joe dirt_1
Active member
i got my new to me deleon wednesday and finally got out in my own yard to try it out today. in the side yard there used to be a garden area and most of the coins i have found have came from that area. i put the 5.75 coil on the deleon because of the amount of nails and metallic trash i have dug there before and started hunting the garden area. the first few signals didn't lock on coins but jumped from coin to iron. i dug them to see what they were and found nails and rusted metal like i expected to find. then i had a signal that stayed pretty much in the zinc cent area with a couple other bars just showing at 4 inches. that signal turned out to be a 1906 indian head penny, the oldest coin i have found in my yard so far. i also dug a 1927 wheatie and a 47 wheatie, and a clad quarter. the deleon seems to be very sensitive to tiny pieces of metal at good depth. i only hunted about a half hour or so today, but have a hunt planned for tomorrow if it doesn't rain at an old church picnic grounds that has produced some old coins for the last several years. i hope to try the 12x10 coil on the deleon tomorrow along with the stock and small coils. from what i saw today the deleon has very good depth, some of the small trash items were about 6 inches deep and read strong with the small coil. it is going to take a few hours to learn the deleon, but it seems to be a good detector so far. i'll let you know how tomorrows hunt goes if it don't rain me out...........thanks.......................roger