Everybody here at home left the OK corral for loads of tryptophan and other holiday goodies. I had to work yesterday and tomorrow sooooo I've got the hacienda to myself for several days here, me and my babygirl Jack Russell Izzie. Got up this morning and had to run to work to check some numbers from yesterday, 35 miles one way, where I want to go is 65 miles right back past the house the other way. Had a great Waffle House breakfast/lunch and took off 110 miles to an old park built around 1910. I've hunted here with the cities permission several times before with the 705 and now the E Trac. It has been raining a lot here so the ground is overly moist. I popped the Sunray X 12 coil on the ET and went to work in the old baseball diamond. The only reason I know it is one is because of the 5 poles that are at ground level now and I was trying to figure out what was here? Then I saw the very slight almost nonexistant rise at the used to be pitchers mound, the ground level poles used to be the backstop behind home plate. The ET did a very nice job cleaning up what my other machine had left. Behind the backstop and where bleachers should be I picked up several older pennies and a couple of quarters. Then I strolled down what I would call the imaginary baseline then back in reverse on the other side of the baseline. Picked up a few more pennies and two dimes, one dime was in the nine inch range, nice loud and clear. I started searching right next to the diamond an old old concrete walking or running track not over 75 yds around the oval. Decided to put the Sunray X 8 on per this was pretty trashy. As soon as I crossed a very short footbridge across a ditch next to the track a nice high pitched tone and not 3 inches deep is a very nice silver quarter. This place is a dark almost black soil/red clay mix. Ten feet away along the edge of the track I get a real good repeatable signal and hear something else. I watch the depth meter jump from 4 or so inches to 8 or so inches and can't hardly separate the two targets except knowing something else is deeper virtually directly below the top target. I dig a nice older, not silver dime but at 8 or so inches in the same hole is a penny. I ease on and start popping pennies and dimes every five or so minutes. I get back around to the edge of the track where the footbridge is and decide to detect the bank on the ditch. I get a nice signal at 8 inches and its a slightly worn but still readable 1940 wheatie. I realize that the people are following the edge of the ditch and start getting a coin every few feet. Got quite a few dimes and then picked up a a good signal but it pinpointed really screaming which to me usually means something a lot bigger than a coin. I checked it from several directions and got another signal within a hairs width from it. I decided to dig and here's this almost round piece 3 across piece of flat melted lead and just at the edge of it just a few inches deeper is a penny. I'm really amazed at the separation the ET has and am really just coming into my own with how to use it. Got 2 quarters, 9 dimes, 2 wheaties, and a hand full of pennies. What a good Thanksgiving day of digging!
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