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Gerald and I got out today to another rental house - there seems to be no limit to the amount of rental houses available at any given time in the city that are worth hunting...usually if the house is newer than 1960 I won't hunt it but today's hunt took place at one built in 1938. We started out at 7:30 this morning while the temp was about 26F - my right hand almost always gets colder than my left hand because of swinging the detector. Had to take a break at one point to get the feeling back into my fingertips LOL
The battery in my propointer fizzled out 10 minutes into the hunt, and Gerald was kind enough to give me a spare!!! Both of us started finding Memorials but I think Gerald found the first Wheat, followed by the only silver of the hunt between us, a lone Rosie. According to the website, the house went through four or five rental agencies starting in 1996 which puts the trash quotient pretty high. I dug all kinds of bottlecaps, but I DID manage to bring my controller today!!! Toggling back and forth between 4 and 12 khz gave me the info I needed to move on or dig - but many times I like getting the caps out of the way to see what's hiding underneath. The first Wheat I found today was under a large piece of can slaw at about 4" down. There weren't many deep targets but I'm guessing the trash prevented both detectors from seeing too deep. The grass was about 4-5" deep so this limited us as well. Some Wheats were only an inch or two down, and the caps seemed to be concentrated near the front entrances of the house. However, 4 out of 6 Wheats were also close to the entrance, and I picked through the junk with Reactivity = 3 as best I could.
The backyard had even more trash, making it difficult to find good targets. I dug a ton of zincolns today which were all shallow and many were dropped in the last year or so. The second time I went over the front yard I got a confident "80-81" in 4 khz which turned out to be the Bulova watch bezel. First gold for 2015!!! It's 10K R.G.P. which I understand is rolled gold palladium having more gold content than gold filled but less than fine. I will take it!
This was a corner lot, so there was a narrow curb strip on one side of the lot. Both of us hammered the same curb strip and found a few modern coins each - then Gerald "hooted" upon finding a...I will let him tell his own story LOL. The strip was about 60 feet long by 18" wide and coins were fairly easy to pick out from the garbage. I found a few modern coin spills in the strips, and the signals usually sound terrible on multiple coins in one area. The best way I've found to attack these is to dig the strongest signal first and work from there. My old CZ6 would have "overloaded" on 3 or more coins inside a 6" X 6" area, but the Deus goes nuts - in today's case the multiple coins were zincolns, but being so close together makes for a "busy" audio signal. Reactivity = 3 will also help on isolating individuals in a spill and make it easier to recover.
Still haven't found any silver so far this year - but am stoked to have found the Bulova watch bezel! Get out there and get swinging!
The battery in my propointer fizzled out 10 minutes into the hunt, and Gerald was kind enough to give me a spare!!! Both of us started finding Memorials but I think Gerald found the first Wheat, followed by the only silver of the hunt between us, a lone Rosie. According to the website, the house went through four or five rental agencies starting in 1996 which puts the trash quotient pretty high. I dug all kinds of bottlecaps, but I DID manage to bring my controller today!!! Toggling back and forth between 4 and 12 khz gave me the info I needed to move on or dig - but many times I like getting the caps out of the way to see what's hiding underneath. The first Wheat I found today was under a large piece of can slaw at about 4" down. There weren't many deep targets but I'm guessing the trash prevented both detectors from seeing too deep. The grass was about 4-5" deep so this limited us as well. Some Wheats were only an inch or two down, and the caps seemed to be concentrated near the front entrances of the house. However, 4 out of 6 Wheats were also close to the entrance, and I picked through the junk with Reactivity = 3 as best I could.
The backyard had even more trash, making it difficult to find good targets. I dug a ton of zincolns today which were all shallow and many were dropped in the last year or so. The second time I went over the front yard I got a confident "80-81" in 4 khz which turned out to be the Bulova watch bezel. First gold for 2015!!! It's 10K R.G.P. which I understand is rolled gold palladium having more gold content than gold filled but less than fine. I will take it!
This was a corner lot, so there was a narrow curb strip on one side of the lot. Both of us hammered the same curb strip and found a few modern coins each - then Gerald "hooted" upon finding a...I will let him tell his own story LOL. The strip was about 60 feet long by 18" wide and coins were fairly easy to pick out from the garbage. I found a few modern coin spills in the strips, and the signals usually sound terrible on multiple coins in one area. The best way I've found to attack these is to dig the strongest signal first and work from there. My old CZ6 would have "overloaded" on 3 or more coins inside a 6" X 6" area, but the Deus goes nuts - in today's case the multiple coins were zincolns, but being so close together makes for a "busy" audio signal. Reactivity = 3 will also help on isolating individuals in a spill and make it easier to recover.
Still haven't found any silver so far this year - but am stoked to have found the Bulova watch bezel! Get out there and get swinging!
I must have been taking a nap when I went over the area where you found the watch. My car thermometer said that the temperature was 22 degrees when I arrived at the site. I'm glad that it was sunny and hardly any wind or it would have been unbearable. The last good rental house wasn't all that old but gave you a handful of silver coins and a few for me. I would have thought with this house being built in 1938 we would have found lots of silver coins. You just never know until you swing your coil over a site.
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