Hey Everyone,
Hope things is well.
On this end there is a huge wave of excitement.
For me last week was most fortuitous. Managed to get out detecting monday thru saturday.
Tuesday was my first three silver coin day. That was and is really exciting. The dates were interesting to me as well 36' 63' 63'.
Friday a friend told me of a lost nugget bracelet in his front yard which i was unable to locate...felt i did a fair job on the search,
my guess is that it was found or not lost where thought. sliced the tip of my finger on a small piece of sheet metal in the bottom of one hole. that sucked.
Saturday.....Now that is the humdinger.
Saturday I hooked up with a detecting buddy to try out an older park that the local club thankfully no longer seems interested in.
My friend told me he and a couple of friends recently have pulled out a couple pieces of silver from this park.
So i figured what the heck lets see if we can get lucky.
Well the weeds were a bit high and there was a small patch of low grass that we gravitated towards. Figured to work that area and see what happens.
In twenty minutes i managed one zinc cent.
Fifteen minutes some screw caps and old pull tabs later the GTI 25OO gave a nice first pass two way bell tone. It was deep beyond depth recognition and i want
to say it showed size B once and notched somewhere on twenty five and then fifty cent.Only briefly and only on the first pass...(more often than not this is a junk id)
I had a real hard time pinpointing or even getting a consistent signal after the first pass but i was interested in testing the depth of the Garrett...Lately I've really been torn about not knowing what this machine is cabable of and a bit on the fence about my future with it.
So after the first pass and with the general lack of targets i figured to pull the handle and dig...after about four inches my buddy was near and i asked him to run his machine over the hole.
He was using one of the most popular down under machines out right now. He could not get a target reading out of the hole. The most he could deduce was that there was a piece of metal there somewhere.
The pro pointer still hadn't made contact and having come this far i figured to dig the depth of the digger at least. Well a couple more inches of dirt and finally the pointer let me know
something was at the bottom of the hole and near. With the blade of the Lesche buried to the hilt i tried to dig around the target since the pointer told me i was near center.
This was the moment of brainfart. As I tried to clear the side of the hole I saw what appeard to be an old mucked up aluminum two litre cap slide out from the edge. My little bird egg in the bottom of the hole turned out to be a large 1919 Walking Liberty chicken egg!
I just knew that i cracked the egg and just sat for a second staring in the hole...hoping it was a two litre cap.
Couldn't tell you if i ever remember feeling so thrilled and anguished at the same time.
There went my submission to best finds and a great tale of the Garrett winning the heads up with another top of the line detector.
All in all, i still consider it a great find and another equally great lesson for the future...(when i come across that silver dollar)
The Garrett has proven its mettle and i shall be staying on its side of the fence for a while.
Enjoy the pic and Happy Hunting! [attachment 161932 046.JPG]
P.S. I seem to have screwed up the settings on my camera and the files are too large to upload...if i can figure it out in the next couple days i will post some better pics.
P.S.S. was using GTI 25OO with the stock coil and factory coin setting.
Hope things is well.
On this end there is a huge wave of excitement.
For me last week was most fortuitous. Managed to get out detecting monday thru saturday.
Tuesday was my first three silver coin day. That was and is really exciting. The dates were interesting to me as well 36' 63' 63'.
Friday a friend told me of a lost nugget bracelet in his front yard which i was unable to locate...felt i did a fair job on the search,
my guess is that it was found or not lost where thought. sliced the tip of my finger on a small piece of sheet metal in the bottom of one hole. that sucked.
Saturday.....Now that is the humdinger.
Saturday I hooked up with a detecting buddy to try out an older park that the local club thankfully no longer seems interested in.
My friend told me he and a couple of friends recently have pulled out a couple pieces of silver from this park.
So i figured what the heck lets see if we can get lucky.
Well the weeds were a bit high and there was a small patch of low grass that we gravitated towards. Figured to work that area and see what happens.
In twenty minutes i managed one zinc cent.
Fifteen minutes some screw caps and old pull tabs later the GTI 25OO gave a nice first pass two way bell tone. It was deep beyond depth recognition and i want
to say it showed size B once and notched somewhere on twenty five and then fifty cent.Only briefly and only on the first pass...(more often than not this is a junk id)
I had a real hard time pinpointing or even getting a consistent signal after the first pass but i was interested in testing the depth of the Garrett...Lately I've really been torn about not knowing what this machine is cabable of and a bit on the fence about my future with it.
So after the first pass and with the general lack of targets i figured to pull the handle and dig...after about four inches my buddy was near and i asked him to run his machine over the hole.
He was using one of the most popular down under machines out right now. He could not get a target reading out of the hole. The most he could deduce was that there was a piece of metal there somewhere.
The pro pointer still hadn't made contact and having come this far i figured to dig the depth of the digger at least. Well a couple more inches of dirt and finally the pointer let me know
something was at the bottom of the hole and near. With the blade of the Lesche buried to the hilt i tried to dig around the target since the pointer told me i was near center.
This was the moment of brainfart. As I tried to clear the side of the hole I saw what appeard to be an old mucked up aluminum two litre cap slide out from the edge. My little bird egg in the bottom of the hole turned out to be a large 1919 Walking Liberty chicken egg!
I just knew that i cracked the egg and just sat for a second staring in the hole...hoping it was a two litre cap.
Couldn't tell you if i ever remember feeling so thrilled and anguished at the same time.
There went my submission to best finds and a great tale of the Garrett winning the heads up with another top of the line detector.
All in all, i still consider it a great find and another equally great lesson for the future...(when i come across that silver dollar)
The Garrett has proven its mettle and i shall be staying on its side of the fence for a while.
Enjoy the pic and Happy Hunting! [attachment 161932 046.JPG]
P.S. I seem to have screwed up the settings on my camera and the files are too large to upload...if i can figure it out in the next couple days i will post some better pics.
P.S.S. was using GTI 25OO with the stock coil and factory coin setting.
Nice !!
A lot of these companies wish they had Garrett's "old" technology.
Nice pics!
Thanks for sharing!
Happy Hunting!