Well, my Xterra 705 finally came in on Tuesday, yee haa!! I went out to my property just to get used to the machine. Parked at camp and got the machine set up and ground balanced. I immediately got a hit where we park and dug up my first coin. A 1992 Rosie, but hey, it was my first. For the next couple of hours I dug what seemed like a never ending supply of .22 casings. As I said, I wanted to get used to the machine so I was digging every hit. Time soon ran out and I had to leave to pick my son up from school.
Went back out today after dropping him off at school and dug for several hours. I went to the area with an old rock chimney and looked for a spot with no metal so I could get a good ground balance. Finally found one, got it balanced and went to work. I was using a 9" concentric coil at 7.5kHz. Got a lot of signals but nothing really strong. Finally got a really good hit and dug about 2 inches and hit a metal object that turned out to be an ax bit. Searched a little more in the same area but the numbers seemed to be jumping between the 20's and 40's, so I changed to the 6 X 10 DD elliptical coil and almost immediately got a good, strong hit. Dug a couple of inches and hit a metal object. Dug it up and it was a 6 link chain that looked to be hand forged. Within an hour or two I had a 2" x 2" nut, a pair of scissors, the top to a mason jar with a round glass seal? in the top, and some sort of metal rod. Found several pieces of glass, I assume leaded because they registered on my detector. While digging some of the glass I found a clay or ceramic type of object that has the shape of a bottle stopper. It has a hole approx. 1/4"-5/16" in the top and a much smaller hole, about the size of a toothpick in the bottom. Got no idea of what it is. Anyway, it was a great day for me. These may be just trash to some of you experienced guys and gals but they are sure treasures to me. Here's some pics. Sorry, but I forgot to put a ruler down by them for the pics but the chain is approx. 9" and the cutting edge of the ax bit is approx. 4 3/4" top to bottom. Hope to have more pics to post tomorrow, weather permitting....Does anybody have any idea what the metal bar or the clay object is???
Went back out today after dropping him off at school and dug for several hours. I went to the area with an old rock chimney and looked for a spot with no metal so I could get a good ground balance. Finally found one, got it balanced and went to work. I was using a 9" concentric coil at 7.5kHz. Got a lot of signals but nothing really strong. Finally got a really good hit and dug about 2 inches and hit a metal object that turned out to be an ax bit. Searched a little more in the same area but the numbers seemed to be jumping between the 20's and 40's, so I changed to the 6 X 10 DD elliptical coil and almost immediately got a good, strong hit. Dug a couple of inches and hit a metal object. Dug it up and it was a 6 link chain that looked to be hand forged. Within an hour or two I had a 2" x 2" nut, a pair of scissors, the top to a mason jar with a round glass seal? in the top, and some sort of metal rod. Found several pieces of glass, I assume leaded because they registered on my detector. While digging some of the glass I found a clay or ceramic type of object that has the shape of a bottle stopper. It has a hole approx. 1/4"-5/16" in the top and a much smaller hole, about the size of a toothpick in the bottom. Got no idea of what it is. Anyway, it was a great day for me. These may be just trash to some of you experienced guys and gals but they are sure treasures to me. Here's some pics. Sorry, but I forgot to put a ruler down by them for the pics but the chain is approx. 9" and the cutting edge of the ax bit is approx. 4 3/4" top to bottom. Hope to have more pics to post tomorrow, weather permitting....Does anybody have any idea what the metal bar or the clay object is???
