Took the Sov GT out today to the old school yard 2 hours :thumbup:

[deepdiger60]

Today i wanted to see just how good the GT works in disc with my sensitivity set between 10 11 the entire time i hunted wow !! does that find deep coins 10 dimes 1 silver rosy 1956 , 9 Penny's 1 wheat 1956 ,2 nickles ,2 quarters ,and 1 dollar piece 1979 the average depth was between 6 and 7 inches in a area i have hit many many times before that athletic field never gives up giving coins lots of junk to mostly pulls and slaw , pinpoint worked perfect today right on target anything between 119 and 179 on the meter i dug !!! if it sounded good 2.5 hours lol . The soil was soft we had 2 days of heavy rain this week so it was pretty easy to dig . No bling but 1 silver is fine . me happy with the machine today HH Jim

 

[devilantsva]

Some pretty sweet finds there deepdiger.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Jim,impressive nice hunt.Thanks Ron

 

[tometusns]

congrats! I went back to the yard I found the 2 wheaties and barber dime...YIKES!!! 4 new pennies, a thimble, one old button and JUNK!!...lol I was really expecting a lot more than that. less than 30 min the previous night and some good coins..an hour and a half tonight and mainly just got a little heat stroke..

 

[Ism]

Always enjoy seeing the silver emerge from the dirt. Nice hunt

 

[matthias]

Nice hunt! WTG! HH. Matt

 

[Critterhunter]

Great job, and nice to see the silver! Can I ask...Forgive me because I might have missed it...But are you new to the Sovereign and had been running in Auto or real low sensitivity while you learned it, and that's why you were shocked at the depth at 10 or 11?

Anyway, yesterday due to the proximity to some very close power lines I had to run my GT and 12x10 at about 3PM. Sure, I could have run it at around 10 or 11, but as I gridded and got closer and closer to the power lines back and fourth I would get falsing, so I just kept it at 3PM to not have to adjust it as I got towards those power lines. But, despite that, a few of the coins I dug were a good 6 or 7" deep and gave perfect strong signals, and this was in a patch of grass that had been gridded both ways by my friend's flagship machine. It's been a while since I've ran the GT at that low of sensitivity, as usually the 12x10, even in my low to high mineralized sites, allows full blast sensitivity I'd say 7 or 8 times out of 10. But, being that there were power lines very close at this spot, and I don't like switching to band 1 to see if that helps as it changes the ID on nickles and other lower conductors, I just stayed in band 2 (matches all the old and new Sovereign ID charts) and hunted away.

It's been a while since I've ran in Auto but I remember digging silvers at a good 7" at some sites that hit hard with that. That just amazes me, just like 3PM did yesterday, because in my soil virtually all the machines I ever owned except Minelabs could not break about the 7.5" barrier in my soil. That's why I'm so floored by the S-5 coil when I use that, because in the little time I've used it in the past I dug a rosie at about 7" that hit so hard and strong that I think it could easily have been 9" or maybe even more and I still would have got it. Think about that. Other machines I've owned using say a 9 or 10" coil weren't getting much beyond 5 or 6", and only a few could muster about 7.5" in my soil, yet the little S-5 is kicking but when I use it. Of course yesterday I was using the 12x10, but I really should take the S-5 for another spin at one of my more trashy sites. I actually think the 12x10 has a tighter left/right DD line then the S-5 (if that's true it just blows my mind), but of course the S-5 has better separation in terms of the length of the DD line.

Auto will get deeper at some sites than others due to EMI noise and how bad the soil is. It auto adjusts to a stable level. I still like to use it in really super bad ground such as old paths containing a lot of hot rocks or stones. It keeps the machine very smooth. Usually if manual down to about 4PM still isn't stablizing the machine (rare with the 12x10 to ever even have to go below 12, and most times it will run at full max), then I just flip over to Auto because it probably is going to get the same depth, but with a much more stable threshold. I also am fond of it in certain sites containing just tons of iron. I feel it *might* pull coin signals out of iron better in rare situations, or at least in sites where the ground is changing so fast that manual could be set too hot or too cold every five feet or so.

If I might add, I've read more than a few times that in bad ground (at least with some coils, if not the 12x10...but it was true of the 15x12 for me), that there seems to be a sweet spot on the GT for sensitivity at either 3PM or perhaps a bit higher where the dial is pointing right at the letter "C" in noise cancel on the faceplate. I've read that quite a few times over the last few years, and found it to be true for me with the 15x12, the 10" Tornado, and sometimes with the 12x10...in really bad ground.

 

[deepdiger60]

Critter what i should of said was i started my hunt in auto and did not get to many signals in a area i have hunted many times before so i adjusted the sensitivty between 10 and 11 and bang !! lots of signals in that tight brown sandy soil there is lots of coins at 6 or 7 inches some even deeper , i have been using the GT now for almost 3 years i like to experament with it sometimes running my sens at those numbers i do not do that often but yesterday convinced me better the soil was very damp it rained hard here for 2 days before i hunted that might of helped ,that Susan B Anthony dollar was a good 8 inches the length of my shovel . I was using the stock 10" coil at a normal sweep not fast or to slow i like to keep the coil right on the top of the short cut grass at the school fields about 1" off the ground ,oh yea funny thing happened near the end of my search i relized i did not find any nickles that seemed odd no sooner did i think that i get a sharp groan signal i looked at my meter it was between 141 and 145 i said to my self that is a nickle and sure enough it was no more then 3 feet away the same sound and reading another nickle then i headed for my truck lol iam going back there in a little while to one of the ball fields this time ill post any finds . Jim

 

[Critterhunter]

Yea, sorry if I mistook you for a newbie. I'm sure I've read your posts and even known you in certain ways. I'm just lousy with names as normally I don't pay any attention to them. It takes me many times seeing a handle or a person's name before I remember it and recognize them, so sorry if I was like "don't recognize this guy's name, must be a newbie". Nothing personal as it's just me. Now your name will probably stick for me in future posts.

Yep, nickles are almost a sure bet on the Sovereign thanks to the high VDI. Usually a 144 I think for me on them, and usually they don't change by more than 2 digits and then I know it's a nickle. Especially if it has a nice "round" sound to it. But, yesterday in that house lot, since my criteria was lowered to 3 digits or less in the target VDI changing, I dug a nickle that changed by 3 digits depending on which way I swept over it, but I just "knew" by the round sound to it that it was going to be a nickle. Big difference in sound from that and say a piece of trash that changes by 3 digits. I have to pay more attention to the sound and let that be my deciding factor, even if the VDI ranges by say 3 digits or so.

 

[deepdiger60]

Yea, sorry if I mistook you for a newbie. I'm sure I've read your posts and even known you in certain ways. I'm just lousy with names as normally I don't pay any attention to them. It takes me many times seeing a handle or a person's name before I remember it and recognize them, so sorry if I was like "don't recognize this guy's name, must be a newbie". Nothing personal as it's just me. Now your name will probably stick for me in future posts.

Yep, nickles are almost a sure bet on the Sovereign thanks to the high VDI. Usually a 144 I think for me on them, and usually they don't change by more than 2 digits and then I know it's a nickle. Especially if it has a nice "round" sound to it. But, yesterday in that house lot, since my criteria was lowered to 3 digits or less in the target VDI changing, I dug a nickle that changed by 3 digits depending on which way I swept over it, but I just "knew" by the round sound to it that it was going to be a nickle. Big difference in sound from that and say a piece of trash that changes by 3 digits. I have to pay more attention to the sound and let that be my deciding factor, even if the VDI ranges by say 3 digits or so.

No problem Critter maybe cause i changed my Avatar last week to a Spanish 8 Re ale you thought i was new lol , i use the Insight 180 meter in my sov box i noticed yesterday that my quarters and dimes where coming up 178 instead of 180 there is a fine adjustment to set the meter if it is turned on with out a coil you will always see a 125 on the meter so i tuned it to 127 and now its prefect i get a 180 on most coins except nickles today they showed 144 . That 1996 Mexican coin today i think is a mix of nickle and clad it came up a 169 I ran my Sov today at 12pm sensitivity in disc. mode worked great in clean soil not much junk at all tomorrow ill hit a few beaches . i took a pic of todays finds just more for the pile . HH Jim