Saturday I had the chance to re-hunt the yard of an old framed farm house built approximately 1900. This was my 4th visit, but the first with the MXT.
I started with my 5.3 coil, relic mode, Iron ID (2 tone + all metal), GB running, just a little threshold, sensitivity at +1. Initially, I picked up a couple heavily corroded zincolns and a pair of Jefferson nickels for the early 80's, all less than 3". Not sure how I missed those. Then I moved under a large pine near the front gate, which is approximately the age of the home, where I had found a few wheaties on previous trips. A couple feet away from a previous find was a definite signal that I knew would be another wheatie. I did some signal comparison with both the prospecting and Coin/Jewelry modes. Prospecting said 10% chance iron. Iron ID has a smooth short sound approaching and going away. Target ID staying mostly in the low 70's. Pinpoint was good and from a solid 6" came a 1923-S wheatie with some pretty heavy corrosion on it. This find impressed me as the hard packed ground under the pine was dry bones, as usual.
After completing the area under the pine, I went back to the truck and switched to the 10DD coil to re-hunt the rest of the yard. I settled on Coin/Jewelry and proceeded to hunt. I removed several shallow square tabs I had intentionally left behind on previous visits. I also found some lead slag. I had three or four targets that bounced around visually, sounding a little broken but kept coming up into the low 70's. Curious, I dug them. All of these were rusty bottle caps. Over the next few hours, I had a couple finds from poor coverage on previous trips, newer clad. Then a wheatie. Then in an area between a pair of very old clothes line poles, which I had covered tightly during previous visits, I proceeded to find one deep wheatie after another for a total of nine. Wow, I didn't expect that.
All but a couple of the wheaties were co-locates and between 5" and 8". Most dated between 39 and 47. There was one 57. The rifle brass is a Winchester Repeating Arms Co. 45-70. Still a rookie with the MXT, I am impressed by its' ability, especially when batting clean up. I saved a few of the co-locate items for the photo.
With this many wheaties, I was wondering where the silver was? Over the years, I have figured an average of 5 wheaties to 1 silver coin. I had turned up a silver quarter on a previous visit, but nothing this time.
Happy Hunting
Rich (Utah)
I started with my 5.3 coil, relic mode, Iron ID (2 tone + all metal), GB running, just a little threshold, sensitivity at +1. Initially, I picked up a couple heavily corroded zincolns and a pair of Jefferson nickels for the early 80's, all less than 3". Not sure how I missed those. Then I moved under a large pine near the front gate, which is approximately the age of the home, where I had found a few wheaties on previous trips. A couple feet away from a previous find was a definite signal that I knew would be another wheatie. I did some signal comparison with both the prospecting and Coin/Jewelry modes. Prospecting said 10% chance iron. Iron ID has a smooth short sound approaching and going away. Target ID staying mostly in the low 70's. Pinpoint was good and from a solid 6" came a 1923-S wheatie with some pretty heavy corrosion on it. This find impressed me as the hard packed ground under the pine was dry bones, as usual.
After completing the area under the pine, I went back to the truck and switched to the 10DD coil to re-hunt the rest of the yard. I settled on Coin/Jewelry and proceeded to hunt. I removed several shallow square tabs I had intentionally left behind on previous visits. I also found some lead slag. I had three or four targets that bounced around visually, sounding a little broken but kept coming up into the low 70's. Curious, I dug them. All of these were rusty bottle caps. Over the next few hours, I had a couple finds from poor coverage on previous trips, newer clad. Then a wheatie. Then in an area between a pair of very old clothes line poles, which I had covered tightly during previous visits, I proceeded to find one deep wheatie after another for a total of nine. Wow, I didn't expect that.
All but a couple of the wheaties were co-locates and between 5" and 8". Most dated between 39 and 47. There was one 57. The rifle brass is a Winchester Repeating Arms Co. 45-70. Still a rookie with the MXT, I am impressed by its' ability, especially when batting clean up. I saved a few of the co-locate items for the photo.
With this many wheaties, I was wondering where the silver was? Over the years, I have figured an average of 5 wheaties to 1 silver coin. I had turned up a silver quarter on a previous visit, but nothing this time.
Happy Hunting
Rich (Utah)
Lots of uses for them.
Good to see your post. Hope all is well. HH, Nancy