A few of us headed out to one of my personal favorite spots today...and I made a couple of new friends including Ron DeGhetto of The Gold Digger detector sales in NJ.
Ron and I both had E-Tracs. Ron doesn't usually detect on fairly clean plowed field sites so I set him up with 2 tone FE with the 1 line disc out (with the CO add backs - the GAZ way) and sent him on his way. There were also 2 Explorer users and one other new E-Trac user (who doesn't like 2 tone FE) hunting for the day.
I've been using 2 tone FE as my usual mode for all my plowed field hunts since trying it out a few months ago. I believe that you can actually swing faster than multi CO - as I believe the E-Trac locks onto a good high tone FE signal even if the coil just gets a whiff of the target - which could be a few inches from the coil edge (at least with my 12x10 SEF). So I get to cover lots of ground.
Anyway the proof was in the results - Ron got 2 beauty large cents and a very interesting large copper eagle token. I got 3 large cents and my oldest silver ever - a 1769 2 reales. The other guys got a thing here or there but no way as much in terms of targets dug. Sure we dug more junk but the keepers were there...
I whizzed the reales up (with spit and aluminum foil) 'cause it already was fairly well worn and slightly bent anyway just to get the date showing better (not worth much from a numismatic standpoint - so don't yell at me for screwing it all up)....
Ron and I both had E-Tracs. Ron doesn't usually detect on fairly clean plowed field sites so I set him up with 2 tone FE with the 1 line disc out (with the CO add backs - the GAZ way) and sent him on his way. There were also 2 Explorer users and one other new E-Trac user (who doesn't like 2 tone FE) hunting for the day.
I've been using 2 tone FE as my usual mode for all my plowed field hunts since trying it out a few months ago. I believe that you can actually swing faster than multi CO - as I believe the E-Trac locks onto a good high tone FE signal even if the coil just gets a whiff of the target - which could be a few inches from the coil edge (at least with my 12x10 SEF). So I get to cover lots of ground.
Anyway the proof was in the results - Ron got 2 beauty large cents and a very interesting large copper eagle token. I got 3 large cents and my oldest silver ever - a 1769 2 reales. The other guys got a thing here or there but no way as much in terms of targets dug. Sure we dug more junk but the keepers were there...
I whizzed the reales up (with spit and aluminum foil) 'cause it already was fairly well worn and slightly bent anyway just to get the date showing better (not worth much from a numismatic standpoint - so don't yell at me for screwing it all up)....
