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I went back to a park where I've found a few deep Wheats before and tried out the opposite corner using 4 khz and Reactivity 2. First target was jumping from 68-74-66 and wouldn't really settle, but the audio was pretty clean in both directions. "I'm here to dig it all!" I remember thinking...
Around 6" down I saw a smooth rim, and pulled out a nickel, and immediately noticed the large "D" mintmark on the reverse. First Colorado silver coin! I bet Ive hunted around 70-80 hours to get this first silver here, the competition and tough soil make it hard to find even recent coins, but I remember going pretty slow through the park and listening for the deep targets. Got a few surface zincolns that sounded loud and booming by comparison.
All the Wheats I've found in this park are either partially masked, deeper than 5", or a combination thereof. 5-6" coins in TN soil are no problem with the same settings, and it's taken me this long to figure out the riddle for older coins in this area. We don't get much rain here, so any ground that is not regularly watered is like digging through iron. The sprinklers came on at exactly midnight last night, which signaled to me the end of the hunt and also explained why the ground was soft and easy to dig!
Went on last night to dig a gold-plated bracelet, and the excitement could be cut with a knife once I saw the glint of gold...turns out it was only about 1" deep and plated...that's one closer to the real thing though! Got two more Wheats within 30 feet of the war nickel and bracelet along with plenty of different types of ring tabs, beavertails, and rectangular tabs. Gold was on the menu, but it just escaped me last night...I feel like I'm close to pulling another gold item very soon, only way to be sure is to DIG IT ALL!
I must say, though, that my beloved Deus and I will be parting ways by the end of the week. I really hate to give up my GOLDEN GOOSE, it's like saying goodbye to a close friend and knowing there's no chance of seeing them again.
The only reason I'm selling it is to help with moving funds to get my family here to Colorado from Tennessee next month. The finds this year have more than paid for the machine, but once the small coil and updated software are released in a couple months I will be jumping at the first chance to get a totally new setup; coil, remote, phones, the works.
And then it's back to the same park with hopefully a multi-frequency sniper coil with even more versatility than v3.2...can't wait to see how well it works!
Around 6" down I saw a smooth rim, and pulled out a nickel, and immediately noticed the large "D" mintmark on the reverse. First Colorado silver coin! I bet Ive hunted around 70-80 hours to get this first silver here, the competition and tough soil make it hard to find even recent coins, but I remember going pretty slow through the park and listening for the deep targets. Got a few surface zincolns that sounded loud and booming by comparison.
All the Wheats I've found in this park are either partially masked, deeper than 5", or a combination thereof. 5-6" coins in TN soil are no problem with the same settings, and it's taken me this long to figure out the riddle for older coins in this area. We don't get much rain here, so any ground that is not regularly watered is like digging through iron. The sprinklers came on at exactly midnight last night, which signaled to me the end of the hunt and also explained why the ground was soft and easy to dig!
Went on last night to dig a gold-plated bracelet, and the excitement could be cut with a knife once I saw the glint of gold...turns out it was only about 1" deep and plated...that's one closer to the real thing though! Got two more Wheats within 30 feet of the war nickel and bracelet along with plenty of different types of ring tabs, beavertails, and rectangular tabs. Gold was on the menu, but it just escaped me last night...I feel like I'm close to pulling another gold item very soon, only way to be sure is to DIG IT ALL!
I must say, though, that my beloved Deus and I will be parting ways by the end of the week. I really hate to give up my GOLDEN GOOSE, it's like saying goodbye to a close friend and knowing there's no chance of seeing them again.
The only reason I'm selling it is to help with moving funds to get my family here to Colorado from Tennessee next month. The finds this year have more than paid for the machine, but once the small coil and updated software are released in a couple months I will be jumping at the first chance to get a totally new setup; coil, remote, phones, the works.
And then it's back to the same park with hopefully a multi-frequency sniper coil with even more versatility than v3.2...can't wait to see how well it works!
