2 mercurys

[hatpin]

The last several times Ive been hunting in the wooded area of the local park , I have come up empty . Today I went to the grassy area and cranked the sensitivity of the Vaquero way up . It was at the end of the red line but stable .I was using the stock coil ground balanced slightly negative, threshold to a slight hum , and discriminate on the line just past iron . I found two mercury dimes within a yard of each other and they were quiet . Just barely audible but consistent . They were both 5 to 7 inches deep . Also found a nickle so corroded that it is thin as a dime . No detail on it at all . Even though I was discriminating past iron , it was hitting rusty nails and I dug plenty .

The dimes are 1942 D and 1943 D

 

[LG14k]

Nice finds,still looking for my frist merc .beginners luck I found a 14 K ring three weeks ago.

 

[hatpin]

Nice finds,still looking for my frist merc .beginners luck I found a 14 K ring three weeks ago.

When I first got my Vaquero , I found three pices of gold in the first few months and havent found another piece in three years . You just never know .

 

[kaolinwasher]

those are great finds for a park like that . the thing that makes the Tesoroes shine is the single tone . - I bet the metered machines would have read those mercs as Iron , but the Tesoroes seem to have a edge on that ,

 

[walnut]

The thing that works for me identifying some iron like nails is the way the tone signal scales down linearly as you turn up the disc. A good target might not diminish much as you gradually turn the disc up until they suddenly disc out but the iron sounds usually do.

 

[hatpin]

The thing that works for me identifying some iron like nails is the way the tone signal scales down linearly as you turn up the disc. A good target might not diminish much as you gradually turn the disc up until they suddenly disc out but the iron sounds usually do.

You're correct , I left a lot of those but still dug a lot of them .

 

[hatpin]

those are great finds for a park like that . the thing that makes the Tesoroes shine is the single tone . - I bet the metered machines would have read those mercs as Iron , but the Tesoroes seem to have a edge on that ,

Tones would confuse me . The dimes sounded good , I dont need tones for that . The iron did not sound good but I dug a bunch anyways , just in case I was wrong ID'ing them .

 

[walnut]

Oh absolutely I dig alot of them too along with pull tabs etc.

 

[ToneTime]

Great pair of dimes, the last one I found with the Vaquero was such a soft sound, hardly audible but no harsh sound to it what so ever. I still dig the nails too and afterward I always say to my self that I knew it was a chance on that target being good but almost always know that it was not the same as the coin sound. I definitely have some hours on the Tesoro machines and know they are good single tone machines.