I toodled off for a little detecting this AM before Lori awoke. Being as she's a woman and all that, she likes to do "stuff," oddly enough. While I will merrily disappear all day to go detecting, once the chores are done, she wants to go for walks with the dogs or to street fairs or what have you. And dang it all, she hasn't the least bit of interest in detecting, which makes me Double Duty Dave. SO I just hit it a bit before she gets up - detecting that is...:blush:
Today I banged away at one of the close by schools. I turned up the usual suspects and made another discovery: a set of regularly spaced footprints following the outline of the monkey bars. Egads, another detectorist is afoot! And unlike the one I followed the other day, this one was thourough, too, by the looks of his tracks. So I went and gridded the school yard under the trees, instead. I guess this detectorist didnt like such places, though, as I managed to uncover what you see in the top section of the pic. I was there for about 45 minutes.
Here's the drill:
1. Target sounds off with stable audio and holds a steady ID.
2. now, "twitch" the coil over the target to narrow the response and "mindseye pinpoint."
3. Hit the pinpoint button, once, to engage the Profiling feature.
4. Sweep the target and Analyze the profile.
5. Dig or not.
(Often, I dig regardless, depending on where it comes in on the ID scale. After all, Ive read just about all of Bills articles over the years - visions of belt buckles or cash-stuffed cows or what have you always pop into my fetid little brain at these decisive moments. Thanks, Bill!)
SO, to recap that's:
Twitch
Profile
Dig,
I call it "The TPD" method and nothing could be easier. I hear a lot of whining about the Profiling feature, but it's a funny thing: use it the way it was intended and, by golly, it's both useful and beneficial!
After my 45 minutes, I went across the road to where the old air base/jail was. Here's where it gets good. I was running in Jewelry mode and had my SENS at 8. Kinda high, for most conditions, but I went ahead with it. The area was strewn with pine cones (the bigguns, the one's like pickly cantalopes) and lots of undergrowth, so it was slow going.
No sooner than I got started but I got a "Boingggg" from the belltone and an ID in the penny/dime area. I little TPD action to nail it down and I went to digging. And digging. Oh, and lets not forget the roots I had to cut through? Finally, after a heap of sandy dirt had piled up, out pops a 1951-D cent. Ahhhh, a wheatie. That's nice.
But man, did I have to dig for it! I chalked it up as a fluke and pressed on. I had pushed the second or third lump of grasss out of the way and had just stumbled over the umpteenth monter pine cone when I get another "Boinnnng" belltone. Now, let me tell you, there was no sweep discipline here, brother. Between the grass, fallen branches and Pinecones from Hell, well, I was doing the best I could.
But a clean penny/dime signal is something you dig. Period. you guessed it, another Wheatie, this time 1950. And again, this thing was deep. I make it 6", and Im being conservative - it may have been a little more. Oh, did I mention that had backed off the sens by this time, to 7, due to falsing.
Just for ducks I dropped to 6 and pressed on. "Boinnnng" goes the belltone - another cent. Same shoddy sweep discipline, for the same reasons, same 3-4 scoops of soil dug out to get to it. This time it was a 1968 cent. The Three Good Cents, as I call them, are at the bottom of the pic.
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"Is the 1350 deep enough?" some ask. "After all, it's one of them crummy Garrett's..."
Well, lets just say the thing continually impresses me, as I dont usually want to dig so much! Flatly put, it offers more gain than you can probably use most of the time. But, in a clean area without a lot of trash and where deeper coins are possible - I wouldnt leave it at home, if I were you. Providing you have the Good Sense to own one.
Peace, yo,
Today I banged away at one of the close by schools. I turned up the usual suspects and made another discovery: a set of regularly spaced footprints following the outline of the monkey bars. Egads, another detectorist is afoot! And unlike the one I followed the other day, this one was thourough, too, by the looks of his tracks. So I went and gridded the school yard under the trees, instead. I guess this detectorist didnt like such places, though, as I managed to uncover what you see in the top section of the pic. I was there for about 45 minutes.
Here's the drill:
1. Target sounds off with stable audio and holds a steady ID.
2. now, "twitch" the coil over the target to narrow the response and "mindseye pinpoint."
3. Hit the pinpoint button, once, to engage the Profiling feature.
4. Sweep the target and Analyze the profile.
5. Dig or not.
(Often, I dig regardless, depending on where it comes in on the ID scale. After all, Ive read just about all of Bills articles over the years - visions of belt buckles or cash-stuffed cows or what have you always pop into my fetid little brain at these decisive moments. Thanks, Bill!)
SO, to recap that's:
Twitch
Profile
Dig,
I call it "The TPD" method and nothing could be easier. I hear a lot of whining about the Profiling feature, but it's a funny thing: use it the way it was intended and, by golly, it's both useful and beneficial!
After my 45 minutes, I went across the road to where the old air base/jail was. Here's where it gets good. I was running in Jewelry mode and had my SENS at 8. Kinda high, for most conditions, but I went ahead with it. The area was strewn with pine cones (the bigguns, the one's like pickly cantalopes) and lots of undergrowth, so it was slow going.
No sooner than I got started but I got a "Boingggg" from the belltone and an ID in the penny/dime area. I little TPD action to nail it down and I went to digging. And digging. Oh, and lets not forget the roots I had to cut through? Finally, after a heap of sandy dirt had piled up, out pops a 1951-D cent. Ahhhh, a wheatie. That's nice.
But man, did I have to dig for it! I chalked it up as a fluke and pressed on. I had pushed the second or third lump of grasss out of the way and had just stumbled over the umpteenth monter pine cone when I get another "Boinnnng" belltone. Now, let me tell you, there was no sweep discipline here, brother. Between the grass, fallen branches and Pinecones from Hell, well, I was doing the best I could.
But a clean penny/dime signal is something you dig. Period. you guessed it, another Wheatie, this time 1950. And again, this thing was deep. I make it 6", and Im being conservative - it may have been a little more. Oh, did I mention that had backed off the sens by this time, to 7, due to falsing.
Just for ducks I dropped to 6 and pressed on. "Boinnnng" goes the belltone - another cent. Same shoddy sweep discipline, for the same reasons, same 3-4 scoops of soil dug out to get to it. This time it was a 1968 cent. The Three Good Cents, as I call them, are at the bottom of the pic.
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"Is the 1350 deep enough?" some ask. "After all, it's one of them crummy Garrett's..."
Well, lets just say the thing continually impresses me, as I dont usually want to dig so much! Flatly put, it offers more gain than you can probably use most of the time. But, in a clean area without a lot of trash and where deeper coins are possible - I wouldnt leave it at home, if I were you. Providing you have the Good Sense to own one.
Peace, yo,
