Got out for a very rewarding hunt tonight. A nice 3 hours right up until it was too dark to see in the hole. lol
It wasn't rewarding because I found double digit silver numbers or a keeper pocket full of Barbers and Indians.
It was fun because I decided to revisit a small park that I hunted two weeks after I got my new machine last August.
I have to admit, once I bought the Minelab... I figured all I would have to do is go to the park and hold my
pocket open for the silver to jump out of the ground.lol
Of coursed I quickly realized this wasn't going to happen. My last visit to the park gave up nothing but clad.
Tonight I decided to revisit this park and throw a better skill set at it and see what came up. I hunted the same area
as I did last August.
For this hunt I also chose to deviate from some of my 'set and forget' settings. Up to this point, I have only adjusted sensitivity when needed as well
as adjustments to the Iron Mask.
Gain and Variability were notched up tonight. Gain was bumped up from 8 to 10 and Variability I moved from 8 to 10. I didn't like
the high tone with Variability at 10 so I backed it down to 9. What a huge difference these settings made for my decision to dig targets.
Iron became much more obvious and coins beyond the clad layer really stood out for me.
So with more hours behind the machine and the newly adjusted settings, I was able to find keepers from
an area of a park that gave me nothing on my previous visit.
A bonus find. It's the size of a quarter.
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Looks like someone didn't like our buddy Chester 
lol
Originally Posted by dave in iowa link=topic=5516.msg65799#msg65799 date=1303450592
Todays hunt was at a much, much smaller park. 
Very nicely done Joe! thumbsup01
