I need some help with how to go by hunting old towns i live in utah and we have a lot of mining history here and thats why i got the mxt, i currently am using mxt with my 4x6 relic mode.
I am pretty new to these high end detectors (about 2 months in) i get a basic understanding of how it operates under certain situations but i am having trouble with all this iron.....i have been to this site for the 3rd time only spending a couple hours mainly for research of the layout of the town because pictures can sometimes be hard to locate but this 3rd time i went i got down to business i started out with +2 gain, ground wasnt good about 70's and discrimination at 2 then cranked it up to about half because of all the trash but i just cant seem to snatch good from the bad, i was having major problem with a lot of the iron registering at +74 small bits are all over this place, i have been really trying to be patient and allow time for my detector to stay caught up with my swings but ive found this to be tough i am usually a patient person but i am trying to develop that into this hobby, but i am wondering what am i doing wrong or what advice can you give me to improve my A game when it comes to ghost towns, i have 20 different places ive visited and none have ever been detected for some reason not many people do any metal detecting around here but please advise me for future journeys.
I am planning a trip to a old mormon settlement in search for mormon coins i cant wait to go but i want to be ready with how to set the detector up i was wondering if anyone knows what a mormon gold coin would register at or what size of coin it compares to.
just a quick story/////one legend has it that their are 250 uncirculated gold $20 mormon coins lost (well they where stolen by bandits) but the bandits where going into the salt lake desert area with record heat and no water for horses or them and a team set out to hunt them down but they only found bones of the 2 men but not the horses where the coins might be.......1 coin today is worth $75,000 if not more.
I am pretty new to these high end detectors (about 2 months in) i get a basic understanding of how it operates under certain situations but i am having trouble with all this iron.....i have been to this site for the 3rd time only spending a couple hours mainly for research of the layout of the town because pictures can sometimes be hard to locate but this 3rd time i went i got down to business i started out with +2 gain, ground wasnt good about 70's and discrimination at 2 then cranked it up to about half because of all the trash but i just cant seem to snatch good from the bad, i was having major problem with a lot of the iron registering at +74 small bits are all over this place, i have been really trying to be patient and allow time for my detector to stay caught up with my swings but ive found this to be tough i am usually a patient person but i am trying to develop that into this hobby, but i am wondering what am i doing wrong or what advice can you give me to improve my A game when it comes to ghost towns, i have 20 different places ive visited and none have ever been detected for some reason not many people do any metal detecting around here but please advise me for future journeys.
I am planning a trip to a old mormon settlement in search for mormon coins i cant wait to go but i want to be ready with how to set the detector up i was wondering if anyone knows what a mormon gold coin would register at or what size of coin it compares to.
just a quick story/////one legend has it that their are 250 uncirculated gold $20 mormon coins lost (well they where stolen by bandits) but the bandits where going into the salt lake desert area with record heat and no water for horses or them and a team set out to hunt them down but they only found bones of the 2 men but not the horses where the coins might be.......1 coin today is worth $75,000 if not more.
