Sunday morning I took my MX5 to a local school to find some clad and hopefully some jewelry. This school was built in the 1930's and is hunted hard. The last silver coin I found here was in 2004 and that was a Roosevelt dime. I found that coin with a Minelab Explorer xs. There was a 100 foot section of this sports field that had an old barbed wire fence buried in it. There must have been three or four strands as I was constantly digging rusty pieces of this fence at 7 to 9 inches. When I got to the school early Sunday morning I noticed that the kids had started playing ball directly over this section and had the grass trampled down to bare ground. The base paths were more bare than the infield so I had some good lines to start gridding. First pass I got the classic deep coin signal on the MX5(slight high tone tick occasionally, break in threshold, numbers flashing coin numbers with no audio signal) I knew it would be a coin and from 8 inches I spot silver. It was a 1917 merc. Second pass same scenario, but the numbers were in the low 80's. It was a 1925 wheat. Third pass a surface zinc. Fourth pass I get another deep signal and it was a 1935 merc! The best part of this morning hunt is I dug absolutely no rusty fence pieces and I was hunting directly over where it is. I ended up with another deep wheat penny in this particular section and headed over to the play ground area with hopes of a piece of jewelry and hopefully a pile of clad quarters and dimes. Once in a great while, a person will have a day where the "stars line up" and Sunday was my day. I quickly got a nickel signal and there it was from about 4 inches deep. A gold charm with 5 stones(diamonds I hope as the charm is marked 14k) I did pick up some clad coins with quarters being the majority. As I leaving this area I got a shallow 86-88 signal and popped a dollar coin with my screwdriver. My last find of the morning was a shallow 82 signal that pinpointed long. A slightly buried mini mag lite that works perfectly when I changed the batteries. A two hour hunt with no high expectations ended up being one of my better days of 2015. Settings: sens 8, threshold 20, 8 tones, wide open disc with only iron eliminated, and a sef 10x12 coil.
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An Interesting Story
- Thread starter RLOH
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MattBullSummerville
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That was a wonderful day and really does not surprise me since you were running the MX5 with the 10x12 coil. My MX5 comes up with some really nice finds as well. Amazing machine overlooked a lot of the time. That's fine with me in my area, I'll come in behind and pick out the finds others miss.
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Matt
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