I got an early start to beat the heat and headed to my favorite "bad ground" park. I went to the opposite end of the park where I have not found any old coins in several years. I have found over a 100 coins from the late 1800's at this end, but absolutely nothing good lately.. There was a hotel that burned down so there are 1000's of rusty nails. These nails will not allow the "all metal" mode. I used zero disc mode, 24 iron disc, and two bars from max sens. I was getting hundreds of high peeps so I slowed my sweep speed to a crawl. The first two targets were buttons with one a small cuff button with an anchor. That button was 7 inches deep and the other was a common coat button that was slightly deeper.
Finding these two buttons reinforced my confidence in the disc modes ability to go deep in bad ground. My first coin was a bouncing 50-53- 60 and showed 6 inches on the depth gauge in pinpoint. Just about all of the deep coins I find read 6 inches on the gauge, but are really closer to 8 inches. From about 7 inches I dug one of the nicer V nickels I have dug at this park. It was a 1901. Two short passes later, I got a bouncing 60's to low 70's signal. I was hoping for an Indian and I was not disappointed. 1889 Indian from close to 8 inches.
I have had the Max out 7 times with close to 25 hours of detecting and I have made good finds 6 of those times. I have not had this type of success in years. The best part of all of this is the places I detect. I have been only to public parks and schools that I have pounded for many years along with many others. I would love to take the Max to some virgin sites and be able to dig clean signals. On the way home today, it crossed my mind that the Max is one of the best detectors I have ever used and I have used way to many to even remember.
Finding these two buttons reinforced my confidence in the disc modes ability to go deep in bad ground. My first coin was a bouncing 50-53- 60 and showed 6 inches on the depth gauge in pinpoint. Just about all of the deep coins I find read 6 inches on the gauge, but are really closer to 8 inches. From about 7 inches I dug one of the nicer V nickels I have dug at this park. It was a 1901. Two short passes later, I got a bouncing 60's to low 70's signal. I was hoping for an Indian and I was not disappointed. 1889 Indian from close to 8 inches.
I have had the Max out 7 times with close to 25 hours of detecting and I have made good finds 6 of those times. I have not had this type of success in years. The best part of all of this is the places I detect. I have been only to public parks and schools that I have pounded for many years along with many others. I would love to take the Max to some virgin sites and be able to dig clean signals. On the way home today, it crossed my mind that the Max is one of the best detectors I have ever used and I have used way to many to even remember.
