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pescadore

pescadore

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I was contacted by a distant relative by marriage this weekend about detecting some property in the DFW metroplex area. Apparantly his mother-in-law had recently passed away and they had a contract on selling her house. Well the story goes that 5 days before she died she told her son that she had buried jewelry and money in the back yard of her house. She said that she had put the gold jewelry in a plastic sleeve inside a PVC pipe and buried it about 2 feet down. There is also supposedly some silver and gold coins buried in a like manner. My question to you is first of all do you think my E-trac with the ProCoil will hit that and do you have any suggestions on settings, etc. I questioned him about the gold jewelry and whether or not she actually had the jewelry in her possession at one time and it's now missing and he confirmed that they have not found jewelry and coins that they know that she had in her possession at one time. Any help that you can offer would be greatly appreciated. There is a lot of knowledge and experience on this forum and I was hoping that someone had some experience with this type of hunt.
 
2 feet is pretty deep and would definitly be on the outer limits of any coil. Being in a potective sleeve would mean that it would have no "halo" effect around it that would have enhanced it's signal. I would grid the area and go slow and low and dig all iffy signals. Using a bigger coil with max sens could help depending on your soil conditions. If you have access to water, adding some moisture to the grould will give you some added depth. Good luck.
 
See if someone in your area has a GPX-5000 I have seen some videos and heard of them getting great depth.
 
Maybe find someone with a 2 box detector? Don't know much about them, heard they go deep...What does everybody think of them?
Good Luck,
Bunker
 
You can hope the mass is big enough, I've hit 18" on larger targets. Water might help. If not there's another option.
Old fashioned probe rod, soak the yard and start poking.
 
I don't see this gal digging a two feet deep hole I would mow the grass real low. Then get down and look across the yard looking for low or high spots. Start searching those areas first. Then move into the garden or flower areas. Then next to the house. You might sit at the kitchen table (or favorite chair) and look out the windows for areas she could keep an eye on the treasure. I would get out there in all metal with 27 or higher manual sensitivity and go pretty slow. I'm sure you could use a long handled shovel for this search. What you could do is let your relative dig your marked targets while you go on detecting. Did he plan on giving you any reward or cash for finding it? If so then get it in writing.
 
Sailorman said:
You can hope the mass is big enough, I've hit 18" on larger targets. Water might help. If not there's another option.
Old fashioned probe rod, soak the yard and start poking.
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All great advice here. I second the probe rod, but just make sure its long enough and stout enough. For that much money, maybe they could be enticed to "redo" the entire yard in which case you could take off and move the top layers around.

I also second the "wetting" advice.

NebTrac
 
A number of years ago I was asked to locate a cooper box buried in a old church yard. It was about one foot square and was buried two feet deep. I was using a VLF Discriminating metal detector with a 10" coil. I was even shown approximately where it was buried. I ground balanced the machine and used the discrimination mode to begin with. No matter how slow I went I was not able to locate the box. I switched over to the all metal VLF mode and reground balanced the machine and very slowly went over the area again. I was finally able to locate the signal but it was no more then a slight change in the threshold sound. I was able to figure out about the size of the target and he marked it with a metal post.

He promised me that when they went to dig it up he would tell me if the spot we marked was correct for his target. About three years latter they dug it up and it was where I had located it. Had I not known where to look I dought I would have been able to locate it. Someone else has suggested a two box detector and I for sure would think it would do you a lot better job then a standard VLF detector. GOOD LUCK Rick IL
 
That brings up a thought. On the beach I sometimes just hunt in pinpoint (all metal) mode since it seems to give me more depth. You could try that and listen for even slight breaks in the threshold. You could then try a probe rod around the spot and see if you find anything.

Just a thought!
 
If someone dug a few weeks ago you would be able to see where they dug pretty easy in this dry weather, have you looked at the yard at all?
 
Silver and gold coins + jewelry = skid steer loader & new grass seed :bouncy: Id really swing the detector first.What an older lady might call 2 ft deep may be a foot in reality.
 
I spoke with the guy today and I was mistaken about the death of his mother-in-law. She passed about a year ago and they were selling her house and that is why they were looking for the jewelry. I have not seen the yard but I am meeting him there in the morning. I doubt there will be any evidence of recent digging other than I think that they have dug down around the area they thought it was buried. It's probably a real long shot that I will be able to find it but thought I would give it a try.
 
4 - 6 second swing speed if not slower and dig ALL iffy signals, even the signals that barely change the threshold. Good luck on your treasure quest.
 
Call American Diggers.....from the few episodes I suffered to watch, I'd bet they'll find more gold and jewelry there than the lady buried, and probably a gun or two in the bargain.....snicker...:rofl: Seriously though, all the above is good advice and I'd echo the part about pushing your sensitivity up as far as it will go, open the screen up to accept everything but a small section at top and bottom for excluding nails, hunt in TTF and listen for even the slightest change in threshold. Of course if there's much else in the yard interferring with the signal....you're going to have a mighty tough go of it no matter how you hunt. Good luck!
 
I agree...I doubt the stuff is 2 feet deep, without a tape measure most people visualize things deeper or bigger than they are....it's just human nature. I was a carpenter my whole life and I know what 24" is...I bet if it is buried there you can find it with the E-trac. I am guessing 16" tops.
 
don't know if theyre any good but divining rods may help:

http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Dowsing-or-Divining-Rods

Will send another link that may be helpful today
 
These guys used a special machine but I dont know what it was:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2164897/Iron-Age-coins-worth-10m-discovered-Jersey-metal-detector-friends.html
 
If you can lay your hands on a larger coil, like say the 18x15, 15x12, or a WOT...So long as the cache is bigger than say a half dollar these coils should be able to see it deeper than a smaller coil I would think. There's a fine line in coil size where they start losing sensitivity to say dime sized coins and so start losing depth, but in fact will now get deeper than a smaller coil on bigger (say half dollar to dollar sized or bigger) targets.
 
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