Short time listener, first time poster here.
I borrowed a Garett 2500 in about June of this year (05), got hooked on the sport and went out and bought my own 2500.
I would guess in the last 4 months or so I have spent 75 to 100 hours digging coins. Most of my time has been spent in the yards of older homes.
My oldest coin so far is a 1916 wheat penny. I have no silver coins to my credit. However, the ONE day I took my stepson he almost immediately hit on a 1916 silver dime. Beginners luck!
My most interesting find is a firemans ring...cheap version, not real gold.
In a much earlier post "jimileo" had a question about the tendency of his 2500 to indicate a large target at 12 inches when in pinpointing mode. I too have experienced this with great regularity with my own 2500. I will often get an indicator during a sweep of a very good belltone in the coin range, only to find when switching to pinpoint mode that I lose that initial indicator and get the cursed 12 inch deep large target indication.
I usually would just pass these up and move on to easier targets. Recently it occurred to me that in pinpoint mode the 2500 is no longer coin specific, so the stronger signal of the deep larger target vs the weak coin might be winning out in the display. I then noticed that if I work the coil around from different angles and heights I will sometimes get a brief coin size indicator at a specific depth. Many times if I dig at this location I will find that original coin that set off my belltone. It is a little frustrating to have to use the machine this way....but hey...it's only a machine, sometimes you have to be smarter than it is.
Keep up the posts. I'm learning a lot from you guys.
I borrowed a Garett 2500 in about June of this year (05), got hooked on the sport and went out and bought my own 2500.
I would guess in the last 4 months or so I have spent 75 to 100 hours digging coins. Most of my time has been spent in the yards of older homes.
My oldest coin so far is a 1916 wheat penny. I have no silver coins to my credit. However, the ONE day I took my stepson he almost immediately hit on a 1916 silver dime. Beginners luck!
My most interesting find is a firemans ring...cheap version, not real gold.
In a much earlier post "jimileo" had a question about the tendency of his 2500 to indicate a large target at 12 inches when in pinpointing mode. I too have experienced this with great regularity with my own 2500. I will often get an indicator during a sweep of a very good belltone in the coin range, only to find when switching to pinpoint mode that I lose that initial indicator and get the cursed 12 inch deep large target indication.
I usually would just pass these up and move on to easier targets. Recently it occurred to me that in pinpoint mode the 2500 is no longer coin specific, so the stronger signal of the deep larger target vs the weak coin might be winning out in the display. I then noticed that if I work the coil around from different angles and heights I will sometimes get a brief coin size indicator at a specific depth. Many times if I dig at this location I will find that original coin that set off my belltone. It is a little frustrating to have to use the machine this way....but hey...it's only a machine, sometimes you have to be smarter than it is.
Keep up the posts. I'm learning a lot from you guys.
