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I obtained permission to hunt another rental home on our street after I first hunted the house next door to us. There was a night-and-day difference between the first rental house I hunted vs the second...the second one apparently never had fill dirt brought in so I wasn't finding zincolns at 6" deep and beyond!!! I started along the driveway and learned very quickly that this house held far much more coins than the previous one. Got a moderate high toned signal and dug 5" deep to find the first goodie - a 1946 Rosie. This set the tone for the rest of the hunt and the closer I got to the end of the driveway the more concentrated the signals became. I remember getting an "80" in 8kHz but it was such a loud and shallow sound I almost wrote it off as an aluminum can! About 2" deep I pulled up four pennies in one grab, and the ProPointer was still going crazy! Ended up finding 14 pennies and one dime in the same hole and in the immediate area there were other, lesser "glory holes" which held 4-8 pennies each.
There wasn't much trash at this house and almost everything dug was a coin (for once!). Walked up to within 10 feet of the front door and got a rock-solid "94" on the display. The signal had a nice, smooth tone to it but I initially thought it was a bottlecap - at only 3" deep out popped a 1943 Walker! I was trembling for a few seconds as I gently removed the dirt to see the date and just couldn't believe it! Not two feet away was a 6" deep Wheat, and then another 5 feet further towards the corner of the house I got another rock-solid signal, unwavering from "92". Out came an AU or so 1957 quarter at only 4" deep but I jabbed it with the Lesche at some point
Stayed in this area for a good hour using the "badtrash" program and was able to pull a few Wheats out from next to the front steps which were mixed in with a lot of roofing nails. The Wheat signals weren't as clean-sounding as the silver signals with all the interfering iron around them, but still easily discernable from the rest. There is a wrought-iron banister at the side of these steps which limited how close I could get to the steps without overload - Im sure there are at least a few more coins there *just* out of reach.
To finish the hunt I decided to hit the sidewalk strip next to the street. It's about 55 feet long by 4 feet wide just like the one in front of my house. Was surprised to see there wasn't as much trash as I thought so I changed to "coinrelic" but notched out 54-70 to mitigate aluminum targets which were present. I got a faint high-toned signal about halfway through the strip seemingly "in the curb". Turned out to be a 1951 Rosie, on edge, about 6" deep. Chuck E Cheese also made an apperance last night - those tokens ring in at a solid "77" in 8 kHz
The cool thing about this house is that I've only hunted the front yard. Who knows what's waiting in the back!!!
There wasn't much trash at this house and almost everything dug was a coin (for once!). Walked up to within 10 feet of the front door and got a rock-solid "94" on the display. The signal had a nice, smooth tone to it but I initially thought it was a bottlecap - at only 3" deep out popped a 1943 Walker! I was trembling for a few seconds as I gently removed the dirt to see the date and just couldn't believe it! Not two feet away was a 6" deep Wheat, and then another 5 feet further towards the corner of the house I got another rock-solid signal, unwavering from "92". Out came an AU or so 1957 quarter at only 4" deep but I jabbed it with the Lesche at some point
Stayed in this area for a good hour using the "badtrash" program and was able to pull a few Wheats out from next to the front steps which were mixed in with a lot of roofing nails. The Wheat signals weren't as clean-sounding as the silver signals with all the interfering iron around them, but still easily discernable from the rest. There is a wrought-iron banister at the side of these steps which limited how close I could get to the steps without overload - Im sure there are at least a few more coins there *just* out of reach.
To finish the hunt I decided to hit the sidewalk strip next to the street. It's about 55 feet long by 4 feet wide just like the one in front of my house. Was surprised to see there wasn't as much trash as I thought so I changed to "coinrelic" but notched out 54-70 to mitigate aluminum targets which were present. I got a faint high-toned signal about halfway through the strip seemingly "in the curb". Turned out to be a 1951 Rosie, on edge, about 6" deep. Chuck E Cheese also made an apperance last night - those tokens ring in at a solid "77" in 8 kHz
The cool thing about this house is that I've only hunted the front yard. Who knows what's waiting in the back!!!