My hunting buddy gave me an article that he wanted me to read. It basically said to go hunt places that are really loaded with trash and to hunt them very slowly with a small coil. The reasoning was that people had to be there to leave all that trash in the first place. Secondly, people would have lost some good stuff in all that trash as well. Lastly, most people avoid metal detecting in really trashy areas, so the good stuff is likely to be still there. So I thought I would give it a try today. I slapped my 5 inch DD coil on my Gold Bug Pro and headed out to the trashiest place that I knew of. I've been to this trashy place before with my Omega, but it couldn't handle the EMI in that location, so, I put it back in the car and got out my Gold Bug Pro with the 11 DD coil. That didn't work at all, so left for another location and haven't been back until today.
First thing I did when I got there was to try and find a small piece of ground that didn't have any trash in it so I could ground balance the detector. It seemed like the screw caps, pry-caps, modern pull-tabs and beaver-tail pull-tabs were all holding hands it was so thick with them. Plus there was a bunch of other stuff thrown into the mix as well.
After ground balancing, I turned the sensitivity knob to its highest setting and set the discrimination to '68'. Even at that high discrimination setting, I couldn't move the coil even on a short swing without getting a bunch of beeps. It didn't take me long to figure out those real bouncy numbers were rusty ply-caps and the 79-81 numbers were screw caps. I was looking for 58 for nickels, 83 for dimes, 87 for quarters or any high number that didn't bounce around too much, except for 79-81. Surprisingly, I dug a lot less trash than I thought I would. I ended up with 1 half dollar, 10 quarters,16 dimes, 3 nickels, 26 pennies, a Canadian quarter and a sterling silver Saint Christopher.
The Saint Christopher was 8 inches deep and it gave a weak audio tone letting me know it was deep. The VDI numbers were 81-83. I might not have dug it if had not been for the deep audio signal. I pushed the pinpoint button and got a 8 inch depth reading. Sure enough, it was exactly 8 inches deep.
Also it wasn't uncommon to find trash in the same hole with the good targets.
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tabman
First thing I did when I got there was to try and find a small piece of ground that didn't have any trash in it so I could ground balance the detector. It seemed like the screw caps, pry-caps, modern pull-tabs and beaver-tail pull-tabs were all holding hands it was so thick with them. Plus there was a bunch of other stuff thrown into the mix as well.
After ground balancing, I turned the sensitivity knob to its highest setting and set the discrimination to '68'. Even at that high discrimination setting, I couldn't move the coil even on a short swing without getting a bunch of beeps. It didn't take me long to figure out those real bouncy numbers were rusty ply-caps and the 79-81 numbers were screw caps. I was looking for 58 for nickels, 83 for dimes, 87 for quarters or any high number that didn't bounce around too much, except for 79-81. Surprisingly, I dug a lot less trash than I thought I would. I ended up with 1 half dollar, 10 quarters,16 dimes, 3 nickels, 26 pennies, a Canadian quarter and a sterling silver Saint Christopher.
The Saint Christopher was 8 inches deep and it gave a weak audio tone letting me know it was deep. The VDI numbers were 81-83. I might not have dug it if had not been for the deep audio signal. I pushed the pinpoint button and got a 8 inch depth reading. Sure enough, it was exactly 8 inches deep.
Also it wasn't uncommon to find trash in the same hole with the good targets.
tabman
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