Fair

[daddyflea]

My local fair just ended last night and I was out hunting. I covered at least maybe 1/20th of the area and got tired. I found no old coins but I found a bunch that were from years past. Funny how a Detector likes them to be buried a couple years better than a fresh drop. I did not count them but I had only a couple hours to hunt and found more than I could hold in my hand. These were mainly quarters and Nickles as well. Found very few pennies or Dimes. Leads me to believe the locals are misreading the Quarters for buried cans and Cherry Picking ignoring the Nickles. My Cortez did fine except that it does not hit real hard on fresh drop Nickles. It likes the Nickles to be buried for a while to get a good hit. It is going to take me a while to cover this place and hopefully I will find at least a couple Rings.

I am seriously considering going to a Doughnut Coil for my Cortez. Just don't care for the Stock Coil mainly because of the Pin Point and size. Would this be wise?

 

[Hank68]

I haven't tried the 8" DC on my GU yet, I would think they work very close to each other but not sure, sounds like you have a great to hunt, good luck!

 

[mike5853]

Has the field been hunted much? The reason I ask is because I recently spent weeks hunting a 300' x 900' field and of the 600+ coins I found I would say maybe 20 coins were actually sitting on the surface. This told me this field had not really been hunted, or maybe they just weren't using a Tesoro.

 

[daddyflea]

Has the field been hunted much? The reason I ask is because I recently spent weeks hunting a 300' x 900' field and of the 600+ coins I found I would say maybe 20 coins were actually sitting on the surface. This told me this field had not really been hunted, or maybe they just weren't using a Tesoro.

Actually this is a fairly new location for the fair. The grounds have not been in use until about 5-6 years ago. Every year I see numerous metal detectors out there. Just not getting the good stuff I guess.