Couple of deep CZ6A finds

[tvr]

Found the two 50 cal shell casings with the CZ6A this past week in North Myrtle Beach, deep in the wet sand. Was hunting in autotone then switch to disc 0 to get an idea. Even at a good 18 inches down into the shell pack these big pieces of copper rang solid high tone all the way. After cleaning most of the encrustation off, one has clear stampings on the head of SL 43 which translates to made in 1943 in St. Louis. The other has faint markings of TW and I don't see any other markings. I think it would be about contemporary with the SL but made in Minneapolis.

The TW and SL are as follows:
TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota.
SL = St. Louis Ordnance Plant - St. Louis, Missouri.

The best find of the week was eyeballed by my wife. This is about the third big tooth she has found over the last couple years during visits to North Myrtle Beach.
Cheers,
tvr

 

[Steve O]

Nice, love that tooth. In case you don't know, you can max the sens when hunting auto-tune verses sens of 5 or 6 in disc.

 

[tvr]

Thanks! Wife loves that tooth too. She was so excited that she came searching for me to show off the tooth!

At the beach I have been running the CZ6A almost exclusively in autotune and then flip to disc to ID when I find a target. When in this mode, I run the sensitivity a little short of full, but not much. I set it where I get a nice low volume background threshold sound and set the volume at full to bring out the deep targets. When I flip to disc 0 to ID, I don't change any other settings, but I sweep the coil very slow in disc mode or the detector will false on the black sand streaks and have iron breaking high tone. A really slow sweep keeps the CZ6A pretty honest on the ID and away from falsing on the sand. Running in autotune with a high sensitivity setting in autotune seems to broaden the coil field too, effectively acting like a bigger coil. With the FZ-12 coil on the CZ6A ... well it is a sweet beach set up!
Cheers,
tvr