So in a couple hours or so I am going to over to a ladies house that gave me permission to hunt on her land.
The story goes something like this. 100 years back there was a silver miner that had a fort built on what is now her land. He had the fort because in those days around here the Indians were still defending their land and he was pretty much in the middle of the Natives territory. Well after some time, he was killed by the Indians. The story says that this man was one of hundreds who did not believe in banks. They all believe that the money / silver is buried on his land somewhere. Of course now his land is this ladies land. There is still some pieces of his fort left on her property.
Next to where his fort was, there is a road. Its a 100 year old dirt road there is not much left of it. From what I was told you can tell it was a road, but its not really fit to travel on via auto these days. More like a dirty trail. Across the street from this ladies home but still on her property is a old Homestead from the same era.
The lady gave us permission to hunt the fort and the homestead but said that we cant detect around her house because she told someone else that he could. The way I understand it, that was quite some time back and he has not been back to detect. In most places around here the ground remains untouched from the way it was 100+ years ago. But either way, its really nice of her to let us on to her land to look around.
So my actual question is this, If one of you guys were out Cache hunting and new that there really could be a cache somewhere.. What would be your ideal settings with the etrac? I figure I am going to use my 18" SEF and just look for deep targets. I will pass on the shallow ones for my friend to get with his machine. Since his machine does fine in the first 6" and the etrac takes the cake down lower then that.
Or should I run with the 6" eq2 and dig everything? Working myself from shallow to deep and clean up the old nails / trash as much as possible? There is no time limit, I could go back to the site anytime I want
Brandon
The story goes something like this. 100 years back there was a silver miner that had a fort built on what is now her land. He had the fort because in those days around here the Indians were still defending their land and he was pretty much in the middle of the Natives territory. Well after some time, he was killed by the Indians. The story says that this man was one of hundreds who did not believe in banks. They all believe that the money / silver is buried on his land somewhere. Of course now his land is this ladies land. There is still some pieces of his fort left on her property.
Next to where his fort was, there is a road. Its a 100 year old dirt road there is not much left of it. From what I was told you can tell it was a road, but its not really fit to travel on via auto these days. More like a dirty trail. Across the street from this ladies home but still on her property is a old Homestead from the same era.
The lady gave us permission to hunt the fort and the homestead but said that we cant detect around her house because she told someone else that he could. The way I understand it, that was quite some time back and he has not been back to detect. In most places around here the ground remains untouched from the way it was 100+ years ago. But either way, its really nice of her to let us on to her land to look around.
So my actual question is this, If one of you guys were out Cache hunting and new that there really could be a cache somewhere.. What would be your ideal settings with the etrac? I figure I am going to use my 18" SEF and just look for deep targets. I will pass on the shallow ones for my friend to get with his machine. Since his machine does fine in the first 6" and the etrac takes the cake down lower then that.
Or should I run with the 6" eq2 and dig everything? Working myself from shallow to deep and clean up the old nails / trash as much as possible? There is no time limit, I could go back to the site anytime I want
Brandon