Darkflight
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This doesn't happen often no matter the brand what have you. But like most people I like the right tool for the job. And I must say for park skimming this is a great little unit.
I had been to this park the day before & was using a small coil on a Discovery 3300(slow recovery machine). It's great for depth in hunted out areas but a chore for a open area with a lot of trash.It's adjacent to an elementary school with 2 ballfields & a few play areas.
So I decided to take my Tracker 4 out with a 10" coil. This coil had sprung a leak when I was wading & I dried & re-sealed it.I don't know why but it doesn't do well on my Discovery since then-but the 7" did. And on the Tracker 4 the 10" coil works just fine so I just swapped them around.
Today was its first test in a, park setting & boy howdy it did well. Fairly low coin count but I found a grass strip adjacent to a play area/ballfield that had all these rings!. 1st was the Cub scout BSA ring. It's an oldie from 40's to 50's according to an E-bay auction on an identical ring. Zinc tone but good all metal & sounded deep. I dig all repeatable tones & a lot of the thin silver rings will sound off as zincs. In this case the band is split on the Cub ring so that is why it rang low.
The next was a thin silver/Black Hills gold ring. Then the Peace ring(my youngest daughter has claimed it)...And the rest were junkers but hey-6 in a 2 hour hunt is not bad. And then the kids were being let out of class to play. I decided not to press my luck & try it when it was less crowded-I have a doggie with me & its like being the pied piper sometimes with kids.
So yeah I'm headed back...I've only hit about 1/3 of the prime areas...
I had been to this park the day before & was using a small coil on a Discovery 3300(slow recovery machine). It's great for depth in hunted out areas but a chore for a open area with a lot of trash.It's adjacent to an elementary school with 2 ballfields & a few play areas.
So I decided to take my Tracker 4 out with a 10" coil. This coil had sprung a leak when I was wading & I dried & re-sealed it.I don't know why but it doesn't do well on my Discovery since then-but the 7" did. And on the Tracker 4 the 10" coil works just fine so I just swapped them around.
Today was its first test in a, park setting & boy howdy it did well. Fairly low coin count but I found a grass strip adjacent to a play area/ballfield that had all these rings!. 1st was the Cub scout BSA ring. It's an oldie from 40's to 50's according to an E-bay auction on an identical ring. Zinc tone but good all metal & sounded deep. I dig all repeatable tones & a lot of the thin silver rings will sound off as zincs. In this case the band is split on the Cub ring so that is why it rang low.
The next was a thin silver/Black Hills gold ring. Then the Peace ring(my youngest daughter has claimed it)...And the rest were junkers but hey-6 in a 2 hour hunt is not bad. And then the kids were being let out of class to play. I decided not to press my luck & try it when it was less crowded-I have a doggie with me & its like being the pied piper sometimes with kids.
So yeah I'm headed back...I've only hit about 1/3 of the prime areas...