Great Hunt With The CoRe!

[dbado1]

I made it out this morning for a few hours to an old home site/mine area. This area is hidden in the woods and has never been detected. Fair amount of junk, mostly iron and old cans but not too bad. I've hit this place a few times. Today was the best hunt yet as I'm narrowing down the better spots in the area....

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Neat little stone room on the way in.

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Today's finds. Plus one.

Today was the day for large caliber rim fire cases of all sizes plus an un-fired round. The larger diameter cases measure out to .52 caliber and the smaller to .41 as best as I can measure. The large chunk of lead is a "three ringer" that must have been fired from the rifle cases. The small bullet measures .41 and must have come from the smaller pistol cases. You guys that live in states where you hunt Civil War relics know more about these than I as they are fairly uncommon out west. One of the larger cases has a head stamp that reads F.I.V.&Co. The shotgun head stamp is an oldie that says "Peters/Victor" on it. I have never found one of those before. The Webelos neckerchief slide is totally cool. The ornate piece of copper appears to be from a piece of furniture. I have been finding suspender buckles lately and today was no different. One says "Hickock" on it and the other has the large "K" on it...Gonna have to do a little research to date them.

Now for the "Plus One". On Thursday, I hunted the same area and concentrated my efforts around the old mine. LOTS of junk at the mine! A short distance from the mine I found an area where they had been doing some smelting and found a few slag pours...mostly copper.(The area is heavily populated with gold and silver mines) One of these chunks of heavy metal, though, wasn't copper but silver! It is the second silver pour that I've found. It weighed in at 2.5 oz. Since I already had one and this one had some junk in it I decided to melt it down, clean it up, and pour it in to a round mold. That's the silver disc in the pic.

I have been hunting this area in DI3, Sens 80, ID Mask 21, 11" coil. This machine is a relic beast! HH

Dean

 

[Monte]

And thanks for sharing your settings, too. I usually reserve the 7X11 DD for more open areas that have a limited amount of metal targets, relying on the small 'OOR' coil when in and around brush, building rubble, or any very littered locations. It's amazing how well the CoRe works, especially handling iron junk in both the Di2 and Di3 search modes.

Nice photos, as well. Most of the old ghost towns and other sites I hunt that had long-ago use do not have any structures standing to add life to a photo.

Best of success there on future jaunts.

Monte

 

[dbado1]

Thank you for your comments, Monte. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge on these forums.
I always have the little oor coil in my pack. Now that I've identified the areas of high trash density it will be coming out of the pack to play. I love that little coil in the trash!
HH

Dean

 

[Monte]

Have one FORS CoRe w/'OOR' coil mounted full-time, and a 2nd FORS with the 7X11 always mounted. Then you just grab the unit you want for the site, or hunt for a while with one and re-hunt a spot with the other. Actually one keeps his 2nd CoRe with a 5½X10 mounted and the 7X11 on a spare lower rod to be used on either set-up with a coil change, but he relies on mainly the 'OOR' and Elliptical coils.

I keep all of my Makro and Nokta models ready with the coil I will use the most already mounted, and the main-use program is also set in memory. I have separate bags to tote any spare coils mounted on their own rods, along with a set of spare coil-mount hardware, batteries, back-up headphone, etc. The bags are assigned by the operating frequency and/or application such as the 14 kHz Makro Racer, the 15 kHz FORS CoRe, the 19 kHz FORS Gold+ along with the 56 kHz Gold Racer.

The 'OOR' DD and 5" DD coils, for the models they are assigned to, put in more hunting time than do my 5½X10 or 7X11 coils, to be sure. They are tops in the junky areas.

Monte

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

Looks so cool to be there hunting

 

[greaser]

Very nice congratulations