Old Swimming Hole Silver And gold

[angellionel]

It was worth making another trip to the old swimming hole. The lake yielded a few more keepers.

This is today's silver, eight dimes, dated 1935, 1941, 1942-S, 1943, 1943, 1945, 1945, and 1946-D.



I picked up a few old nickels too.





I also managed to find two more gold rings. They are both heavy.



And here are the rest of the finds.









HH!

[Full Metal Digger]

Nice finds Angel. You must be cleaning up pretty good at that swimming hole. All dimes and nickels for silver. I was intrigued by the 2 ID bracelets.

[z118]

Angel I can barely stand to look at these posts! They make me want to fling my detector right into the Erie Canal. Holy cow! Any one of these swimming hole hunts would make my stinking YEAR!

Congrats on you amazing finds!

[greg]

What is making the silver look so bad?

[angellionel]

What is making the silver look so bad?

It's sulfide buildup, typical of silver found at lakes and ponds. Most clean up well using the method posted HERE.

[Evan/tn]

Now that is a heck of a hunting spot
Way to go Angellionel

[giant056]

You had an awesome water hunt that day Angel

[rsarge1]

very nice all i can do is sit here and drool until spring wtg

[Nitro 54]

Very nice water finds

[odave]

Awesome for Sure !! Congrats on the finds Angel

[Kimster]

Nice finds! Love those rings...

[Carver]

That is one sweet V nickel!!! Looks like a full Liberty to me

[davpower]

Hello Angel - I've been reading your posts with grear interest. I'm a new Etrac owner. I'm going to load your settings from the Etrac post today, ... but. I live on Saipan, in the Northern Marianas Islands. We have a LOT of WW2 junk and some hopefully good stuff. I'm mostly interested in a rocky beach area that was the site of a Spanish ship crashing into the reef in the late 1600s. You can still find small oieces of Chinese porcelin washing up today. I've been out with the out of the box settings, coin, on my Etrac. I have a very impressive pile of pull tabs. I'd rather find something better. What words of wisdom would have as a good starting point with the Etrac? I'm useing the standard coil, but have an SEF 12x15.

Thanks for any suggestions - Dave Power

[angellionel]

Hello Angel - I've been reading your posts with grear interest. I'm a new Etrac owner. I'm going to load your settings from the Etrac post today, ... but. I live on Saipan, in the Northern Marianas Islands. We have a LOT of WW2 junk and some hopefully good stuff. I'm mostly interested in a rocky beach area that was the site of a Spanish ship crashing into the reef in the late 1600s. You can still find small oieces of Chinese porcelin washing up today. I've been out with the out of the box settings, coin, on my Etrac. I have a very impressive pile of pull tabs. I'd rather find something better. What words of wisdom would have as a good starting point with the Etrac? I'm useing the standard coil, but have an SEF 12x15.

Thanks for any suggestions - Dave Power

Hi Dave, and welcome to American Detectorist! Sorry for the tardy reply by the way.

You have yourself a fine machine, one I'm sure you will enjoy using for years to come. I know I have enjoyed detecting with mine these past two years.

I have not used my own E-Trac at any of the saltwater beaches I have worked out here, preferring to detect at such sites with a waterproof machine, like the Excalibur. There are others who have gained much experience using the E-Trac while working wet sand however, so no doubt they will be able to offer great suggestions on settings and discrimination patterns to use with the E-Trac when detecting at a beach.

I did use the E-Trac on dry and wet sand at one beach found at a lake though, and it performed quite well. But saltwater beaches do pose a different set of challenges. I have always worked those locations with my Excalibur or PI machine. However, if I were to use the E-Trac I would not hunt in all metal mode, that is, using a wide open screen. I do suggest using as little discrimination as possible though, perhaps just blocking out numbers near the bottom of the display to tame some of the iron you are likely to encounter.

Two or four tones is what I would turn to, using manual sensitivity, gauging where falsing may start to take place, and maintaining your sensitivity setting at just below that level. Set the ground setting to Neutral, Recovery Deep set to On, Recovery Fast set to Off, though this one is a matter of taste. Personally I don't care for it as I find the resulting tone distortion much too annoying.

I would have Trash Density set to Low unless the particular beach you are working is known to be strewn with iron. In that case I would have the setting set to High as it will allow E-Trac to detect good targets next to the iron you may be rejecting in your discrimination pattern. Having Trash Density set to High will allow the machine to yield a signal for the strongest accepted target, even if next to a rejected target.

I hope that helps.

[markg]

Real good haul.

[tanacat]

Wow that charm bracelet is really cool Angel The id bracelets too- did you google the names? I'm sure there's prob lots of peeps with those names though...

Congrats on all the silver and gold!

[angellionel]

Wow that charm bracelet is really cool Angel The id bracelets too- did you google the names? I'm sure there's prob lots of peeps with those names though...

Congrats on all the silver and gold!

Nope. I just have them in a bag somewhere.

[RobW]

I saw this and thought it was a new post and thought Angel is already back in the water ........

[angellionel]

I saw this and thought it was a new post and thought Angel is already back in the water ........

I am looking forward to some shallow water detecting this summer though.

[tanacat]

I didn't realize this thread had been bumped from last August