CZconnoisseur
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Got out the other night for a little hunt - we had 7-8" of heavy wet snow on Tuesday and by the end of Thursday there was no trace of it! It made the digging MUCH easier and you could feel it just walking on the grass that the ground was nice and soft.
In the first 15 minutes I found a little squeaker of a signal, reading "91-92" in 4kHz in an area that Mike and I have murdered over the last year with several different detectors. I switched to 8kHz and the signal didn't quite sound as good vs 4 kHz - so curiosity got the best of me! At 8" down came a worn 1892 Barber dime and I could see traces of where we'd dug previously for (probably trash LOL) - but these kinds of places will turn up coins sometimes!
It took almost 4 hours to get another good signal! The vast majority of targets after the dime were small, flattened aluminum foil which fools the software into thinking it's a deep coin! However aluminum is a high conductor, and flattened discs of foil about the same size as a coin *would* be hard to distinguish from a copper or silver coin, even gold coins which I believe to be present - it's just a matter of time!
I eventually ended up very close to the car and the ground was getting more chattery walking closer to the edge of the park, and found a very solid "84" right next to some trash (can slaw I found out later). Centered it in the bottom of the hole and thought it was going to be a silver dime, but grabbed in a handful of dirt and passed it in front of the coil - and the Full Tone sound to me was "Quarter!" I saw the stars on the reverse first, then put the coin away to clean at the house - it was late and I had to work the next day.
The ride home when you have undated coins in your pocket always makes me think - "How many years have these been lost?" and things like "What was the person like that dropped these coins?" Will be giving it another go on Monday - the trashy areas are turning up coins so I'll keep it up!
In the first 15 minutes I found a little squeaker of a signal, reading "91-92" in 4kHz in an area that Mike and I have murdered over the last year with several different detectors. I switched to 8kHz and the signal didn't quite sound as good vs 4 kHz - so curiosity got the best of me! At 8" down came a worn 1892 Barber dime and I could see traces of where we'd dug previously for (probably trash LOL) - but these kinds of places will turn up coins sometimes!
It took almost 4 hours to get another good signal! The vast majority of targets after the dime were small, flattened aluminum foil which fools the software into thinking it's a deep coin! However aluminum is a high conductor, and flattened discs of foil about the same size as a coin *would* be hard to distinguish from a copper or silver coin, even gold coins which I believe to be present - it's just a matter of time!
I eventually ended up very close to the car and the ground was getting more chattery walking closer to the edge of the park, and found a very solid "84" right next to some trash (can slaw I found out later). Centered it in the bottom of the hole and thought it was going to be a silver dime, but grabbed in a handful of dirt and passed it in front of the coil - and the Full Tone sound to me was "Quarter!" I saw the stars on the reverse first, then put the coin away to clean at the house - it was late and I had to work the next day.
The ride home when you have undated coins in your pocket always makes me think - "How many years have these been lost?" and things like "What was the person like that dropped these coins?" Will be giving it another go on Monday - the trashy areas are turning up coins so I'll keep it up!
