Snowed again last night and the roads were a sheet of ice, so I slowly and carefully drove to the local football field again.
I did something different, actually Ground Balanced and set up a tad hot on sens...for me thats 65 ish.
..since I've swept this place many times there are few shallow coin targets left...
I started hitting all sorts of deep silver pings beyond the depth of my 6" screwdriver!,
solid dimes and Q signals, 8" or more deep....I left them there, even though I had the trowel in the car, I did not feel comfortable with it out there, and decided if I ever NEED some silver, I know where it is..
I got a few silver coins out of here before that were shallow enough to reach, so I sort of mentally took note of their locations, and put a zinc penny right on top of the signal so I can find it again in a hurry if I want to dig it someday. Wanted gold jewelry, so I worked the areas where it should be lost, and went after all the really obtuse and crappy signals..
Over by the longjump pit, working slow on the outside perimeter of it, got a strange signal.....stabbed this fake cross, (bale attached) and KNEW the other signal was the chain! It was a soft 23ish and scattered, (Gold?) But who would put such a cheapo cross on a gold chain I wondered.
.. I gently probed into the heart of the signal at the same depth the cross was at, 3-4"...ran the Fpoint down in the hole to locate it, then got a finger down in there and pulled it out!
Like a lot of silver chains, they dont hit what you would expect silver to sound like at all...depending on size, they could be anywhere from low foil on up. If the location is "right", its a good idea to give everything a shot. Chains are not a good signal at all...thats why theres a lot of them still out there waiting for YOU!
Mud
I did something different, actually Ground Balanced and set up a tad hot on sens...for me thats 65 ish.
..since I've swept this place many times there are few shallow coin targets left...I started hitting all sorts of deep silver pings beyond the depth of my 6" screwdriver!,
solid dimes and Q signals, 8" or more deep....I left them there, even though I had the trowel in the car, I did not feel comfortable with it out there, and decided if I ever NEED some silver, I know where it is.. I got a few silver coins out of here before that were shallow enough to reach, so I sort of mentally took note of their locations, and put a zinc penny right on top of the signal so I can find it again in a hurry if I want to dig it someday. Wanted gold jewelry, so I worked the areas where it should be lost, and went after all the really obtuse and crappy signals..Over by the longjump pit, working slow on the outside perimeter of it, got a strange signal.....stabbed this fake cross, (bale attached) and KNEW the other signal was the chain! It was a soft 23ish and scattered, (Gold?) But who would put such a cheapo cross on a gold chain I wondered.
.. I gently probed into the heart of the signal at the same depth the cross was at, 3-4"...ran the Fpoint down in the hole to locate it, then got a finger down in there and pulled it out!Like a lot of silver chains, they dont hit what you would expect silver to sound like at all...depending on size, they could be anywhere from low foil on up. If the location is "right", its a good idea to give everything a shot. Chains are not a good signal at all...thats why theres a lot of them still out there waiting for YOU!
Mud
Wasn't long ago I dug a shallow one that ID'd on the F70 as a pull tab. But don't tell any one.
