Angle Hunting

[JimmyCT]

I guess by human nature we like to follow tree lines, roads, stone walls, houses, etc.( I know I do it) In other words we seem to follow along in a straight line such a running parallel to a rock wall in a field or an in-ground pool or house. I know some time this summer critterhunter had mentioned to me to go at different angles instead of doing the above mentioned. So this summer, I kept that tip in the back of my mind while I hunted many different places. The latest is a 1962 Roosevelt dime at my local beaten-to-death park. I know it isn't a super significant find but the circumstances under which it was found is priceless information to me. As you have heard me say before, this park has been left for dead by detectorists. It is the same place park personnel and citizens come up to me and tell me I am wasting my time hunting in this park. I agree much of this park has been cherry picked rather well but it still holds silver Anyhow....

The area I was hunting in there is an in-ground pool and a large hill on the side of the pool which kids have used for the last 70+ years for sledding. If I walk parallel to the pool on the hillside I get "zippo"
If I walk straight down the hill parallel to the pine trees (perpendicular to the pool) again, I find nothing. However, when I angle myself around 60 degrees and walk up or down the hill, I always manage to pull out silver. This is my third silver dime in this area. This dime, as well as the other two, were one-way signals. There is tons of iron junk as well. All this was done with my 10" tornado coil too. If I can't get back out this year to hit it with my tornado 800, then this is on my list of "to do's" next year.

This carnival I have been hunting quite a bit this year is the same deal. When I installed the tornado 800 coil, I criss-crossed and varied my angles every which way in this one little area near the parking lot and found a boat load of wheat cents and several silver dimes. Don't get me wrong, I walked parallel and perpendicular to the parking lot but also added in every angle possible and had a blast in doing so. I easily have spent 25 + hours in this one little area (each time varying my angle) and continued to pull out coins. On Nov 19th & 20th I found these coins at the carnival grounds going at different angles across the field.
Add some angle hunting into your "cleaned out" spots and share your story with us. Thanks for reading. - Jim

 

[GunnarMN]

Jim , that dime is a good find , you can tell it saw little circulation , so you can date its loss at 63,64, I need to impoy your method as well , you are gaining valuble experiance hear ,

 

[Neil]

Jim theres a lot of different ways to hunt that have been mentioned for many years. I remember an article in either W&E or LT that had a guy who worked old areas with his explorer and he used it like he was using a vacuum, in other words, instead of side by side sweeping, he pushed and pulled the coil, and was successful with that.
Besides angles and approaches, you can try the all metal pinpoint and just dig the smaller coin sized targets(dont forget your masking alot of stuff in disc, especially with the Sovs high iron mask/iron disc setting). Even with iron mask off you know your knocking alot of small iron out in disc, which means your masking alot of targets also. You can try really high sens settings, minimal sens settings, any variation of what you normally do. Look at all those knobs and toggles on your Sov

 

[JimmyCT]

Hi Neil,

That is interesting about pushing and pulling the coil. I will have to put that in my tip book. As you mention, I have been looking at those knobs and toggles and have been adjusting. The only thing I have a hard time with is all-metal. With my hearing loss, I have a much harder time hearing the "subtles" in all-metal so that kind of discourages me with being in all-metal. With that being said, I have used it on and off through late summer and have been learning it. For Spring and a good part of summer I stayed with AUTO sensitivity. Towards the end though, I really started playing around with the manual sensitivity setting. So I am l learning and being my first year ever with a Minelab detector, I feel I have done pretty well. - Jim

Jim theres a lot of different ways to hunt that have been mentioned for many years. I remember an article in either W&E or LT that had a guy who worked old areas with his explorer and he used it like he was using a vacuum, in other words, instead of side by side sweeping, he pushed and pulled the coil, and was successful with that.
Besides angles and approaches, you can try the all metal pinpoint and just dig the smaller coin sized targets(dont forget your masking alot of stuff in disc, especially with the Sovs high iron mask/iron disc setting). Even with iron mask off you know your knocking alot of small iron out in disc, which means your masking alot of targets also. You can try really high sens settings, minimal sens settings, any variation of what you normally do. Look at all those knobs and toggles on your Sov

 

[JimmyCT]

Thanks Gunnar. Yep, instead of walking down rows, angle yourself across the field.

Jim , that dime is a good find , you can tell it saw little circulation , so you can date its loss at 63,64, I need to impoy your method as well , you are gaining valuble experiance hear ,

 

[Ism]

Jim, I have found the same thing to be true. Many targets aren't detectable from one particular angle will give a signal from a different approach. That's probably why many of the goodies are still in the earth.
So much ground to cover....so little time.

Nice silver!

 

[Neil]

Hi Neil,

That is interesting about pushing and pulling the coil. I will have to put that in my tip book. As you mention, I have been looking at those knobs and toggles and have been adjusting. The only thing I have a hard time with is all-metal. With my hearing loss, I have a much harder time hearing the "subtles" in all-metal so that kind of discourages me with being in all-metal. With that being said, I have used it on and off through late summer and have been learning it. For Spring and a good part of summer I stayed with AUTO sensitivity. Towards the end though, I really started playing around with the manual sensitivity setting. So I am l learning and being my first year ever with a Minelab detector, I feel I have done pretty well. - Jim

Jim theres a lot of different ways to hunt that have been mentioned for many years. I remember an article in either W&E or LT that had a guy who worked old areas with his explorer and he used it like he was using a vacuum, in other words, instead of side by side sweeping, he pushed and pulled the coil, and was successful with that.
Besides angles and approaches, you can try the all metal pinpoint and just dig the smaller coin sized targets(dont forget your masking alot of stuff in disc, especially with the Sovs high iron mask/iron disc setting). Even with iron mask off you know your knocking alot of small iron out in disc, which means your masking alot of targets also. You can try really high sens settings, minimal sens settings, any variation of what you normally do. Look at all those knobs and toggles on your Sov

Hey Jim you have done pretty well, very glad to see you sticking with it also, enough folks walk away from something like the Sov that takes a little more time then some other detectors.
As far as the all metal pinpoint, I wouldnt bother so much with the subtle sounds, just go for sizing as that mode doesnt miss targets, if its there and within range its gonna report on it. I know its tougher without the tones, if it was easy, everyone would be using it

 

[JimmyCT]

Thanks Ism,

What you describe is the "one-way" signal of a good target next to iron. I found many nice coins this summer with only this one-way signal. The sov GT is a fun machine for sure and hope to un-mask those goodies that have been missed by others. HH - Jim

Jim, I have found the same thing to be true. Many targets aren't detectable from one particular angle will give a signal from a different approach. That's probably why many of the goodies are still in the earth.
So much ground to cover....so little time.

Nice silver!