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....we received a little snow last week that's been hanging around for a few days. Yesterday it got a little warmer and much to our surprise some of the ground wasn't frozen at the local spot! Digging was for the most part like normal, but there are some areas that are totally un-huntable.
I loaded the 4 kHz relic program and tried to stay in the "thawed" areas and out of the snow for last night. I wanted some solid hours with the new program to see if it could get to any deeper targets, and eventually wandered to an area Mike and I have done well in a few weeks back. It took almost 4 hours to get to the minty-fresh 1943 Merc, and the signal didn't have any particular nice sound to it. Was only about 7" deep, but sounded MUCH deeper for some reason! We dug our usual fill of flattened aluminum foil, and sometimes it just takes that long to finally dig a keeper from those "squeaker" targets!
After using the relic program for a while, and all the while toggling back to my other 4kHz program, I've come to like the deeper, more sensitive program far better for getting to the deep coins. You get a more "lively" picture of what's in the ground, and iron targets identify as such as long as the Disc is <10. When there's a small non-ferrous target present it really sticks out from the iron and ground noise much better IMO.
I've noticed two downsides to using this program....first and foremost - the machine is more sensitive to EMI. Sometimes I had to go back over an area, and initially I thought the "noisy" area was due to many targets in one spot. Re-checking the area without EMI made a difference - it's just something to work around, unfortunately. Secondly, the program is most suited to ferrous/non-ferrous identification - and as such sees flattened foil as a good target. However, had there been a coin mixed in with the foil the relic program would have almost certainly called it out...the Goodjuju program actually does a better job with aluminum rejection at depth and deep beavertails, pulltabs, etc - so there is a tradeoff....
Last signal of the night was next to a recently dug target - either one of Mike's or mine. I got a confident, soft hit that gave a 67-71 VDI right at the end of the hunt. Mike checked with the CTX and was getting a slightly bouncy, "indian cent" response, if I remember correctly it was 12-36....12-38.....sometimes 12-40. Both of our detectors read the target clearly, and at the 9" level the prize was an 1880 Indian cent - my oldest from this location!
If the ground stays pliable, there will be one more hunt for the year! Fingers are crossed that Mother Nature allows us to dig!
I loaded the 4 kHz relic program and tried to stay in the "thawed" areas and out of the snow for last night. I wanted some solid hours with the new program to see if it could get to any deeper targets, and eventually wandered to an area Mike and I have done well in a few weeks back. It took almost 4 hours to get to the minty-fresh 1943 Merc, and the signal didn't have any particular nice sound to it. Was only about 7" deep, but sounded MUCH deeper for some reason! We dug our usual fill of flattened aluminum foil, and sometimes it just takes that long to finally dig a keeper from those "squeaker" targets!
After using the relic program for a while, and all the while toggling back to my other 4kHz program, I've come to like the deeper, more sensitive program far better for getting to the deep coins. You get a more "lively" picture of what's in the ground, and iron targets identify as such as long as the Disc is <10. When there's a small non-ferrous target present it really sticks out from the iron and ground noise much better IMO.
I've noticed two downsides to using this program....first and foremost - the machine is more sensitive to EMI. Sometimes I had to go back over an area, and initially I thought the "noisy" area was due to many targets in one spot. Re-checking the area without EMI made a difference - it's just something to work around, unfortunately. Secondly, the program is most suited to ferrous/non-ferrous identification - and as such sees flattened foil as a good target. However, had there been a coin mixed in with the foil the relic program would have almost certainly called it out...the Goodjuju program actually does a better job with aluminum rejection at depth and deep beavertails, pulltabs, etc - so there is a tradeoff....
Last signal of the night was next to a recently dug target - either one of Mike's or mine. I got a confident, soft hit that gave a 67-71 VDI right at the end of the hunt. Mike checked with the CTX and was getting a slightly bouncy, "indian cent" response, if I remember correctly it was 12-36....12-38.....sometimes 12-40. Both of our detectors read the target clearly, and at the 9" level the prize was an 1880 Indian cent - my oldest from this location!
If the ground stays pliable, there will be one more hunt for the year! Fingers are crossed that Mother Nature allows us to dig!
