Hey Everyone,
Recently have been getting out more than posting and am still behind with documentation. Hopefully over the next week or so I can catch up some...
Am going to try and keep the post finds in order of date found.
The first group came from an old apartment building that I really wanted to check a few years back but was inhabited. Recently it became empty.
Happened to run into the person taking care of the property and acquired permission.
Shortly after starting to detect with my GTI 2500 and some new regular batteries (normally use rechargeable) the machine went wonky on me.
Messed around with it for over a half hour and nothing....just blarhahblarhablarhh.
Originally bought used 4 years ago this is the first time that it behaved in this manner and up to now didn't think to have a backup.
Reset wouldn't work and best to my knowledge it's a frequency issue. Have yet to call Garrett about a troubleshoot.
Next day put the rechargeable back in and it worked fine to which I raced back to try again knowing these detecting windows sometimes don't last long or someone else might also have the same idea.
The silver dime was the second to last target found as darkness fell.
The next set of pics came from a yard where my dad stopped at a garage sale, got permission and thought something good might be hiding at. We arranged to meet there a few days later.
It did look promising...were it 25 years ago.
It was a very obvious old house without a fence on the corner of a very busy road...hard to be overlooked...then to find the brass elephant in the middle of the yard confirming the metaphor for me.
The good was that got to get out with dad again. These days he has very limited mobility so he let me hunt the front first and pick up all the pennies, then went behind me with
his ancient machine to see how many I missed. 3 or 4. He got to show me the metal detecting metaphorical elephant of sorts in that almost no one no matter the detector can get everything in one go.
That made him feel good...me too.
Enjoy the pics and HH!
Recently have been getting out more than posting and am still behind with documentation. Hopefully over the next week or so I can catch up some...
Am going to try and keep the post finds in order of date found.
The first group came from an old apartment building that I really wanted to check a few years back but was inhabited. Recently it became empty.
Happened to run into the person taking care of the property and acquired permission.
Shortly after starting to detect with my GTI 2500 and some new regular batteries (normally use rechargeable) the machine went wonky on me.
Messed around with it for over a half hour and nothing....just blarhahblarhablarhh.
Originally bought used 4 years ago this is the first time that it behaved in this manner and up to now didn't think to have a backup.
Reset wouldn't work and best to my knowledge it's a frequency issue. Have yet to call Garrett about a troubleshoot.
Next day put the rechargeable back in and it worked fine to which I raced back to try again knowing these detecting windows sometimes don't last long or someone else might also have the same idea.
The silver dime was the second to last target found as darkness fell.
The next set of pics came from a yard where my dad stopped at a garage sale, got permission and thought something good might be hiding at. We arranged to meet there a few days later.
It did look promising...were it 25 years ago.
It was a very obvious old house without a fence on the corner of a very busy road...hard to be overlooked...then to find the brass elephant in the middle of the yard confirming the metaphor for me.
The good was that got to get out with dad again. These days he has very limited mobility so he let me hunt the front first and pick up all the pennies, then went behind me with
his ancient machine to see how many I missed. 3 or 4. He got to show me the metal detecting metaphorical elephant of sorts in that almost no one no matter the detector can get everything in one go.
That made him feel good...me too.
Enjoy the pics and HH!
