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Now that I have relocated to much better soil here in Kansas and far away from that devil soil in Alabama, I am looking forward to finally finding some deeper silver.
It was so frustrating to work so hard to find that deep stuff in my old home that I just turned into a jewelry hunter.
Much easier and much less frustrating for me.
Got the Compadre to help in that effort, and it found me some nice gold and silver in sites that I know I have gone over with other detectors.
Sniffed out some nice silver for me again yesterday, my first for the new year.
Hit a local park a few miles up the road for just a short hunt, and I found this very nice bracelet about 2 inches down in this beautiful black dirt.
As you know, or should, bracelets and necklaces are tough to find with most detectors.
The links diffuse the return signal and confuse our detectors, even broken rings will cut way down on depth vs. solid non-broken ones, and you can check out 53Silver's video about that little fact.
On targets with links, unless you are lucky enough to zero in on the clasps, these can be almost invisible to us, but not to the Compadre if you know how to use it.
At first I tried to hunt using Slingshots method of setting the disc on iron, but I am a thumber thanks to my experience with my Vaquero, and it drives me batty knowing I am losing even that little bit of depth when you move the disc knob from all metal up to iron.
I hunt in all metal to get the deepest and clearest signals, thumb up past the area where the signal fades out and then back down to where it comes back in, a much more accurate way to figure out these target areas than the directions tell you to on the Tesoro manuals.
Yesterday, I was at this park and I had been digging everything from iron on up, so you know my trash pouch was filled with tabs, can slaw and those tiny little bits of foil that sound so nice in the iron settings.
This target was like the others...found in all metal, thumbed up and back down and looked at the knob and it was pointing right at the O in iron.
A slight turn up to the N and it was really broken, just past the N it was gone.
Expected another piece of foil but when I flipped the plug there was the end of this nice little chain hanging out and it was full and complete when I finally extracted it from the dirt.
Nice!
Kinda small and fine, won't even fit around my wrist, but not too small for the Compadre to find!
Love this detector...so glad I have it in the arsenal!
HH
It was so frustrating to work so hard to find that deep stuff in my old home that I just turned into a jewelry hunter.
Much easier and much less frustrating for me.
Got the Compadre to help in that effort, and it found me some nice gold and silver in sites that I know I have gone over with other detectors.
Sniffed out some nice silver for me again yesterday, my first for the new year.
Hit a local park a few miles up the road for just a short hunt, and I found this very nice bracelet about 2 inches down in this beautiful black dirt.
As you know, or should, bracelets and necklaces are tough to find with most detectors.
The links diffuse the return signal and confuse our detectors, even broken rings will cut way down on depth vs. solid non-broken ones, and you can check out 53Silver's video about that little fact.
On targets with links, unless you are lucky enough to zero in on the clasps, these can be almost invisible to us, but not to the Compadre if you know how to use it.
At first I tried to hunt using Slingshots method of setting the disc on iron, but I am a thumber thanks to my experience with my Vaquero, and it drives me batty knowing I am losing even that little bit of depth when you move the disc knob from all metal up to iron.
I hunt in all metal to get the deepest and clearest signals, thumb up past the area where the signal fades out and then back down to where it comes back in, a much more accurate way to figure out these target areas than the directions tell you to on the Tesoro manuals.
Yesterday, I was at this park and I had been digging everything from iron on up, so you know my trash pouch was filled with tabs, can slaw and those tiny little bits of foil that sound so nice in the iron settings.
This target was like the others...found in all metal, thumbed up and back down and looked at the knob and it was pointing right at the O in iron.
A slight turn up to the N and it was really broken, just past the N it was gone.
Expected another piece of foil but when I flipped the plug there was the end of this nice little chain hanging out and it was full and complete when I finally extracted it from the dirt.
Nice!
Kinda small and fine, won't even fit around my wrist, but not too small for the Compadre to find!
Love this detector...so glad I have it in the arsenal!
HH
