Todays M6 Finds

[LaDigger]

Spent a couple hours behind a schoolyard I thought might have a few old coins.Its a place I hadn't tried before, but by the depth of most of my finds there I'd say somebodies had a little fun there before.Most targets 0 to 4 inch range ,but managed to squeeze a couple of wheats out.
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Well summer is definitely here now. Today was 92* humidity 90+ percent.
HH Good Luck Richard A. in S. La.

M6 COIN COUNTER Started 5-17=07

CLAD
pennies = 122
nickles = 104
dimes = 54
quarter = 90

Wheaties= 37
Buffalos = 4

SILVER
nickles = 2
rosies = 3
mercs =1
washingtons = 3
medals = 3
rings = 1

GOLD =0
FOREIGN = 1 [10 Francs]

 

[RTP]

Way to go Richard. Looks like you're off to a great start. 13 pieces of silver in less than a month, FANTASTIC.....Rick

 

[LaDigger]

I've been detecting 6 1/2 years, and really had a hard time finding silver the first few years.I think the first year I only found 2 silver dimes. Since the middle of last year I have probably found over 50 pieces of silver,and a good bit of buffalo nickles. I attribute this new success to hunting some Older school backyards , staying at least 40 -50-yards away from the buildings and beyond. All of these locations are at least 35 - 50 miles from my house.3 of them are near my work area ,which I have to stay at work 7 days a week on shift then I go on days off for 7 days. I try to hunt there a couple of times a week when Im on shift. They are in rural communities where there doesn't seem to be anyone detecting and if they are ,they don't go deep enough to get the good ones. One yard that I started hunting a couple months ago is clean from about 4 in, to surface. Someone is getting all the clad and trash out ,and Im finding many silver coins and older nickles and wheats there. The silver is getting harder to find everytime I go back, because the machines I use go deep, and I don't leave much behind.Time to start looking for new ground. Thanks for the comment. HH Good Luck...Richard A. S. La.

 

[DFX-Gregg]

Your nickel count is usually high compared to everything else! First ratio of nickels per other coins i have seen that high! Are you also digging a lot of pulltabs?

 

[LaDigger]

Im digging nickles from 14 to 20 vdi older deeper nickles are vdi 14-16 middle depth around 16-18 and surface 18- 20. I dont think Ive seen any over 20 but sometimes if I overload on one it may bounce up to 22.I dig a good bit of coin size can frags and pull tabs that fall in those ranges.32 is a common pull tab # Ive started to skip, unless it id's at deeper than 4".Im still learning with the M6 and I dug some repeatable vdi 8, 10 and 12's yesterday and they were all trash.After using the 1270 for the last four years, I make alot of my digging decisions on the way a target signals.I am definately digging more iffy targets than I used to ,I run disc just below the "S' on small rings disc setting, and ck almost every iffy high tone signal I can get a depth lock on.I am starting to see how the tone breaks or sounds funky when switching from pinpoint to search on the iffy nickle signals, helping to let me know that its probably trash. But I don't pass on many signals and have grown tolerant of listening to everything and working my signals good before digging them after using the 1270 which always produced for me ,but is a bear to work with.Most of my nickle signals would probably be skipped by a newbie,they are not all textbook signals and thats why so many are still in the ground. Hope this answers your question...HH.. Good Luck..Richard A. S.LA.
M6 COIN COUNTER Started 5-17-07

CLAD
pennies = 122
nickles = 104
dimes = 54
quarter = 90

Wheaties= 37
Buffalos = 4

SILVER
nickles = 2
rosies = 3
mercs =1
washingtons = 3
medals = 3
rings = 1

GOLD = 0

FORIEGN
1 = 10 Francs french coin

 

[DFX-Gregg]

All that torn up can slaw from the mowers is driving me crazy lately...Even though I found 2 rings yesterday, I also dug a lot of ripped up cans! Today is recovery day for me, sore all over...

The dfx vdi's out a little differently than your detector. Most swear the nickel has to be a 18, 19 or 20 on dfx. Guess that is why their nickel counts are so low!:clsoedeyes:

I find some of the things you said true with the dfx, older deeper nickels are vdi-ing low also 16-18, my range for nickels seems to be 16-24. A sure tip it is not a nickel for me has been a reading outside these numbers...not saying that it might not be a ring also a thought...But when I see a 26 for example when cherry picking I move on.

 

[LaDigger]

I thought I mentioned that Ive been hitting older sites , thats one reason my nickle counts have been unusually high. Ive been taking the M6 to the backyards of schools that date to 1909, 1936 ,one in the forties and one in the fifties. Back then everything cost a nickle, a candy bar, a soda. a ride on the ferris wheel, I think this explains alot. The nickles here are deep and produce iffy signals compare to say 4" depths. On modern sites my nickles ratio is the same as everyone elses. HH Good Luck Richard A. in S. La.