Tell the truth-whats your deepest hole & was it a dream or a dud?

[Darkflight]

Just asking as I had a nice repeatable faint signal on my Silver U-max in a new(for me) park.

I was in an unkept field area so i went for the mongo plug figuring it would be deep. Got up to my elbow(I'm stubborn) & found a shredded modern coke can-at 1 ft deep!!. I know the park is fill soil & modern now. So I dug a hole & learned a lesson.

But it would have been a much better story with some old silver that deep.

Since my silver dollar air tests at 8-9" max was I just dreamin to keep going. It had that soft sound so I was reasonably sure it was not a tiller blade or other large iron that ussually has me diggin blanks.

I'm sure I'm not the only one but has such optimism ever really panned out?.

 

[silversmith]

I believe that's one of those "Darned if you do.....darned if you don't" situations. If you dig it, it's just junk. If you don't you'll find out later it was "Capt Kidd Treasure box."

 

[Beale]

I dug a piece of pipe well below my elbow once, Beale.

 

[MNCoinhunter]

Anytime I have dug deeper than 6 inches it has been junk...but some interesting junk anyways. My deepest hole (12 inches) ended up being a chunk of iron 3 feet long, six inches wide and a quarter inch thick...right in my own yard.

 

[slingshot]

This is my true story that I always refer to when the "experts" say there is no halo effect. It was back in the '80's and I had the A.H. Pro discriminator. Now in case you don't remember or know, it was a TR-VLF type of detector that was famous for it's discrimination abilities ONLY and would probably pick up a coin at 5" IF you had the threshhold at max and NO mineralization. So, I'm out at the popular fair ground, loaded with tabs but I'm not worried 'cause my newfangled detector passes right over them and even gets coins under them. Suddenly I get a faint but wide sound and I'm SURE it's an aluminum can-in fact so sure I ram my knife 6" into the ground and -nothing. So, I cut an 8" plug and I'm still not hitting or seeing anything and the large sound's still there and in fact I can raise the coil a couple of inches and still get it. So I ram my knife to the hilt in the bottom of the hole and "klack!" - a rather sickening sound because I knew I hit something solid and an aluminum can would have just been pierced by the blade with a scraping metal sound. At another 6" was the most beautiful 1800's silver dollar-WITH a now large gash in it. So 12" was a roundabout guesstimation, allowing and inch or two for fairness.

 

[GunnarMN]

my deepest hole 16" turned out to be a bolt and on green lake on the shore whith golden umax , I got a high tone and down about 12"an aluminum can came out how it got so deep on a lake beach i do not know

 

[Nauti]

I agree with slingshot on the depth of about 12" being feaslible on a fairly large coin.My deepest coin was a George 3 halfpenny from the 1700's and that was around the 10-12" mark.This was a very faint signal target and i nearly gave up on it due to the fact i thought it was large iron.You hear many people say they have found small coins at around the 18" mark but such claims only have a place in the realms of fantasy i'm afraid.Most of my good finds have come from the first 8" of soil and the majority of them in the first spade depth which is about 6".

 

[Flintstone]

OK GUYS, Most detectors will do better at times than others,RIGHT?? But I had just got a new MXT, used it about 2or3 mos. now i had been reading all i could find on detecting, about whispers and no vdi. I was at a park that had been started in the 30s or 40s. I got a nice sound but no vdi, i was in coin mode,so i flipped to relic mode, good sound but vdi jumped from buckle to bullet.I flipped to prospect and had a zip-zip sound and iron % was at 20%. I cut a plug about 5'' deep, and sound got better,wet back to coin mode,good sound but still no vdi. Now i am in a very nice park. my digger is 6" blade and 5'' handle, now i am past blade and handle,and still nothing but very good sound. Went back to prospect mode now ZIP_ZIP_ZIP and iron is 10%. Now i know that most people say YA,YA right. But as the good lord as my witness I pulled , I though a rock, but after rubbing a little dirt i could see gold. I was about 2" past the bend of my elbow, which is about 181/2" This is true no dream. When i got it home my wife took a old tooth brush and clean it. It was as big as a silver dollar, and had 63 diamonds in it. I sent the story to Whites, this was back in 95 or 96 i thank. I took it to a jewelry store, they said it was from back in the 30s or 40s that no jewelry is made that heaver any more,and the diamonds was the best he had seen in a long time.I still have it, i will post pic. next week when my wife can get time,for i always mess up. Thanks Dean

 

[Dan-Pa.]

2 feet for part of a copper tea kettle.

16 inches for a silver walking half dollar.

Both dug in dried up lake beds as never would be able to go that deep on land without a shovel.

Tip...if the signal covers a large area in pinpointing its not a single coin...

Think I hit a 57 chevy once but renting a bulldozer quite expensive...

CZ did the job in both cases as properly tuned are depth demons..

 

[Randyjay]

I'v dug some big holes along the river and mostly to find rusty nails . But hears two examples of some times digging a big hole is not a bad idea . Back about 5 years ago along the river I was working an old park wich had been treating me very well with wheats Barbers mercs buffys and V nickels . I got one of those deep signals . Sounded good one way then nual ( iron) it was deep . So I started digging deeper and deeper in river sand before I knew it I was foot down and at least that wide . Then I noticed some thing strange in the pile . It was a pocket knife and old one well that was deep so I passed my coil over the hole before I fill it in . A signal nice and sweet one so I look in the hole and I see a nice pair of legs looking back at me . A 1925 standing Liberty and awsome shape . Next this happened Wednesday this week I was working an area I'v been getting some indian heads around the 6 to 8 inch range all from the late 1800's . Well I was walking along and I got a deeeeep signal sounded good . But odd since only ten feet away I pulled an 1881 indian head at about 6 inch mark . But knowing the area is old and the ground has been turned at some point . So I dig and I went from the layer of dark soil to about 6 to 8 inchs of sand to another layer of dark soil . Telling me that there was some filling going on at some time in the past . Well that signal was a good one or should I say two . As in a 1867 a cent peice and a shilded nickel 1883 stuck together . Every bit around the 12 inch mark . I thought I was going to get a rusty old pipe but I was very happy .

 

[Southwind]

About 20 years ago I got a faint signal and dug what seemed like forever. I was determine to find the source and when I did I still haven't found out what it is. It's about the size of a silver dollar and says Santa Fe Dodge Dodge City on one side, and H.DWAR on the other. It was roughly 18" in an ally.

 

[JB(MS)]

I took a guy I worked with to the site where one of the first houses in the county was built and he detected it, but I, and a friend who went with us, did the digging. . According to the property owner, who was a descendant of the family that built the log house, it burned in the 1830's and they built in a different location. It was in dense woods and the only thing dug other than shotgun hulls and a couple of pieces of rusty iron was an old iron cooking pot that was used for cooking on an open fireplace. It was very similar to the one in the photo, close to three feet deep and upside down in the ground. The guy who detected it thought it was a dud and was going to leave it, but I brought it home, painted it, put it on a stand on the patio and kept it until a nephew knocked if off the stand about 10 years later and it broke in half when it hit the bricks.

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[D&P-OR]

Deepest hole huh? hmmmm!----Well let's see now, there was this one hole and FINALLY this Chinese guys hair showed up!---Oh, that's right, you didn't want any "fish stories"! ----Deepest hole on coins, a Morgan dollar at an honest 12" (Etrac)----on a different hunt, a "coin spill" at 12" (Ex SE)--there was several old coins in that hole though--which would explain being able to "read" on them at a greater depth. ----------Del

 

[gordygroover]

Nice wet soil and a solid target found a 9 inches with my Ace.
If they ever need to know where the conduit is for the scoreboard electrical supply at the little league field, I can tell 'em.

 

[MNCoinhunter]

Nice wet soil and a solid target found a 9 inches with my Ace.
If they ever need to know where the conduit is for the scoreboard electrical supply at the little league field, I can tell 'em.

Nice to see that you are still alive to tell the story....ha ha!!