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Just got a 1235X in couple days ago,after a little elbow grease took the Fisher out with the Sovereign today.Used the 1235X in my over worked park.First target just above a whisper.Dug a plug and scooped out dirt to about ten inches,scan above the hole no target with a sweep of the coil.A couple of handful of dirt and could feel a coin,1935 Walking Half,not bad for the first coin found with the Fisher.HH Ron
Ron, I was reading your post without scrolling down yet to see the picture of what you found, and just as I read "walking half" I scrolled and saw it at the same time. My first words out of my mouth were "WOW!". Nice coin, and not too worn like many are. I've found 2 or 3 of those over the years, along with 1 Franklin, 1 Barber half, and 1 peace dollar. They had eluded me for years for some reason and then all of a sudden a few years ago I started popping them all all in about a year's time.
Two things with them- If they are left in a park they are either super deep (like it sounds like yours was), or they are shallow but badly masked. You hardly ever hear of them being found at moderate depth and with no masking, like say in the 6 or 7" range.
I always heard that Fisher was a deep machine for it's day. I think that's also the unit that many say will sound off to coins in junk well even if you've got the discrimination raised fairly high to say kill off pull tabs.
Once again, always nice to see big silver come out of the ground!
Critter,the discrimination was above zinc.Got an idea that some silver was still in the park.LOL we nuked that area with every detector out,the little 1235X can still get the job done.Thanks Ron
ABOVE Zinc? Wow...That's what I heard about I think that machine over the years. I remember reading an article on what I think was that Fisher years ago and the guy pulled a bunch of silver dimes out of tabs and other junk with the discrimination cranked high at a very trashy site. 10" ain't nothing to sneeze at for any machine even to this day. Sure, we hear about guys popping silvers at a foot plus but people have to remember that soil varies from state to state. All the non-Minelabs I owned over the years...Out of all of them only two could muster about 7.5" on a silver dime in my soil on a good day.
That's just what blows my mind about that little S-5 coil. It popped me a silver dime at a hard worked park that not only was very trashy, but also has some of the worst soil of all my sites (near the top of the list anyway). That dime was 7"+ and hit so hard I'm betting it could have been 9"+ and I still would have had no problem IDing it. It was also right in between two shallow pull tabs spanning maybe 2" to either side or so of that dime, yet I had no trouble seeing it distinctly. First thing a field hits is what it sees, so obviously that little coil was not seeing the two tabs left and right of that much deeper dime.
Once again great find there Ron! Nothing like seeing the rim of big silver in the dirt.
WOW. BEAUTIFUL COIN RON. I REMEMBER HEARING THOSE 1235X DETECTORS WERE AWESOME. THE TWO I'VE FOUND WITH THE GT 10 IN. COIL SOUNDED LIKE COKE CANS, BUT THE WEREN'T THAT DEEP. THEY WERE DEFINATELY IN A (HUNTED OUT HOMEPLACE). I WAS AMAZED THEY WERE STILL THERE. THEY HAD TO BE MASKED BY SOMETHING. I THINK THERE ARE QUITE A FEW OLD DETECTORS FROM DIFFERENT COMPANIES THAT ARE STILL AWESOME DETECTORS. MANY YEARS AGO, I HAD A WHITES EAGLE SPRECTRUM THAT MORE THAN PAID FOR ITSELF. GREAT DETECTOR, BUT I READ ANDY'S REVIEW OF THE GT AND SOLD IT TO GET THE GT. IT AMAZED ME AND I HAD TO HAVE IT, SO THE SPECTRUM WENT AWAY. NO REGRETS WITH THE GT-PAID FOR ITSELF MANY, MANY TIMES OVER, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ANOTHER SPRECTRUM TO PLAY WITH SOME DAY. MY EX BROTHER-IN-LAW STILL HAS IT AND IS VERY SUCESSFUL WITH IT. HH-MARK
I think that's how some real shallow ones get missed- people pass them up assuming it's a large piece of junk like copper or brass or something. I remember reading when the Pro Pointer first came out that a guy got a large "junk" coin hit near the surface. Just for kicks if I remember right he decided to trace out the "target" with his Pro Pointer without really planning to dig it. He then noticed it was several single targets and so he dug and found I think he said 3 to 5 Franklin halves laying very near the surface and all rather close to each other. Those coins probably were passed up 100's of times by people thinking it was a large piece of junk.
I don't know if you guys notice it, but I can usually tell a large can on the GT near the surface. Sure, it'll give a "COIN" hit, but it's also got a very harsh sounding hollow type of bangy hit to it, and will often mix a bit of a lower junk tone in with it here and there. That large cent I dug a few weeks back almost had me thinking "can" or some other large piece of junk because it was so close to the surface and so loud/broad, but then I noticed it was still "all coin" and "smooth" even though it was very loud/broad. I'm just glad I thought twice about it and dug.
Kevin,after you used your 1235X in the Buckeye Hunt I was sold, results speak for their self,around $270.00 dollars worth of silver is a good hunt Thanks Ron
Ron,
beautiful coin! Amazing you "nuked" the area with just about every detector out there then come along with the Fisher 1235X and clean up. You just proved that no site is ever cleaned out. Glad you are doing better. Take care and keep up the nice work. - Jim
