My First Half Dollar

[GoGoGopher]

Found my first half dollar today along a fence line at a ball field of an Elementary school...
Someone asked about the trash I dig...Well I decided to show the clean stuff...Not pictured is a huge hunk of rusty mud covered iron...

HH,

 

[ohio fred]

n/t

 

[OhioMike]

Gopher, which coil were you using near the fence, the 5.3 or the 3.5? I have a Bullseye 5.3 for my QXT and really love in park and school
enviroments. It's quickly becoming my favorite coil.
Mike

 

[GoGoGopher]

I was actually using the 950...I was too lazy to switch...I can get about 1-1 1/2 feet away from the fence...If you walk down the fence line, you know your going to get a high tone as you swing to the fence...anything swinging away from the fence I check with short quick sweeps over that area to confirm...I am looking for one way signals first, then confirm wiht the wiggle...
I hunt in coin and jewelry mode, volume full, threshold 11, sens 16-18, pp sens 16, DISC on, VCO on, Noise Redux on, accept all zones but 1 and 8, high tones on zone 4 and 7 only...if I am in an area that might hold interesting relics, I hunt in the mixed mode and accept all zones in the disc, and high tones on zones 2, 4, and 7.
I have the 5.3 and the 3.5 coil...I just did not feel like switching just to do the fence line...

HH,

 

[norman maassey]

Some good looking finds there. The first of any new coins dig is a new Mark on a Hunter time line.


I now hunt with a DFX with 950. Shorthing after I got it I pick up a 4X6 coil, but like I too am to Luzy change coils. Now I just turn down the A.C. sen. that way I can get 6inch from a fence or tat-lot equipment without lossing a lot of depth.

In (most) schools and parks 6 inches is about as deep as I will dig.