Cheap Thrills
06-03-2018, 02:39 AM
This evening , I drove to the next town just to check up on an old site . It's a school built in 1934. Up to know I've dug about a dozen wheats , a bit of clad and a 1935 Merc there .They had tore out a patch of Ivy a while back and all I found was a little more clad .
In that cleared section they put in wood chips and planter boxes and are now growing vegetables ( so that killed off that section for hunting ) . I thought Id take a ride over there this evening and see if they had cleared more .I figured they hadn't but I thought , if not I would try out my Grandsons F2 ( nice and light) in the wood chips play equipment spot , as long as there were no kids there ( it turned out there was ) . Well lucky for me they had cleared out another patch and I worked it for two hours .
I had tried out this detector for the first time recently at another location using the 4" coil in trash. I was trying to see if I could pull a silver or two , no luck . Over the years I had pulled a few nice silver coins out of there but none now for quite a while .I spent 4 hrs. swinging that little coil there and pulled out two clad dimes . The two clad dimes where quite a ways away from that main area I was hunting .I have no desire to hunt that area again .
I found the detectors tones very confusing as they never seemed to hold onto the same sound . I found that to be true again his evening also ( tonight I was using the 8" concentric rather than the 4" concentric ) . My copper pennies had tones and ID'd as dimes , while my one silver dime had a zinc undertone . There was a lot of iron there , I was digging everything registering over iron . I dug a lot of junk but surprisingly enough ended up with the silver Roosie , 5 wheats , 3 memorials , a Chinese coin and 2 stinkazincs .The targets ranged from 2" to 5"
deep .
On my next trip there I'm going to bring an Explorer with either the 6" or 6x8 Detech coil . I would hope to get more significant depth and possibly find more goodies . I will let you know what happens on my next attempt .
Of course the picture of the trash came out better than the coin picture . :girlcry:
In that cleared section they put in wood chips and planter boxes and are now growing vegetables ( so that killed off that section for hunting ) . I thought Id take a ride over there this evening and see if they had cleared more .I figured they hadn't but I thought , if not I would try out my Grandsons F2 ( nice and light) in the wood chips play equipment spot , as long as there were no kids there ( it turned out there was ) . Well lucky for me they had cleared out another patch and I worked it for two hours .
I had tried out this detector for the first time recently at another location using the 4" coil in trash. I was trying to see if I could pull a silver or two , no luck . Over the years I had pulled a few nice silver coins out of there but none now for quite a while .I spent 4 hrs. swinging that little coil there and pulled out two clad dimes . The two clad dimes where quite a ways away from that main area I was hunting .I have no desire to hunt that area again .
I found the detectors tones very confusing as they never seemed to hold onto the same sound . I found that to be true again his evening also ( tonight I was using the 8" concentric rather than the 4" concentric ) . My copper pennies had tones and ID'd as dimes , while my one silver dime had a zinc undertone . There was a lot of iron there , I was digging everything registering over iron . I dug a lot of junk but surprisingly enough ended up with the silver Roosie , 5 wheats , 3 memorials , a Chinese coin and 2 stinkazincs .The targets ranged from 2" to 5"
deep .
On my next trip there I'm going to bring an Explorer with either the 6" or 6x8 Detech coil . I would hope to get more significant depth and possibly find more goodies . I will let you know what happens on my next attempt .
Of course the picture of the trash came out better than the coin picture . :girlcry: