I haven't had the Gold Bug out for awhile, so I grab it and the 10 inch DD coil and headed out to a local sports field. The 10 inch DD coil is amazing. It has excellent separation, good depth, easy to swing and covers a lot of ground with each sweep. For the first 30 minutes or so, I was digging pretty much every solid hit. The zinc coins, can slaw and pull tabs wore me out fast. I'm not back in shape yet and my recently broken right arm is not completely healed, so I can only dig so much in the hot heat. I decided to look mainly for gold and silver rings. I set the discrimination on 51 and dug every solid target from 51 to 58 (IMO that's the range that the majority of lost gold rings will ID) and anything over 80 that didn't size too big. I was getting solid hard hits on dimes at 5 to 6 inches, so I know it will get down even further on dimes. When I got the 92-93 hit, I just knew I had another big silver coin, because I found a Silver Dollar and a 64 Kennedy Half Dollar during the last two trips at this location. http://www.findmall.com/read.php?17,1699157 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?17,1699805 No such luck, it turned out to be a soccer coin. French coin - 66, silver ring - 81, silver pendant - 83 and the Mexican $2 coin - 10. I also managed to get around $8 dollars in clad coins.
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