Yesterday I went to the old park where I got my best SLQ ever. I got to the park with high expectation's and as alway's I started out slow and deliberate. I still had my 10" tornado coil on with intention's of hitting a part of the park that was a little out of the way. I started getting a lot of hit's right away but none that interested me that much until I got right next to a tree. I got this real loud hit that was around 174 to 176 on the meter but the tone only climbed a little bit, it did tweek my interest a bit as it sounded a little odd like more than one tone mixed in so I started to circle it and it just seemed like it had a much higher tone somewhere on the edge of the loud hit,But having the 10" on I had quite a bit of overlap between the two tones. I just couldn't quite seperate the two, as I circled the loud hit trying to get some seperation I though I heard another higher tone about 4 inches away from the first one, hmmmm. Well, I did my best seperating one of the tones and got the meter to climb to 179, I'm thinking penny of somekind and wishing for a small coil right now. I decided to leave the loud hit for last just to see how this turn's out, sounded like fun to me. I dug the plug and put the probe in straight to the bottom of the hole it vibrated nicely and after pulling out a little more dirt there it is, a 1912 wheat. That's cool! Now I moved to where I thought I heard the other high tone,again I seperated it out from the loud one and the same thing a 179 and probably a penny. Dug the plug and in the bottom of the hole is a 1920 wheat. Now for the loud one, not more than 3" away I dug a rusty old crown bottle cap. This really proved to me that the Sov. and all the tones it gives you is invaluable. A lesser machine would only have picked up the loud bottle cap and probably would never have dug that hit. But those little higher tones gave it away. Also I was rested up and was focused on what I was doing. You have to keep telling yourself to slow down and concentrate even when you are getting tired and maybe getting bored from lack of targets. And the use of the right coil would of helped me out in this trashy spot. I'm sure a smaller coil would have seperated out the three target's much better than the 10" one. I'm out of breath now but I had to tell you that story,two wheat's ain't a big treasure but could of been if they were something else. The treasure was in the lesson.
Good hunting,Gary
Good hunting,Gary
I'm sure it's going to be real informative!