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We finally had a decent day where the snow wasn't blowing, settled, or otherwise blocking the way to get to a good local spot where older coins seem to congregate! I hunted this park on Monday and found a couple of older Wheats and a nice Type 1 Buffalo nickel, and for the last couple days I've been jonesing to get back out there!
Today I picked up in the same 50-foot box where I keep getting faint targets...many of them turn out to be keepers! I ran Disc = 0 today to see if it helped with any of the foil - didn't see any difference in performance one way or another. First target sounded good and indicated 89-91 VDI un 4khz - at the 7" mark out came a 1934D Wheat...a little newer than usual but still on the right track - that just proved that I didn't have the coil over that spot before!
Went on for a while and dug some foil at various places, then finally got over a sweet-sounding "86" that sounded like a deep silver quarter! I got excited but that quickly waned when it turned out to be a pulltab at 5"....re-ground balanced and not 2 feet away I got a faint high-toned hit. Looking at the "horseshoe", it indicated non-ferrous (right side) about 1/3 of it was shaded. In my experience, this indicates a coin-sized (dime or penny sized) target at about 6". At about 7" down out came a pretty sharp 1893 Indian that cleaned up rather well.
Running Disc = 0 didn't seem to affect the operation of the "horseshoe", even for the deeper, tougher targets. Every time I got one of those soft, rolling hits the horseshoe indicated "non-ferrous" - the 1902 Barber Dime was at 8" and it indicated about 1/6 shaded right side. Didn't dig ANY IRON today, but when I want to go after those 10" coins and beyond, I'm sure more will show itself. For now I'm going to leave Disc = 0 - I don't see anything adverse from running it like this, and when I changed over to an adjacent 8 kHz program (zero Notch, zero Disc) there was no difference in the horseshoe operation that I could tell.
Deepest coin of the day was found right at the end of the hunt, maybe 15 feet from the Barber dime - a 1912 Wheat. I didn't check the target in other programs since it was getting dark - once I saw it was a Wheat I headed for the car - lunch was a long time ago and I was famished!
Will be getting back there Monday - the weather is supposed to warm up and be ideal for getting at those deep ones!
Today I picked up in the same 50-foot box where I keep getting faint targets...many of them turn out to be keepers! I ran Disc = 0 today to see if it helped with any of the foil - didn't see any difference in performance one way or another. First target sounded good and indicated 89-91 VDI un 4khz - at the 7" mark out came a 1934D Wheat...a little newer than usual but still on the right track - that just proved that I didn't have the coil over that spot before!
Went on for a while and dug some foil at various places, then finally got over a sweet-sounding "86" that sounded like a deep silver quarter! I got excited but that quickly waned when it turned out to be a pulltab at 5"....re-ground balanced and not 2 feet away I got a faint high-toned hit. Looking at the "horseshoe", it indicated non-ferrous (right side) about 1/3 of it was shaded. In my experience, this indicates a coin-sized (dime or penny sized) target at about 6". At about 7" down out came a pretty sharp 1893 Indian that cleaned up rather well.
Running Disc = 0 didn't seem to affect the operation of the "horseshoe", even for the deeper, tougher targets. Every time I got one of those soft, rolling hits the horseshoe indicated "non-ferrous" - the 1902 Barber Dime was at 8" and it indicated about 1/6 shaded right side. Didn't dig ANY IRON today, but when I want to go after those 10" coins and beyond, I'm sure more will show itself. For now I'm going to leave Disc = 0 - I don't see anything adverse from running it like this, and when I changed over to an adjacent 8 kHz program (zero Notch, zero Disc) there was no difference in the horseshoe operation that I could tell.
Deepest coin of the day was found right at the end of the hunt, maybe 15 feet from the Barber dime - a 1912 Wheat. I didn't check the target in other programs since it was getting dark - once I saw it was a Wheat I headed for the car - lunch was a long time ago and I was famished!
Will be getting back there Monday - the weather is supposed to warm up and be ideal for getting at those deep ones!
