I was on my way to the park at Kingston when I passed some timbered acreage beside the road, between the road and the RR. I noticed a truck there so I turned around. I thought I had seen someone in the back detecting. It was Elmer and his beagle. Elmer is an old Marine and one og the "good guys". I hadn't hunted with Elmer in a couple of years and he said, in fact, due to his health and his mom dying in Shreveport last year, he hadn't been detecting since 2009. I was glad to see him. He had been over to Kingston to the militaria shop to drop off an Enfield rifle for some fixin' up. We hunted a little while. He found a bit of lead but nothing else. He only hunted for about an hour. After he left I continued to hunt. The property has a really old stone foundation on site with a deep and wide hand dug well with some nice old stonework around the top... but the people who lived there must never have taken the trash to the dump. I have never seen so many old rusted cans and bottles in my life, small sheets of rusted metal and big sheets... bedsprings... just trash everywhere, especially behind the house in an area of about 2000 sq ft. I did find a wheat penny in what looked to be the old road leading up to the house. I pretty much split my time there between the F75 LTD with the 11" coil and the Tejon w/5.75 DD. I used the E-TRAC with Pro coil for about 15 minutes and found the penny.
My friend Roy showed up midafternoon and we headed down across the timbered land, away from the home site and the ground was amazingly clean but really hot. Ground balance on the F75 stayed around 75. I used the Tejon in the cleaner ground away from the homesite and I found a couple of broken horseshoes with it. I found a harness ring with the LTD.
We decided to go on down to the park. I mostly used the V3 there. Roy had a new SEF 6x8 and man... it is really great on the V3.. light and stable even if I didn't find anything good. I found a little piece of lead about 1/4" across and about 1" long, it was fairly flat. The 6x8 was giving me an number in the 50s along with some iron, I still had to wiggle it in. When I finally got it dug it was exactly the depth of the length of the Lesche blade. I really, really like the 6x8 SEF on the V3. It is the best coil i've used on it... at least I think that so far.
That was "IT" for me... for a full 8hours of hunting. Roy had a great day for this particular park. He dug a nice soildbase carbine bullet, a .58 cal 3-ringer, a lead RR baggage claim tag, and two old buckshot...
I plan on going back today to try working around the old homesite with the the V3 and the 4x6 coil and maybe the LTD with the 5" coil.
I rarely have two bad days in a row... wish me luck. Going to clean the kitchen and head out now... to clean out the park and hopefully find something at that homesite beside a screwcap and a pullring. FWIW, I didn't find a single squaretab there only the older pullrings so with all the trash, it holds promise. Hardee's corp and all of Shermans hoard, excepting Schofield fought their way over this land... all the way from Kingston to Cassville. Gotta be a buckle or a breastplate there. I'm thinking about lowering a magnet down into the well water just to see what it pulls up. Have you ever tried this? I have not.
Before I go I am going to call Kellyco and order 2 6x8 SEF coils. One for the V3 and one for the E-TRAC...
J
My friend Roy showed up midafternoon and we headed down across the timbered land, away from the home site and the ground was amazingly clean but really hot. Ground balance on the F75 stayed around 75. I used the Tejon in the cleaner ground away from the homesite and I found a couple of broken horseshoes with it. I found a harness ring with the LTD.
We decided to go on down to the park. I mostly used the V3 there. Roy had a new SEF 6x8 and man... it is really great on the V3.. light and stable even if I didn't find anything good. I found a little piece of lead about 1/4" across and about 1" long, it was fairly flat. The 6x8 was giving me an number in the 50s along with some iron, I still had to wiggle it in. When I finally got it dug it was exactly the depth of the length of the Lesche blade. I really, really like the 6x8 SEF on the V3. It is the best coil i've used on it... at least I think that so far.
That was "IT" for me... for a full 8hours of hunting. Roy had a great day for this particular park. He dug a nice soildbase carbine bullet, a .58 cal 3-ringer, a lead RR baggage claim tag, and two old buckshot...
I plan on going back today to try working around the old homesite with the the V3 and the 4x6 coil and maybe the LTD with the 5" coil.
I rarely have two bad days in a row... wish me luck. Going to clean the kitchen and head out now... to clean out the park and hopefully find something at that homesite beside a screwcap and a pullring. FWIW, I didn't find a single squaretab there only the older pullrings so with all the trash, it holds promise. Hardee's corp and all of Shermans hoard, excepting Schofield fought their way over this land... all the way from Kingston to Cassville. Gotta be a buckle or a breastplate there. I'm thinking about lowering a magnet down into the well water just to see what it pulls up. Have you ever tried this? I have not.
Before I go I am going to call Kellyco and order 2 6x8 SEF coils. One for the V3 and one for the E-TRAC...
J
