Back to the old oak-Got a nice Mercury & a birth year penny...

[Darkflight]

Just went back to the area-as suggested I tried the NW corner & yep most of the coins were there.

I used my X2 again today. Yesterday I hit the same area with my silver-I was using a large 10x12 cranked up hoping for silver.Moral of the story is for picking the small targets from an area infested with iron & trash-well my X2 is hands down a better machine.I found small solid tones among the big noisy crap tones. Those were the coins I missed yesterday.Once on target I'd shake the coil quick.If it stayed solid it was likely a coin vs. trash. I still dug a large pile of trash of course.

The ugly merc was at the far end of the field. The coin is fried-likely fertilizer.That was my big find yesterday with the silver. The rest all came from under the oak.

The 42 Merc was in a pile of trash-just a tiny target but it stayed solid & rang when I used the coin check.I got lucky & it was dead center on the cone end of the plug. I just lifted the tip off & viola-Shiny silver smiling at me...

A bit later I talked to a local who had an MXT-I asked him to join but his wife was a tad impatient.Maybe next time eh?...

I'll be back & take out a bit more trash-hopefully to find more treasure!. I did have one target "unmask" I pulled a pull-tab from a spot & just an inch away found the birthday penny(1957).
Cheers!

 

[fowlercharles]

Lol, Darkflight, my suggestion was to hammer the SW Quad,, not the NW. Wherever, anywhere around the old oak is a proving good place to hammer , but it is usually the SW that you will read about having the most traffic, especially in the summer time when the folks were looking for some shade and a little breeze.I'm guessing you have the Super 7 on the X2, but for the heck of it I bet you could also use a smaller coil from your Silver on the X2 for a different hammer approach. Use all your tools is my thinking, and every time you walk it you better your odds at paydirt. HH, Charlie

 

[Darkflight]

I believe its because the roads intersection is on that corner. I'm using the 9" coil but it works pretty dang well in the trash.My smaller coil was stolen along with my keys/ID etc a while back when I was wading a local river.

I'm learning a lot from this spot-peeling the onion as it were. I used zero disc & only about 7 on the gain. I even went down to 2 on the gain & picked out a few pennies that were on top of a deeply buried metal grate-about 2ft by 3 ft...Here's a pic of the trash from the last few days...Brake pads,frame parts & spark plugs. One old toy car,pop tabs & bottle caps galore. I also found a small piece of a very large old clay pot. It has lines carved in it & it was a very large piece, probably a water pot.Its on the upper left of this shot.I left the grate in a dumpster.

No wheat's-no silvers today.A small pile of coppers & a few zincs. Some dimes,nickels & 2 quarters. But I know the potential is there & I'm just starting to peel the layers.
We are due for a drenching so it will be a few days till I get to peel back the onion some more...

 

[fowlercharles]

someone ripping you off awhile back. That sort of thing hurts to the bone and is always with you. Dogone for sure, from the looks of the stuff you are peeling away from the oak, I would say it does have plenty of potential. That shade tree was a busy place! Looks like you are doing a great job of it and are having a good time doing it. Hope it starts paying off in silver for you real soon! Charlie