Deepest target ever dug

[jd88047]

Depth is overrated because Im a old man and dont like digging. I usually hunt the first 5 inches or so. Any detector out there will hit that on a coin easily. Most finds are in that range.

While hitting a nickle at 8 inches is doable on my F75., I have not found the ID accurate after 5 inches. This may just may be my settings. I go by sound mostly. What blows about a coin on its side in pin pointing. The coin ends up in the side of the hole.

 

[calabash digger]

gotcha I see where your coming from, I'm hunting a lot of sites that have been killed by relic hunters so depth Is one advantaged I need to find a couple goodies they lefted behind.

 

[jd88047]

Exactly AJ, dig and rake the first foot or so. Just put he most sensitive coil you have on and run low sens on the detector.

 

[Herb Jones]

Sounds like a great topic.... post it up. I thought the finds would not be coins, but larger items... relics
Kinda surprised with all the deep Coins.... but I didn't ask specifically about coins
Because I assumed everyone's Finds would vary so much.

 

[Herb Jones]

Sounds like a great topic.... post it up. I thought the finds would not be coins, but larger items... relics
Kinda surprised with all the deep Coins.... but I didn't ask specifically about coins
Because I assumed everyone's Finds would vary so much.

 

[Blind Squirrel]

Howdy Herb Jones--

The deepest MEASURED GOOD TARGET that I dug was this Cavalry Officer's Sword Belt Plate of 1851-1874 that measured 14 inches. I was using my White's DFX with the stock 9.5 coil. Best of luck and...

Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel

 

[bugg]

I recently purchased a Rutus Alter 71 ( made in Poland) . I took it to a freshwater dry sandy beach for testing. Using the 11" dd stock coil, with the detector in deep mode, sensitivity at max, It ground balanced ok, I buried a silver half dollar at 20" , and this detector nails it. A Good dig me audio signal.

 

[Mark kus]

I dig clad dimes in sand on the beach up to 15 inches saltwater beaches etrac stock coil.

 

[happycamper08]

The deepest coin I have dug was a silver Roosevelt at 11" with an etrac wearing a 13" ultimate coil. It was early in the season so the ground was pretty wet and had a lot of clay in it.

 

[doc holiday232]

SOMEONE please tell the relic sites that I hunt that depth is over rated I heard that twice in the last week from fellow detectorist .Please tell us why depth is over rated feature on a machine?

Right on Calabash---I hunt Civil War shells and DEPTH is the only factor I consider on a detector. I do the ID'ing with my eyeballs.

 

[azsh07]

Well I wont refer to the deepest of all targets as I have dug some deep large pieces of brass and copper items....usually non keepers...plus i never actually measured them.

But there have been a few times that I was testing a detector or new coil combo...or back when I was doing videos for the AKA detectors I would have the time and take measurements.

One of the deepest coins I dug was a two cent piece that was just over 12 ". I was testing and doing videos using the Sorex Pro with the stock large coil and I was in very mild loam. Ground was damp but not wet. Target was repeatable coin signal but so weak had it been any deeper it would have been so iffy I would have missed it. Of course when I dug this coin it was late in the day and the camera battery was dead...figures.

I dug down carefull so as not to pull it up in the dirt pile and I used the pinpointer to keep making sure it was below the bottom soil in the hole. When I finally popped it up it was lying flat in the bottom and the indentation of the bottom side was still visible. Depending if you include the pine needle straw as depth or not it was just at around 13" deep from the top of the ground or about 11" if you discount the pine straw and use just soil. This weas one of those perfect conditions for dep[th...coin was l;ying flat...it was a decent sized copper coin and the ground was mild and damp. Not usually the case in my area.

The deepest small silver I have ever dug was a hand hammered silver cob...actually dug two in the same general area in two days. They came up at 11" and this was with the original version of the T2 with stock coil. Now this was 2 tone mode as I only use 2 tone mode on the T2. Ground is moderately mineralized. The signal was iffy...sounded like deep iron half the time and a coin the other half.

Now this area is loaded with deep small hand forged nails so one cannot dig all these type targets or you spend a lifetime digging nails. But this area was behind a colonial tavern that has given up a Pine Tree shilling as well as many other colonial silver coins. So...I will chase deep iffy targets if they will give me a 50% good hit at least.

SO I dug and out came the hand hammered cob...and a second one a day later. Again..these were iffy and I will say I also dug about 30 other similar targets that were mostly junk....so....

I will also say the Pine Tree was dug by my friend within 80 feet of the cobs with his original Explorer XS with stock 10" coil. I saw the hole...he only digs with a hand trowel and he dug for a good ten minutes to get his shilling....it was a good 12" down. Again this was a flunky signal.....he said he only dug it because he wasn't finding much that day...he figured what the heck....plus it was just odd enough to make him go back. He actually walked away from it but went back and kept sweeping ti until he convinced himself to dig it.

That's about the deepest coins I have dug or witnessed dug that I know how deep they were. Most times I dig a deep plug in fields or the woods and exact depth is tough as stuff gets tossed around in the dirt pile. Sure...I have dug 13" deep to get stuff many times but how deep it really was...well unless your careful it is a WAG.