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1890's park gives up more old silver through the trash

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Ohio Digger

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrxwznzVeGo

Headed out to the old park (1890's) and decided to hit an area I had quickly gone over with my DFX in the spring. It had rained about a 1/2" the night before and had been rain off and on all morning. I got there about 1pm and only had a few hours to swing. No sooner did I start and I had to take cover in the nearby pavilion due to some lingering rain that didn't want to quit. Once the rain finally stopped I got back out. I had a nice dime signal on the Etrac about 4" and figured it was going to be clad. Ended up being a nice 1901 Barber dime. Pulled several wheats and a couple Mercs from the area too. There's still more ground to be covered but it was too sloppy and I ran out of time. I think I missed the Barber with the DFX either because I had the 8x6 on the DFX and didn't have a tight enough swing pattern or it was masked by trash. The area the Barber came from is very trashy. At 4" I would think someone would have found it over the years but I'm pretty certain the trash hid it well. It seems like everytime I feel like I'm not finding anything, I slow my swing way down and BOOM! Some people swear by the CTX but I'm sticking with the Etrac for now. What an absolutely incredible machine. Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you like the video(s). HH
 
Congrats on the silver. I noticed the samething on the sweep speed. I find myself speeding up and not finding anything. Then like you force the speed to a creep and bam. There is something to be said about going slow.
 
Yep, it's like a woman. Try to go too fast and you won't get anything :laugh:
 
Seen it many times ...I think when a lot of people hit a junkie area and their machines start nulling out - they just walk away and try to find clean ground.

As you know ... if you slow way down and crawl through junkie site with a small coil and you can pick out the good targets.

I hunted a site where a church was torn down in the 1930's.
Never found any coins in the open area's - they were already dug buy others in the past.

I hunted the heavy iron areas close to the church with a 6" Excellerator coil - in 2TF - really slow - standing still - only taking one step at a time.
After several hunts in the heavy iron I ended up finding ( 17 ) 1800's dated coins ( Capped Bust, Seated, Shield, Indians ) jewelry, keys, etc. that the others had missed.
The iron was so heavy that I pulled half a dozen or more nails out of each hole to get to the coins.

This type of hunting takes a lot of patience - but it can really pay off !
 
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