earthmansurfer
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I got out today for 4 hours to a 500 year old spot. I didn't find the silver I was looking for but a few 100 year old coins and my first American Military Button.
The hunt started by finding some machine gun bullets and full cartridges. I no longer look forward to those. I moved to a spot where the earth was more solid, always seem to find the older coins there - they just don't "sink" much.
The iron noise (5 tone) was bugging me, so I tried what Lowboy said. I put the iron tone to 0 and man was that nice. The threshold hum would null over iron and it was basically the same thing as far as recognizing iron was concerned. I wish I had tried it before. I guess there is no way to get that threshold hum to adjust to the iron faster? I thought SAT did that as well as the AM hum SAT.
On the back of the button it says "Waterbury Button Co. Conn." Is this collectable or are they a dime a dozen? I've never found one before. It was a breath of fresh air from the Nazi stuff.
The coins on the top are 1906, 1908, 19--, 1924
Second row is 1925, 1929, 1941 (Nazi)
Fourth row is Euro clad. Note we have .20 coins and not .25
The deepest coin was about the length of the Lesche blade (7"). It hit just like the 3" ones. They all hit like you knew they were coins, except maybe 2 were broken up a bit and one was only a two way signal. The iron was mostly thick. On every coin, when I put the plug back in, you could hear the threshold nulling over the hole. Pretty amazing machine in iron. I didn't dig much trash on accident. I dug more than I needed to but I'm just trying to learn what the machine is telling me. I was fooled on small shallow things a few times. Normally it's not that hard to notice, but with heavier iron it got me.
I did the whole hunt in autotrack and discrim'd out -95 to -71. Rx@10, Disc 95, RD 42-50 (might have to up that as I was getting some double beeps.)
On a funny note the usual curious person came up and rapped with me, both in English and German for 20 minutes. He came back and gave me his card and asked if I could give him English lessons (my job.) So, it was a good day...
EMS
ps - Thanks for the good suggestions guys, especially you Rob. I am getting a much better grip on the V3i. Each time a little bit more.
The hunt started by finding some machine gun bullets and full cartridges. I no longer look forward to those. I moved to a spot where the earth was more solid, always seem to find the older coins there - they just don't "sink" much.
The iron noise (5 tone) was bugging me, so I tried what Lowboy said. I put the iron tone to 0 and man was that nice. The threshold hum would null over iron and it was basically the same thing as far as recognizing iron was concerned. I wish I had tried it before. I guess there is no way to get that threshold hum to adjust to the iron faster? I thought SAT did that as well as the AM hum SAT.
On the back of the button it says "Waterbury Button Co. Conn." Is this collectable or are they a dime a dozen? I've never found one before. It was a breath of fresh air from the Nazi stuff.
The coins on the top are 1906, 1908, 19--, 1924
Second row is 1925, 1929, 1941 (Nazi)
Fourth row is Euro clad. Note we have .20 coins and not .25
The deepest coin was about the length of the Lesche blade (7"). It hit just like the 3" ones. They all hit like you knew they were coins, except maybe 2 were broken up a bit and one was only a two way signal. The iron was mostly thick. On every coin, when I put the plug back in, you could hear the threshold nulling over the hole. Pretty amazing machine in iron. I didn't dig much trash on accident. I dug more than I needed to but I'm just trying to learn what the machine is telling me. I was fooled on small shallow things a few times. Normally it's not that hard to notice, but with heavier iron it got me.
I did the whole hunt in autotrack and discrim'd out -95 to -71. Rx@10, Disc 95, RD 42-50 (might have to up that as I was getting some double beeps.)
On a funny note the usual curious person came up and rapped with me, both in English and German for 20 minutes. He came back and gave me his card and asked if I could give him English lessons (my job.) So, it was a good day...
EMS
ps - Thanks for the good suggestions guys, especially you Rob. I am getting a much better grip on the V3i. Each time a little bit more.