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Took the Deus out today for about 9 hours total to a place I've never visited before. This place has a LOT of history from likely before the Civil War, and today it serves as a park and part-time golf course. It was about 80*F and windy today, almost perfect weather to hunt! Hunted again with Tabman who usually posts on the Fisher and Tesoro forums - both of us scored about the same amount of goodies when it was all said and done.
We started off at one end of the park and he hit a Wheat in the first 20 minutes, followed by a 3-ringer. I had the Deus in 12 kHz all day long, and today I learned a lot about the VDI for that frequency. I dug a mountain of trash - all types of screwcaps, pulltabs, bottlecaps, you name it - I found it! 12 kHz really likes those small caliber bullets - and the audio to me sounds almost exactly like a deep coin especially if the bullet is jacketed. The screwcaps were especially troublesome since the smashed ones sound almost like a zincoln and also ring up close to where a .54 cal 3-ringer registers.
We started at 815 or so, and at noon I had to run home and grab my charging clip...for some some reason after only 4 hours the coil was almost drained. Didn't anticipate this so I lost about an hour of daylight, and am wondering if the battery is starting to go out - sure hope not!
After most of the day of digging trash I increased the notch to blank out tabs and most screwcaps. Many nickels signals turned out to the beavertails and/or round pulltabs - so for the last 2 hours of the hunt I notched it all from 00-75 and 97-99 trying to find those high tones! This set me up for a lot of swinging, and the 3-liter screwcaps along with some wine-bottle screwcaps still made it through. Didn't want to notch any higher since Indians and 3-ringer would go by the wayside, and I would venture to guess that the scores of people who've hunted this place over the last 50 years most likely picked out most of the silver, leaving a few copper pennies for the more patient hunters! Near the end I got a solid "77" next to a large oak tree and thought I was going after a 3-ringer. The signal locked on and wouldn't budge from "77", while screwcaps and 3-ringers usually jump around a bit. Christopher L. "Doc" Hottum ran a saloon in the 1890s in Memphis and the token looks like either a 5-cent or 25-cent type. There is a "5" near the bottom of the token, but I can't see if there is a "2" preceding it - it's pretty toasty!
I will have to return to this place and wade through the aluminum again in search of the elusive silver coins that still remain! The park is so large that you don't have to worry about it ever being hunted out - EMI is non existent, but I doubt I would hunt it in 4 kHz since 12 kHz will give an edge on the smaller, deeper targets as evidenced by the bullets and "cut" coins!
GL & HH
We started off at one end of the park and he hit a Wheat in the first 20 minutes, followed by a 3-ringer. I had the Deus in 12 kHz all day long, and today I learned a lot about the VDI for that frequency. I dug a mountain of trash - all types of screwcaps, pulltabs, bottlecaps, you name it - I found it! 12 kHz really likes those small caliber bullets - and the audio to me sounds almost exactly like a deep coin especially if the bullet is jacketed. The screwcaps were especially troublesome since the smashed ones sound almost like a zincoln and also ring up close to where a .54 cal 3-ringer registers.
We started at 815 or so, and at noon I had to run home and grab my charging clip...for some some reason after only 4 hours the coil was almost drained. Didn't anticipate this so I lost about an hour of daylight, and am wondering if the battery is starting to go out - sure hope not!
After most of the day of digging trash I increased the notch to blank out tabs and most screwcaps. Many nickels signals turned out to the beavertails and/or round pulltabs - so for the last 2 hours of the hunt I notched it all from 00-75 and 97-99 trying to find those high tones! This set me up for a lot of swinging, and the 3-liter screwcaps along with some wine-bottle screwcaps still made it through. Didn't want to notch any higher since Indians and 3-ringer would go by the wayside, and I would venture to guess that the scores of people who've hunted this place over the last 50 years most likely picked out most of the silver, leaving a few copper pennies for the more patient hunters! Near the end I got a solid "77" next to a large oak tree and thought I was going after a 3-ringer. The signal locked on and wouldn't budge from "77", while screwcaps and 3-ringers usually jump around a bit. Christopher L. "Doc" Hottum ran a saloon in the 1890s in Memphis and the token looks like either a 5-cent or 25-cent type. There is a "5" near the bottom of the token, but I can't see if there is a "2" preceding it - it's pretty toasty!
I will have to return to this place and wade through the aluminum again in search of the elusive silver coins that still remain! The park is so large that you don't have to worry about it ever being hunted out - EMI is non existent, but I doubt I would hunt it in 4 kHz since 12 kHz will give an edge on the smaller, deeper targets as evidenced by the bullets and "cut" coins!
GL & HH
That old toasted nickel that I found turned out to be a 1911 V-Nickel. When the weather cools some and we get a little rain, we can wear that place out. That location has been mostly 'cherry picked', but I bet there are some really good targets that are masked waiting for us to find.