A Great Couple of Days With AT Pro

[RLOH]

We have had a beautiful couple of fall days here in NE Ohio and I decided to put my other detector away in order to use the AT exclusively. Yesterday I went to a place where I have found Indian head pennies with the oldest being a 1865. The last old coin I found here was in early spring so I was not expecting much but spending some time detecting while experiencing a super fall day. I swear that I had not detected more than 5 feet when I got a steady 72-73 signal showing 8 inches on the gauge. The first thing I saw was the impression of an Indian on the clay. This signal was a sharp tone in between iron grunts. It turned out to be a 1899 Indian. Since I had NEVER found anything older than 40's wheats in this particular area of the park, I decided to hunt the small section where I found this Indian thoroughly. The ground is full of cinders in this section and the AT was chirping away. I dug a couple of zincs and beaver tails before I got another 72 rock steady signal mixed in the chirps. This one turned out to be a corroded 188? Indian. A very distinct tone when just barely moving the coil to isolate the signal. There was way too much junk to even use the pinpoint button. Todays hunt was near the grandstands of the county fairgrounds. I lowered the sens to just over half and stuck the coil under the stands and slowly walked while holding the coil's square nose up against the cement foundation. The very first target was a silver roosie(1961). I dug a couple of 52-53 signals which turned out to be wadded up foil which is a big problem at this fairgrounds. I have dug hundreds of these nickel signals with my Explorers and was hoping the AT might be more successful, but this in not to be. I finally got a 85-86 signal that was so close to the foundation that I could only probe it with the tip of the DD coil. This one turned out to be a silver Canadian quarter(1957). I ended up with two badly corroded wheaties that were both deep(7to 8 inches) to finish a good day of detecting. The AT is without a doubt, the best detector I have ever used for finding Indian Head pennies. This is my second AT and this one has the camlocks and longer handle. Garrett has a winner in this detector. R.L.

 

[Mark ( ohio )]

holy crap... that beach got destroyed... debris, stones... and that bull crap little pieces of babbit all over the lower section of the beach near the water.....It gave the safari quite a fit for sure... no gold, no jewelery.. just change.

Mark ( ohio )

 

[RLOH]

Mark, this weather has been super. It looks like we will be getting another four or five days of good detecting weather. R.L.

 

[John-Edmonton]

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