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New to the hobby but here are my two day finds

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LuckyDig

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Fairly new to the whole metal detecting thing but here are a few things I found in the last two days here in Portland Or. 1944 silver quarter, 1944 wheat penny, large mens silver ring, misc clad and a brass drawer pull. This is the best I have managed in the 8 months or so that I have been detecting and figured I would share my finds. I use a Lone Star with the original coil. The total time on the last two days hunting was about 4 hours of hunting on site. I did notice a conspicuous lack of nickels to be found any advise?





Lucky
 
Good finds, and congrats on the silver! I use the lone star as well. When I first started detecting, it took me months to find my first nickel, and I just couldn't figure out why. When I finally found my first, it was in all metal mode, and the coin was bouncing between iron and nickel on the target ID. I don't know how mineralized your soil is in Oregon, but in my neck of the woods its pretty red in places. For me, I think it came down to the minerals (mostly iron) in the soil throwing off the detector and oxidizing the nickels such that many would register in the iron range. I'm not saying that every iron target is worth digging, but I usually dig a few solid ones from time to time, and as a result, my nickel count goes up (but so does my trash count!). Another possibility is that if you're hunting in disc or auto disc mode, or with the disc nob set high, you're missing even the nickels that register higher.

BTW, how deep were the wheat cent and silver quarter?
 
The silver quarter was about 4 inches down, the wheat cent was sitting in the grass. :super: I will have to try digging a few more pull tabs and chunks of aluminum/foil and see if my nickel count goes up, from what I am reading gold falls in the same area from time to time and I don't want to miss out on that, just get tired of cutting plugs for pull tabs and bottle caps. :rage:
 
Hey LuckyDig:

I too sometimes detect in PDX. I scouted Mt Tabor and think it has possibilities. I have tried some of the older public schools with little luck. Where do you go? Have you tried Waterfront Park after Rose Festival or Cinco de Meyo?

Mark
 
Delta park, Kelly point park have been a couple of my favorites. The sandy area by the boat launch on Marine drive has been fairly productive for me. I haven't tried Waterfront park but that sounds like a good idea, Willamette park is one I was thinking but I like to stay away from the downtown area. I tried down off the Willamette river at Meldrum bar boat launch and after digging my 4000th piece of propeller gave up on it. Lots of small parks up the Clackamas river to try also. Mt Tabor might be fun but I think I will stick to the parks for now...the clad is nice there :detecting:
 
Congrats on the silver ring:clapping: nice rocks also.
 
:usmc:

Looks like you are doing just fine. I would not be alarmed over not enough nickles though they are easy to see and be picked up when dropped on open ground and are near the lower end of the spectrum as are small gold items.

My BH Pioneer 505 is I believe about the same machine but I've had some nickles try to throw me, even found some on their ends rather than laying flat but I'm one who will go the extra and would rather follow my gut by error digging on certain questionable tone and display readings than pass it up for someone else to find. I'm unable to describe what it was I exactly heard and saw but there was something different about the inconsistent and unrepeatable that made me dig and I was right when I did. Make sure you check questionable tones and readings by swinging in different directions. As a general rule though with my machine, if I can not get a consistent repeatable tone and or reading and in changed angles of swinging, it's junk.

I think though what helps me greatly is I grew up on machines that you had to learn the SOUNDS (much different than tones and displays) and discern what your machine was telling you. Some people in those days had difficulty in learning what machines were telling them and so a number of machines ended up in a closet or hanging in sheds or garages collecting dust. This new stuff makes it easier for the begginer but can still be fooled by alloy content and the environment it is in wet or dry. You also have to consider what all is under your coil however big it is. There may be two or more items of different alloys and the machine is going to register in each swing what ever is dominate possibly giving erratic readings. In trashed areas, I use the smallest coil. Something I have found in all my years of detecting is I have a tendency to use less discrimination. It's not that I purposely used less, I just found myself using less.

Recheck your digs, especially when your getting lots of different readings but pulled a coin out. Great fun when you discover you have found someones pocket got dumped.

Practice and more practice. Never think you have learned it all and read as much as you can find on how metal detectors work.
 
I am not alone in thinking Mt. Tabor would be a good place to go metal detecting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x5YxVlP9zM&NR=1

Mark
 
Oh I agree, I have done some research on Mt Tabor and it looks very good for older stuff. Its a must do for me but I need to finish the area I am working in now before I move to my next site =)








Dustin
 
It's interesting to read about how long it takes some to find nickles. I pulled the Discovery 2000 out about a month ago to start back detecting. Put new batteries in it and went to the front yard to try it out. Walked out on the sidewalk, started checking the edges and walked 5 feet when the machine went off and it said nickle. I dug a plug down about 4-5 inches and when I lifted it out, laying in the bottom of the hole was a 1984 nickle pretty as you please.
 
Maybe its just bad luck, maybe its me being lazy and not digging on the questionable signals. I have had a couple descent finds it just seems that the nickels never seem to show up :wacko:



Dustin
 
For me being back at it after a long lay off, it was the machine telling me exactly what it turned out to be.....:wiggle:
 
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