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Had some unusually warm February weather today so I took advantage of this and headed to a homesite not quite a mile from home earlier tonight. I've pulled a couple silvers from there on the last two hunts and a few Wheats as well, along with three rabies and dog tax tokens. This place has good appeal to me being so close to home, and the search area is roughly a 50 ft box with short grass. Started the hunt in trusty 12 khz using the "std rental program" which seems to work well in most places.
Dug a few small pieces of aluminum at first, then a zipper...it seemed like good targets were really thinning out after the last hunt some weeks back, but then suddenly I happened upon a moderate "89-90" near one of the corners of the lot. It sounded a lot like a bottlecap, so I toggled to 4 khz and got "75-76". Definitely going after that one...I remember thinking. About 5" deep I saw a small reeded edge - this Merc looked like the other one found not 20 feet away previously...not too lustrous but dull and grey, but not bad for the first coin of the hunt!
After a while of digging more aluminum, I happened upon an "82" that had a nice round sound...I saw the disc in the hole but didn't pay it much attention...was on a mission to glean a few more coins out of this place! This turned out to be a 1937 rabies vaccination tag and in good shape considering aluminum in our soil tends to not fare well over the years - not sure where and when I found the 1948 Shelby Co dog tax token - it looked like aluminum trash to me but it all gets sorted out later, leading to some pleasant surprises most of the time!
Found a curious piece of asphalt that produced a jumpy 90-93 reading - I was really hoping somehow another Merc would be cemented inside this stone, but instead a flattened bottlecap was the culprit
Was about to wrap it up after 2 hours of searching, but then a faint "85" turned into a 7" Wheat dated 1918. Great! There were areas of easy soft ground and inches away was gravel, and the last Wheat came from a gravel layer about 6" deep mixed in with some iron trash. I had to go very slow to catch those Wheats - investigate anything that even halfway sounds good...rescan and once the detector "hooks" the target -AND- if it's a roundish object the audio will improve if you get directly over it almost every time. A lot of times notched round targets will try to "come out of notch" via the audio...I've pulled a couple cool tokens this way from time to time - something about discs and rings the Deus really can't quite let go of once you get the coil over these types of targets. Nickels are notorious for this as well, regardless of the frequency.
Have a number of houses lined up for Monday and plan to get some video shot as well! Can't wait to get out again
Dug a few small pieces of aluminum at first, then a zipper...it seemed like good targets were really thinning out after the last hunt some weeks back, but then suddenly I happened upon a moderate "89-90" near one of the corners of the lot. It sounded a lot like a bottlecap, so I toggled to 4 khz and got "75-76". Definitely going after that one...I remember thinking. About 5" deep I saw a small reeded edge - this Merc looked like the other one found not 20 feet away previously...not too lustrous but dull and grey, but not bad for the first coin of the hunt!
After a while of digging more aluminum, I happened upon an "82" that had a nice round sound...I saw the disc in the hole but didn't pay it much attention...was on a mission to glean a few more coins out of this place! This turned out to be a 1937 rabies vaccination tag and in good shape considering aluminum in our soil tends to not fare well over the years - not sure where and when I found the 1948 Shelby Co dog tax token - it looked like aluminum trash to me but it all gets sorted out later, leading to some pleasant surprises most of the time!
Found a curious piece of asphalt that produced a jumpy 90-93 reading - I was really hoping somehow another Merc would be cemented inside this stone, but instead a flattened bottlecap was the culprit
Was about to wrap it up after 2 hours of searching, but then a faint "85" turned into a 7" Wheat dated 1918. Great! There were areas of easy soft ground and inches away was gravel, and the last Wheat came from a gravel layer about 6" deep mixed in with some iron trash. I had to go very slow to catch those Wheats - investigate anything that even halfway sounds good...rescan and once the detector "hooks" the target -AND- if it's a roundish object the audio will improve if you get directly over it almost every time. A lot of times notched round targets will try to "come out of notch" via the audio...I've pulled a couple cool tokens this way from time to time - something about discs and rings the Deus really can't quite let go of once you get the coil over these types of targets. Nickels are notorious for this as well, regardless of the frequency.
Have a number of houses lined up for Monday and plan to get some video shot as well! Can't wait to get out again
Good luck on your Monday hunt.