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Dad and I got out today to an old farm for a few hours but he had to leave early today. We hunted a site where a house once stood, possibly a sharecropper's shack built 100-150 years ago. Not sure exactly when this house was built, but was gone between 1963 and 1969 according to aerial maps. Signals were few and far between and most of what both of us dug was trash. I used the 12khz open program specifically for a "pasture" type hunt, as follows:
12khz
TX = 2
Reactivity = 2
Silencer = -1
Sens = 90
Full tones
Disc = 2.0
GB = Manual 85
Ground notch = 85-90
Notch = 02-10
We were hoping for a small percentage of aluminum trash, but it was the most abundant target unfortunately. There were bits of copper and brass that further added to the chatter, and the site was surprisingly trashy. Still, this was a good sign that we were in the right area. I switched back and forth between Reactivity 2 and 3, and most buttons recovered were only 2-3" deep at the most, with the smallest button being a sunbaker!!! I will post video when it finishes rendering...
Most of the buttons rang up in the upper 70s and low 80s, and stood out sharply from the bits and pieces of assorted trash. Don't know how I found the Buffalo nickel, it was in the hole with 2 square nails and a moderate-sized piece of aluminum!
The only button I've been able to identify is the upper right one - looks like "Robinson" and there's another word below which is about obliterated. The other two somewhat legible examples have some lettering as well, but have started a long soak in olive oil to try and pull some more details. These buttons are about 100-150 years old just from the style (as far as I have learned), which also matches some of the glass and pottery shards also at the site. May have to give it one more hunt to try and pull a coin or two!!! Spent the last 30 minutes closer to a house built in the 1930s on the same property - the owners have been using the land for a truck farm for at least 60 years, so the front yard of this place is loaded with clad from people purchasing produce for all that time...last visit I found a 1957 Wheat at 8" down - so the good stuff may be just out of reach!
Will have to hunt more often since this little 4-hour hunt nearly cleaned my clock for the day! The 5 hour hunt the other night seemed MUCH easier - plan to get another good night hunt in tomorrow night, looking for a new hotspot at the fairgrounds before time runs out...
12khz
TX = 2
Reactivity = 2
Silencer = -1
Sens = 90
Full tones
Disc = 2.0
GB = Manual 85
Ground notch = 85-90
Notch = 02-10
We were hoping for a small percentage of aluminum trash, but it was the most abundant target unfortunately. There were bits of copper and brass that further added to the chatter, and the site was surprisingly trashy. Still, this was a good sign that we were in the right area. I switched back and forth between Reactivity 2 and 3, and most buttons recovered were only 2-3" deep at the most, with the smallest button being a sunbaker!!! I will post video when it finishes rendering...
Most of the buttons rang up in the upper 70s and low 80s, and stood out sharply from the bits and pieces of assorted trash. Don't know how I found the Buffalo nickel, it was in the hole with 2 square nails and a moderate-sized piece of aluminum!
The only button I've been able to identify is the upper right one - looks like "Robinson" and there's another word below which is about obliterated. The other two somewhat legible examples have some lettering as well, but have started a long soak in olive oil to try and pull some more details. These buttons are about 100-150 years old just from the style (as far as I have learned), which also matches some of the glass and pottery shards also at the site. May have to give it one more hunt to try and pull a coin or two!!! Spent the last 30 minutes closer to a house built in the 1930s on the same property - the owners have been using the land for a truck farm for at least 60 years, so the front yard of this place is loaded with clad from people purchasing produce for all that time...last visit I found a 1957 Wheat at 8" down - so the good stuff may be just out of reach!
Will have to hunt more often since this little 4-hour hunt nearly cleaned my clock for the day! The 5 hour hunt the other night seemed MUCH easier - plan to get another good night hunt in tomorrow night, looking for a new hotspot at the fairgrounds before time runs out...
