Well ,after two weeks of work and family priorities- I finally got out for about 4 hours yesterday.
My neighbor, is a widow in her late 80's.She owns several hundred acres of farmland here in middle Tennessee.
I asked permission, and she said ,I am welcome anytime.so I am digging my first target , when she walks over and asks me if I had found anything yet, I said no.After some small talk ,she states that her house was built in 1965, on the exact spot of a 150 year old home, which her husband bulldozed into its cellar.
I knew her husband really well and he had let me hunt 3 vacant fields but I never foundany coins or even decent relics.
Lol, I had walked past this "modern house a hundred times, but with this new info, now I was hunting a known pre civil war home site.
I only found 3 coins a 1941 wheaties, a 1969 Rosie, and my first silver a 1964 Rosie , all coins were 4-5 inches. I got a fake snap on earring, and a partial piece to a hubley star cap gun,then lastly a copper button at 7 inches its tiny about 3/8 in diameter.
The lRP is really awesome, this site is brutal on the ears with all the low iron grunts every inch of ground. I hunted in disc 4, then switched to all metal to get more stable vdi numbers. The button was really hard to pinpoint, and I almost gave up, without a pinpointer I had to wave fistfuls of loose dirt across the coil, in the first 5 handfuls of dirt the infamous grunt of iron, little pieces of nails that crumbled when rubbed between my fingers. The button was way deep, digging 7 inches in hard packed dirt sucks. But I now know that this machine has superb separation. When I got home I layed a nickel on the floor and a screw next to it, literally touching and it only had problems in the preset modes, in all disc modes and all metal it clearly showed the nickel ,although it lowers the vdi number and is really jumpy and sounds junky,because of the screw. Alot of machine and alot easier than my f70 that I sold because I just never got comfortable with it( lots of falsing) .
Great to be out hunting with what I consider a very fine metal detector.
My neighbor, is a widow in her late 80's.She owns several hundred acres of farmland here in middle Tennessee.
I asked permission, and she said ,I am welcome anytime.so I am digging my first target , when she walks over and asks me if I had found anything yet, I said no.After some small talk ,she states that her house was built in 1965, on the exact spot of a 150 year old home, which her husband bulldozed into its cellar.
I knew her husband really well and he had let me hunt 3 vacant fields but I never foundany coins or even decent relics.
Lol, I had walked past this "modern house a hundred times, but with this new info, now I was hunting a known pre civil war home site.
I only found 3 coins a 1941 wheaties, a 1969 Rosie, and my first silver a 1964 Rosie , all coins were 4-5 inches. I got a fake snap on earring, and a partial piece to a hubley star cap gun,then lastly a copper button at 7 inches its tiny about 3/8 in diameter.
The lRP is really awesome, this site is brutal on the ears with all the low iron grunts every inch of ground. I hunted in disc 4, then switched to all metal to get more stable vdi numbers. The button was really hard to pinpoint, and I almost gave up, without a pinpointer I had to wave fistfuls of loose dirt across the coil, in the first 5 handfuls of dirt the infamous grunt of iron, little pieces of nails that crumbled when rubbed between my fingers. The button was way deep, digging 7 inches in hard packed dirt sucks. But I now know that this machine has superb separation. When I got home I layed a nickel on the floor and a screw next to it, literally touching and it only had problems in the preset modes, in all disc modes and all metal it clearly showed the nickel ,although it lowers the vdi number and is really jumpy and sounds junky,because of the screw. Alot of machine and alot easier than my f70 that I sold because I just never got comfortable with it( lots of falsing) .
Great to be out hunting with what I consider a very fine metal detector.