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Made it out yesterday on a cold, windy, and cloudy day to an older city park built in 1901. I had good intentions on hitting a few rentals, did some research on the newest-listed rentals and had a couple that dated back to the 1910s and 1920s, but wasn't able to secure permission on ANYTHING yesterday after five attempts! One manager had to "check with the owner" and another two rental agencies flat out said "No!" - but these had the oldest houses.
But all was not lost - after driving around for more than an hour I ended up in Overton Park and started with the usual 12 khz "rental program", but dropped reactivity to 2 for deeper targets. The first target was SILVER! in the form of a round hollow ornamental ball, Next came a deeper clad dime, and it was an hour before I got over the next coin indication using 4 khz after digging much aluminum trash. It was next to a large tree root and it read "79-83", jumping around somewhat. This was to be the only silver coin of the hunt, a worn 1918 S Merc, but ANY silver is welcome!
Right after I found the Merc, I ran into a fellow local detectorist and we decided to stay in the general area where the dime was found. He located a nice silver medallion practically on the surface, and then I came across a 1901 Indian cent not 10 feet from where the Merc was found. We stayed at it for about 3 hours or so, occasionally finding Wheats but most of what I dug today was trash with some copper wire mixed in.
While in 4 khz I got over a solid "73-75" signal which had some depth, and after some effort a 1901 United Confederate Veterans 11th Reunion button came to light! This park didn't give up its old items without a fight, as most deeper targets were underneath one or more large roots.
I filmed many of yesterday's digs but the quality is not as good as the last video - need to get out more and practice! See it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe698H0siGY&edit=vd
But all was not lost - after driving around for more than an hour I ended up in Overton Park and started with the usual 12 khz "rental program", but dropped reactivity to 2 for deeper targets. The first target was SILVER! in the form of a round hollow ornamental ball, Next came a deeper clad dime, and it was an hour before I got over the next coin indication using 4 khz after digging much aluminum trash. It was next to a large tree root and it read "79-83", jumping around somewhat. This was to be the only silver coin of the hunt, a worn 1918 S Merc, but ANY silver is welcome!
Right after I found the Merc, I ran into a fellow local detectorist and we decided to stay in the general area where the dime was found. He located a nice silver medallion practically on the surface, and then I came across a 1901 Indian cent not 10 feet from where the Merc was found. We stayed at it for about 3 hours or so, occasionally finding Wheats but most of what I dug today was trash with some copper wire mixed in.
While in 4 khz I got over a solid "73-75" signal which had some depth, and after some effort a 1901 United Confederate Veterans 11th Reunion button came to light! This park didn't give up its old items without a fight, as most deeper targets were underneath one or more large roots.
I filmed many of yesterday's digs but the quality is not as good as the last video - need to get out more and practice! See it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe698H0siGY&edit=vd
HH jim tn
