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My best probe for hunting clads

Dancer

Well-known member
One tool I got to have when hunting is a probe. I mostly use a long thin standard screwdriver. It's great for popping out shallow coins,and probing for the deeper ones. Once I pinpoint a target, I get down and start poking it in the ground. Once you feel the coin you only have to cut a small plug to bring it up. This saves you a lot of time & best of all your not digging all those manholes that give us a bad name. After a lil time you will know the fill of a piece of Alum. in the nickle range, so then you can decide to dig or not. You will notice that after a couple thousand coins the driver will become pointed. Hope this helps those who are new. And anyone got something faster, please let us know.
 
A six inch phillips screw driver has been my tool of choice. I carry my digging too but do not use it much on some hunts. Having said that, we have some places here with soft clay soil that coins love to sink rapidly so most of them are three inches down or more. At that depth, I find it faster to dig a flap for recovery.

Jerry
 
This is what i was using before breaking it off trying to rip through some tough clay and sod. I gotta new one, and its just about pointed on the end now. Definitely quick and no trace left behind.
Mud
 
That's what I use 98% of the time. I rarely use the digger.
And I don't even cut a plug. I just erupt the ground with the probe,
find the object in the crevice with the pinpointer, pluck it out, and
stomp the ground back down flat. One advantage to this method is
very little long term turf damage. Often you can't tell anything was dug
after stomping it down. And no dead spots that pop up later due to
cutting off roots, etc with the sharp diggers.
But I prefer a round smooth tip. Less coin damage if you brush
against one. My first probe was a Ford engine pushrod. I still keep
a couple in my pouch as backups. But soon after, I made one from
a screwdriver. I think it's an eight incher.. I ground the tip down round
with a grinder, and then buffed it down real smooth and shiny.
It's hard to hurt a coin with it, and you'll never leave a gouge in a nice
coin. Been using that probe nearly five years or so, and it's pretty
much indestructible. Looks the same now as it did when I made it..
Just dirtier.. :/ I do keep a digger and a short "mini-shovel" in my pouch,
but rarely ever use em.. Just for real big holes where the turf doesn't
matter.
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[size=large]i too follow Nm5k's idea. i make a slit much like an H. then pooch it up and probe for the target. then just fold it back down. when i get it right it looks great. for now i also use a 6" craftsman flatblade screwdriver for my probe til i fix up a better one.
MudPuppy, you musta hit some hard ground. that Stanly was made real well. took some effort to break it. need to back-off on the spinach.:rofl:

HH [size]
 
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?32,774926

and on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58e1XNIoKDE&feature=related
 
A screwdriver to act as both probe and coin popper plus the Pro Pointer make for lots of finds in a very short time.

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