A Month Gone By :detecting:

[tabman]

Today I finished up the month by finding a 1945 Washington Quarter, a silver ring, a rail token, 14 wheat pennies and a bunch of clad coins. I thought that I was going to get skunked, but I finally cornered the silver quarter next to a sidewalk. I hit several places today and the EMI was really bad. I've always noticed that cloud cover seems to make the EMI worse. I started out with the F75SE and switch to the AT Pro. That didn't last long because the AT Pro got all tied into knots with the EMI. I ended up going back to a place that I hunted the other day and the EMI was better there but it was still really noticeable. I finally said to heck with it towards the end of the hunt and cranked up the sensitivity to 85 and put it into boost mode. It was a little noisy, but I started digging really deep wheat pennies like there was no tomorrow. They weren't clean hits at all, at best they were iffy. I ended up with 14 of them and the oldest one was dated 1910. I figure if there are deep wheat pennies there must be deep silver there as well. I was on a roll but I needed a bathroom break, so I just called it a day. I was hoping to the end the month with 40 silver coins, but I only managed to find 38. A long the way I also found a bunch of silver rings and one gold wedding band. I need a rest and I'm going to take one.

tabman

 

[CZconnoisseur]

That's an incredible silver haul for January...just incredible! My hat's off to you sir

 

[tabman]

That's an incredible silver haul for January...just incredible! My hat's off to you sir

Thanks. After seeing you in action, I'm pretty sure that you could match my numbers if you detected as many hours as I did. Being retired has its advantages.

It's going to be a really nasty day for detecting tomorrow. Wet, cold and windy.

tabman

 

[Elton]

WOW I am blinded from all that silver glitter..................NICEJOB Gerald..

 

[mudpuppy]

WOW is right! I sure hope you can keep this roll going, take today off, maybe drive around and scope out some areas perhaps, and hit it hard Monday!

Just for giggles, do you have an estimate of how many targets you dug total in Jan?...and a depth average per hole? If they all averaged lets say 6" deep, it would be easy to calculate the total depth and total weight of the dirt you moved combined!

estmate: 100 holes/day X 6" = 50'!.....50' per day X 10 days = 500' total depth! Thats like a football field and a half in 10 days alone! Good gosh, you could start your own fracking company!
Mud

 

[basstrackerman]

Tabman i see you are using the nel coil.. How does it compare to the stock coil?? I have read reports that the stock coils are not all the same...some not as much depth or more emi.. Ive been looking at the nel coils. Thanks for the info

 

[tabman]

Tabman i see you are using the nel coil.. How does it compare to the stock coil?? I have read reports that the stock coils are not all the same...some not as much depth or more emi.. Ive been looking at the nel coils. Thanks for the info

The NEL Sharpshooter pinpoints easier, seems to separate better and handles EMI better than the stock coil does where I detect. I've been digging 9 + inch deep wheat pennies using it. I think that has a lot to do with the fact that it can handle EMI better and that allows me to turn up the sensitivity more without getting a bunch chatter.

Good Luck!

tabman

 

[tabman]

WOW is right! I sure hope you can keep this roll going, take today off, maybe drive around and scope out some areas perhaps, and hit it hard Monday!

Just for giggles, do you have an estimate of how many targets you dug total in Jan?...and a depth average per hole? If they all averaged lets say 6" deep, it would be easy to calculate the total depth and total weight of the dirt you moved combined!

estmate: 100 holes/day X 6" = 50'!.....50' per day X 10 days = 500' total depth! Thats like a football field and a half in 10 days alone! Good gosh, you could start your own fracking company!
Mud

Thanks. Just thinking about how much dirt that I moved makes me tired. Hello China.

tabman