another good day in the woods!

[GRAY GHOST]

hi everybody, and happy dad's day. i hit the woods this a.m. for close to three hours. the old mansion site just keeps calling me over there! i wanted to have a slow and leisurely hunt this time, and perhaps change the way i was detecting to see what i was missing. i went to all metal mode, slowed way down, and dug every signal. well, it worked and paid off too! the first find was the old large cent, i believe it's an 1827, it's hard to see. it was 11 inches in the ground. the nice enfield "smoothie" bullet followed. next came the shot and mushroomed .58 cal. 3 ringer, been finding a lot of those, then the percussion cap on top. another shot three ringer followed, then the wormed and pulled three ringer. the odd target looking piece i found next to the railroad tracks along with a flattened cent. another percussion cap came out the ground on the way back to the car, and so did the odd looking pulltab looking buckle. i swear it's not a pulltab! it's heavy too, it must be a small shoe or watchband buckle, and is crudely made. i'm happy with my finds for the day. i went to the store this a.m. before the hunt and picked up a bottle of the new off! skintastic insect repellent. it worked great, no odor,only 1 tick on my pants and NO bug bites! wow! that's a nice change, considering i've picked over 20 ticks off my clothes since friday! thanks for looking and reading, and hh,

 

[twalton]

Outstanding, good finds, way to go!

HH, twalton

 

[PACK RAT]

Great finds GRAY GHOST! Have never found anything that old yet!

 

[Weekendwarrior]

Nice find! I cant wait to find a place like you are searching...

 

[Junkfinder 2000]

Thats awesome man, way to go GG.

 

[BH-LandStar]

Great finds!!!...WTG!!!
Weather is starting to cool down this week here...Just had a hail storm a few hours ago...thought someone was throwing ice cubes at me...OUCH!!!!


HH,

BH-LandStar

 

[Wishful-thinker]

cool still tryin to make a good stike like that myself,...lol

 

[ROADKING]

another awsome find, you are on a roll good luck, love to see your pics.

 

[nugget]

Good hunt mate, old stuff is cool to find. HH regards Nugget.

 

[PACK RAT]

Which detector GRAY GHOST were you swinging when you hit the coin at 11 inches. sounds like an animal! Pretty impressive. You know you got to take the credit too. You always have impressive finds! It's not just the machine, it's more you. Got real talent you know. Happy Hunting's.

 

[dougmoore34]

Very nice loot Sir. The guys have a point. You are definatly a skilled operator. [GRIN] The 'not a pull tab' is my favorite.
Doug in OR

 

[GRAY GHOST]

hi fellas, your're closing in on one of my biggest secrets... i used my pioneer 202 w/ 10" coil a couple of times and the tesoro cibola. the cibola has found 3 large cents for me, all 8" or deeper. i marked my shovel off in inches w/ a magic marker. one machine really is not enough for a good site, so i will sometimes pound the site with the cibola, then hit it real good with the pioneer 202. these two machines operate in different ways and hertz levels, with one finding what the other didn't!
have you ever noticed that when your partner starts finding stuff in the places you have already been, you start to scratch your head. how did i miss that? you ask yourself. and it's not because your're a lazy hunter or your machine is junk...different machines operate at different frequencies and depths.
another slick trick is to run in all metal on a heavily hunted site. yeah, i know, you dig more iron, but you can more easily hear the faint "whisper" signals. and you won't miss a darn thing if you run your coil low and slow. the 1817 large cent i found sunday was one of those whisper signals. it requires a lot more patience than hunting in disc, but the rewards are worth it! i think good headphones help a lot too.
thanks for the kind words. i hope ya'll can take these techniques and run with them. they really do work well if your're willing to be patient and listen closely. thanks, and hh,