I was happy on my last hunt.
I don't have a lot of areas that actually have deeper coins, and we are so dry right now that I couldn't dig in the areas that would have. I tried twice and it wasn't pretty so I quit until we get some rain or snow or they start watering again.
So that kind of leaves me at probing range targets in the parks but allows some deeper digging in the school sand lots.
In the school sand lots I was recovering coins up to 8" deep. Its hard to measure depth in sand. But I had a good four inch dry layer, then a dry hard packed layer that I had to dig at least another 4" in for this particular copper cent. The fact that it was down in the dry hard packed area tells me its been there awhile and I and others have missed it on previous hunts. On that hunt, I dug numerous coins several inches down into the hard packed layer. But that particular one stands out the most. I forget what it pinpointed at. I was suprised that there were that many coins down in that layer that I had missed before. But then again, I mostly hunt school lots with the Golden Cleansweep combo, or with the 8.5" widescan.
Settings wise, I was able to run at 90, ground canceled at 87, .3 on the Fe3o4 graph.
Mike