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Between the three W' (Work,Weather, & Wife) I've only been able to look at my detectors, but that changed yesterday.
Yesterday after we got the laundry done, I got the equipment together and we took off to one of my favorite schools to do some clad hunting. I have hunted all 9 of the various detectors I have used there and always found it a good place to learn them. The river sand is local and moderately mineralized and easy to practice pinpointing in.
I rigged up the Golden with the 8.5" coil for my wife. Its still a little heavy for her, but when we weigh the weight vs the ground coverage, she perfers the coverage. I ground balanced it for her (its modified) and right off the bat she found a quarter. <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> Unfortuantly, it was her only quarter. She is still new at this, and once I start her up, she heads to the playground equipment and starts beeping the poles <img src="/metal/html/angry.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":mad"> I pull her away, start her on a grid and before you can spell missisippi correctly, she's back beeping the poles <img src="/metal/html/cry.gif" border=0 width=40 height=15 alt=":cry">
I set the CoinStrike up with my new 10.5" coil that I got in the mail Sunday morning and stepped out in the sand, found a place to GB. The sand was damp from the thunderstorms and Tornados from Saterday evening. I thought I had left the Tornados behind when I left West Texas, but its a weird weather year and we had one yesterday here in Albuquerque. <img src="/metal/html/confused.gif" border=0 width=15 height=22 alt=":?"> No damage, but it scared a lot of people.
I set up with a 8 sens, and 0 thres and started gridding the sand. It really ran smooth here at this setting and I was supprised. I like the big coil. Its heavy, but its an eliptical concentric, major eliptical, which makes it like my favorite coil, the DD. I leave the nut a little loose and just let it glide atop the ground.
Sweep speed seems to be hard to pin down. Everyone said it requires a moderate sweep speed. What is the definition of moderate? I was sweeping about 3 feet per second and seemed to be doing ok. But later, I got signals that seemed to be trash responses in one area. I knew this area had to have come coins in it, and I went over it again much slower and started finding copper cents that didn't registar the first time over it. I really need to get the sweep spead defined.
Some odd readings. At this location, I got a number of high 40 readings that turned out to be weathered and shallow foil. Got several deep, and I mean deep, 35 signals that bounced to 51 or 73. I actually dug one of these down about 2-1/2 feet and came up with a major peice of rusted plate. After I covered that moon crater back up, I started raising the coil to see how strong the signal was after digging down a few inches to see if I wanted to continue.
I got to where I could tell my wife when I found a quarter before I dug it. One coin spill gave a jumpy number response, but I dug anyway and got 5 quarters out of a small area. These were all down about 5-6 inches and discolored by the sand, which means I had missed them on previous hunts. Which is not really suprising, since I mostly used the Golden/CleanSweep coil combo for clad vacuuming and it only gets down to about 4".
Take for the day was $4.49, a UPS hotwheel car, a token, and something else which escapes me at the moment <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> Learned some more about the CoinStrike.
Key take away from this clad hunt is to get the sweep speed figured out.
The wife got .27 cents. She just couldn't seem to stay on a grid. She did manage to pinpoint a copper lincoln all by herself in about 4" of ground by a tree and was able to probe it herself. That is great on her learning curve.
Happy CoinStriking <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
Yesterday after we got the laundry done, I got the equipment together and we took off to one of my favorite schools to do some clad hunting. I have hunted all 9 of the various detectors I have used there and always found it a good place to learn them. The river sand is local and moderately mineralized and easy to practice pinpointing in.
I rigged up the Golden with the 8.5" coil for my wife. Its still a little heavy for her, but when we weigh the weight vs the ground coverage, she perfers the coverage. I ground balanced it for her (its modified) and right off the bat she found a quarter. <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> Unfortuantly, it was her only quarter. She is still new at this, and once I start her up, she heads to the playground equipment and starts beeping the poles <img src="/metal/html/angry.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":mad"> I pull her away, start her on a grid and before you can spell missisippi correctly, she's back beeping the poles <img src="/metal/html/cry.gif" border=0 width=40 height=15 alt=":cry">
I set the CoinStrike up with my new 10.5" coil that I got in the mail Sunday morning and stepped out in the sand, found a place to GB. The sand was damp from the thunderstorms and Tornados from Saterday evening. I thought I had left the Tornados behind when I left West Texas, but its a weird weather year and we had one yesterday here in Albuquerque. <img src="/metal/html/confused.gif" border=0 width=15 height=22 alt=":?"> No damage, but it scared a lot of people.
I set up with a 8 sens, and 0 thres and started gridding the sand. It really ran smooth here at this setting and I was supprised. I like the big coil. Its heavy, but its an eliptical concentric, major eliptical, which makes it like my favorite coil, the DD. I leave the nut a little loose and just let it glide atop the ground.
Sweep speed seems to be hard to pin down. Everyone said it requires a moderate sweep speed. What is the definition of moderate? I was sweeping about 3 feet per second and seemed to be doing ok. But later, I got signals that seemed to be trash responses in one area. I knew this area had to have come coins in it, and I went over it again much slower and started finding copper cents that didn't registar the first time over it. I really need to get the sweep spead defined.
Some odd readings. At this location, I got a number of high 40 readings that turned out to be weathered and shallow foil. Got several deep, and I mean deep, 35 signals that bounced to 51 or 73. I actually dug one of these down about 2-1/2 feet and came up with a major peice of rusted plate. After I covered that moon crater back up, I started raising the coil to see how strong the signal was after digging down a few inches to see if I wanted to continue.
I got to where I could tell my wife when I found a quarter before I dug it. One coin spill gave a jumpy number response, but I dug anyway and got 5 quarters out of a small area. These were all down about 5-6 inches and discolored by the sand, which means I had missed them on previous hunts. Which is not really suprising, since I mostly used the Golden/CleanSweep coil combo for clad vacuuming and it only gets down to about 4".
Take for the day was $4.49, a UPS hotwheel car, a token, and something else which escapes me at the moment <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> Learned some more about the CoinStrike.
Key take away from this clad hunt is to get the sweep speed figured out.
The wife got .27 cents. She just couldn't seem to stay on a grid. She did manage to pinpoint a copper lincoln all by herself in about 4" of ground by a tree and was able to probe it herself. That is great on her learning curve.
Happy CoinStriking <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
"> ..HH, Bill