OregonMike
Member
Hi, all,
Many of you have significantly more experience detecting than I have (less than 3 years with a good detector) so I would like to tap the collective wisdom of the group.
A week ago I found a mid-century house and decided to knock and ask permission to hunt. Turns out it's inhabited by 3 or 4 guys who go to the local university. They said "sure," and I got started. The grass was pretty high but didn't seem to matter as I began by digging 63 coins that evening out of that one yard. I think that was the most coins I ever got from a yard. I used the 5.3 coil because being a student rental, there's a lot of bottle caps in the yard, and I used the "Hi-Pro" program with only a couple of small tweaks related to recovery speed because of the trash.
Six wheat cents showed up--3 from the 1940's and 3 from the 1950's.
Those wheats, along with all the clad, had me convinced there was silver there, so I went back, re-gained permission, and this time used the stock DD coil. I tried the "deep silver"program and the "Hi-Pro" and was surprised to find 29 more coins, including 7 more wheat cents, but still no silver. It seems that with either coil, the deepest signals I was getting were around 5 inches. I also dug another full bag of bottle caps and lots of nails, too. I decided I would dig everything, just in case bottle caps were masking the silver. So at this point I was up to 92 coins from this single yard.
I didn't get back to the yard until last night and was happy to see it had been mowed and I was going to get to hunt it with the grass as low as possible. I went back to the 5.3 coil and "Hi-Pro," and although I got another full bag of bottle caps and nails, I also found 77 more coins, including 13 more wheat cents, mostly from the area that had the heaviest, longest grass before it was mowed.
OK, so now, the total is 169 coins, and 26 wheat cents from a single suburban lawn. Coin number 100 was a 1945-S war nickel, so indeed there's a bit of silver, but that is all!
So my question to all of you is, what do I do next?
I am wide open for suggestions.
Thanks to all for any ideas or suggestions that you might offer.
Mike
Many of you have significantly more experience detecting than I have (less than 3 years with a good detector) so I would like to tap the collective wisdom of the group.
A week ago I found a mid-century house and decided to knock and ask permission to hunt. Turns out it's inhabited by 3 or 4 guys who go to the local university. They said "sure," and I got started. The grass was pretty high but didn't seem to matter as I began by digging 63 coins that evening out of that one yard. I think that was the most coins I ever got from a yard. I used the 5.3 coil because being a student rental, there's a lot of bottle caps in the yard, and I used the "Hi-Pro" program with only a couple of small tweaks related to recovery speed because of the trash.
Six wheat cents showed up--3 from the 1940's and 3 from the 1950's.
Those wheats, along with all the clad, had me convinced there was silver there, so I went back, re-gained permission, and this time used the stock DD coil. I tried the "deep silver"program and the "Hi-Pro" and was surprised to find 29 more coins, including 7 more wheat cents, but still no silver. It seems that with either coil, the deepest signals I was getting were around 5 inches. I also dug another full bag of bottle caps and lots of nails, too. I decided I would dig everything, just in case bottle caps were masking the silver. So at this point I was up to 92 coins from this single yard.
I didn't get back to the yard until last night and was happy to see it had been mowed and I was going to get to hunt it with the grass as low as possible. I went back to the 5.3 coil and "Hi-Pro," and although I got another full bag of bottle caps and nails, I also found 77 more coins, including 13 more wheat cents, mostly from the area that had the heaviest, longest grass before it was mowed.
OK, so now, the total is 169 coins, and 26 wheat cents from a single suburban lawn. Coin number 100 was a 1945-S war nickel, so indeed there's a bit of silver, but that is all!
So my question to all of you is, what do I do next?
I am wide open for suggestions.
Thanks to all for any ideas or suggestions that you might offer.
Mike