Uncle Willy

[padigger]

Thanks for the comments on my Silver Half, yes I was probably lucky!

I only started this last fall and even with all the reading of posted tips & tricks that I sometimes question it all boils down to dig it or not, I have dug many many junk items that have read good as well as some good items that have read bad.

To date most of my detecting has been on my own property, a double lot in a small historical community. Nice thing about that is Walk out the door and turn it on so it does give me a lot of time on the detector weather permitting.

Basically I have gone over the property once, but every time I go over a spot again I have managed to find another treasure, yesterday I dug an 1881 Indian Head in an area I have been over at least three times so I would say either I am bull headed or I am learning!

Have read many of your posts and appreciate you willingness to share your expertise with others, keep up the great work!

 

[Uncle Willy]

Keep hunting that property. You can't ever get it all no matter how many times you go over it. There may be another WL or two out there somewhere - or something better.

Bill

 

[FrankG]

From Uncle Willy's comment above...
"Keep hunting that property. You can't ever get it all no matter how many times you go over it."

That is one of my favorite observations which a lot people fail to recognize. I often chuckle to myself when I read reviews where people compare detector performance by taking a new detector and going to a spot "they believe" they've hunted out with their previous detector so based on some number of new finds with the new detector conclude that the new detector is so much better than the old one.

While the new detector may, in deed, be better than the old for any number of reasons, the logic of this test has me confused. It sure seems like an inaccurate, highly biased, and unscientific way to compare detectors. The effective search area of a coil is so small and the direction of sweep and so many other factors can be such an important part in locating stuff that it's hard to that believe anyplace is still not holding back many goodies.

Just an observation from my own experience!

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I wrote an article some time back on the logistics of coinshooting ( it may be in the online magazine at Treasure Depot )addressing the fact that the only way you could completely hunt an area out would be to dig up every square inch of the top soil to a given depth and sift it. A concentric coil at peak depth only covers an area about the size of a half dollar so one is missing a whole lot of real estate eight inches down.

Bill

 

[padigger]

Frank, I agree with your theory, I guess that's why I keep going back over the same area, also as Uncle Willy says about the size of the area detected!

When I first got my 250 I took my digger and went straight down and dropped a nickle on edge, good thing I had my son in laws elcheapo (as some call it) BH 101 cause I couldn't find it with the 250.

Uncle Willy, we had a fellow that bought an old drive inn and that is exactly what he did, he already had the equipment to do it with, excavated the whole thing and screened it and made out pretty well from what I heard.

 

[Uncle Willy]

If you had of tilted the coil on the 250 it probably would have picked it up. Remember, the signal always goes in the direction the coil is pointed. That's how you hunt up against foundations and around posts.



Bill