I Cant find Silver

[Coinseeker 78]

I go hunting with my buddy Joe quite often. He always finds Wheaties at least and Silver quite often. He uses a Explorer II and I use a Explorer SE. My finds are almost entirely clad. I am searching for coins 6 inches or deeper. I went to a old school today that I have hunted many times and dug on 8 inch or better holes and ended up with 50 cents in clad. One hole was 10 inches deep and yielded a memorial penny. I got 1 quarter 2 dimes and five pennies. I dug only three pieces of junk that rang as coins. What do I have to do to appease the silver Gods? I have found a gold plated buckle which I understand the explorers are not that great at finding. I have found only 2 pieces of silver in the 3 months I have owned the SE. My buddy has found at least 30 silver coins. The only difference in our searching is he covers a lot more area than I. Is he just cherry picking while I work the death out of an area searching among the clad and junk. Thanks for any reply.

 

[thebeatmachine]

I would mimic what your friend is doing and set your pride aside. See if you catch up on the silver maybe he has a formula that works even if he found it on accident. Do what works.

 

[Knipper]

Join the club! My silver this year, as well as any other older coins is frankly pitiful. I simply don't know where to go anymore as all the old 'hot spots' we worked in the 70's and 80's just aren't giving up any deep silver...maybe we did a pretty good job back then with our large coils. I really expected to find more with my SE, but if its not there in the ground or if I don't walk over them, my pouch goes home empty. If your buddy is finding them in the same general area you are, he was just lucky to have walked over them. You're finding deep clad, which means you wouldn't have missed any silver at those depths. Relax and don't try so hard...enjoy the outing and concentrate on the hunt, not on what your buddy might be finding. If they are there to begin with, you'll eventually find them.

Knipper

 

[Coinseeker 78]

I think you may have a point. I have been on hunts with the highly successful detectorists and they have their bad days to. I know I have a good setup on my detector and know how to adjust for conditions. So I must not be swinging over silver. But it bugs me when my hunting partner finds silver and I don't. He always finds wheaties and I seldom do and it gives me a "what am I doing wrong" attitude.

 

[Steve(MS)]

As deep as you are digging clad tells me the ground has been moved around sometime in the past but there is still a chance you can find silver.
Since you are finding deep clad is appears you know how to locate the deep ones which may include silver in the future.
Silver is getting harder to find these days, one thing you may want to try is to use a small coil, like the 5" or 6" coil and jump right in the middle of
those real trashy areas, now that is where the silver can be found. Take chances on some of the iffy signals while detecting in those trashy areas.
Hope this helps,
HH.

 

[bcoop]

Sometimes its like going fishing and your using the same bait etc. But your buddy in the front of the boat is catching all the fish while your in the back throwing the same rig with no results.
Your finding deep clad so you should be getting silver also if your coil goes over it. Is the area real trashy? If not you might try a larger coil, if the clad is that deep then the silver is probably 2 to 4 inches deeper, Just a thought. Or if the area is real trashy you might try a small coil to weed between the trash

Keep you chin up
bcoop

 

[relax_them72]

Mabey your just running it to hot.Like the guy thats starts to find silver when the charge pack is low. I am hunting a park now that barber dime hit in a place i have never seen. You wood think i could find a rosey or a merk but no way just barbers.try ground bal. ever 5 minutes .

 

[dougmanning]

Titan Man ; Hi, I don;t no what state you live in,but here in Wilmington N.C. Silver is DEEP!! SANDY SOIL, I FIND SIVER ALL THE TIME 9'' 10'' DEEP!!! MY SILVER COUNT WENT WAY UP WHEN I SWITCH TO THE EXPLORER!!! KEEP IT UP SILVER WILL COME FOR SURE!!! DOUG N.C.

 

[jackintexas]

I think you answered your own question. Sounds like your buddy is cherry picking and you are not......Jack

 

[dewcon4414]

Cherry picking or not as deep as you are finding targets its more likely what steve said... fill dirt. Also is the SE the first explorer you have owned? Anytime you switch detectors you finds have a tendancy to drop off as you grow accustum to the tones and make adjustments to your likeing they will come back. Seems like field time as well is needed. As the mosture changes some people do well and others not so well in dry areas. Ive noticed LESS finds on the forum now that the spring rains are over and those coins moved by the winter have been gobbled up.

Dew

 

[John(Tx)]

next time he hits something deep and you try to see if your machine will hit it. Also, is he finding these coins the same depth as you are? Ask him if he is cherry picking.

 

[trailblazing]

I have also wondered the same thing about finding deep silver. I live in a house that was built around 1876 and I have hunted this yard and found a few old coins and 3 rings and a old Victorian necklace(broken) with the pendant still on it where a old barn used to sit. Although I have hunted the yard over the years sometimes I find only clad other times I will find wheat pennies in the same areas I went over before but I have never found any silver except one mercury dime which kind of astonishes me. The day I found the mercury dime it was getting cold and starting to rain so I moved under a big tree out front of the house that is probably at least 200 years old and in a 10 minute period I found the mercury dime a Indian head penny and a silver ring. The was the first and last silver coin I found here but I would think there would be more because of the age of the house and all the families that have lived here over the past 130+ years. What settings do some of the other Explorer users use for finding deep silver? I have a Explorer II and a SE Pro.
Thanks and Good Luck

 

[Ron from Michigan]

T Man,he is probably looking for deeper and high conductivity targets.Check his total coin finds,which should be lower and will confirm this method. HH Ron

 

[NealNoIN]

He may be well versed on how to "read" a site. By that I mean he can tell where the best places to dig are by different signs:
1. He's been there many times and knows where the goodies have been found and not found in the past.
2. He looks at the dirt and sees where the light colored fill dirt is and avoids that area and digs in the darker dirt that's probably not been moved.
3. If you look at the tree trunks and can't see the roots extending from the trees but instead it just looks like a pole stuck in the ground then you know dirt has been hauled in.
4. Possibly the deep goodies have all been dug where there is not much trash and iron and he is focusing in on the trashy areas that many people avoid.

Also, you need to get to know your machine really well to find what experienced detectorists find. Learn thoroughly what each setting changes on your machine and how it affects the noise, depth, separation, response, etc.

Hope this helps,
Neal

 

[Bayrat76]

I am waiting to get my cherry popped still on the silver. Wheaties read good, I am under the belief not much silver is in my area. I dug to many targets not to get anything. I still keep digging going to find one sooner are later.

 

[Onus]

Silver coin is scarce in my area also. I recently went to Minelab hoping to get some of that deep silver the cherry pickers missed. So far my plan hasn't worked out but I am finding those 10" pennies too! Sounds like you are hunting in the relic mode while your partner is purely coin shooting. Perhaps a wee bit morer discrimination on your machine. I need to listen to my own advice! Onus

 

[george decker]

I'm new to this web site, but I have the same problem. I have used an older II in the past but have used it in the last 4 yrs. due to the machine not powering up. new batteries or recharged still does not work. Waiting on return from factory. Had an old 1970's metrotech,great machine, then bought a Minelab a generation ago. Use preset settings only but will try advanced settings after learning more about the machine. Iam responsible for where and when sidewalks are to be replaced in my city, but have not ever found anything under sidewalk ares that have been removed fro replacement. This does puzzle me. Have found indians in the tree row a few times and a few clad but that's it. One of my contractors found a barber dime without a Md. When and if I get my machine back I'll try again. Oldest coin found in the park, 1742 New Jersey pattern penny.
Good Luck all

 

[Patrick(MI)]

A couple of things come to mind as I read your post.
First thought is that some people are gifted more than others with musical ability and can easily distinguish between tones. So much so that they can detect the slightest changes in those tones. Other people have this talent and have never gotten involved with a musical instrument but they swing a metal detector. I'm sure you have heard the phrase, "that person is tone def"? I hunted with a friend in the past that could find silver in areas by listening for ugly signals. He would amaze me with stuff he found. Talk about making me green with envy. I'm at a slight disadvantage because of loosing an 8th of my hearing from artillery when I was in the Corps but I still manage to find some deep silver.
And that brings me to my second point.
One day I was hunting an old park not too far from me. It's location told me that it had been hunted to death and the likelihood of finding anything deep would be slim. See there I already started out with the wrong attitude that day. So I picked out an area of the park on the back edge near a large oak tree and spent some time listening for faint signals. What I discovered that day blew my mind. Every signal I heard I investigated very slowly. Why? Because I was hunting alone and could devote my attention to finding something instead of competing. Then about 6 feet from the tree trunk, going very slowly, I heard a faint signal. So faint and so small that it sounded like I was hearing the head of a pin. If I moved the coil too quickly it disappeared. So I checked the signal moving the coil ever so slightly so as to verify a good sound in 2 directions. The signal moved around a bit but stayed pretty much up in the upper right corner on the screen. So I decided to dig it and I couldn't believe what I had found at a depth of about 10.5 to 11 inches. An 1856 half dime. It's the only half dime I've ever found but one of my most favorite trophies.
What I learned that day was if I hunt alone I always put more thought into my signals. But if I hunt with someone else and they find stuff quickly I tend to get anxious and start swinging my machine too fast to try and put some goodies in my pouch also. Those days always end bad for me.