A Lot Of Work But It Was Worth It.

[fsa46]

I have been pulling some nice finds from an old night spot that has been knocked down and filled in many years ago and is grown over badly. I have been doing well ( with my MXT Pro ) on a couple slopes and noticed when I got my signal, if I scraped the leaves off with my foot I got a clearer signal and a different VDI number.

After I had worked this one slope over good and gotten all the finds I felt were there I headed home for lunch. When I went back, I bought a steel rake and raked the leaves off the slope and worked the area again....you guessed it, more coins that were missed when I worked the area the first time.

I'm not saying I would do this at every site, but I felt I was finding so many coins that it would be worth it and it was. By butt is dragging,but the anticipation of finding more coins made it worthwhile and the results only confirmed it.

 

[jabbo]

Interesting. Maybe when the leaves were there the coil too high above the ground.

 

[fsa46]

Interesting. Maybe when the leaves were there the coil too high above the ground.

The leaves, twigs and branches were 1"-2" ,but the signal when removed was significant. I was getting finds without removing them, but when I scraped the leaves with my foot I could see a big difference so I decided to rake them off this slope. Now I'm wondering if something might be wrong with my coil or machine if it shouldn't be acting this way.

 

[BarberBill]

You don't say how deep the coins were after the leaves were brushed away, but if they were still at a good depth, the couple of inches would have made a difference in the signal.
BB

 

[fsa46]

You don't say how deep the coins were after the leaves were brushed away, but if they were still at a good depth, the couple of inches would have made a difference in the signal.
BB

Most of the coins were in the 4" range AFTER I REMOVED THE LEAVES, I wish I recalled what it read BEFORE I removed the leaves though.

 

[Jim West Pa]

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