Been out the last two mornings with the Simplex for a total of 9 hours of hunting time. Save for one good hit, everything else good was cents and clad, along with 2 wheat cents. Oldest of these was 1936.
First off, this site is a blanket of trash and has seen activity since the Union occupied Memphis, back in Civil War times. Bullets, buttons and coins from that past era up to present have been recovered over the years.
While I ran through all the modes, I hunted mainly in park 1. Ran sen of 6 yesterday and about 50/50 % between sen 6 & 7 this morning. As has been mentioned, there is a slight background clutter noise in 7 sen. No emi issues anywhere throughout the park, though, and did hunt along a power line that runs on one side of the park. In fact, that is where I recovered the one good target, a 8 gram sterling silver ring with a nice glass chip. It locked on 88-90 reading, but had a slight click to it. Upon inspection, the band was broken. It was maybe 4" deep, at most.
This morning, I decided to run with iron volume off. Supposedly, one might get a little more depth with it off. Don't know yet, though.
Over all, I have recovered a total of 31 coins these first two outings. Including the 2 wheats. Have also dug several crushed bottle caps that read and sounded (pretty) good. Most were suspected to be that, though. They have a little bigger feel to them and with careful listening give a slight click when coming off the edges. There were a few other various trash items, too, as with any new detector, we dig more iffy, iffy, targets.
Not a lot of coins, but this place has been pounded for years. Four of us just this year have spent numerous outings on the spot....as from time to time it still gives up a silver coin here and there along with old nickels and pretty good numbers of wheat cents. 4 silver rings have also been recovered that I know of. I've recovered 12 silver coins from it myself, including a 63 Franklin and a 40% 70 Kennedy. Detectors used, 3 ctx 3030's, a F 75, an Omega 8000, two A T Pro's, and a Deus and Equinox 800, just by my buddies and I. So, coins in general don't come easy from it. Thus, I am quite pleased with the Simplex's performance.
So far I have only used the S P 24 coil and I am more then impressed with its and detectors separation ability. All I can say is its almost amazing. Have to now see what the larger coil can do.
So far I have dug nothing deep. 5" possibly on 1 of the wheaties. Not inthralled with the head phones thus far, but plan to play with the volume next time out. And, some of the other modes as well. ANYBODY USING DIFFERENT HEAD PHONES THAT THEY LIKE?
So far I really like the Simplex and again, am really impressed with its ability to hunt in trash/iron. (Sorry, didn't mean to make this post a book.) HH jim tn
First off, this site is a blanket of trash and has seen activity since the Union occupied Memphis, back in Civil War times. Bullets, buttons and coins from that past era up to present have been recovered over the years.
While I ran through all the modes, I hunted mainly in park 1. Ran sen of 6 yesterday and about 50/50 % between sen 6 & 7 this morning. As has been mentioned, there is a slight background clutter noise in 7 sen. No emi issues anywhere throughout the park, though, and did hunt along a power line that runs on one side of the park. In fact, that is where I recovered the one good target, a 8 gram sterling silver ring with a nice glass chip. It locked on 88-90 reading, but had a slight click to it. Upon inspection, the band was broken. It was maybe 4" deep, at most.
This morning, I decided to run with iron volume off. Supposedly, one might get a little more depth with it off. Don't know yet, though.
Over all, I have recovered a total of 31 coins these first two outings. Including the 2 wheats. Have also dug several crushed bottle caps that read and sounded (pretty) good. Most were suspected to be that, though. They have a little bigger feel to them and with careful listening give a slight click when coming off the edges. There were a few other various trash items, too, as with any new detector, we dig more iffy, iffy, targets.
Not a lot of coins, but this place has been pounded for years. Four of us just this year have spent numerous outings on the spot....as from time to time it still gives up a silver coin here and there along with old nickels and pretty good numbers of wheat cents. 4 silver rings have also been recovered that I know of. I've recovered 12 silver coins from it myself, including a 63 Franklin and a 40% 70 Kennedy. Detectors used, 3 ctx 3030's, a F 75, an Omega 8000, two A T Pro's, and a Deus and Equinox 800, just by my buddies and I. So, coins in general don't come easy from it. Thus, I am quite pleased with the Simplex's performance.
So far I have only used the S P 24 coil and I am more then impressed with its and detectors separation ability. All I can say is its almost amazing. Have to now see what the larger coil can do.
So far I have dug nothing deep. 5" possibly on 1 of the wheaties. Not inthralled with the head phones thus far, but plan to play with the volume next time out. And, some of the other modes as well. ANYBODY USING DIFFERENT HEAD PHONES THAT THEY LIKE?
So far I really like the Simplex and again, am really impressed with its ability to hunt in trash/iron. (Sorry, didn't mean to make this post a book.) HH jim tn
