12.36 to 12.38 what is it

[sube]

[/img] Went out this weekend to the old ball field I hit last year which was my first hunt last year and again this year , have to get it before the weeds get it. Lots of junk and iron here choose the 6 inch coil like I always do was running at 28 in manual machine in auto said 24 but it ran smooth .
Anyhow most coins were 4 to 8 inches deep the ring was only 3 inches deep token was 2 inches .
So I'm hunting along and get a 12.36 to 12.38 usually 12.38 is always a piece of junk aluminum I don't know how many pieces of crap I have dug that reads 12.38 . But this one was different it was bouncing from 36 to 38 bought ways and the screen had a little meteor shower going on ? so what was it read at 10 inches on the ctx I dug down to 8 inches and could see big silver in the hole oh yea , so I prop it out walker has to be the most wore out 1941 walker I have ever dug in 46 years put the pin pointer back in the hole and it's singing again could not see it because it was a dark coin but it was laying right next to the walker 27 buff .
Goes to show you never know but now I do .
Hope you guys got out sube

 

[Jason in Enid]

Great dig, but heres my question: was it a solid tone or was it a junky, garbled tone? Can you explain the "meteor shower" on the screen? I have walked away from good signals that had target-trace going everywhere and you have me second guessing myself now.

 

[sube]

It was just a little ratty sounding not much, but what was different on the meteor shower was the shower was only happening 2 to 3 lines up and down not all over the screen like a piece of iron with sharp points
This shower was like spots across the screen horizontally only from the nickel area to the half area but 2 to 3 lines up and down .
That's why I dug it was something I just never seen before , and it sounded pretty good . sube

 

[Justme]

I know where one 12/36 is...had to bypass, was in hurry to get home. Will go get it tomorrow

 

[datumx]

That's a funny reading that sure yielded a nice little spill! Congrats!

 

[DICKENS48]

Crap, I have to go back and dig all my junk spots now.

 

[GKMan]

Nice recovery there Sube... When people say the meteor shower I am usually picturing lots of scattered pixels across the screen. I think I have seen that with mostly broken up iron. Is that what you were seeing?

 

[sube]

GKman it was only 2 to 3 lines up and down between nickel and half horizontally across the screen red spots both ways sweeping weird . No cursor in the bottom right iron bin also no other target in the hole .
Just a weird signal , but a nickel and dime well read 12.35 laying next to each other that I have dug in the past and did not have a meteor shower just a solid 12.35 that I thought was a Indian .
Then again it may have been trying to id the nickel then the half at the same time traveling back and forth on the screen . But the curser was locked between 12.36 and 12.38 on the 12 line . sube

 

[trojdor]

Very, very nice, sube. Nice start to the year with that bunch of goodies!

I think it goes to show that the CTX is capable of showing lot more info than most people initially grasp.
And it takes a lot of time and effort to learn it.

I'm constantly amazed when I read on some forums that a guy bought a CTX and tried it for a few weeks, then decided he didn't like it.
A few weeks? That's not even enough time to learn the basics, let alone the intricacies of a complex machine.

(I still had trouble digging false iron signals after a couple months. It probably took me over 100 hrs hunting before I even got comfortable, and I still learn something new every time I hunt. And I've been doing this since 1973.)

Of couse these same guys repeat the same pattern of buy/sell over and over, hoping for the magic 'easy button' detector. One that will somehow (without effort) find the coins that everyone else missed without having to put any real effort into it.

If you want to succeed at this hobby/sport, it takes lots of work, patience and luck.
And when I see a pic of finds like yours, it make me smile, because I know someone else has 'paid their dues' and done/got all three.


mike