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Got out today between weather systems to a new rental house that Marty gave me the "go ahead" on which was just recently vacated on June 1. I started off in the "4K silver" program thinking it was full of trash targets, but I found my self cranking down the notch to "60" after getting some blippy, "just notched out" Wheats that rang up between 66 and 71. The "4K silver" program is notched 00-72, and is what I use if I'm in a hurry or know I will never be returning to the site. Spent a total of 3.5 hours in the front yard ONLY, and the back yard is about 3 times larger and hopefully full of at least 3 times more goodies! Will be returning on a night hunt for that sometime this week! Can't wait!!!
EMI started to get bad about halfway through the hunt, but for the most part I just put up with it. I'm glad I did! After scanning 90% of the front yard in 00-60 notch in 4 kHz, I switched programs to "4K coins" which has the exact same paramters except notch is 00-30. There was a LOT of chatter when I did this, but I was able to pick out nickels just as easily I had with the CZ-6 in years past...Every "30-38" jumper and "38-42" jumper signals turned out to be nickels, the more recent ones registering a higher VDI than the more corroded examples out of the 1940s and 1950s. Got a few pieces of aluminum siding, but proportionately there was a very low amount of trash recovered on this hunt!
Met one of the neighbors who had a detector years ago, and was fully surprised to see what I'd recovered so far (about 2 hours in when he approached me). He couldn't believe that there were so many coins in one smallish front yard, and I told him that some other yards are even more endowed with goodies. I told him of my night hunting, and the probable future night hunts this week at this house. I have found that communication with neighbors is VITAL and PRODUCTIVE at the same time, since you can secure their permission most of the time for a future hunt and provide them with a share of the goodies - especially if they have children! It's a WIN-WIN for everyone!
Got an unusual signal after switching into the "4K coins" program - received a "45" and thought I was going after a pulltab...turned out to be a 1943 P war nickel. Rescanned the area to get a confident "68" which was an unexpected Guatemala 10 centavos piece minted in .720 fine silver, dated 1925. A little research turns out that this is a key date, however it may be worth $3-$4 on auction. Still a cool and unexpected find - that's why I've been doing this for ~30 years on and off!
Both silver dimes I was able to call before I dug - they both registered between "75" and "79", but once I got squarely over the dime target, the VDI locked on and didn't budge. Same for the quarters - although they are clad once the coil got completely over them, the software had a bead on what was there and didn't waver.
Found 21 Wheats in all - which is the second best day of detecting by that merit alone in many years! And the backyard remains untouched - we have three weeks left in this neighborhood so all the gravy needs to get sucked up while it can!
May start on the backyard tomorrow night weather permitting - we've been getting so much rain around here that the ground is fully saturated and digging is a breeze - not bad for June!
EMI started to get bad about halfway through the hunt, but for the most part I just put up with it. I'm glad I did! After scanning 90% of the front yard in 00-60 notch in 4 kHz, I switched programs to "4K coins" which has the exact same paramters except notch is 00-30. There was a LOT of chatter when I did this, but I was able to pick out nickels just as easily I had with the CZ-6 in years past...Every "30-38" jumper and "38-42" jumper signals turned out to be nickels, the more recent ones registering a higher VDI than the more corroded examples out of the 1940s and 1950s. Got a few pieces of aluminum siding, but proportionately there was a very low amount of trash recovered on this hunt!
Met one of the neighbors who had a detector years ago, and was fully surprised to see what I'd recovered so far (about 2 hours in when he approached me). He couldn't believe that there were so many coins in one smallish front yard, and I told him that some other yards are even more endowed with goodies. I told him of my night hunting, and the probable future night hunts this week at this house. I have found that communication with neighbors is VITAL and PRODUCTIVE at the same time, since you can secure their permission most of the time for a future hunt and provide them with a share of the goodies - especially if they have children! It's a WIN-WIN for everyone!
Got an unusual signal after switching into the "4K coins" program - received a "45" and thought I was going after a pulltab...turned out to be a 1943 P war nickel. Rescanned the area to get a confident "68" which was an unexpected Guatemala 10 centavos piece minted in .720 fine silver, dated 1925. A little research turns out that this is a key date, however it may be worth $3-$4 on auction. Still a cool and unexpected find - that's why I've been doing this for ~30 years on and off!
Both silver dimes I was able to call before I dug - they both registered between "75" and "79", but once I got squarely over the dime target, the VDI locked on and didn't budge. Same for the quarters - although they are clad once the coil got completely over them, the software had a bead on what was there and didn't waver.
Found 21 Wheats in all - which is the second best day of detecting by that merit alone in many years! And the backyard remains untouched - we have three weeks left in this neighborhood so all the gravy needs to get sucked up while it can!
May start on the backyard tomorrow night weather permitting - we've been getting so much rain around here that the ground is fully saturated and digging is a breeze - not bad for June!
