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Just a fun f75 hunt!

jim tn

Well-known member
My wife and I spent our annual week or so up in the northern reaches of Mn last week and I had the occasion to revisit the areas now 115 year old fairgrounds.

I first began hunting this old site about twenty years ago and am quite certain I may have been one of the first serious detector swingers to have hunted on it back then. IH, v and buffalo nickels, wheaties and silver dimes and quarters, including Barber, were fairly common place each trip up there, for several years. For the last five or so years, though, the old grounds had started to become quite frugal. Others have learned of the merits of hunting old fairgrounds, too, it appears.

Anyway, not to turn this post into a book, I was able to devote my usual 25 or so hours to the site and came away with 9 silver dimes, 3 buffalo and 2 war nickels, 1 silver ring, a handful of wheaties and some clad. Two of the dimes were recovered from true 9 and 10" depths.

The f75 once again worked through all the trash quite nicely. Some bottle caps, though, still fool me and the f75. I inched along fairly slowly and would investigate all high tones, including tics. If I got a good coin reading on a tic, I dug it. Both of the deep dimes were just high tone tics and bouncy readings of 68-75. The top 3-4" of soil was quite dry. There was a slight dampness below 4", but over all conditions were pretty dry.

My settings were usually disc. 6, sen. 70-80, tones 3h & 4h, process de and gb was in the low 70's.

Thanks for reading. HH jim tn
 
Hi Jim,

Sounds like a great time!

I love hunting old fairgrounds, especially with a detector that gets deep as something is always missed if you go slow and carefully enough!
 
Scully, yes, I did try it and it did work on some. Perhaps because of the quite dry conditions and varying types of caps, many of the bottle caps hit with a pure high tone, no slight tell tale squeal, and some were reading in the 73-79 range. As I mentioned, quite a few of my coin readings, particulary the silver ones, were bouncing some and were in the mid 70 range. So, rather then chance passing up silver, I dug some caps that were iffy signals. HH jim tn
 
cc, old fairgrounds actually are my favorite coin shooting spots. My wife and I had a business in Columbus, Ga back in the early 90's and over a eighteen month time span, between fair event reseedings, I recovered over 4200 total coins from the local fairgrounds. Of which, 127 were of various varieties of silver...plus a bunch of other goodies. Old fairgrounds truly can be amazing treasure spots. HH jim tn
 
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Mike, 1 of the Buffalo's was close to 6" and was a high tone "pip" and id 29-32. That was the deepest nickel. I am noticing, though, up in Mn and down here in Tn, do to the dry conditions,(?) that many nickels are giving both high and mid tones in 3h and 4h tone settings. High tone is most prevalent, however. Pinpointing also has to be very precise for best id accuracy. HH jim tn
 
I find that the bc mode work's best in 2+ or 1 tone. Then to check for the squeal, go back to de or pf and use dp tone. I don't seem to get the squeal in bc mode.
In bc mode you get a high tone in one direction and a low tone when you swing back across. Raising the coil or swinging at an angle help's to id in bc, IMO.


J
 
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