except I was using Di3/3-Tone in a very dense iron cluttered gold mining ghost town from the 1863-1870's era.
Kapok said:
Monte, I am in west Michigan, near Muskegon. I found the coin close to Grand Rapids, about 30 miles inland.
Thanks. Different territory than I have here in Vale, on the far eastern side of Oregon near Idaho. Population ±1925 at last count, and generally it is mostly ranch land and farm land around the area. But I can make a 97 mile round-trip venture from my driveway and get to three old mining era ghost towns, now without any standing structures from that era. I have renamed them
'Lost',
'Lonesome Arch' and
'Lone Tree', with the first and last listed being the oldest dated of them.
Kapok said:
This is my first large cent after 40 years in this hobby. For some reason, it's one coin that just I never put my coil over. With this one, I got a solid 96 signal that never wavered. Normally, that's in the iron range, but iron usually jumps around a lot in the high 90's and below, but this just locked on, so I was curious. I didn't rescan it after I dug it--it was about 8" down. I'll do that and see how it registers.
I was fortunate enough to chance upon an old site, not too far from where a former US president used to march some troops to visit a friend. That was back when he was a younger officer named
Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant. Matter-of-fact, I was a bit younger myself when I found my first Large Cents, I believe the first two were about 1973. That was ten years before we have Target ID so I can't tell you what they read. My 6th & 7th I found in Utah with a Tesoro so no numeric read-out from them either.
But this year's over-size penny was found at about 3"-3½", canted at about a 45° angle and in with a bunch of rocky terrain at the base of an old stone foundation. It was face down and I believe there was enough activity over time that the rocks gouged some scratches under her chin/throat area.
Oh well, we always take them as they come our way, but otherwise it was in nice condition.
https://www.ahrps.org/forums/read.php?4,6213,6215#msg-6215
Because it was canted and had a lot of square nails and shards of rusty tin around, the numeric TID did flicker just a bit. It mostly read as '96' but there were some '94's on a pass or two. I was using my Nokta FORS Relic, 5" DD coil, Di3/3-Tone mode, Gain '95' and Disc. at '05' with an Iron Audio Volume of '2' so it was a definite 'Dig-Me!' signal.
Yes, with the Double-D coils we most frequently get a '94' to '96' TID read-out from a lot of the rusty tin and some other annoying iron debris, but, as you stated, the read-out is usually a lot more erratic and it's easy to audibly and usually 'classify' most ferrous trash. With my Nokta Impact, as well as the Makro Racer 2, the 7" Concentric coil does a much better job of classifying iron trash apart from high-conductive non-ferrous coins and such. That's my coil choice for either model for most day-to-day detecting. In very dense trash and/or confined spaces, I mount the 5" or
'OOR' DD coils to the appropriate models and don't have any problems with performance.
Kapok said:
I may get some time in this week as the weather is supposed to stay in the mid to high 40's. And yes, the Racer 2 is a splendid detector!
I hope you can and wish you the best of success.
Kapok said:
I was using the RC26 elliptical coil. This site is really low trash (the only one I know of!), so I've been running 2 Tones, 96 Gain, Iron Audio 3, ID Filter 3, Tone breaks and everything else at their default settings.
As I have mentioned elsewhere on this and other Forums, most of my hunting is in very littered sites, often with dense brush, rocks or rubble to contend with, so the bulk of my detecting is with smaller-size coils. And in dense iron debris I usually use the Di3/3-Tone mode. In places that are more open or have a low-to-modest amount of trash to deal with, then I grab a unit with a mid-sized DD coil mounted. The RC-26/, FC-26 and FR-26 have been what I used most often. Today I keep an open-frame FC-24, FR-24 and IM-24 on my 2nd's of those models but haven't replaced the RC-26 with an RC-24 yet. Also, in those places with a mellow amount of trash I do opt for the Di2/2-Tone search mode perhaps 75% of the time.
I do find some private yards or sections of older parks and school sites where trash is low, by comparison, but like you most of the places I pick to work a detector seem to be moderate to very littered and a real challenge to hunt. A lot different from what I dealt with from '65 to about '80 when we started seeing more modern-day junk discarded. That's part of the reason I prefer to concentrate on older, out-of-the-way destinations when I set off to do some detecting, to avoid modern trash as best I can.
Now, get out and put that Racer 2 to work! If you can hunt the same site as the LC came from, who knows, you might get even more rewards.
Monte
