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I have been using my explorer for some time now and have tried various settings many that have been recommended in this classroom. I hear tales of this coin at 12 inches and that coin at 18 so why can I not find anything at more than 4 inches ?
 
In most areas coins are no more than 6 inches down. You will not find anything deeper than the top soil part of the ground. I have found that things will be at the most depth in sand at the beach because the ground is always changing or in farm fields that are tilled over and over. If you are digging in a park and the top soil is only 6 inches and under it is clay then you will not find anything deeper than the clay.
Randy
 
tried to email you the secret.. but alas no email address
 
sometimes you dont need depth <IMG SRC="/forums/images/biggrin.gif" BORDER=0 ALT=":D"> just the right area,I have found colonial coppers in rocks just under leaves and debris,also found 1700's coins 2"-3"-4"-5"-6" down and some at greater depths but on average my best were at 6"-7" average.You just need to be in the right area at the right time.Dig up some older area even if it's the obvious out in the open and you say nah it's been pounded...well pound it again and go slow if you can..I have also made some of my best colonial finds at the most wide open obvious hunted sites <IMG SRC="/forums/images/biggrin.gif" BORDER=0 ALT=":D"> and I love it.
 
Randy makes a good point. If you are digging through topsoil and hit a layer of hard clay or a strata that is not the top layer, then you have two decisions: One is that that area was once graded and filled, and no coins will have worked down into into that second strata. The other is that one time people congregated on that second layer and there will be a second set coins.
I usually stop digging once I hit a layer.
 
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