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I went out today to hit a couple of sites that I had previously hunted several times with a few different machines, still trying to see what the Quattro can do with "worked out" sites.
One is a patch of woods that was used for camping and probably hunting and has yielded a number of nice finds, mostly Barber dimes, Indian Head cents and Wheaties. It's very clean hunting and there has never been much there to begin with and if you find something it's usually a coin. Also have found a few Civial War bullets out there. Most say it's "hunted out", including me. And the bad news is that it's still pretty much hunted out...the Quattro was able to pull a 1942 Merc out of it and that was it. I had to work for that too, took about an hour.
I then moved on to a field in an old part of Suffolk Virginia that sits on the edge of a residential area with 1800's homes on one side and old peanut factory buildings on another. In the past we have found Barber coins, Mercs, Indians, V-nickels, and my prettiest coin ever, an 1853 Seated Liberty quarter. There's a lot of iron trash there and across the street is a big transmitter tower that messes with most machines. Today the field was still tough hunting, causing the Quattro to null quite a bit if I went too fast so I went slow and I also shifted to All Metal for a while so I could see how much iron there really was...it was bad. Despite that, I managed to pick out some good finds and came up with a 1944 quarter, a 1916 Wheatie, a 1924 Wheatie, and the smallest Ford key I've ever seen...looks pretty old. All of these were in the range of about 6 to 8 inches deep.
<FONT COLOR="#ff0000"><STRONG>Wishing everybody the best in 2005 and may all your high tones be silver and your low ones gold!</STRONG></FONT>
<STRONG>Here's the final take for today:</STRONG>
One is a patch of woods that was used for camping and probably hunting and has yielded a number of nice finds, mostly Barber dimes, Indian Head cents and Wheaties. It's very clean hunting and there has never been much there to begin with and if you find something it's usually a coin. Also have found a few Civial War bullets out there. Most say it's "hunted out", including me. And the bad news is that it's still pretty much hunted out...the Quattro was able to pull a 1942 Merc out of it and that was it. I had to work for that too, took about an hour.
I then moved on to a field in an old part of Suffolk Virginia that sits on the edge of a residential area with 1800's homes on one side and old peanut factory buildings on another. In the past we have found Barber coins, Mercs, Indians, V-nickels, and my prettiest coin ever, an 1853 Seated Liberty quarter. There's a lot of iron trash there and across the street is a big transmitter tower that messes with most machines. Today the field was still tough hunting, causing the Quattro to null quite a bit if I went too fast so I went slow and I also shifted to All Metal for a while so I could see how much iron there really was...it was bad. Despite that, I managed to pick out some good finds and came up with a 1944 quarter, a 1916 Wheatie, a 1924 Wheatie, and the smallest Ford key I've ever seen...looks pretty old. All of these were in the range of about 6 to 8 inches deep.
<FONT COLOR="#ff0000"><STRONG>Wishing everybody the best in 2005 and may all your high tones be silver and your low ones gold!</STRONG></FONT>
<STRONG>Here's the final take for today:</STRONG>