6 Silver dimes, 4 wheaties, 3 hours, trashy park

[TexanWest]

Back at my same old Park for about 3 hours today. This place has so much trash.. I finally decided to begin digging all the screw caps that I could. All of these silvers were in the same hole with or next to screw caps. There were no coins sitting alone.

1893 Barber, 1902 Barber, 2 Mercs, 2 Rosies, 4 wheaties, along with other coins. Unfortunately no old nickels.

You know when all the quarters are gone that the park has been hunted heavily with machines that seek out the silver.

I hunt my own trashy Park program on 12 kHz with ID Norm.

Discrimination 10
Full tones
Sensitivity 75
TX Power 1
Iron volume 0
Reactivity 3
Silencer 1
Audio response 6
Audio overload 1
Notch 10-58, and 65-88 (gets rid of zinc, but I lose Indians)

If you want jewelry, don't use my notches. Nothing here goes past 7 inches, this goes that deep. I set my ground a couple points higher than actual ground to get rid of chatter.

I may come back next weekend? LOL

 

[beepsilver]

Wow, that was a stellar hunt! Nice job playing hide and seek with the screw caps and thanks for the program details--look forward to more Texan!

 

[Sleepyjim]

Nice bounty Jim!

Your getting to many outta that park I may need to send our friends wife up there to slow you down!



Jim

 

[TexanWest]

Wow, that was a stellar hunt! Nice job playing hide and seek with the screw caps and thanks for the program details--look forward to more Texan!

From what I could tell from today's hunt, I'm guessing that most detectorists probably got frustrated with the amount of trash. Even hunting slow and circling my targets trying to isolate a signal I was challenged. My first coin of the day was that 1893 Barber. There was a bounce to the signal and my bottle-cap program didn't help. It only had a light 92 signal from one angle so I gambled and decided to dig the loud signals first. It worked..

So I decided to dig my bouncing high signals that previously I had considered to be trash. I learned that they were mixed / averaged signals. From that point on I was excited by high tones that bounced 91-94 (screw caps are about 94, my silver dimes were 91-92) Quarters in silver would be 94, I didn't get any quarters.

The Deus is killing my regret of trashy Park hunts. People hunt that Park every week, but they can't get a signal next to piece of trash, the Deus can.

 

[TexanWest]

Damn Jim! I nearly choked , warn me next time

Yes, Vickie would slow my pace, Mark too. He's on a diet by the way. They can't operate on his cancer until he loses 100 pounds.

Don't work too hard. Text me your number again. My contacts didn't all transfer to my new phone.

 

[CZconnoisseur]

That looks like a fine program - trashy places are generally where I gravitate towards with the Deus!!! Most people avoid these places like the plague! Zinc and Indian cents will ID very close to one another - there isn't a good way to tell them apart and sometimes I've found Indians will ID lower than a zinc cent, right around the pulltab range. Every now and then deeper nickels will ID like Indian or zinc cents for some reason...if you've done that well at this park it would pay to dig more trash...gold coins are undoubtedly waiting to be discovered!

 

[mudpuppy]

Congratulations on an outstanding hunt! Hey, this is a great post too...you really thought your way through this trash hunting and it paid off...those are some old coins, I think CZ is on to something about the possibility of a gold coin being in there...it might be in with a spill of some other coins and is really masked or averaged out..sounding like real junk..good job there TW!
Mud.

 

[squirrel1]

Very good post and info. Texan I would wear that site out. I probably would try reactivity setting 4 too. The key piece of info you have supplied that other maybe no so experienced dues users should heed is. Go slow. The deus is like a knife with the faster recovery settings and when swept real slow the audio becomes more intelligible.'
I notice if swept too fast a lot of times the deus will give low tone or blip when coil comes over a good coin. When I hear these I resweep multiple times and sometimes from multiple angles. The deus weight makes this easy. A far as coil sweep technique goes. It's a lot easier to maintain a good sweep and it's easier to vary sweep with the ergonomically superior deus. T

 

[TexanWest]

I didn't want to increase my reactivity because I didn't want to give up more depth than I already was. Once I decided to go after screw caps and pull tabs, everything fell into place. It could also be noted that I swing extremely slow in trash, and that by removing the offensive targets that a quicker recovery speed wouldn't probably help.

This park is fairly small. I've hit it in a grid pattern, North / South, then East /West. I'm intentionally not digging anything but coin signals. When I get chatter from "edge of notch" signals I go to Basic 1 to see what is there. (my body can only get up and down so many times, I can hardly walk after hunting a few hours, the old injuries take it out of me)

I think my method works? The park people have said that 2-3 guys hunt there every week and have for years. I've taken several people to hunt there and nobody could find anything other than trash or zinc pennies. Mostly I think the trash in the grass keeps the good targets hidden

My tally from this park is 18 Silvers, a huge pile of copper, over 50 wheaties, a few Buffalo and war nickels, some jewelry. Lots of trash.

Anybody else is invited to hunt here, I don't keep it secret. Just be slow, patient, and listen closely. The good stuff is still available. I have one more section to hunt, about 100 x 300 ft. That section will take me at least 2 weekends unless I can get Sleepy Jim to hunt it with me.

Thanks for the great feedback.