Jackpine Savage
Active member
Man was I freakin, after the warm weather last week it started snowing again this AM but I did not let that stop me from a run thru the test garden and a quick trip over to Lake Michigan to hit the beach.
I can't tell anyone what the depth is here in my ground yet as my test garden is my iron trashy yard. The Edge did well above average on the on-edge Merc at 6" near iron hitting it from a broad range of angles and giving a good signal even with the coil raised well off the ground. That puts it up there with the high gain "relic" machines on this particular coin. ID on the dime was about as expected, most TID machines read this at the highest Silver Icon or number. The Edge would read +36 most of the time but drop down into the dime range if swept just right over the target. Sweep speed is very forgiving... seperation and response at a moderate sweep is at least on par with the Excel but unlike the Excel you can slow it to nearly a crawl and still get that same depth. The nickel near iron test is a tough call.. this particular coin is a "desperation" dig in most situations (ya gotta be desperate to dig this signal) The C & V will hit it with the 5.75" coil but only with a just right sweep speed and from the exact right angle. The EDGE lets you know there is something non-ferrous there and allows much more freedom in approach angle and sweep speed. Forget the TID reading on this one however. Work it enough and you can tell its mid range, but like I said its an iffy one for sure, but one you would definitely dig if after everything except iron.
Made a quick trip over to Lake Michigan to a small county beach. The snow was coming down pretty good but the sand was unfrozen in most spots due to last weeks warm spell. Not many targets to be found this time of year. I hunted about an hour before the fingers got cold and dug maybe 6 targets including a zincer, part of a bent up modern square tab, one small thin rusty piece of bent wire down about a foot that rang in a weak 28-33 and with a P/P reading of 02. Next to last target was a good one however. First gold of the New year, a small 14K womans ring!
The tones are different from the C$ and Excel and seem nice so far. The audio is better modulated on the deeper stuff which I like. Other than a slight propensity for reading the deep rusty small nails and wire as good I see mostly positives so far.
Hopefully I can get out some more tomorrow if this new snow doesn't get too deep.
HH Tom
I can't tell anyone what the depth is here in my ground yet as my test garden is my iron trashy yard. The Edge did well above average on the on-edge Merc at 6" near iron hitting it from a broad range of angles and giving a good signal even with the coil raised well off the ground. That puts it up there with the high gain "relic" machines on this particular coin. ID on the dime was about as expected, most TID machines read this at the highest Silver Icon or number. The Edge would read +36 most of the time but drop down into the dime range if swept just right over the target. Sweep speed is very forgiving... seperation and response at a moderate sweep is at least on par with the Excel but unlike the Excel you can slow it to nearly a crawl and still get that same depth. The nickel near iron test is a tough call.. this particular coin is a "desperation" dig in most situations (ya gotta be desperate to dig this signal) The C & V will hit it with the 5.75" coil but only with a just right sweep speed and from the exact right angle. The EDGE lets you know there is something non-ferrous there and allows much more freedom in approach angle and sweep speed. Forget the TID reading on this one however. Work it enough and you can tell its mid range, but like I said its an iffy one for sure, but one you would definitely dig if after everything except iron.
Made a quick trip over to Lake Michigan to a small county beach. The snow was coming down pretty good but the sand was unfrozen in most spots due to last weeks warm spell. Not many targets to be found this time of year. I hunted about an hour before the fingers got cold and dug maybe 6 targets including a zincer, part of a bent up modern square tab, one small thin rusty piece of bent wire down about a foot that rang in a weak 28-33 and with a P/P reading of 02. Next to last target was a good one however. First gold of the New year, a small 14K womans ring!
The tones are different from the C$ and Excel and seem nice so far. The audio is better modulated on the deeper stuff which I like. Other than a slight propensity for reading the deep rusty small nails and wire as good I see mostly positives so far.
Hopefully I can get out some more tomorrow if this new snow doesn't get too deep.
HH Tom
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