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California silver, CTX finds.

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Old California

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Here are some recent CTX Silver finds, Five silvers two trips total five hours hunting an old school.

If the school wasn't so far would detect it more often, the two pieces of 14K gold are recent tot lot finds found with my tot lot detector.

1943 silver half,
1877 seated dime
1903 S barber dime
54 Rosie
57 Rosie

I'm getting a little more depth with the CTX over my old Explorer, and she's waterproof for fresh water and ocean surf.

Very pleased with the 3030, She's dynamite!

Thanks for looking,
Paul (Ca)
 
Nice recoveries spanning a lot of years! Congrats Paul! Glad to hear it is getting deeper than your Explorer. Not surprised...... but good that you mentioned it as folks keep asking.

I take it from the tarnish on the silver, and the glistening of the gold, that the gold was found in something besides dirt? How do you clean up the silver finds? HH Randy
 
Thanks Steven,

Remember the silver half location, the seated dime was about 80-100 feet northwest from the silver half.

I believe this general area will give you the shield nickel that eludes you, go after those nickel signals :thumbup:

Looking forward to hitting the old school with you soon, let's pack our lunches make it an all day hunt.

Still more in there :)
Paul (Ca)
 
Thanks Randy,

No question, the CTX is deeper over the Explorer and a joy to use.

At first, didn't see much difference but as I logged in more time with the CTX getting more accustomed with the settings especially pushing the manual setting those weaker signals are much stronger both visual and in audio.

With the seated dime, once I removed it from the ground placed the plug back in the ground rescanned the plug allot of iron was near the plug. Funny though, When I heard the deep dime signal didn't realize how much iron was around the buried coin was suprised the CTX was even able to get the dime signal, the more I use the CTX the more it suprises me.

The two pieces of 14K jewerly are from different locations, these are tot lot finds from wood chip areas. The silver coins are from the same old school site, dating back 150 years plus.

I really don't clean old coins, sure clean them enough to get a date after that toss them with the others. Unless they are from a particular site with history, do clean them for the display and usually use warm water and soap. Just enough to clean them, don't like to over clean silver.

Thanks again,
Paul (Ca)
 
Thanks C&R Hunter,

The two pieces of 14K gold are from a different location, and were found with a different detector. The CTX made the silver finds.

Still, The CTX hits on small gold very well maybe not chains and such but out in ocean wet sand or fresh water its an alsome machine.

Thanks again,
Paul
(Ca)
 
Nice finds...that 1903s is worth BIG bucks, don't clean it. I found the same dime a few weeks ago, amazingly it's in AU condition, worth 800-1000 bucks.
 
Great finds Paul. I'm here in So Cal and it is slim pickins down here. Everything is concrete or built upon. Where do you live?

Thanks,

Rod
 
Thanks Johnny,

I noticed that too when I looked it up from my 1977 red book, felt it was worth looking into with the low mint my current red book is outdated.

She needs a good cleaning, professionly that is and I agree will not clean it. Appreciate you pointing out its a key date barber, I'll get a new red book soon.

Thanks again,
Paul (Ca)
 
Hi Rod,

Good to hear from a fellow Californian, As big a State we have somehow for us treasure hunters an old Site is only a stones throw away.

I live in Tulare County, but metal detect throughout California. Was in Temecula two weeks ago visiting family maybe that is near your area. During my visit at Temecla came across a Prospecting metal detector shop and was invited to a club hunt in Temecula, had a fun hunt with the locals searching a old school.

Maybe we can get together someday, I'm up for any kind of hunting heck even swinging an old BFO or TR brings me a smile ear to ear.

Thanks for the reply,
Paul (Ca)
 
Hi Randy,

Hope all is well with you and your family, Yes been a long time often think back and remember those spectratar days of finding gold jewerly from your beach area.

One of these days after a cold stormy day we need to hookup for a beach hunt in your area, Maybe we can have a group hunt get all the old timers together again.

Say hello to the old gang for me, Thanks Randy.
Paul (Ca)
 
Nice job on the silver.

I was wondering if you could elaborate a bit more about your settings and especially your experience with the manual sensitivity levels.

My ground is highly mineralized and I haven't got a coin deeper than 6". Mostly running in Auto +3 and the suggested sens is low (5-14 range).
 
My sensitivity settings depend on ground conditions, for this particular school ground able to run Manual 22-23. Masking from larger pieces of iron and underground piping will effect targets, so pushing above manual 22-23 will only make it harder to get those deep or weaker signals.

Sounds like you have Extreamly bad ground, I would suggest running with Recovery fast. Actually, that is my one of my perfered settings usually run in recovery fast for most of my hunting.

Up in our motherload, mineralizition can be harsh on an Explorer and Sovereign. Haven't tried the CTX but remember using fast recovery and auto with a real low sens on the Explorer. I imange our gold country soil would be similar to yours maybe not as harsh, so I would be using Auto sens same as you if I were to use the CTX in gold country.

Hopefully someone here with experience using the CTX in harsh soil such as yours will share their experiences, I'd like to know too what recommended settings they use.

Good luck Atlas,
Paul (Ca)
 
Thanks for the feedback Paul. I hunted an old house lot yesterday and the machine was reporting a suggested sensitivity reading of as low as 2. It was mostly suggesting levels in the 4 to 7 range - that's bad ground. I was running in Auto +3 but backed down to Auto. Dug a few marginal signals and recovered rusty nails. I was hoping for something good on one of those iffy signals but no luck.

I haven' t tried Recovery fast at this location so I think I'll give it a try thanks for the tip.

HH
 
Hi Atlas,

For that particular house site you hunted you need as fast recovery as possible, don't go after depth you need to get those weak masked signals commonly near the surface masked by iron or underground piping and such.

Continue using Auto, depending on masking and mineralizition use your judgment find the right sens settings and slow you swing when you hear those big objects. Those big Ferrous/piping objects are masking good targets.

I use Ferrous, hear all the iron when I hunt in fact with all my types of hunting from water to land. Truly beleive it strengthens the weaker signals, takes time for a hunter to get used to all the iron audio but in time its music to ones ears.

Wish I could be of more help, Good luck enjoy the CTX :thumbup:
Paul (Ca)
 
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