#6 silver coin for the year...

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A good year for me in silver coins is 6...got that many this month already.
Been experimenting with different techniques to find very masked targets in my difficult soil, found many that work but the more I practice all of them the better I get.
Yesterday I was in all metal, big coil on the F70, sense at 80, thresh at 5 and SL speed...a little lower than maxed out settings that I usually use.
Moving the coil very slow, painfully slow, but got a hint of a high tone high conductor doing it this way.
Dug down hoping for a wheatie but a clean dime came up instead and I knew it was silver immediately.
This was in an area next to a sidewalk that I know for sure I have hit several times over the years with different detectors and coils so that makes it even sweeter.
One year older than me and in better shape.

 

[BillF]

I love to go to untouched yards but those are few and far between so I spend a ton of time in super trashy heavily hunted areas. All metal, very slow, listening carefully through the noise. As you've proven, it pays off.
Keep it up!

 

[metalfun]

Great Job!!! I didn't realize we were the same age I was born in March of 55.Looks like you're off to a great silver year.I've not been able to hunt for some time due to lower back pain.HH

 

[BillF]

November 1955 here.

 

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There you go,your on a roll, Was the high tone both ways ????? ------after1--------

 

[Ed Steinhoff]

As soon as the ground thaws I intend to try these settings at a local park that always gives up plenty of clad and an occasional wheat but never any silver. Local hunters have told me "na there is no silver there" I know better, just have to find the right combo to hit them!
Always enjoy your posts with great interest. Don't ever stop posting the details like settings, etc.
HHS Ed in co.

 

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There you go,your on a roll, Was the high tone both ways ????? ------after1--------

Kinda weird...high tone or pretty solid all metal tone most of the time, numbers in the 80's into the low 90's which is normal around here on most coins, but it kept dropping and popping up about 6-8 numbers.
It stayed high most of the time and I learned that is my cue to dig in this crazy soil because more often then not there will be a good target somewhere in the hole.
An iron target would false up into this level but drop more to iron.

Nothing is solid past 1-2" here, I have dug a lot of wheaties, Indians, old nickels and silver dimes that other missed because I slowly realized the good stuff deep will not act normal.
I still get fooled by iron and can slaw from time to time but if the target acts like this and is 4" or deeper I dig them and it has been fruitful.

 

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As soon as the ground thaws I intend to try these settings at a local park that always gives up plenty of clad and an occasional wheat but never any silver. Local hunters have told me "na there is no silver there" I know better, just have to find the right combo to hit them!
Always enjoy your posts with great interest. Don't ever stop posting the details like settings, etc.
HHS Ed in co.

Happy to post all my mad scientist ramblings from my experimental results.
All kinds of things have bern working for me but I have used these settings for the last few hunts and have dug several wheats, older copper Lincolns and other modern clad that has been really masked that I missed in a few lawns I hunt almost every day.
The key to his is extremely slow movements of he coil like 6 seconds to travel one foot.
I believe the long scanning field on my 12" coil helps more than hurts.
The iron is everywhere but the trash is not that bad where I am finding most of these so having more than one target under the coil isn't a huge problem for now.
I will eventually switch to the smaller DD sniper coil and see if I can isolate more good targets and if it might be a little more stable and easier to notice them.