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[quote DFX-Gregg]I just think it is odd I am also popping wheat pennies but not silver....guess that shows there are still some in circulation, even though I know some of them have been in ground a long time...Monte not a big supporter of dfx...but I am hoping the coil is a big part of the reason will see. My arms are sore now too but the stock coil! I really like the weight of the small coil...but lately not the depth!:angry: Thanks for the tips...[/quote]
Monte is very knowledgeable on White's detectors, I had emailed him a few times and got some great tips and thoughts about my M6, and he also likes the IDX (I have one for a 2nd detector).
There is a lot of great features on the DFX...many I would likely never even begin to use, and a huge reason I chose the ease of the M6.
And I find silver and clad with my M6 and IDX... your DFX should find silver also...since it is a much better unit.
And as I suggested, you might just have a slight glitch in the computer in your DFX. If you would try another detector to see if you can find some silver in the areas you have gotten old coins, and you get silver....Send your DFX in for ajustment. And I agree your5.3 sounded like it had developed a short in the wires.
And I do hope you pass your goal to 10,000 coins even if you,
don't slow down to enjoy the outside and relax because it is a fun hobby,
strain your back, and have sore knees for digging all those coins,
get a bit angry when you don't find enough coins and then go to another location to try,
don't get many silver coins and just a few wheats. Good Luck, though!!!
Me.... I will take my time detecting, relaxing and enjoy finding some clad and a few old coins.
Monte is very knowledgeable on White's detectors, I had emailed him a few times and got some great tips and thoughts about my M6, and he also likes the IDX (I have one for a 2nd detector).
There is a lot of great features on the DFX...many I would likely never even begin to use, and a huge reason I chose the ease of the M6.
And I find silver and clad with my M6 and IDX... your DFX should find silver also...since it is a much better unit.
And as I suggested, you might just have a slight glitch in the computer in your DFX. If you would try another detector to see if you can find some silver in the areas you have gotten old coins, and you get silver....Send your DFX in for ajustment. And I agree your5.3 sounded like it had developed a short in the wires.
And I do hope you pass your goal to 10,000 coins even if you,
don't slow down to enjoy the outside and relax because it is a fun hobby,
strain your back, and have sore knees for digging all those coins,
get a bit angry when you don't find enough coins and then go to another location to try,
don't get many silver coins and just a few wheats. Good Luck, though!!!
Me.... I will take my time detecting, relaxing and enjoy finding some clad and a few old coins.
Mr.Beard,A lot of hunter's who are rushed leave holes and they simply have a stripped mined mentality.Another problem a rushed hunter will destroy the value of their finds by leaving gouge marks on items recovered without patients.Those deep finds take time to remove without out leaving the grounds a mess after removing your finds.Our future as Treasure Hunters depends on how we leave these places that we search so take your time and make the effort.Hunters should enjoy the site and only leave traces of a foot print that you have been there and not bombed out craters.
[quote Ron from Michigan]Mr.Beard,A lot of hunter's who are rushed leave holes and they simply have a stripped mined mentality.Another problem a rushed hunter will destroy the value of their finds by leaving gouge marks on items recovered without patients.Those deep finds take time to remove without out leaving the grounds a mess after removing your finds.Our future as Treasure Hunters depends on how we leave these places that we search so take your time and make the effort.Hunters should enjoy the site and only leave traces of a foot print that you have been there and not bombed out craters.[/quote]
Ron,
I totally agree with you on what you said and what I put in bold letters.
I have seen some guys detecting that actually look like ...how a chicken does right after getting his head and neck chopped off.....darting over that way...darting on the other side of the park and swinging wildly trying to find anything, not overlapping their swings, and if they didn't have a detector in their hands you would think they are out doing some kind of wild jogging.
I just can't see these guys enjoying anything or how they can find anything at all, when they are in such a hurry... Most of the time I can go right behind where they have "spot checked" and get some nice silver they missed.
Sometimes I go over to them afterwards and show them what I found and tell them..."Hey speedy..look what you missed over there!!!!"
Just don't understand... why those guys even took up the hobby..doesn't look like they are having fun or relaxing at all.
Ron,
I totally agree with you on what you said and what I put in bold letters.
I have seen some guys detecting that actually look like ...how a chicken does right after getting his head and neck chopped off.....darting over that way...darting on the other side of the park and swinging wildly trying to find anything, not overlapping their swings, and if they didn't have a detector in their hands you would think they are out doing some kind of wild jogging.
I just can't see these guys enjoying anything or how they can find anything at all, when they are in such a hurry... Most of the time I can go right behind where they have "spot checked" and get some nice silver they missed.
Sometimes I go over to them afterwards and show them what I found and tell them..."Hey speedy..look what you missed over there!!!!"Just don't understand... why those guys even took up the hobby..doesn't look like they are having fun or relaxing at all.
Mr. Beard,the great thing about this forum is we can network with other hunter's and learn.A while back my very first post on this forum was to Mr. Dave Hut about his opinion of a detector I purchased from a large dealer.After a couple of threads between him and Uncle Willy I learned the unit I ordered wasn't going to workout.I shipped the unit back before it was ever used,but they were going to charge me a 30 percent restocking fee.Anyway they didn't charge me a restocking fee,because I did assert myself with the sales person.I was a seasoned hunter just getting back into the hobby.I should have done a little more research,and yes I think at this point I was wrong in my logic.Since then I've bought and sold a few units and its a real pain to refund someone money and pay for extra shipping and work to sell a unit to some one who has just changed their minds.By the way my first metal detector a Jetco Treasure Hawk BFO I probably found about a hundred silver coins with including my first Walking Liberty Half.I was young in 1970 when the older hunters showed me how to hunt and back then old coins gold rings were a priority.There is no such thing as a hunted out park unless the fat lady sings(Condos built on your site).
[quote Ron from Michigan]Mr. Beard,the great thing about this forum is we can network with other hunter's and learn...........
By the way my first metal detector a Jetco Treasure Hawk BFO I probably found about a hundred silver coins with including my first Walking Liberty Half.I was young in 1970 when the older hunters showed me how to hunt and back then old coins gold rings were a priority.There is no such thing as a hunted out park unless the fat lady sings(Condos built on your site).[/quote]
Ron,
Most of the people on this forum have good ideas to swap back and forth and I personally have read lots of posts and gotten lots of great advice.
My first detector was a slightly used Relco Frontiersman bought direct from Relco( at the time was a mile from my house) in 1969 or early 1970, and was the next to the top of the line from them at the time.It came with a wooden case and 2 coils. In first using it I was having some trouble adjusting it to a fairly stable threshold sound, and I went back and asked the salesman to show me some tips.
After that, I was finding lots of silver and old wheats and old nickels at fantastic depth of about 4 or 5 inches.A few clad coins were found also...... And most all the parks I hunt today are the same ones I have hunted for many ,many years....and along with the usual clad coins, I still manage to get an older coin or 2 out of them sometimes.
By the way my first metal detector a Jetco Treasure Hawk BFO I probably found about a hundred silver coins with including my first Walking Liberty Half.I was young in 1970 when the older hunters showed me how to hunt and back then old coins gold rings were a priority.There is no such thing as a hunted out park unless the fat lady sings(Condos built on your site).[/quote]
Ron,
Most of the people on this forum have good ideas to swap back and forth and I personally have read lots of posts and gotten lots of great advice.
My first detector was a slightly used Relco Frontiersman bought direct from Relco( at the time was a mile from my house) in 1969 or early 1970, and was the next to the top of the line from them at the time.It came with a wooden case and 2 coils. In first using it I was having some trouble adjusting it to a fairly stable threshold sound, and I went back and asked the salesman to show me some tips.
After that, I was finding lots of silver and old wheats and old nickels at fantastic depth of about 4 or 5 inches.A few clad coins were found also...... And most all the parks I hunt today are the same ones I have hunted for many ,many years....and along with the usual clad coins, I still manage to get an older coin or 2 out of them sometimes.
Mr.Beard,sad but true those old Jetcos and Relcos have found more silver coins than these current expensive super models.Its a good thing you didn't change your name to Mr.Relco Beard.
n/t
Most of us work very hard for our finds.The other thing we all have in common we enjoy the hunt.
Many years ago I hunted the center portion of the grass area on a street that ran along a park area.The center grass was used as parking for the park and the park was almost a mile in length.
The city was putting curbing on the center area and since there was going to be added dirt and curbs intstalled, I asked the job foreman if I could metal detect along the area. He said if I kept out of the way of equipment and workers he could see no problem. As I was unemployed at the time, it would be great to hunt alomst everyday along a long stretch of area.
Finding some new clad coins was obvious, but since this happened in the late 70's there was plenty of silver coins that were dropped in the park "parking area" for almost 20 years.... about the age of the park back then. The repair lasted for a little over a month and though I detected quite a bit of area, I could not finish. I imagine there are still some old coins in the ground in the areas I had hunted, and the areas I didn't get to hunt, but they are about 3 inches deeper ..now.
I traded alot of the pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and halfs for other coins to fill up the empty spots in the coin folders I was filling up with the found coins.
This is most of what is left of the silver coins. I just put them in this old jar for a nice looking rememberence display.
[attachment 63465 jar.JPG]
The city was putting curbing on the center area and since there was going to be added dirt and curbs intstalled, I asked the job foreman if I could metal detect along the area. He said if I kept out of the way of equipment and workers he could see no problem. As I was unemployed at the time, it would be great to hunt alomst everyday along a long stretch of area.
Finding some new clad coins was obvious, but since this happened in the late 70's there was plenty of silver coins that were dropped in the park "parking area" for almost 20 years.... about the age of the park back then. The repair lasted for a little over a month and though I detected quite a bit of area, I could not finish. I imagine there are still some old coins in the ground in the areas I had hunted, and the areas I didn't get to hunt, but they are about 3 inches deeper ..now.
I traded alot of the pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and halfs for other coins to fill up the empty spots in the coin folders I was filling up with the found coins.
This is most of what is left of the silver coins. I just put them in this old jar for a nice looking rememberence display.
[attachment 63465 jar.JPG]
Mr.Beard,Very nice and impressive!
Thanks for the picture, Mr. Beard, it brought back some good memories. I began detecting in the early 70's, myself, and I can remember that some number of silver's per outing were more common place then not...even with the detectors we had back then. Today, silver is a real challenge, but that is what makes this wonderful hobby so exciting. Thanks again, HH jim tn
Mr.Beard there still is a lot of silver left to be found.Its been a while since I have recovered any siver halves I remember in one park I recovered two in the same day.I think in each old large park theres probably a five gallon container of silver still there yet to be recovered.
