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Got out Friday night while the cooler air was blowing in, ushering a change of the seasons! We had almost 2 inches of rain in the last week, so the more productive areas of the fairgrounds have opened up again! First signal was a clad quarter not 2" deep and it had been there for a long time...makes me wonder how I passed it up 
In any case, it only reinforced the value of re-scanning a productive area from different directions!!! I'm sure the rain helped isolate targets in this area, as it tends to be trashy with large pieces of wire, plumbing remnants, and rebar scattered around. There was once a storage shed for the wooden roller coaster and likely repair parts which explains why I've found a hoard of large hex nuts in one spot LOL!
The V nickel indicated a "35" and was next to a couple nails. When I rescanned the area there was a bottlecap about 6 inches away, and also a zincoln in the sidewall about 2" deep. There was not a steady VDI on the cap, but the audio sounded fairly "round" in one direction. No wonder I didn't dig THAT one in the past...the more I use this machine the more it amazes me!
Got two of the older Wheats about 18" apart and only 3" deep. There is LOTS of large iron here and when the ground is dry - it's nearly impermeable. Only one Wheat was deeper - it was about 7" down and barely got a "69" out of it, on a 90-degree sweep it was steady at "67". Dug some round pulltabs at 5-6" deep that sounded OK and had erratic VDIs. Dug an almost identical audio signal and pulled a 1959 Jeff nickel from 6" (not pictured but counts as clad anyway)
Later this week I will be going to a difficult spot in the mountains for a gold coin hunt - it will be a slightly different style of hunting as the grass is very long and mineralization is extreme. I took the CZ6 up there a few years ago and found some clad along with a lot of iron falses. Can't wait to see what the Deus will sniff out!
In any case, it only reinforced the value of re-scanning a productive area from different directions!!! I'm sure the rain helped isolate targets in this area, as it tends to be trashy with large pieces of wire, plumbing remnants, and rebar scattered around. There was once a storage shed for the wooden roller coaster and likely repair parts which explains why I've found a hoard of large hex nuts in one spot LOL!
The V nickel indicated a "35" and was next to a couple nails. When I rescanned the area there was a bottlecap about 6 inches away, and also a zincoln in the sidewall about 2" deep. There was not a steady VDI on the cap, but the audio sounded fairly "round" in one direction. No wonder I didn't dig THAT one in the past...the more I use this machine the more it amazes me!
Got two of the older Wheats about 18" apart and only 3" deep. There is LOTS of large iron here and when the ground is dry - it's nearly impermeable. Only one Wheat was deeper - it was about 7" down and barely got a "69" out of it, on a 90-degree sweep it was steady at "67". Dug some round pulltabs at 5-6" deep that sounded OK and had erratic VDIs. Dug an almost identical audio signal and pulled a 1959 Jeff nickel from 6" (not pictured but counts as clad anyway)
Later this week I will be going to a difficult spot in the mountains for a gold coin hunt - it will be a slightly different style of hunting as the grass is very long and mineralization is extreme. I took the CZ6 up there a few years ago and found some clad along with a lot of iron falses. Can't wait to see what the Deus will sniff out!
