Well, I finally made it out for my first detecting trip with my new GT. I went out to a local honey hole for clad. Lots of clad in this particular park but mostly don't detect it because of the many winos that sleep and linger around all morning. Anyway, the GT felt good. I had my little chart with me for my 180 meter. Needless to say I was beyond pleased. I found the coins in the photo along with a not so old token. Oh...Of course I got tricked several times with pull tabs. Gotta learn to trust the meter. Now today was like cherry picking. Monday I plan on going to a different park where there is plenty of clad along with many, many pull tabs and pop tops. I might as well jump into the fire!! It will certainly be a test of my patience. Anyway, coming home today I was smiling like a Cheshire cat. Now, a big thank you to, Bart, Rick and Ron for getting me started on the right foot.
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Finally out with the new GT
- Thread starter xwyokid
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You'll love the Gt xwyokid. Just give it plenty of time to learn it. Don't give up too soon. It's got a language all it's own. When you master it the old coins will come pretty frequently. Remember to swing low and slow and you will be finding the old stuff in no time.
Good luck gary
Good luck gary
deepdiger60
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Good finds there will be plenty more for sure the GT loves trashy fields and beaches one of my favorite photos i took last year i had no idea there was a iron nail in the hole sitting on top of the 2 coins the copper n silver is all i heard in my head phones only 6 inches deep in a farm field . Good luck HH Jim
John,that Coin Hunter probably had a max depth of 3 inches.Wish I had a Sovereign back then.Thanks Ron
Critterhunter
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Glad you are off to a good start with the GT. Just give it time and prepare yourself to hate the machine off and on until you learn to speak her language and her little quirks.
Deepdigeer, nice finds! From the pic it looks like that seated is in great shape? I never found one that wasn't pretty badly worn. Are you telling me that that big piece of iron was in the hole with them? Man, that's bigger than most nails in terms of masking a target. Was it laying right on top of them? If it was, I bet you were swinging parallel to the nail with the DD detection line. If you swing over a nail that is 90 degrees to the DD line it will either completely block the signal or only give a real bad one. With the DD line parallel (or meaning in line) with a nail as you wiggle you'll move off it and see the coin, then over it and see the nail, and so on. It'll give a high/low or high/null type of response over and over as you wiggle.
Deepdigeer, nice finds! From the pic it looks like that seated is in great shape? I never found one that wasn't pretty badly worn. Are you telling me that that big piece of iron was in the hole with them? Man, that's bigger than most nails in terms of masking a target. Was it laying right on top of them? If it was, I bet you were swinging parallel to the nail with the DD detection line. If you swing over a nail that is 90 degrees to the DD line it will either completely block the signal or only give a real bad one. With the DD line parallel (or meaning in line) with a nail as you wiggle you'll move off it and see the coin, then over it and see the nail, and so on. It'll give a high/low or high/null type of response over and over as you wiggle.
deepdiger60
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Critter you can see where the iron rust soaked into the seated dime that is a square cut plank nail most of the narrow end rusted away the 1859 fatty was about a inch away from the iron so it was spared staining but it cleaned up nice i dont really remember but i think i got a null in the spot first i ran the coil over it again slowly then i got a very iffy signal i guess being mixed metal,s so i dug it anyway i used my pin pointer it hit the nail first laying flat i pulled it out and there was the dime the penny was next to it , glad i did the GT proved it self that day . JimCritterhunter said:
deepdiger60
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Ron i always thought the same thing there is a few old timers out here in there 80,s or 70,s that go to the local VFW DAV Hall that used early detectors omg !! they cleaned up great, i saw one coin collection 100,s of large cents old English coins and Spanish and French silvers not to mention relics including lots of eyeball finds of Native American points , everything from the mid 1600,s to late 1800,s but as the old saying goes it,s never hunted out TG lol but they got the bulk of the shallow stuff each year all the fields were plowed . Yea i wish i had detected then and with a GT i can only imagine the finds ? JimRon from Michigan said:
Jim,those old detectors didn't have enough depth.my guess there is plenty left be hind.I was 21 yrs old in 1974 early start,detecting for me back then was inexpensive and fun.Yeah some of those guys did very well back then even with under performance equipment.Thanks Ron
Some of our parks have been hit hard over the years. We have a very strong detecting club here in Albuquerque, (AMDA). I plan on working one of the oldest parks low and slow. One of the club members found an 1895 dime about 1 month ago. He told me the area where he was hunting and about the numerous, deep "iffy" signals he didn't dig. He uses a White's Spectrum. We shall see.
Critterhunter
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If he's hitting tons of iffy coin signals he didn't dig then for sure swing that Sovereign over that site! Many of those "iffy" ones might become classic coin hits for the Sovereign at that site. Just only the Sovereign's ability to handle ground minerals can make it shine above other brands and turn junky signals on one machine into great ones for the Sov.
One of my favorite tactics is to hunt a site at an odd angle. I particularly like to do this at sites that have been pounded so hard that even the iffy coin signals are all gone. Most people hunt parallel or at a 90 degree angle to the wood line, sidewalk, street, building, or so on. By hunting at a diaginal angle to such a landmark you'll be hunting a direction 99.9% of all hunters never have at that site. Just doing that alone can make a big difference. Coins that were nulls or junk sounding from parallel or 90 degree angles might say "COIN" from that odd angle you use. Fortunately, even most of my hardest hit sites still have plenty of iffy coin hits from the regular hunting angles most people will hunt at. Most people just won't dig a coin signal unless it's real good, or say at least 75% "there". By lowering your standards to say 40% "there" or so in terms of quality you'll be unmasking coins most guys simply don't have the time for.
I find that funny, because I've been in that bad habit myself. I'll often pass 20 or 30 iffy coin hits in say 3 hours without digging, still looking for that classic deep/clean silver signal. Not saying those don't still exist at some of my sites, but they have to be sites where coins can sink deeper than other machines yet are still within the depth range of the Sovereign. At sites where coins max out at about 7 to MAYBE 8" it's a waste of time to look for classic/clean coin hits at that depth as there are some non-Minelabs (a few) that can get that kind of depth in my low to higher mineralized soils. That's when to dig the iffy stuff and not wander around looking for good signals that aren't there anymore. I'll only wander for the deep/classic coin hits these days at sites where I know coins can sink 8" and beyond, out of the range of pretty much everything but a Minelab in my soil. It was only maybe 6 or 7 years ago that I could go to the 7 to maybe 8" max coin depth spots and still hit several easy silvers in a day looking for the clean/deep ones. At least at the sites I frequent those ones are a very rare event these days. Time to change tactics. Lower my standards and dig the even more junky stuff than I normally do, and only look for deeper ones where the soil permits them to go deeper.
Just a few weeks back I was hunting a house lot and there wasn't much trash like stuff that can cause iffy coin hits, so I lowered my standards from say 60 or 70% "there" being a coin signal to about 40%. If it just hinted a high tone, regardless of the rest of the sound or what the meter was doing, I was digging it. I was shocked to find that most of the time these targets did indeed turn out to be either badly masked coins or ones on edge very oddly. Normaly a on edge coin will give a distinct high/low tone from various directions but a good coin hit from one particular spot. The high/low sound is unique compared to "warbly" trash. It's very distinctive. Anyway, I was shocked some of these coins on edge didn't do that. They might have gave the high/low tone somewhat, but never got a good solid coin signal from one spot like other on edge ones will. Most of the iffy coins though at this site were just masked badly.
I'm just saying, that when people say a site is hunted out I just chuckle. That usually means all the good coin hits are gone but there are tons of iffy ones nobody will dig, or at least they have to be up to a certain degree of "iffy" in order for them to take a chance on them. Lower your standards from their 75% "there" to say 30 or 40% "there". If it just hints to a high coin tone then work it hard and see how high of "good" you can get it. Dig the ones below your normal standard. If even those are gone then work the site at an odd diagnal angle and I bet there are tons of iffy ones still around that only null or sound like total junk from the usual parallel or 90 degree angles people will hunt.
One of my favorite tactics is to hunt a site at an odd angle. I particularly like to do this at sites that have been pounded so hard that even the iffy coin signals are all gone. Most people hunt parallel or at a 90 degree angle to the wood line, sidewalk, street, building, or so on. By hunting at a diaginal angle to such a landmark you'll be hunting a direction 99.9% of all hunters never have at that site. Just doing that alone can make a big difference. Coins that were nulls or junk sounding from parallel or 90 degree angles might say "COIN" from that odd angle you use. Fortunately, even most of my hardest hit sites still have plenty of iffy coin hits from the regular hunting angles most people will hunt at. Most people just won't dig a coin signal unless it's real good, or say at least 75% "there". By lowering your standards to say 40% "there" or so in terms of quality you'll be unmasking coins most guys simply don't have the time for.
I find that funny, because I've been in that bad habit myself. I'll often pass 20 or 30 iffy coin hits in say 3 hours without digging, still looking for that classic deep/clean silver signal. Not saying those don't still exist at some of my sites, but they have to be sites where coins can sink deeper than other machines yet are still within the depth range of the Sovereign. At sites where coins max out at about 7 to MAYBE 8" it's a waste of time to look for classic/clean coin hits at that depth as there are some non-Minelabs (a few) that can get that kind of depth in my low to higher mineralized soils. That's when to dig the iffy stuff and not wander around looking for good signals that aren't there anymore. I'll only wander for the deep/classic coin hits these days at sites where I know coins can sink 8" and beyond, out of the range of pretty much everything but a Minelab in my soil. It was only maybe 6 or 7 years ago that I could go to the 7 to maybe 8" max coin depth spots and still hit several easy silvers in a day looking for the clean/deep ones. At least at the sites I frequent those ones are a very rare event these days. Time to change tactics. Lower my standards and dig the even more junky stuff than I normally do, and only look for deeper ones where the soil permits them to go deeper.
Just a few weeks back I was hunting a house lot and there wasn't much trash like stuff that can cause iffy coin hits, so I lowered my standards from say 60 or 70% "there" being a coin signal to about 40%. If it just hinted a high tone, regardless of the rest of the sound or what the meter was doing, I was digging it. I was shocked to find that most of the time these targets did indeed turn out to be either badly masked coins or ones on edge very oddly. Normaly a on edge coin will give a distinct high/low tone from various directions but a good coin hit from one particular spot. The high/low sound is unique compared to "warbly" trash. It's very distinctive. Anyway, I was shocked some of these coins on edge didn't do that. They might have gave the high/low tone somewhat, but never got a good solid coin signal from one spot like other on edge ones will. Most of the iffy coins though at this site were just masked badly.
I'm just saying, that when people say a site is hunted out I just chuckle. That usually means all the good coin hits are gone but there are tons of iffy ones nobody will dig, or at least they have to be up to a certain degree of "iffy" in order for them to take a chance on them. Lower your standards from their 75% "there" to say 30 or 40% "there". If it just hints to a high coin tone then work it hard and see how high of "good" you can get it. Dig the ones below your normal standard. If even those are gone then work the site at an odd diagnal angle and I bet there are tons of iffy ones still around that only null or sound like total junk from the usual parallel or 90 degree angles people will hunt.