A hunt at a local park

[Bill_S]

Went to one of the local parks to do some coin hunting and whatever else I could find. I was using the 5.3 eclipse coil. I got a good quarter signal and everthing looked like it should have been a quarter. I pinpointed and the green was the dominant frequecy. I dug down maybe 3 inches to find a real rusty bottlecap. Covered up the hole and swept over it again and I was still getting the quarter signal. I opened the hole back up and sure engough a little deeper was a quarter. I then changed to the 4x6 shooter. Same exact thing happened. Dug a rusty bottlecap then a quarter from the same hole. When I say the same hole I dont mean I cut a huge plug and one target was 5 inches away. They had to almost be on top of one another.

Also found this hotel thing. I think it must be real old. I did a search online and cant come up with any info on it.

 

[mickfin]

Nice find Bill-S WTG!!!!!! I can`t the bottom word out??? Mickfin

 

[Bill_S]

I think it says LE- GRANDE

 

[earthmansurfer]

That is interesting Bill. They say the 5.3 (concentric in general) can separate good in that way as opposed to DD. But the DD picked it up as well. I imagine since it was rusted it was pretty much like picking up a coin by iron? Still, being that it was under the iron is pretty impressive. I've picked up quite a few coins below plugs with iron registering in the plug. The V3's are very very sensitive machines.

 

[Bill_S]

When the 4x6 done the same thing that did suprise me. The DD's will false on bottlecaps and give a good coin reading sometimes but the green will not be the dominant frequency. In this case green was both times so I dug the targets.

 

[earthmansurfer]

When the 4x6 done the same thing that did suprise me. The DD's will false on bottlecaps and give a good coin reading sometimes but the green will not be the dominant frequency. In this case green was both times so I dug the targets.

I don't come across many bottle caps but I dug a few the other day at a park. The rusted ones were pretty broken up but repeatable signals. The spectragraph showed lots of separation and was all over the place. With so much iron around I was getting to know what the V was telling me and not taking any chances, so mostly digging anything with a chance. Only the new bottle caps really ever fool me. I'm not even saying I'm reading into things, they generally don't sound very good and come to think of it I started running BCR @ 2 (Totally new setting for me - I never ran it before). Thanks for the reminder, I really forgot I was running it! On my Omega bottle caps are a real pest, but not on the V3i.

Have you played with BCR? I've read to run it between 2 and 4, not any higher. I don't think a setting of 2 would cause you to lose and coins or even 4 for that matter. But small hammereds or other such items and then you might lose them at 4 or so.

 

[jalon]

Early on(3 years back) I used BC reject. After a while I discovered that in our extremely dry and hard dirt, BC reject at a setting of 2 was costing me coins. I did some testing with it and decided that Off was best in my conditions. I can't imagine how tough it must be for you, with all that iron, but a little testing from off-2 and 4 with BC would prove interesting.
Wish we had some hammereds to look for here in Texas, but----------
I don't use BC at all, ever in my dirt, I like digging coins and relics. It really irritates me to find out that I'm losing coins, or small rings, so BC is not a tool that I use.
Good Luck
John London
Amarillo, Texas

 

[earthmansurfer]

John, thanks for that tip, regarding dry dirt. The dirt here hasn't been that dry in a while. We have mostly had cooler and rainy weather (on and off) for a couple of months. When things are dry I will have to remember to check BCR! I don't run discrim, never played with hot rock reject or BCR but just started to as the iron at times is a nuisance.

Also, as I stated in that correlate thread, after a rain correlate was suddenly working for me but ONLY with the 10 band filter. Today I got a good result on 5, 7.5 and 10! The V3i can be dangerous, don't become comfy with settings. I just did more reading on correlate and so far came across two experienced hunters saying correlate may be best in mineralized ground. Hmmmm... Further, Julian was saying how he got better hits with 10 high, which didn't work at all. Anyway, this is for the correlate thread, but my point is, be careful with the settings and thanks again for the reminder.