This has been the first time this year because of health issues and was able to swing for a hour before I was not able to get up and down. My arm got a little sore and neck started to bother me too being this is the first time i swung a GT since last summer. Went to a spot at a old school that has been worked to death by others, but I like these as there is not a lot of new coins to worry about and can concentrate on the weak and odd signals which is where the good stuff is. Set the sensitivity at 11 o'clock position and with the slight threshold in iron mask on and disc and seen where it was almost a solid null with the iron in the ground, so I slowed my swing up and listen to what ever tones I could find. Got a few false signals as i seen when I came at a different angle they were then a null and couldn't get them to repeat in more then one way, so i didn't dig them as it is hard to get up and down. Got a squeaker that read 176-177 and was repeatable if I move the coil slow and when I moved it fast over just that small area it started to sound better. Just for the heck of it I switched to auto sensitivity and got nothing at all, tried 3 o'clock position and still nothing at all, went back to me 11 o'clock position and got it back again, but faint and weak. at 176-177 that is a new penny, a older wheat in the teens or a IH penny normally, but being it was deeper I didn't expect a new penny, but you never know, so I felt a old wheatie or a IH penny. Dug down the lenght of my Lesche a plug and went in the hole with my S-1 Probe (that is the best accessory for the Sovereigns) and seen it was till in the hole and was a weaker reading so i went down another 3 inches and it got louder and felt it was about 2 more inches down. Took out a little more dirt and it was in the dirt now, so went though it and seen there was a wheat penny with a date of 1919. Got a couple new pennies and a new nickle that read right on 144-145 that was down 4 inches, then a nice 180 that wasn't that deep, but there was a null on each side of it, so felt it was a coin between to pieces of iron and was surprised as when I dug a plug I seen the edge of a dime and it was silver in color about 3 inches deep, so my first silver for the year a 1964 rosie. When it was in my pouch I swung the coil over the area and it was just a null of the iron, so I felt others missed this dime because their detectors probably averaged in the iron with the dime and gave a trash reading. This is why I love how the Sovereign works with the iron mask on and by going slower you are able to hear the good targets close to iron.
Picked up a few new coins, but nothing special and dug a few iffy ones I felt were trash, but not a 100% sure so I had to check them out and they were some beaver tails and a couple pieces of lead. Over all only 1 or 2 of the targets I dug i felt were good that turned out was trash items, so felt I had a good average today even though I haven't use a GT for a while, but it felt good to be swinging a GT and hearing that familiar tones i love to hear.
Rick
Picked up a few new coins, but nothing special and dug a few iffy ones I felt were trash, but not a 100% sure so I had to check them out and they were some beaver tails and a couple pieces of lead. Over all only 1 or 2 of the targets I dug i felt were good that turned out was trash items, so felt I had a good average today even though I haven't use a GT for a while, but it felt good to be swinging a GT and hearing that familiar tones i love to hear.
Rick
