IowaRelic
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Left the house before sun up and hit the dozed home site for a couple hours while waiting on my digging buddy. The place is slim pickings but I managed a nice little strap adjuster brass buckle. Maybe 1880s-1910s. And while checking the large iron response of the machine, I found a large splitting wedge, maybe 5-6 pounds. A nice relic.
site 2 is an abandoned project that was a 40s air base housing development. A silver hunt. Dig nothing that doesn’t sound deep and small. Only 83 vdi or higher. This place is absolutely the trashiest hunting. Aluminum and clad in every swing. Using park 1 I really overlapped and dug only deeper sounding stuff. Came out with a few bucks in clad. lots of big deep aluminum and brass.
things to note:
The simplex has no overload and can really misjudge the size of a target due to its lack of good proportionate audio in the park modes. I have to really work a target from all angles and up and down to get an idea.
It will separate really well and locks on the coins really good. I just didn’t dig them. The depth meter is pretty accurate this time out when I did dig.
the green headphones’ audio quality kinda surprised me. It’s got more of a ratty buzz to all the tones than the kruzer did. Not sure what that’s all about. It’s easy to deal with but the kruzer was clear audio through the blue headphones.
I used the 11” coil for 5 hours today with only little fatigue. Was hunting open grass.
also the difference in tone breaks between the park modes is weird. Park 2 throws high tones on aluminum like crazy. Much more suited for an older site. The break points in park 1 are much better for coin hunting.
It’s a great machine and top performer for the money. I still believe that. It’s fun to use and could pay for itself quickly. Shoot I probably could have dug around 10$ in clad per few hours here. It’s that crazy loaded with targets. For general hunting and for most sites, it’s all the machine you would really ever need. I’m still a little more serious than the simplex can satisfy so it’s not an end all machine.
site 2 is an abandoned project that was a 40s air base housing development. A silver hunt. Dig nothing that doesn’t sound deep and small. Only 83 vdi or higher. This place is absolutely the trashiest hunting. Aluminum and clad in every swing. Using park 1 I really overlapped and dug only deeper sounding stuff. Came out with a few bucks in clad. lots of big deep aluminum and brass.
things to note:
The simplex has no overload and can really misjudge the size of a target due to its lack of good proportionate audio in the park modes. I have to really work a target from all angles and up and down to get an idea.
It will separate really well and locks on the coins really good. I just didn’t dig them. The depth meter is pretty accurate this time out when I did dig.
the green headphones’ audio quality kinda surprised me. It’s got more of a ratty buzz to all the tones than the kruzer did. Not sure what that’s all about. It’s easy to deal with but the kruzer was clear audio through the blue headphones.
I used the 11” coil for 5 hours today with only little fatigue. Was hunting open grass.
also the difference in tone breaks between the park modes is weird. Park 2 throws high tones on aluminum like crazy. Much more suited for an older site. The break points in park 1 are much better for coin hunting.
It’s a great machine and top performer for the money. I still believe that. It’s fun to use and could pay for itself quickly. Shoot I probably could have dug around 10$ in clad per few hours here. It’s that crazy loaded with targets. For general hunting and for most sites, it’s all the machine you would really ever need. I’m still a little more serious than the simplex can satisfy so it’s not an end all machine.
