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Started off tonight in the backyard of the rental house which I visited yesterday - and things are looking promising already! I wanted to post the details of this hunt while they are still fresh. Fired up the Deus in "4K silver" program but notched 00-32 so I could still hit nickels. Started in Reactivity of 3 and Silencer of 0 but didn't get anything at all for the first 10 minutes. Switched reactivity to 2, silencer to 0 thinking coins may be deeper - turns out this was the case for many of tonight's finds.
Didn't dig too much trash on this hunt either, which is a welcome break from the sheer junk found at a lot of these houses! So, in Reactivity of 2 and notch at 00-32 I first got a "66" which was medium strength - turned up a Wheat at 5" Got a little closer to a tree and received a faint signal which didn't even register any VDI. AHA! Dug down probably 6" to get an oddball aluminum token which has "25" stamped onto one side. Board game money? Got a little stronger signal nearby, a "70" on the fringe of VDI range and found a larger aluminum token, with "50" stamped on that one. Very interesting! Not what I was expecting!
I'm in the right spot, so I overlap swings and work a grid...a beautiful 1925 Buffalo came up from 7" - VDI was noncommittal at 40-60 - but the AUDIO said "Dig me!" Then a sharp "84" comes blaring over the phones...a shallow clad quarter now is in my pocket. Things are running along smoothly in the first hour of the hunt, but then it starts raining. Then it gets heavier, and for some reason the mosquitoes intensified and found every patch of skin I missed with the bugspray. It started to get really adverse, and I almost cut it short after an hour, but the rain was short-lived and I reapplied the juice. Bleccchhh....
Then I get an oddball high toned target that couldn't quite settle on any number - it was hitting "79-88" and wouldn't sit still. Found a green 1926 D Wheat about 3" deep, and then rescanned to get this medium-strength "87". This was another "AHA!" moment, and I knew what those numbers mean...SILVER! From 6" down out popped the lovely 1957 quarter which was almost directly beneath the green Wheatie - it's signals like this that I want to remember on future hunts...rather than writing something like this off in the field - I find that investigating it is the only means of closure! I've passed up targets like this before, only to go back at some point and try to remember where that "funny signal" was on someone's yard - and a lot of the time it's something co-located whether it be a nickel and a dime together, or a coin and a large steel bolt - most of the time if the Deus gives any kind of inkling of a repeatable tone, it's most likely something you want to dig. Running 4 kHz really makes that decision easy compared to using other freqs, moreso when the targets are DEEP!
The last 30 minutes of the hunt I came across a couple more oddball tokens, one very large coin which was a solid "78" at 6" down. This one sounded exactly like a silver dime, but the coin is larger than a half dollar! One "70" target was a mangled aluminum coin- possibly a bank token. Another odd find was a 1943 Three Pence piece...you really never know what will turn up in these yards...that's what keeps me going back despite the bugs and humidity. Right near the end I got a shallow "41" that wouldn't budge, and it didn't quite sound like a pulltab. It had more of a "round sound" that we all want to hear! This turned out to be silver, however; a 1943 S war nickel - very worn! Was kinda hoping for gold (where is it???), but an excellent coin nonetheless!
Still have about 60% of the backyard left to hunt - but this rain is going to have to slack off at some point. I used the WS5 phones in the rain, without any kind of issue, and the control box is in an Iphone case strapped to my left arm. The case stays dry and have never had any problems hunting while raining with this setup! May not get back to that yard till Fri or Sat night but we shall see!
Didn't dig too much trash on this hunt either, which is a welcome break from the sheer junk found at a lot of these houses! So, in Reactivity of 2 and notch at 00-32 I first got a "66" which was medium strength - turned up a Wheat at 5" Got a little closer to a tree and received a faint signal which didn't even register any VDI. AHA! Dug down probably 6" to get an oddball aluminum token which has "25" stamped onto one side. Board game money? Got a little stronger signal nearby, a "70" on the fringe of VDI range and found a larger aluminum token, with "50" stamped on that one. Very interesting! Not what I was expecting!
I'm in the right spot, so I overlap swings and work a grid...a beautiful 1925 Buffalo came up from 7" - VDI was noncommittal at 40-60 - but the AUDIO said "Dig me!" Then a sharp "84" comes blaring over the phones...a shallow clad quarter now is in my pocket. Things are running along smoothly in the first hour of the hunt, but then it starts raining. Then it gets heavier, and for some reason the mosquitoes intensified and found every patch of skin I missed with the bugspray. It started to get really adverse, and I almost cut it short after an hour, but the rain was short-lived and I reapplied the juice. Bleccchhh....
Then I get an oddball high toned target that couldn't quite settle on any number - it was hitting "79-88" and wouldn't sit still. Found a green 1926 D Wheat about 3" deep, and then rescanned to get this medium-strength "87". This was another "AHA!" moment, and I knew what those numbers mean...SILVER! From 6" down out popped the lovely 1957 quarter which was almost directly beneath the green Wheatie - it's signals like this that I want to remember on future hunts...rather than writing something like this off in the field - I find that investigating it is the only means of closure! I've passed up targets like this before, only to go back at some point and try to remember where that "funny signal" was on someone's yard - and a lot of the time it's something co-located whether it be a nickel and a dime together, or a coin and a large steel bolt - most of the time if the Deus gives any kind of inkling of a repeatable tone, it's most likely something you want to dig. Running 4 kHz really makes that decision easy compared to using other freqs, moreso when the targets are DEEP!
The last 30 minutes of the hunt I came across a couple more oddball tokens, one very large coin which was a solid "78" at 6" down. This one sounded exactly like a silver dime, but the coin is larger than a half dollar! One "70" target was a mangled aluminum coin- possibly a bank token. Another odd find was a 1943 Three Pence piece...you really never know what will turn up in these yards...that's what keeps me going back despite the bugs and humidity. Right near the end I got a shallow "41" that wouldn't budge, and it didn't quite sound like a pulltab. It had more of a "round sound" that we all want to hear! This turned out to be silver, however; a 1943 S war nickel - very worn! Was kinda hoping for gold (where is it???), but an excellent coin nonetheless!
Still have about 60% of the backyard left to hunt - but this rain is going to have to slack off at some point. I used the WS5 phones in the rain, without any kind of issue, and the control box is in an Iphone case strapped to my left arm. The case stays dry and have never had any problems hunting while raining with this setup! May not get back to that yard till Fri or Sat night but we shall see!
Thanks for sharing your "aha moment". Congrats.
