I started detecting again Wednesday after the doctor said it would be okay and actually help me mend after a hernia operation.
Wednesday:I was able to get out for about 3 hours this morning. Starting getting tired and sore so quit. I went to the ballfields complex we have here. I am still learning the Omega and like it more all the time. Found a whopping $3.18. Eight quarters, ten dimes, 1 nickel, and 13 penneys. Only 2 penneys were zinc and I knew it before I dug them. I love a 88 reading. The Omega locks on real nice and 88 was always a quarter. Copper penneys are 81 or 82. A 83 to 84 is a dime. I did get a 83 copper but it was on the surface. Nickels seem to hit at 56 or 57. Sadly so does the new tab. I have been running disc at 10 so I still get the iron grunt but it cuts out a lot of the small stuff. I have a long way to go yet and dig junk just to learn more. I found plenty of that but the Omega seems to have pretty good seperation as I found several coins close to junk and got signals from both.
There was 3 teenagers there and we talked for awhile. We were close to the concession stand and one of them said he finds coins quite a bit just laying on the ground. He took his shoe and pushed some sand and durned if he didn't find a dime. After he picked it up I ran my coil over the spot and got an 88 about 2" down. I told him you missed a quarter and dug it. You should have seen the look on his face lol. I showed them how it worked and how the sounds told of different targets. One of them said he was going to get a detector and I told him not get a cheap one and it also took practice to learn one. I suggested he start with a Ace250 or Fisher F2. I also mentioned about leaving a place so no one could tell you were there. Who knows he might actually be serious. I would be glad to help him if he does get one. They were nice kids.
I didn't take my digger today and just used my probe and screwdriver till I heal up some more. I did pass some deeper than 3" targets and will get them when I get stronger. It was nice to just get out and do some detecting again.
Thursday: I got out about 4 hours yesterday and took my digger this time as it rained a good bit wednesday night. I decided to hunt the goalpost area of the football field on the concession stand end. It is a place I have hunted a few times before with the Ace and F4.
I hit one area where the Omega went crazy and wouldn't lock on. It did hit in coin numbers so I pinpointed and got a dime to start. I kept pinpointing and probing up coins. The more coins I got the more stable the numbers. I found over a dollar in coins in about a 2 foot square. A coin spill. I found 2 more spill areas and got more. Close to the goalpost I got a locked on 91 and it pinpointed at 6". I raised the coil thinking it was junk and about 4" off the ground it started to fade. I almost walked off but decided to dig it. I cut a 5"round flap as deep as my digger would go. My digger has a 6" blade. I popped the plug in one chunk and checked it with my pro-pointer. Nothing in the plug. I thought I had probably found a crushed can when I stuck the pinpointer in the hole. It went off and I probed about another 2" and hit something solid. I had found a Kennedy clad half at about 8"! I figure the Omega said it was 6"because of the size.
I found 1 Kennedy half,19 quarters, 28 dimes, 4 nickels and a handful of pennies yesterday for over $8 in change. The Omega was locking solid on most targets unless they were too close together. I think have found the perfect detector for me.
I was surprised at the finds I was getting especially close to the concession stand as it has not been used for several years and I had hunted there before. I had missed a lot of tragets. Most were shallow and i popped with the screwdriver. It does show how you evolve as you get more experience detecting as I am sure the Ace or F4 would have found most of them too. However I don't think the Ace or F4 would have locked as solid on the half as the Omega did. The Omega is giving me more confidence to dig. When it locks it is what it says it is.
Gotta love this kind of therapy. Good for the body and mind.
Friday I went up the road a couple of miles to a small town ballfield I have hit heavily with the F4 and Ace with the sniper coil. I have probably pulled about $15 from there. I wanted to try the Omega in a place I thought I had pretty well hunted out. It wasn't.
I got 11 quarters, 7 dimes, 2 nickels, and 16 pennies. Only 2 coins were new drops. Some of the coins were about 4" down. 1 quarter was at 6" in a spot I knew I have swung my coils over before. Near some new bleachers they had put on a concrete slab I got a 4" 88 reading on the edge of the slab. I dug and hit spilled concrete chunks. I kept pulling chunks and still got a target in there. I was beginning to think I had a phantom target till I pulled another chunk and my pinpointer went silent in the hole. I scanned the chunk and got a hit. I broke the chunk with my trowel and there was a quarter encased in it lol. That was 1 hard target to get.
I am thinking that since I am still trying to learn the Omega I am going slower and listening closer than before when I thought knew my detectors is why I am finding more in spots I hunted previously. I feel my other detectors would have also found these targets too. I just missed them.
I must say the Omega is a pleasure to swing and I love it's tones. I am finding more nickels then I used to. In 4 tone it has it's own tone for nickels.
blacktoe
Wednesday:I was able to get out for about 3 hours this morning. Starting getting tired and sore so quit. I went to the ballfields complex we have here. I am still learning the Omega and like it more all the time. Found a whopping $3.18. Eight quarters, ten dimes, 1 nickel, and 13 penneys. Only 2 penneys were zinc and I knew it before I dug them. I love a 88 reading. The Omega locks on real nice and 88 was always a quarter. Copper penneys are 81 or 82. A 83 to 84 is a dime. I did get a 83 copper but it was on the surface. Nickels seem to hit at 56 or 57. Sadly so does the new tab. I have been running disc at 10 so I still get the iron grunt but it cuts out a lot of the small stuff. I have a long way to go yet and dig junk just to learn more. I found plenty of that but the Omega seems to have pretty good seperation as I found several coins close to junk and got signals from both.
There was 3 teenagers there and we talked for awhile. We were close to the concession stand and one of them said he finds coins quite a bit just laying on the ground. He took his shoe and pushed some sand and durned if he didn't find a dime. After he picked it up I ran my coil over the spot and got an 88 about 2" down. I told him you missed a quarter and dug it. You should have seen the look on his face lol. I showed them how it worked and how the sounds told of different targets. One of them said he was going to get a detector and I told him not get a cheap one and it also took practice to learn one. I suggested he start with a Ace250 or Fisher F2. I also mentioned about leaving a place so no one could tell you were there. Who knows he might actually be serious. I would be glad to help him if he does get one. They were nice kids.
I didn't take my digger today and just used my probe and screwdriver till I heal up some more. I did pass some deeper than 3" targets and will get them when I get stronger. It was nice to just get out and do some detecting again.
Thursday: I got out about 4 hours yesterday and took my digger this time as it rained a good bit wednesday night. I decided to hunt the goalpost area of the football field on the concession stand end. It is a place I have hunted a few times before with the Ace and F4.
I hit one area where the Omega went crazy and wouldn't lock on. It did hit in coin numbers so I pinpointed and got a dime to start. I kept pinpointing and probing up coins. The more coins I got the more stable the numbers. I found over a dollar in coins in about a 2 foot square. A coin spill. I found 2 more spill areas and got more. Close to the goalpost I got a locked on 91 and it pinpointed at 6". I raised the coil thinking it was junk and about 4" off the ground it started to fade. I almost walked off but decided to dig it. I cut a 5"round flap as deep as my digger would go. My digger has a 6" blade. I popped the plug in one chunk and checked it with my pro-pointer. Nothing in the plug. I thought I had probably found a crushed can when I stuck the pinpointer in the hole. It went off and I probed about another 2" and hit something solid. I had found a Kennedy clad half at about 8"! I figure the Omega said it was 6"because of the size.
I found 1 Kennedy half,19 quarters, 28 dimes, 4 nickels and a handful of pennies yesterday for over $8 in change. The Omega was locking solid on most targets unless they were too close together. I think have found the perfect detector for me.
I was surprised at the finds I was getting especially close to the concession stand as it has not been used for several years and I had hunted there before. I had missed a lot of tragets. Most were shallow and i popped with the screwdriver. It does show how you evolve as you get more experience detecting as I am sure the Ace or F4 would have found most of them too. However I don't think the Ace or F4 would have locked as solid on the half as the Omega did. The Omega is giving me more confidence to dig. When it locks it is what it says it is.
Gotta love this kind of therapy. Good for the body and mind.
Friday I went up the road a couple of miles to a small town ballfield I have hit heavily with the F4 and Ace with the sniper coil. I have probably pulled about $15 from there. I wanted to try the Omega in a place I thought I had pretty well hunted out. It wasn't.
I got 11 quarters, 7 dimes, 2 nickels, and 16 pennies. Only 2 coins were new drops. Some of the coins were about 4" down. 1 quarter was at 6" in a spot I knew I have swung my coils over before. Near some new bleachers they had put on a concrete slab I got a 4" 88 reading on the edge of the slab. I dug and hit spilled concrete chunks. I kept pulling chunks and still got a target in there. I was beginning to think I had a phantom target till I pulled another chunk and my pinpointer went silent in the hole. I scanned the chunk and got a hit. I broke the chunk with my trowel and there was a quarter encased in it lol. That was 1 hard target to get.
I am thinking that since I am still trying to learn the Omega I am going slower and listening closer than before when I thought knew my detectors is why I am finding more in spots I hunted previously. I feel my other detectors would have also found these targets too. I just missed them.
I must say the Omega is a pleasure to swing and I love it's tones. I am finding more nickels then I used to. In 4 tone it has it's own tone for nickels.
blacktoe
