Went up to the top of one of the hills in the Catoctin Ridge in MD to a pass used by the Federal troops pursuing Lee after the battle of G'Burg. Rough hunting, lots of downfall logs to make walking and smooth swinging nearly impossible. The Safari kept pace with the F75, MXT and Blue and Gray in the group. In about an hour everybody found one target each, mine was a sliver of a shot bullet that was about 10 inches down and a bear to find because it was as dark brown as the soil that it was in.
From there we went to a Federal campground on the Potomac and hit a couple of spots. I ended up with a fired .44 cal roundball, a .52 cal Sharps bullet, a melted chunk of camp lead and a 1888 Indian Head penny in poor condition. Everybody got a couple of bullets and one 1900 silver dime emerged.
I was using the Safari in a modified "Relic Mode" with -10 to -7 and +40 notched out, generally auto sens but from time to time I played a bit with manual sens. Seemed that anything above 16 threw a bunch of false signals. Conditions were poor, dry pressed, baked dirt so the top two inches were like digging through pottery. Once you popped out a dinner plate sized plug from that layer it was soft and easy digging below.
Weird thing was the shotgun shells. Any empties on the surface read -3 and rang like iron! Any empties buried more than an inch read either like a shotgun shell/button (12 or 13) or like a bullet (32 to 34) with higher pitch tones (not as flutey as a real bullet).
All in all a fun day out with the guys and a couple of nice recoveries. The only downside was when one of the guys took a nasty spill and smacked his face on a downed log! He spent the rest of the day looking like he had gone 5 rounds with Brock Lesnar but, being the trooper that he is, he refused a trip back down the hill for medical attention and finished the day using his one remaining open eye.
Tom Henrique
From there we went to a Federal campground on the Potomac and hit a couple of spots. I ended up with a fired .44 cal roundball, a .52 cal Sharps bullet, a melted chunk of camp lead and a 1888 Indian Head penny in poor condition. Everybody got a couple of bullets and one 1900 silver dime emerged.
I was using the Safari in a modified "Relic Mode" with -10 to -7 and +40 notched out, generally auto sens but from time to time I played a bit with manual sens. Seemed that anything above 16 threw a bunch of false signals. Conditions were poor, dry pressed, baked dirt so the top two inches were like digging through pottery. Once you popped out a dinner plate sized plug from that layer it was soft and easy digging below.
Weird thing was the shotgun shells. Any empties on the surface read -3 and rang like iron! Any empties buried more than an inch read either like a shotgun shell/button (12 or 13) or like a bullet (32 to 34) with higher pitch tones (not as flutey as a real bullet).
All in all a fun day out with the guys and a couple of nice recoveries. The only downside was when one of the guys took a nasty spill and smacked his face on a downed log! He spent the rest of the day looking like he had gone 5 rounds with Brock Lesnar but, being the trooper that he is, he refused a trip back down the hill for medical attention and finished the day using his one remaining open eye.
Tom Henrique
It never turns out to be anything more than trash but I dig the hole anyway. At one point yesterday I dumped about 17 shotgun shells into the trash bag!