Mark in NC
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I got to do a little night-time hunting on Thanksgiving at my wife's grandmothers house. The house dates to the teens or 20's so the possiblity of a little silver is always there. I've previously dug a couple of buffaloes and several wheat pennies over the years. I had the 10.5 inch coil on the C$ and noticed immediately I had some RF interference going on. I could have been the street lights since I've had several detectors in the past that had trouble with 'em. I turned down the sensitivity and cranked up the threshold and it settled down nicely.
My first dig was a clad dime at 5 inches, so I knew the good stuff would probably be pretty deep. My time was very limited (you know how those family functions are), so I opted to cherry pick for repeatable high tones. After about fifteen minutes, I got a nice high tone that repeated 270 degrees, and pinpointed small and deep (about 20 to 30 on the pinpoint). I dug down to about 6 inches and couldn't hit a thing with my pinpointer. I touched the pinpointer to my ring, and no signal. Any of you folks that have night hunted know what a pain it is finding a target in total darkness!
I remembered a trick I read here on the forum a year or so ago, and popped one of the batteries out of my Coinstrike and put it into my pinpointer. The C$ didn't miss a beat. I pinpointed my target at at the bottom of my hole, in the side. It was only a '52 wheat penny, but still fun to find. The coolest thing (and really the reason for this post) is how I was able to keep hunting a while longer with only one 9v battery in the ol' C$! I don't know many detectors that will let you steal one of the batteries and keep on detecting.
HH'n
Mark in NC
My first dig was a clad dime at 5 inches, so I knew the good stuff would probably be pretty deep. My time was very limited (you know how those family functions are), so I opted to cherry pick for repeatable high tones. After about fifteen minutes, I got a nice high tone that repeated 270 degrees, and pinpointed small and deep (about 20 to 30 on the pinpoint). I dug down to about 6 inches and couldn't hit a thing with my pinpointer. I touched the pinpointer to my ring, and no signal. Any of you folks that have night hunted know what a pain it is finding a target in total darkness!
I remembered a trick I read here on the forum a year or so ago, and popped one of the batteries out of my Coinstrike and put it into my pinpointer. The C$ didn't miss a beat. I pinpointed my target at at the bottom of my hole, in the side. It was only a '52 wheat penny, but still fun to find. The coolest thing (and really the reason for this post) is how I was able to keep hunting a while longer with only one 9v battery in the ol' C$! I don't know many detectors that will let you steal one of the batteries and keep on detecting.
HH'n
Mark in NC