Went To a nasty old celar hole this morning...

[Scott Maine]

I received some info on some setings for detecting in heavy iron garbage.
Disc settings
Sens-92
dsic level-21
tones-1 or 1+
Ground balanced manually for best GB.
The reasoning behind these setting is due to the way the T2 samples the targets. Constant sampling in 1 and 1+ but that is not the same in the multi tone modes. TO me...I understood it as the multi tone modes were more likely to suffer target averaging close to iron....for the best I can explain.
So I hit an old celar hole I hunted long ago but no one ever hunts...funny it is right on the road too. There were still lots of targets I knew were left but I had not been back becuase I did not have a fast recovery ID machine.
I spent about an hour there...we are getting freezing rain on top of the snow.....yep...the challenge of Maine winter detecting....and this is good weather. usually we are under 2-3 feet of snow.
In that hour I pulled quite a few good targets out that were ixed in with alot of trash iron. This is all remnants of when they bulldozed this late 1790's house down many years ago.
Pulled a rosette...a broken up pocket knif along with all it's parts...my daily allotment of shotshells....and a nice 1809 Large Cent. Which was only down about 7-8" plus the snow depth...but it was off in an area that I knew was loaded with iron and old pieces of tin and the like.
For suh a big coil it did a fine job in heavy trash. I did find that on some targets that were right on others I had to sweep 90 degrees off to seperate them as the coil is wide front to back being a DD.
Any targets that sounded decent but jumped from 30-90 was ALWAYS rusty tin.
I will post some pics in a minute....I have one of the celar hole and snow. So maybe you can get an idea of what we put up with here to dig the good stuff.
Gotta go warm up now.
Scott

 

[Scott Maine]

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[MattR]

Hey! Scott, I was there with you in virtual reality.

Tramping into the thickets, kicking snow, now that's detecting with 'atmosphere'.

I can let myself imagine the early pioneer days of America, when those folk were having a hard winter. A cabin, with the scent of smoke hovering low on a frosty morning. Who were those families who lived their lives and raised their kids where you now search? If you have that kind off sensitivity, then there are times when you can almost feel their presence still.....Do you believe in 'ghosts' Scott?

Well, if you've ever 'experienced' being confronted by one, then you would ......Ah, that's another story.

If the forum goes 'flat' for awhile, and there's nothing of interest being discussed, then maybe we can throw another log on the fire and tell you all about it...........MattR.UK.

p.s. I think that some detectorists have a 'sixth sense', which can unknowingly, sometimes, lead them to good finds....mmmmmmmm?

 

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[thompy]

I've had a ghost experience once, but had nothing to do with metal detecting and it was not friendly. Wish i could tune in, maybe my finds would increase, like some of that elusive gold coinage