A Couple of night hunts from last week

[CZconnoisseur]

The weather is a bout perfect for evening fairgrounds hunts recently - with temps in the upper 50s to upper 60s. I got out alone last Tuesday night and started off finding some clad, but I was looking for a new hotspot. It took about two hours to come across any signs of "older dirt", and when I found it, I decided to slow and and grid the area as usual.

Hunting in 4 khz is usually the name of the game here since deep iron and small can slaw are the norm. When I got to an area with very little signals, I eliminated N2 which is there to mitigate pulltabs and other small trash. Given the history of the area, and how some coins register...this was a good idea! The first solid hit in 4 khz was a 54-55 and out came a very crusty Indian cent, which took a LOT of work to reveal a date: 1888
Went on to find a 1917 D Wheat at less than an inch deep, but had obviously been buried for a long time. Right at the end I got a fairly jumpy 77-81 and was able to barely snag a silver, a 1964 Rosie! All three coins where within thirty feet of one another

Went back to the fairgrounds a couple nights later and hunted for three hours and managed three Wheats dated 1918, 1920, and 1951 D along with a good deal of trash. Two of these Wheats came from the same area as the previous three coins along with the suspender buckle. Remember digging a couple of cast iron whatsits at 9-10" deep that sounded *almost* like a coin.

The program I was using was set up as such:

4khz (Tx 3)
Sens 80
Disc 2.0
Full tones
Reactivity 3
Silencer -1
Notch 00-27, 92-99 (N2 is normally 40-5
Manual GB = 85

After more about 18 months of using the Deus, and maybe 15 or so months of using v3.2 and Full Tones - this 4khz program is my "Goto" for the worst irony areas as well as places where aluminum is a menace. 4khz is not nearly as sensitive to can slaw and some foil, but coin-sized solid objects like buttons, tokens, and the like are easily identified with this frequency. 4khz Reactivity 3 will pick up copper pennies and clad coins up to 7" deep in moderately clean ground, but reduce Reactivity to 2 and one can get the same-sized targets at 8-9" deep.

For some reason ever since I reloaded v3,2 into my control box 12 khz is clearly the hottest frequency! IF I take the same settings as above and substitute 12 khz for 4 khz (using TX = 2) I can hit 8-9" deep coins in Reactivity 3. Granted, there aren't many targets this deep in most of the areas I've hunted so far, but the targets that ARE there are almost always keepers! Can't wait to see what v4.0 has in store for us!

Tomorrow is RENTAL TIME!!! I need a silver fix in a bad way

 

[mudpuppy]

I really admire anybody that can hunt at night! Thats a remarkable skill! Good Work and great info! Good Luck on that rental!
Mud

 

[beepsilver]

I know what you mean about hunting in challenging ground--that it drives a desire for some "easier" silver! But you do a fantastic job of eking out the goods under terrible conditions. I agree with you about 12K--that's what I use on 90% of my hunts. Sure, some trash sounds very good in 12K--that's why I always check the target in 4K. But I've found that this test doesn't necessarily give 100% accurate results if the target is very deep and/or there's trash/iron present. I don't talk much about 8K and 18K--I've probably only used 18K a handful of times when EMI was terrible. As for 8K, I use it only rarely as another test of 12K targets when 4K is screaming its head off, but I prefer not to test with it because it doesn't provide the VDI (or audio) disparity between freqs like 4 & 12K does. I find it more useful to use 8K as my 2nd alternative program with reactivity 3 / silencer -1 loaded to check targets in trashy or iron-y ground when I suspect reactivity 2 / silencer -1 might be challenged. Another great post with details CZ, thanks!

 

[jim tn]

Taylor, you stuck with it on that old trash pit and it paid off with some oldies. Thats where I got that crusty 2 cent piece and it, too, was only a couple inches deep, but had been there a while. Any good coins from that spot are worked for. HH jim tn

 

[Lodge Scent]

Nice digs and thanks for sharing and explaining your program selections. It's really helps those of us new to the Deus.

 

[Cladiator (OR)]

Nice going CZ. It looks like you worked pretty hard for those goodies. Thanks for the info on your strategy and preferences. I've been typically bouncing between 4K and 8K myself--mostly because the lower freqs penetrate in my ground conditions better and 12K doesn't play nice with my TRX pinpointer (which runs at 12K). Good job and thanks for sharing. ---Clad