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Finally.....I Did My First Land Hunt With The AT Pro And I Tell You No Lies:smoke:

John-Edmonton

John-Edmonton

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After seeing all the great finds with the AT Pros out there, I needed a change from white mold hunting. I went and hunted an area which has been pounded to death by me and several others (honestly....I tell no lies) during the last 10+ years and managed to find many coins including 2 silver ones. Using the AT Pro for silver, copper and even Canadian clad is just too easy. :) Those tones are just simply the "BEST."

I hunted in Pro Mode, disc set at 40 with iron audio on except when there were just too many signals....

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And my second silver coin. Got to love the shine on a silver coin when it first comes out of the ground. The ground was mostly thawed, however there were still patches of snow around which I avoided.

Below are the totals from today....including the good, the bad and the ugly.
 
I like how it locks on with a solid signal when it is a good target. In U.S. coins a nickle is 52, dime is 81, penny is 75 and a quarter is 85 for a meter reading. 53 is always a pull tab and junk is scratchy with the meter jumping around on the numbers.
 
Glad to see your white mold is receding. It's going to be 95% here today. Want to trade?
 
Awesome job!!! You are right on the tones they are unmistakable. I love the scratchy tones. You can seperate the good from bad. I have dug very little junk in a trashy place. I may be mising some targets next to iron but as I learn the machine better I will dig these.
 
Bobbie said:
I like how it locks on with a solid signal when it is a good target. In U.S. coins a nickle is 52, dime is 81, penny is 75 and a quarter is 85 for a meter reading. 53 is always a pull tab and junk is scratchy with the meter jumping around on the numbers.
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Its been my experience that nickels are the hardest of the coins to ID, BUT if your not digging 53's your missing at least half of the 5 cent pieces!

"Blackie" likes to give tri-numbered VID's on nickles.......I've dug 50-51-52 in ascending order with a 90 % chance of a US nickel

My experience is that when you have 53-52-51 in decending order on the VID, you have 90% chance at a red nickel.......52-53-54 will give you a 50% shot at a nickel.

"Blackie" gets fooled sometimes with a 52-53-54-55 on half of a square pull tab, with the full square tabs being around 55-57.

I've dug between 3000 and 4000 Zincoln's (mid 1982 and newer) by weight and on the new cents its 75-76 on the VID decending nunbers as to the degradation of the coin........down to as low as 60!!

The older memorials with the predominately higher % of copper high tones and VID's on 80-81.

Dimes will go 81-82........I've dug many dimes that I thought were pennies, and vice versus. A steady 82 is almost always a dime, unless a sterling ring suddenly jumps out of the ground........surprise.......:rofl:

Normally quarters usually run the gauntlet of a tri-number VID of 85-86-87. It's rare for my "Blackie" to go on "point" on an 85 only for a quarter. I've had quarters run from 85 up to 89 and flash an occasional 92 as I walk the coil back to pinpoint. But you KNOW it's a quarter by the sound .......can't wait till daylight to hear the black metal hound hit a trail, then bark "treed"..........LOL

Two quarters on top of earch other will VID a solid 92 as will a Kennedy half dollar......Eisenhower dollars will VID 92-94

Gotta go it's cracking daylight and the early bird gets the coin :rofl: and we're calling for rain

HH

Quarterhorse
 
Well done John, super finds and, yes, silver always looks great coming out of the ground. Now that the weather is getting milder, good hunting for more silver with that outstanding AT Pro! :cheers: Mark
 
Two silvers great find this early in the season. :thumbup:
 
Just as soon as you hit dirt, you would be finding silver coins with the AT!! Personally, everywhere I hunt there is just too much iron to have Iron Audio on. Too distracting. You need to try the DD coil, much better target seperation that a concentric just won't give you. I just feel the AT was designed to work at it's peak with a DD on it. You might cover a little more ground and won't be bothered too much by bottlecaps and such, but I'm not so sure it will see past the iron like the DD does. Having dug coins and rings sitting almost under or next to screws and nails, the DD does a great job. Now, if that concentric will do the same job, I might get one, keep us informed if you find that to be the case.

PS: I'll try to send you a few degrees of temp up there to melt that snow, should be 97
 
Bobbie said:
I like how it locks on with a solid signal when it is a good target. In U.S. coins a nickle is 52, dime is 81, penny is 75 and a quarter is 85 for a meter reading. 53 is always a pull tab and junk is scratchy with the meter jumping around on the numbers.
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Nickles seem to vary from location to location for me. One day I dug six and they all were a solid 53. Two days later on another sports field nearby, I dug 17 nickles all reading 51. The common thing to both days is the nickles all hit rock solid with little variance. However I do wonder why the change. Ground balance maybe?

Jerry
 
It's all your fault BCD that I even went out. Your post with the two rings and that taco dime :lol: found at that place where you have pounded it to death with various machines did it! And you were so right, the AT Pro continues to amaze me also. A few degrees of warmth would really be appreciated! The expected high for today is 42....a long way from your broiling temp of 97
 
That scratchy tone "ROCKS!".....I never really got to experience it in the snow. Here's to a good 2011 AT Pro year!:beers:

John
 
It "does" lock on nicely on good targets. Of course that varies on Canadian clad depending on how much rust has appeared :rofl:

All those years of learning adventitious sounds from auscultating lungs with the stethoscope have sure transferred to quickly learning the good sounds from the headsets with metal detecting.

Cheers to 2011 :beers:
John
 
That's quite the mountain of nickels. Looks like you have your VDI's all figured out, memorized and in practice. Your results validate that too!

I Put My Money On "QUARTERHORSE BLACKIE"......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaR8PP755dA&NR=1
 
So many factors can play into the variance associated with discrimination..ground balance, mineralization, object orientation to the coil, other targets close to the target etc........the only way to find out is to dig it! :beers:
 
The spot I was hunting yesterday has power lines right above me and at full sensitivity it bickers a bit but still locks on to a target perfectly. I turned the sensitivity to half and she quieted right down. In the woodchips I am GB about 78 and in the grass 83.

Good luck. At Pro is everything I hoped it would be. Glad I did not get talked out of it!! Best machine I have ever used. :cheers:
 
It sure is a good machine......can't wait until I get another 50 hours on that baby and tell that baby what's under the coil instead of it telling me....:wiggle:
 
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