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Explorer comes out on top with 40 silvers

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Ended up with:
33 silver dimes...all roosies 1 merc
7 silver quarters
9 dollar coins 7 sacs 2 Susan B's
6 bags of jewelry
My buddy came in 2nd on dimes with 26 silver dimes using his Fisher CZ-7.
Club hunts kinda feel like cheating but they are sill great fun. Didn't get any tokens but was running IM-10 Sens-8 and swinging almost as fast as a weedwacker and targets were hittin sweet.
Thanks Black Swamp Metal detecting club for planting the huge handfulls of silver for me to find!!!
HH,
Greg
P.S. Not bad considering it was 2 bucks to hunt and club dues are only $10 a year!! <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
 
And not sure I will. I've been to a couple and it is almost painful to see those big piles of silver coins and how little was paid to acquire them.
Makes me wonder(even more than usual) about the hours spent tracking down the organic free range silver. But I still get a chuckle and a woody when I pop out a barber or seated.
Chris
 
First let me say congragulation on your hunt..Those that excell at these hunts use a light, easy to pinpoint detector that is quick and has a frequency changer on it..Explorer is definetly overkill for a planted hunt...sort of like hunting rabbits with a 50 caliber machine gun..but again whatever works...
 
I did better than average, but I'll tell you where the Explorer really shined. After the hunt was over (there were three hunts), I went back over the field during the intermissions and found about 25 silvers that were missed (got about 140 silvers for the whole hunt). Hard to imagine how coins could be missed in clean fields but they were because the coins were planted just a bit on the deep side, and if someone was in a hurry to dig it up and knocked it on edge, the signals disappears or gets ratty for many detectors and it was left behind. All but one were dimes. The 10" coil niffed em and the X-1 probe zoomed right in.
 
The way they buried the targets was with a knife and cut an angled slit so many of the coins were on edge or had to be hit at certain angles to get a clear reading. I noticed it threw alot of people of on their pinpointing and they had dug off to the side of the coin and filled it. They also only plant about 2 inches deep so I nailed 90% of'em with the X1.
I'm going to try a big hunt sometime and hopefully I'll have a WOT by then <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
HH,
Greg
 
Thanks Dan, I'll probably never get into competetion hunts seriously but I was swinging the XS like a madman and covering some serious ground with it. Didn't have any interference with Sens@8 and everything went real smooth although I did did a few 8" targets that I knew weren't plants but couldn't pass them up as it is a very old patch of ground <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
If the XS's weight isn't a problem for you I think it's an excellent comp. hunt detector. My arm did get a little tired when the finds were getting slimmer but didn't slow medown none <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
 
I love the WOT. But I have 3 other coils and I keep finding stuff with each of them. Cant make my mind up whats what. The best thing about the WOT is that if you cherry pick deep and good ID targets, your keeper to clad/trash ratio will be much much better. I have walked away from 4 hour hunts with only 15 or 20 targets in my pouch. I'd say 5 of them were keepers.
Rgds, bing
 
This is the main reason I prefer the stock 10 12 over the 8"+5" coils I had. Depth and the oldies is what I am mainly after but when I do an old homestead anymore I dig out all the clad and surface trash in case there is targets hiding underneath.
So basically do you think the WOT could manage well at these type sites tht usually have a bunch of nails and will still keep a half ways decent threshold and pull out the deep goodies better than the stock?
I plan on getting one someday and this question will either make it a sooner buy or a later one.
Thanks and HH,
Greg
 
The WOT is able to ID targets in the textbook range up to at least 12 inches. I feel that the 8 inch coil will start to ID the good stuff as iron around 6 or so inches. The stock coil will do the same around 8 inches.
The ranges will change depending on the mineralization of the soil. These are according to my personal experience.
Rgds, bing
 
and kung fu style rocks. I don't do parks and actually rip a place apart as much as the property owner will let me. I have a couple spots where I am seriously thinking of getting his permission to use some heavy equipment and beat the place to pieces <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> Funny but I'm quite serious.
and yes I would head butt, check, punch, kick, and pull the hair of any poor soul that gets in the way of my green cruddy crusty Colonial copper coin. <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
 
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