F75 and old fairgrounds

[jim tn]

I had the occasion to put in about 20 hours on a 113 year old fairgrounds with the F75 while vacationing up in Minnesota last week. I actually have been hunting this old grounds for close to 20 year's while vacationing up there annually, having used several detectors including a couple of cz's, but in recent year's it had began to become kind of frugal. The site is definately trashy and many of the targets are now quite deep. (7-12") GB was usually 72-78 with .03 to .3 showing on the feo scale, as the norm. Although I tried different settings, I pretty much settled in on sen. 75, disc. 5, de process and 2f tones. (I don't use notch) All in all, I recovered 3 IH cents, 7 silver coins, 2 Wash. quarters, 3 Merc. and 2 Rosie dimes, 19 wheat cents, 1 Buffalo nickel and a yet to be determined foreign coin, plus $4.57 in clad. The small coil found 2 of the IH cents, 3 dimes and 1 quarter. Both IH's were 6-7" as was one of the dimes. My deepest find was with the large dd coil. It hit a quarter at 12" and id'ed 83-84. The IH's id'ed from 57-63. Thanks for reading, HH jim tn

 

[Elton]

Nice digs

 

[RonNH]

That's what I found out when I got to know my machine, I could go over hunted-hard sites and still get some keepers. Excellent job at that Fairgrounds, there should be more there and they won't hide from the F75 for long. RonNH

 

[jim tn]

Thanks Ron, when I first started hunting that fairgrounds about 17 year's ago, I am pretty sure it had never had a serious hunting, before. A few silvers, a couple of IH's, numerous wheaties and the occasional v and buffalo nickel, were fairly common place each outing for several year's. It is a old rural site laying beside a small town of about 3000 population, the biggest town in the county. In recent year's, though, I have run into a couple locals that hunt it. Fortunately, not with F75's, though. HH jim tn