CW, colonial, old silver and G2 glitch found

[sekypaleo]

Hello all, a little late in getting this posted as these finds are from 3 days of hunting my colonial/CW relic site down south over the Memorial weekend. Two stand-out finds.... an 1891 seated dime, an 1843 Mexican 1/4 real along with lead, flat buttons and more. G2 glitched out on me again on the second day. Turned it off and set it down for a few minutes, turned back on....back to normal. One hour into 3rd days hunt, it REALLY went insane...display also blinking "overload" even with coil held up in the air. Wiggled on cable connection into coil...problem came and went, switched to AM set threshold and can tap coil with my hand and it sounds off. Called Tek....bad coil....it's on it's way back to them. Anybodi know how fast their turn around is? I absolutely LOVE my G2...best darn detector I have used in 30 years.. Sucks to have a coil go bad on a 3 month old detector though. Thanks for looking.

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Fisher is very fast about turnaround. I would expect a week or so.

 

[sgoss66]

Very, very cool finds. Too bad about your coil, but I have had good experiences with the Fisher/Tek repair shop, as Bart mentioned.

What is the "octagonal prism" looking thing in your hand in that one pic?

Steve

 

[sekypaleo]

Heh Steve, honestly I don't know. It is a brass container that I "think" held either matches or sewing needles. I have dug a soldiers matchcase from the CW and they have a spring loaded top and a larger and oval in shape...i am leaning towards sewing needles. I would love to open it and see if anything is inside, but the top is rusted on and I would have to destroy it to get it open...I think it's kinda cool so I dont really want to do that. Bill

 

[sgoss66]

Yep, it IS very cool, Bill! Nice job too on that Seated, and the Reale -- WOW!

Steve

 

[sekypaleo]

Thanks Steve, I got very lucky discovering this site, it has produced like none other for me.

 

[Ken in Georgia]

Nice very nice WTG!

 

[sekypaleo]

Thanx Ken!

 

[pasttom]

This might be a good time to see how fast Bart can get you a 5 in dd. Couldn't hurt to have a back-up, plus it should get you hunting sooner. I use mine far more that my 11. It is just so much faster to locate a target and dig it out. Of course it 'sees' better in trash AND I am just not seeing deep stuff with either coil, so I don't feel I am giving up anything going small. I also feel better knowing I am able to go back over 95% of where I hunt later with a deeper setup.
Tom

 

[sgoss66]

pasttom --

I'm surprised to hear you are not seeing "deep" stuff. I find this machine quite deep. ESPECIALLY in all-metals mode. 10" coins are not a problem in AM, a 12" is not out of the question...

Steve

 

[JimGilmore]

It is likely that there are no deep items....
I have seen many parks that had nothing deep because the soil gets little water and the heat keeps the soil dry.

 

[Ken in Georgia]

Remember, that the detector will see silver easier when the ground is dry, and lower conductors when the ground is wet.

 

[amberjack]

maybe its like me so much junk around cant get through it? junk city but thats where it works best.

but i do agree with Steve in the right place it will find deep stuff "not so much junk" and in all metal mode.