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Heading For Trashy Territory Sat ?Need Advice.

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I am hunting a very trashy park this Saturady were I have pulled out many Barber's years ago and a few Seated coins as well. The ground was so hot on the complete other end that I couldn't get my other Hi-End unit to function effectively unless I put the Signal Balance al the way down-sensitivity to a very low setting in combo with a 6" coil. The ground was so bad I was finding IH pennies at 3"-4" in depth last year. I am excited about trying the Explorer XS in this area were no one else in our area has an Explorer.It's about a two hour drive, one way for me.
My question is, to eliminate the hi trash, is it best to try-learn all the old silver such as two years of different IH pennies and all old silver (2 cent pieces-3c Silver-Half dimes-dimes-silver quarters-silver halves-dollar-others in accept mode-reject most other trash. A lot is old rusty iron, I need an idea to program a custom entry before I attemp the hot area of the park with the Explorer XS Sat. I was reading about the old silver program in the book "Mastering the ML Explorer", is this a good setting for such? The once park dates back to 1870's. It is now privately owned and a huge area. I have permission from an older client of mine for me and one partner to hunt it anytime we wish. It was bought-sold back in the late 80's by a land developer, but the deal on apartments fell through for his company at the time. This was once a park with a Gazebo type building over a lake. There was still old beches sitting (rotted in the 70's even).
When my dad hunted it first hand with me a long time ago, we netted over 50 pieces of silver in 2 days with a older Eagle I unit. I can't wait, I just got permission to hunt it again in October. =^)
Need advice on set-up of Exploer XS in trashy-deep iron situations, I know there is old silver deep. My dad has pictures with farmers-towns peoples in crowds that covered the park and old timers eating-sitting near the creek. It's a massive area.
 
The last unit I used here was a 6000 Di Pro with the 6" loop and I had to hunt with the Signal balance all the way down and Sen. very low even with a 6" loop. If you hunted it very slow, it produced great finds, but we still could't get good depth. I once tried in all metal and the meter bounced quite a bit, but I dug a 6" Seated Dime, so I believe there are many oldies left here. The place is all but forgotten, but was never filled in nor scraped. The grass is very low and the ground on one end of the property is not too bad. But for some reason there is a lot of reddish clay-really bad ground near the creek that runs the entire length of the area. This seems to be the hot spot for the oldest token-coins found a while back.
 
One way I'd search an area like that is to just go after silver coins and forget the rest for the time being.
Use the pattern which just opens up the upper righthand corner ... approx "1/2 by 1/2" or "3/4 by 3/4" of an inch.
You won't geet everything but you'd be surprized what you can get out of ground that is otherwise almost unsearchable.
Good luck ... Gord.
 
I would trust the silver program in the book. I would also take a small head if possible.
I have only had my Explorer for about 18 months.I do more hunting than most,I have found Andy's book to be right on target
 
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