Too bad that man's bracelet wasn't gold. That would be some major bling in gold weight. It gave me a 169 (highest tab # 99% of the time for me).
Saturday and Sunday I've been working a large mowed grass area, so I wanted to try my hand at some pin point mode hunting to more quickly cover ground, looking for any hints of deep whispers, and then once heard I'd stop, use my remote PP switch to flip back to disc, and wiggle right over the target to see if it sounded through. In some situations, due to either extreme depth or even a target not very deep but the site has very bad mineralization, unless you get centered right over a target in disc and wiggle it might not ever break through a null, or might not even change the threshold at all to draw your attention to something to check out.
I have already been a convert as to using PP to hunt a mineralized beach, to both gain PI-like depth and also to bust through the minerals better, where at one beach coins at only 5 or so inches deep were either choking or nulling out completely in disc, unless I got right on top of them and tried to wiggle out a tone and ID. With PP, I can glance a target without directly hitting over it and PP will pronounce that it sees something to stop and inspect further.
The trick is, if PP is sounding off to a target that, based on how loud the PP response sounds, might be deeper than disc can see *for that given sites minerals, or even for disc's depth in good ground*, then you might want to consider digging it even if disc doesn't provide a response. Often I can tell already, with my short time using PP, what is iron and what is not based on at least 3 or 4 different target responses PP will report.
Yesterday and Saturday, just about every time I heard a target in PP that I was sure was iron, when I flipped back to disc it confirmed in fact it was. About halfway through the day yesterday I was getting so confident as to what was an iron response in PP, that I started to not even flip back to disc to confirm things.
Yes, PP mode sure lets you scan more ground faster, althought with the 12x10 in disc I can often swing as fast as what you might call a higher side of a medium speed for a Whites and still hear a target at depth and also unmask in heavy trash or iron. In fact, at some sites when I find a fringe depth target if I slow down to the Minelab 4 second crawl I can't even hear the target anymore. Not sure if it's the GT, the 12x10, or my minerals, but the fact is doing a long general "hunting for my next target" sweep over fringe depth stuff at various speeds only a decently fast medium speed will see it.
So anyway, happy I've got some silver already for the year. Thus far, with my first two hunts of the new year shown in pic below...
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That netting me a barber dime the first hunt, the seated quarter, two mercs, a buffalo nickel, along with a gold chain the second hunt of the season...
Combined with Saturday's hunt where I popped the silver Washington and standing liberty quarters and two mercs and a rosie (pics didn't come out)...
And now with yesterdays 1 merc, a rosie, and another Washington quarter...
My silver count this new year has been 1 seated quarter (destroyed and dateless), 1 standing liberty quarter, 2 Washingtons, 1 barber dime, 5 mercs, 2 rosies, 1 bufallo, and 1 gold chain, with the possibility of one or two of the deep 8+ inches mystery coins being an Indian perhaps, all found using the 12x10 on my GT. Not too bad of a start for the new season for a total of 4 hunts, excluding the short 1 hour hunt I did just to try out the 8" Tornado real quick.
My silver count for the new years is a grand total as of right now of 12 silvers. Not too bad. I've had much slower starts in the past.
Yesterday continued my excursions to shake off cabin fever and search for some silver. The pic above shows a Washington, a Rosie, a Merc, some wheats, and 4 mystery coins sitting off by themselves, two or three of which were about 8 to 8.5" deep (measured precisely). I'm hoping at least one of them turns out to be an indian once I clean them up better for inspection under a loop. The 1964 Rosie, if it's a double die error, is worth some decent change, but I haven't looked under a loop yet to see if I might have one of the lucky ones. Doubtful anyway, but I'll check it sooner or later here. Too bad that man's bracelet wasn't gold. That would be some major bling in gold weight. It gave me a 169 (highest tab # 99% of the time for me).
Saturday and Sunday I've been working a large mowed grass area, so I wanted to try my hand at some pin point mode hunting to more quickly cover ground, looking for any hints of deep whispers, and then once heard I'd stop, use my remote PP switch to flip back to disc, and wiggle right over the target to see if it sounded through. In some situations, due to either extreme depth or even a target not very deep but the site has very bad mineralization, unless you get centered right over a target in disc and wiggle it might not ever break through a null, or might not even change the threshold at all to draw your attention to something to check out.
I have already been a convert as to using PP to hunt a mineralized beach, to both gain PI-like depth and also to bust through the minerals better, where at one beach coins at only 5 or so inches deep were either choking or nulling out completely in disc, unless I got right on top of them and tried to wiggle out a tone and ID. With PP, I can glance a target without directly hitting over it and PP will pronounce that it sees something to stop and inspect further.
The trick is, if PP is sounding off to a target that, based on how loud the PP response sounds, might be deeper than disc can see *for that given sites minerals, or even for disc's depth in good ground*, then you might want to consider digging it even if disc doesn't provide a response. Often I can tell already, with my short time using PP, what is iron and what is not based on at least 3 or 4 different target responses PP will report.
Yesterday and Saturday, just about every time I heard a target in PP that I was sure was iron, when I flipped back to disc it confirmed in fact it was. About halfway through the day yesterday I was getting so confident as to what was an iron response in PP, that I started to not even flip back to disc to confirm things.
Yes, PP mode sure lets you scan more ground faster, althought with the 12x10 in disc I can often swing as fast as what you might call a higher side of a medium speed for a Whites and still hear a target at depth and also unmask in heavy trash or iron. In fact, at some sites when I find a fringe depth target if I slow down to the Minelab 4 second crawl I can't even hear the target anymore. Not sure if it's the GT, the 12x10, or my minerals, but the fact is doing a long general "hunting for my next target" sweep over fringe depth stuff at various speeds only a decently fast medium speed will see it.
So anyway, happy I've got some silver already for the year. Thus far, with my first two hunts of the new year shown in pic below...
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That netting me a barber dime the first hunt, the seated quarter, two mercs, a buffalo nickel, along with a gold chain the second hunt of the season...
Combined with Saturday's hunt where I popped the silver Washington and standing liberty quarters and two mercs and a rosie (pics didn't come out)...
And now with yesterdays 1 merc, a rosie, and another Washington quarter...
My silver count this new year has been 1 seated quarter (destroyed and dateless), 1 standing liberty quarter, 2 Washingtons, 1 barber dime, 5 mercs, 2 rosies, 1 bufallo, and 1 gold chain, with the possibility of one or two of the deep 8+ inches mystery coins being an Indian perhaps, all found using the 12x10 on my GT. Not too bad of a start for the new season for a total of 4 hunts, excluding the short 1 hour hunt I did just to try out the 8" Tornado real quick.
My silver count for the new years is a grand total as of right now of 12 silvers. Not too bad. I've had much slower starts in the past.
