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Got out last night and a little on Thursday night and hit the fairgrounds/DG course once again. Stayed in 4 kHz both times, and found the usual haul of clad and junk targets (not shown). Digging bottlecaps is almost non-existent now, unless I come out of 4 KHz for any reason. I keep reactivity at 3, silencer at 0 all the time, and this works very well in the most polluted areas, especially around the large nuts, bolts, and washers that used to be part of the wooden roller coaster. I'm able to hit 6-7" dimes no problem with these settings, and dug three 6" plus dimes last night...2 clad, one silver; as well as a 7" or so dateless Wheat.
I decided to try an area that I'd found a deep silver quarter earlier this year...turns out most of the coins in this area are 5-7" deep, and underneath an erosion-preventing mesh that was laid down in 2010 after the bulldozers did their thing. If you get a "virgin" target, you will be able to tell since you will have to get through the mesh in order to retrieve it. I found either one of mine or another detectorist's plug and got a weak but repetitive high toned target last night and noticed that an older plug was dug about 6" offset from the center of the new target (could have been where I snagged the silver quarter earlier this year!) There was no VDI but the audio was spot on "Dig me!"
Dug down about 4" and hit a clay layer that was nearly ironclad...very hard to get through! The Propointer was sounding off dead center of the hole - still had more than 2" to go and I didn't want to damage the target. I jumped on the Samson and maybe got 1/2" closer to it...almost gave up and rescanned, it sounded a little better now. Finally I got where I could see a small silver rim about 6-7" deep. Bingo! Out popped the only silver between the two hunts, a crusty 1956 Rosie. It took almost 10 minutes to get to this target, so from there I went looking for easier places to dig and found more clad along with a couple of deep Wheats.
It's getting to where I don't have the patience or time to penetrate the mesh and clay, so I don't get down to Libertyland too much these days - it's simply too much work and my feet are paying the price! I've worn holes through a nice pair of hiking boots and more quickly through a set of tennis shoes while jumping and stomping on the Samson to get to the targets. The Samson doesn't appear to care- it's a rugged and essential piece of equipment that I will never be without again!
GL & HH!!!
I decided to try an area that I'd found a deep silver quarter earlier this year...turns out most of the coins in this area are 5-7" deep, and underneath an erosion-preventing mesh that was laid down in 2010 after the bulldozers did their thing. If you get a "virgin" target, you will be able to tell since you will have to get through the mesh in order to retrieve it. I found either one of mine or another detectorist's plug and got a weak but repetitive high toned target last night and noticed that an older plug was dug about 6" offset from the center of the new target (could have been where I snagged the silver quarter earlier this year!) There was no VDI but the audio was spot on "Dig me!"
Dug down about 4" and hit a clay layer that was nearly ironclad...very hard to get through! The Propointer was sounding off dead center of the hole - still had more than 2" to go and I didn't want to damage the target. I jumped on the Samson and maybe got 1/2" closer to it...almost gave up and rescanned, it sounded a little better now. Finally I got where I could see a small silver rim about 6-7" deep. Bingo! Out popped the only silver between the two hunts, a crusty 1956 Rosie. It took almost 10 minutes to get to this target, so from there I went looking for easier places to dig and found more clad along with a couple of deep Wheats.
It's getting to where I don't have the patience or time to penetrate the mesh and clay, so I don't get down to Libertyland too much these days - it's simply too much work and my feet are paying the price! I've worn holes through a nice pair of hiking boots and more quickly through a set of tennis shoes while jumping and stomping on the Samson to get to the targets. The Samson doesn't appear to care- it's a rugged and essential piece of equipment that I will never be without again!
GL & HH!!!
I hope the rains come for you.