First Three Digs Dodging the Raindrops

[RLOH]

I made the 20 mile drive to the county fairgrounds this am with dark clouds threatening rain. As luck would have it, I parked the truck, pulled out the MX5 and started detecting. Less than two minutes after starting it was raining. I headed for a pavilion close by and waited for the rain to stop. I watched the mud puddles for the rain to stop and when it did, I crossed the road and turned on the detector. In one minute or less, I got a wisp of a signal, with a number of 90-91 flashing. Many times this is silver on the MX5 and it was this time too. 1940 mercury dime. The rain started again and I headed back for the pavilion to wait it out. Waited about 10 minutes and it almost stopped so I headed for the mercury dime spot. Ten feet away, another deep sounding signal in the mid 70's. A wheat penny and the rain started again. After another 10 minute wait, it stopped so back across the road I go. Minuted later a lower tone (I use 8 tones) with a mid 60's number. Again it was a deeper coin, but this time it was older. 1890 Indian Head from about 8 inches. It started raining again so this time it was a 15 minute wait. I could not pull another good coin, just a new quarter surface drop. After this, I called it a day when the rain resumed. I hope I can pick up where I left off the next time, but today the stars were lined up. I had given up on this part of the fairgrounds, but we had a tremendous rain storm last night and the ground was saturated. I will probably spend a day here next week and not find a thing, but a day like this morning is why this hobby so much fun.

 

[Elton]

Way to go RLOH .wow that MX5 is impressive to say the least....... How's the stock coil operate.
I believe you said you used a specialty coil right ???

 

[hammer0419]

Nice work dodging the rain drops!! I am still learning my MX5 but really liking it with the SEF 10X12 on it!!

 

[Hombre]

Nice hunt RLOH,

I always like to hunt after a good soaking rain, it seems to enhance the deeper targets. The big SEF 10X12" seems to be working well for you and your hunting style. I have gravitated towards the smaller coil and picked up the 5.3 Eclipse, it works great in the iron nails. Just today a friend and I compared an "iffy" signal that I found in my yard a week ago with the MX5 and 5.3 Eclipse coil, then marked it for later. He has a XP Deus (9" coil) and it did not get a good signal either on the marked target, then I had him swing over the target at another angle that my MX5 signaled pretty good on with the small coil in 2 tone audio. He then got a good signal on the XP Deus and said he would dig it, but he did not think it was a coin.

I then set up the MX5 audio to one tone with the first three iron segments notched out, the MX5 seems to have a faster recovery set up in one tone. The "iffy" signal was not so iffy set up this way and I could get a signal from almost any direction with better VDI stability. The signal mostly stayed in the 70's with an occasional 40's with the VDI numbers and I called it a wheat penny just before I dug it. Well....it turned out to be a 1913D wheat penny at 8" deep, missed the key date by a year. I checked out the plug and it had several small nails in and around the hole the wheat penny came from. It was dry soil all the way down to the wheat penny. The wheat penny ID'ed at 70..72 out of the hole.

RLOH.....we may have different hunting styles and with more hours on it, I'm finding out for myself just how good the MX5 is for my style of hunting. Thanks for reporting about this great detector from White's. I did not mean to high jack this thread but I'm just so excited about this detector, I just had to chime in. Hopefully. I'll be posting my own finds soon as I head off the beaten path to check out some promising spots.

 

[hammer0419]

Some great info Hombre. Thank you for sharing your MX5 results knowledge. I hope to get out tomorrow night for an hour. Gonna try the two tone and single tone and see what happens.