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I was out checking out a TV for one of the local farmers and took my GT out as I felt I would have a little time out with it again. I have been over his yard several times over the last 3 years with the XS2, the Elite and the Explorer and the last couple of times just got a couple of new coins. I even tried my Shadow X5 and was able to get a merc last spring in with the trash.
I decided to try along the road and sidewalk to see if I could pick up something I may have missed before. I did the sensitivity set by lowering and rasing me coil and found it was around where I normaly set it at the 11 o'clock postion. Run my iron mask on and with a threshold. Now being it rained and the ground was wet the falsing on iron was very little unlike it is when the ground is dry. I got a couple of rusty bottle caps the sounded deep that read 150-155 on my SunRay meter. Being they sound deep a person want to dig them. I also got a few small piece of alum that were too iffy not to dig as they sounded so deep. Got a couple of signals I could get my 180 reading on, but when i did my 90 degrees pinpoint, then back to disc they just nulled. Dug a zinc fruit jar cover that sounded real loud that was a good 10 inches deep.
Now in this area i knew I had worked hard and didnt get anymore last year here with the Elite or the Explorer and it could have been the trash there, but got 4 wheaties in the 40s and a 1936 merc which shocked me in the hour and a half I was there, but accualy I worked a couple other areas first, so I probaly didnt take half hour to get these. It was starting to rain when i was finding these too so that may have made a difference. The depth was very good as every target I dug as deep as the blade was on my Lesche digger and only one of these wheaties was in the plug while the others were 2 oe 3 inches deeper, but I could hear them with my Uniprobe when I put it in the hole. I feel the Lesche blade is 7 inches deep, so this would make the coins 9 to 10 inches down. These signals were weaker sounding like a deep one would be and the first tone change was enough to alert me to do the Sovereign wiggle over the target area and get the tone to climb along with the meter to 179-180. Dig my 90 degrees pinpoint so the target was right in the center of the coil, then switched to disc again and did the slight wiggle and most the tone started climbing and one the tone never changed untill I moved the coil a little further than just a wiggle. If this would have been iron it would have nulled when I did the wiggle in disc. I also notice that after I dug out the coin and went over the area again the threshold just nulled or got a lower tone signal (85-90 on the meter), so I feel there must have been some iron under these coins.or close to them.
Anyway not a great finds, but for a area i worked hard before the GT did impress me to get these. I will be wanting to get back there again and try it some more and see if i can worked the area where I got some older wheaties and 2 barber dimes 2 years ago, because if the GT can find something the Explorer missed I know I will be using the GT more for my main detector.
Rick
I decided to try along the road and sidewalk to see if I could pick up something I may have missed before. I did the sensitivity set by lowering and rasing me coil and found it was around where I normaly set it at the 11 o'clock postion. Run my iron mask on and with a threshold. Now being it rained and the ground was wet the falsing on iron was very little unlike it is when the ground is dry. I got a couple of rusty bottle caps the sounded deep that read 150-155 on my SunRay meter. Being they sound deep a person want to dig them. I also got a few small piece of alum that were too iffy not to dig as they sounded so deep. Got a couple of signals I could get my 180 reading on, but when i did my 90 degrees pinpoint, then back to disc they just nulled. Dug a zinc fruit jar cover that sounded real loud that was a good 10 inches deep.
Now in this area i knew I had worked hard and didnt get anymore last year here with the Elite or the Explorer and it could have been the trash there, but got 4 wheaties in the 40s and a 1936 merc which shocked me in the hour and a half I was there, but accualy I worked a couple other areas first, so I probaly didnt take half hour to get these. It was starting to rain when i was finding these too so that may have made a difference. The depth was very good as every target I dug as deep as the blade was on my Lesche digger and only one of these wheaties was in the plug while the others were 2 oe 3 inches deeper, but I could hear them with my Uniprobe when I put it in the hole. I feel the Lesche blade is 7 inches deep, so this would make the coins 9 to 10 inches down. These signals were weaker sounding like a deep one would be and the first tone change was enough to alert me to do the Sovereign wiggle over the target area and get the tone to climb along with the meter to 179-180. Dig my 90 degrees pinpoint so the target was right in the center of the coil, then switched to disc again and did the slight wiggle and most the tone started climbing and one the tone never changed untill I moved the coil a little further than just a wiggle. If this would have been iron it would have nulled when I did the wiggle in disc. I also notice that after I dug out the coin and went over the area again the threshold just nulled or got a lower tone signal (85-90 on the meter), so I feel there must have been some iron under these coins.or close to them.
Anyway not a great finds, but for a area i worked hard before the GT did impress me to get these. I will be wanting to get back there again and try it some more and see if i can worked the area where I got some older wheaties and 2 barber dimes 2 years ago, because if the GT can find something the Explorer missed I know I will be using the GT more for my main detector.
Rick
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