christopher-ohio
Active member
Hello All,
I've been on vacation this week so I thought I'd go on a road trip back to the other side of town where I used to live which is a 150 mile round trip. I brought my CZ-70 and CZ-3D to hunt the iron-filled front yard of an 1828 pioneer farmhouse that I've hunted once before with my CZ-70 only.
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On that first trip I did find a bunch of teen's wheaties with S mint marks which are the better ones, an early large Canadian cent, a Victorian broach, a super thin almost couldn't tell it was an IH-no date and a 1960 Roosie; nothing great but fun. This time I thought I'd use the 3D since I have found that I do find coins and other high conductive targets that I missed or didn't dig with the CZ-70 since there are alot of mid tones at these early sites.
I started out with a sensitivity of 4.3, manual ground balance around 5.5 in enhanced. The first target I dug was an 1897 IH about 4-5 inches down, solid repeatable high tone. The second was a 1916 Buffalo nickel that bounced between foil and nickel, mid tone to high tone, about 4-5 inches down. My CZ-3D isn't quite tuned right for nickels to read the way they are intended but from all my experience with CZ's, the CZ-70 in particular, I had a good hunch it was a nickel. The third target was a repeatable high tone 5-6 inches down, a large disc, I was hoping for a large cent but it was an 1899 Denmark 5 Ore coin...I was pumped...all within the first 20 minutes of hunting...Tom, I do love the 3D-it really does find the old coins-genius! In my humble opinion, anyone who uses CZ's or any other detector for that matter should have a 3D to hunt a site the second go round or the first really since it does work! It also seemed to be better at target separation in the iron versus the CZ-70 for me.
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Then a gentleman came up to me, mind you, this is out there a little bit, which kind of surprised me. He was interested in what I was doing and finding. Here I find out he owns the property, not the antiques dealer; he wasn't very happy that he didn't know about me being there. I then went and talked to the dealer who I haven't seen for a couple of years that is very talkative but a very nice guy about it-since I called him about it the night before and got the high thumbs up. I then went back to talk to the owner, explained everything, and apologized about the whole thing even though the dealer never told me that it wasn't HIS property. After further discussion, agreeing that if a valuable find would be found it was his, and further getting to know one another talk, I got the thumbs up again after about 1 1/2 hours...definitely ruined my rhythm I had going. I went back at it but with less concentration. Still managed a nice early flat button about 6 inches down, high coin, says "extra colour" on the back.
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Also, a lead weight with an H on both sides, high coin, 4-5 inches. Two shotgun shell bases about 4-5 inches down that were iffy as I thought, Peter's Target No 12 and Winchester Repeater No 12 and a nice OHIO 1893 Columbian Exposition Souvenir Medal-maybe the 5th or 6th I've found but never with the Ohio plate above.
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I went to an orchard that we used to go to when we lived over there to get some maple syrup for the boys, apples, and peaches. From my $20, I got several ones and three quarters-I could hear when she got it out of the drawer, that distinctive sound, I wasn't sure since I thought it could be Canadian but it was the same size as the rest. I forgot about it until I got home and was cleaning out my pockets-sure enough, a minimally worn 1962-D Washington Quarter-the only silver of the day -to think I could have stopped right there and went home-the most valuable find of the day-gosh, I wish I would have known so I could have checked for more in that register drawer...sorry so long...HH
I've been on vacation this week so I thought I'd go on a road trip back to the other side of town where I used to live which is a 150 mile round trip. I brought my CZ-70 and CZ-3D to hunt the iron-filled front yard of an 1828 pioneer farmhouse that I've hunted once before with my CZ-70 only.
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On that first trip I did find a bunch of teen's wheaties with S mint marks which are the better ones, an early large Canadian cent, a Victorian broach, a super thin almost couldn't tell it was an IH-no date and a 1960 Roosie; nothing great but fun. This time I thought I'd use the 3D since I have found that I do find coins and other high conductive targets that I missed or didn't dig with the CZ-70 since there are alot of mid tones at these early sites.
I started out with a sensitivity of 4.3, manual ground balance around 5.5 in enhanced. The first target I dug was an 1897 IH about 4-5 inches down, solid repeatable high tone. The second was a 1916 Buffalo nickel that bounced between foil and nickel, mid tone to high tone, about 4-5 inches down. My CZ-3D isn't quite tuned right for nickels to read the way they are intended but from all my experience with CZ's, the CZ-70 in particular, I had a good hunch it was a nickel. The third target was a repeatable high tone 5-6 inches down, a large disc, I was hoping for a large cent but it was an 1899 Denmark 5 Ore coin...I was pumped...all within the first 20 minutes of hunting...Tom, I do love the 3D-it really does find the old coins-genius! In my humble opinion, anyone who uses CZ's or any other detector for that matter should have a 3D to hunt a site the second go round or the first really since it does work! It also seemed to be better at target separation in the iron versus the CZ-70 for me.
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[attachment 34800 2006_0908Image0067.JPG]
Then a gentleman came up to me, mind you, this is out there a little bit, which kind of surprised me. He was interested in what I was doing and finding. Here I find out he owns the property, not the antiques dealer; he wasn't very happy that he didn't know about me being there. I then went and talked to the dealer who I haven't seen for a couple of years that is very talkative but a very nice guy about it-since I called him about it the night before and got the high thumbs up. I then went back to talk to the owner, explained everything, and apologized about the whole thing even though the dealer never told me that it wasn't HIS property. After further discussion, agreeing that if a valuable find would be found it was his, and further getting to know one another talk, I got the thumbs up again after about 1 1/2 hours...definitely ruined my rhythm I had going. I went back at it but with less concentration. Still managed a nice early flat button about 6 inches down, high coin, says "extra colour" on the back.
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Also, a lead weight with an H on both sides, high coin, 4-5 inches. Two shotgun shell bases about 4-5 inches down that were iffy as I thought, Peter's Target No 12 and Winchester Repeater No 12 and a nice OHIO 1893 Columbian Exposition Souvenir Medal-maybe the 5th or 6th I've found but never with the Ohio plate above.
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I went to an orchard that we used to go to when we lived over there to get some maple syrup for the boys, apples, and peaches. From my $20, I got several ones and three quarters-I could hear when she got it out of the drawer, that distinctive sound, I wasn't sure since I thought it could be Canadian but it was the same size as the rest. I forgot about it until I got home and was cleaning out my pockets-sure enough, a minimally worn 1962-D Washington Quarter-the only silver of the day -to think I could have stopped right there and went home-the most valuable find of the day-gosh, I wish I would have known so I could have checked for more in that register drawer...sorry so long...HH