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Last week Mike and I went to one of our usual spots and hunted for several hours....that particular hunt yielded a surprise Merc, and 1920 Wheat, and an old cufflink as well as the normal amount of foil, deep iron, etc. It seems we've been a little "off" recently - we haven't really been hitting the number of good targets we've been used to - until last night's hunt! 
So last night we started off in an area we haven't hunted as intently as some other parts, and soon we were finding beavertails and the occasional bent nail. It wouldn't pick up until about halfway through the hunt, when I cornered a 1911 D Wheat with some good remaining details. Once I found that coin, it seemed that others around it became eager to get released from their long underground stay!
Both Mike and I eventually gravitated towards the area that started producing coins for both of us, and things really started taking off once we started concentrating on a small 20-foot square area that apparently neither one of us had hunted before! Near the end of the hunt Mike rejoiced in finding a sweet Barber dime, and I had a good hit at the bottom of my hole that turned out to be a 1901 Barber dime - we had found silver at the same time!
I tried something a little different for this hunt - not only did we hunt on previously unhunted (by us) ground, but I changed GB settings slightly to try and ward off the pesky aluminum bits at depth. My settings were:
4kHz
Sens 80
Full Tones
Disc 2.0
Notch 00-28, 97-99
Reactivity 2
Silencer 2
Iron Volume 0
Audio Response 2
GB 90
Notch Ground 85-90
I was hoping that GB = 90 would reduce the aluminum fringe hits - those pesky beavertails and wadded up foil balls. It DID however quiet down the detector, but at one point EMI became so bothersome I had to change to an 8kHz program with higher GB settings. I did manage to pull two Indians using 8kHz settings, and they sounded like "ticks" when I swept the coil over them.
All coins dug were 7-8" deep, and I remember at least one Wheat and one Indian was living with several nails in the same hole. I remember digging a strange-sounding target, first finding a nail, then a bent nail, and then much to my surprise a 1906 Indian was under the junk!
Right at the end of the hunt, I told Mike that I was digging "one more coin", as it was getting close to quitting time. I joked that it would be nice if it were a Seated coin, and we both laughed. But lo and behold - from about 7.5" down I saw a silver rim and saw "One Dime" on the reverse, flipped it over to see a 1891 Seated dime - stained with rust - staring back at me! What are the odds?!
Mike found his own share of fantastic coins - and I'll let him chime in for those. Next week we have a hot date with the same area of paydirt!
So last night we started off in an area we haven't hunted as intently as some other parts, and soon we were finding beavertails and the occasional bent nail. It wouldn't pick up until about halfway through the hunt, when I cornered a 1911 D Wheat with some good remaining details. Once I found that coin, it seemed that others around it became eager to get released from their long underground stay!
Both Mike and I eventually gravitated towards the area that started producing coins for both of us, and things really started taking off once we started concentrating on a small 20-foot square area that apparently neither one of us had hunted before! Near the end of the hunt Mike rejoiced in finding a sweet Barber dime, and I had a good hit at the bottom of my hole that turned out to be a 1901 Barber dime - we had found silver at the same time!
I tried something a little different for this hunt - not only did we hunt on previously unhunted (by us) ground, but I changed GB settings slightly to try and ward off the pesky aluminum bits at depth. My settings were:
4kHz
Sens 80
Full Tones
Disc 2.0
Notch 00-28, 97-99
Reactivity 2
Silencer 2
Iron Volume 0
Audio Response 2
GB 90
Notch Ground 85-90
I was hoping that GB = 90 would reduce the aluminum fringe hits - those pesky beavertails and wadded up foil balls. It DID however quiet down the detector, but at one point EMI became so bothersome I had to change to an 8kHz program with higher GB settings. I did manage to pull two Indians using 8kHz settings, and they sounded like "ticks" when I swept the coil over them.
All coins dug were 7-8" deep, and I remember at least one Wheat and one Indian was living with several nails in the same hole. I remember digging a strange-sounding target, first finding a nail, then a bent nail, and then much to my surprise a 1906 Indian was under the junk!
Right at the end of the hunt, I told Mike that I was digging "one more coin", as it was getting close to quitting time. I joked that it would be nice if it were a Seated coin, and we both laughed. But lo and behold - from about 7.5" down I saw a silver rim and saw "One Dime" on the reverse, flipped it over to see a 1891 Seated dime - stained with rust - staring back at me! What are the odds?!
Mike found his own share of fantastic coins - and I'll let him chime in for those. Next week we have a hot date with the same area of paydirt!
