Mark ( ohio )
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I hunted with it yesterday deep in a woods setting where a one room school house sat around 1900... not much found ( as expected ) but did find a rather neat ornmental thingy from a writing pen ( maybe )..... One thing to note.. that pro coil is NOT conducive to deep wood hunting The open design gets caught on all the small twigs and saplings. . Today i focused on a 30 acre meadow that seen huge amounts of foot and people traffic from the 1880s to early 1920s.. I have hunted here many...many..many times over the yrs, still knowing there are finds to be had, tho more scarce as time goes by... Normally barbers, injuns, V's and buffalos will be the finds.. but from depths of 7+ inches ............
Anyway I set the detector up to with a cross savings program ( relic for the ferrous sounds, and coin and jewelry for the icons ) and chose low density.....I wanted to hear everything and I did !! I'm not a fast hunter to begin with, so working slow with a minelab is right up my ally... I dug alot of signals, ( knowing many were going to be junk..pulltabs, beaver tails, large clumps of foil etc.... ) One target was peculiar tho. got a 32 signal one way and a -2 on the return.. swept 1 or 2 more times from different angles with the same results.. Dug down about 7 inches and low-and-behold a 1901 injun is in my hand. (great shape too ) Rescanned hole and about 3 inches over popped another injun out.. 1900 this time...
Likes or dislikes............ sure, every detector has them...First... ( and I knew this going in when I bought this detector ) was the target Id system is not as refined as the explorer ( that I was very used to )............ I dug a million ( exaggerated of coarse ) screw tops that read 36-37... Right where your wheats and memorials fall..... Can't reject the #'s cause you'll pass over the pennys...
Is it deep... yes.. it sure is, ( but with an 11 inch coil.. it should be )... Signals were strong and no way would anyone miss them.......................... Am I gonna hunt somemore with it.. Of course I will, I'll be back to the same area soon for more testing, and know of at least 3-4 more places just like this one....
Two indians on a hunt is a good day for me along with other clad found, so life is good!!
More later.. Mark ( ohio )
Anyway I set the detector up to with a cross savings program ( relic for the ferrous sounds, and coin and jewelry for the icons ) and chose low density.....I wanted to hear everything and I did !! I'm not a fast hunter to begin with, so working slow with a minelab is right up my ally... I dug alot of signals, ( knowing many were going to be junk..pulltabs, beaver tails, large clumps of foil etc.... ) One target was peculiar tho. got a 32 signal one way and a -2 on the return.. swept 1 or 2 more times from different angles with the same results.. Dug down about 7 inches and low-and-behold a 1901 injun is in my hand. (great shape too ) Rescanned hole and about 3 inches over popped another injun out.. 1900 this time...
Likes or dislikes............ sure, every detector has them...First... ( and I knew this going in when I bought this detector ) was the target Id system is not as refined as the explorer ( that I was very used to )............ I dug a million ( exaggerated of coarse ) screw tops that read 36-37... Right where your wheats and memorials fall..... Can't reject the #'s cause you'll pass over the pennys...
Is it deep... yes.. it sure is, ( but with an 11 inch coil.. it should be )... Signals were strong and no way would anyone miss them.......................... Am I gonna hunt somemore with it.. Of course I will, I'll be back to the same area soon for more testing, and know of at least 3-4 more places just like this one....
Two indians on a hunt is a good day for me along with other clad found, so life is good!!
More later.. Mark ( ohio )
