Pyledriver
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Well, trying to get video AND hunt with no tripod while using a Flip camera...yeah, can you say FAIL? I do have one video my buddy took of one target I recovered which doesn't show a heck of a lot! I'll post it anyway because it's one more than is out there right now.
Ok, first notes are...reduce your sensitivity!! If you go out into the trash, and our area had a very high TPSI quotient (trash per square inch), you WILL be getting overloaded by the multitude of signals! This is a very powerful machine! Another thing related to sensitivity is that the machine likes iron (higher freq), so I ended up maxing out the iron disc along with reducing the sensitivity. Now our big nemesis in our hunts was foil and can slaw. We had both in such an abundance I'm not completely sure it wasn't PLANTED there..lol! Even though our goal was coins, I just couldn't bring myself to notch out the aluminum (I like gold and sometimes a ring is in the weirdest places), so I have a nice collection of poptops and pulltabs. The tops seem to ring in around the 50'ish range-pretty much what the TID indicates by the pictures above the scale, the tabs seemed to jump around and ring up to the 60's if they were complete with the ring. I need to find a LOT more targets to get a good feel for the numeric TID. It's too early to be sure, but I think the TID will be pretty spot-on in the coin department, but I only found ONE coin! That prize was a modern penny that showed 70 something-that target was jumped on by my partner and distracted me so I didn't make a proper note of it. Dang. Go hunting a site that has history of activity back to the 1800's and find a modern penny-go figure. Now the depth on all these targets ranged from 3" for a junk peace sign bracelet, to as much as dropping the pinpointer in a hole for a bottlecap. Oh yeah, hope you like bottlecaps!! PLEASE keep in mind that this was my first hunt, we had a LOT going on, and I'm not the best at keeping notes and being terribly organized! I'll get some alone time with the AT, come up with some sort of head mount for the camera, take some notes, and next time I'll have something with more substance.
So, not-detector specific..the hunt itself was a lot of fun in a place with a ton of history! Our hosts were my recently aquired cache hunting partner and his wife and daughter. It's hard to tell who was more excited about detecting, but when you have somebody new to the hobby, getting in there and digging like crazy, then coming up with dirt on her face...ear to ear grin...and it was just pulltab, that's just COOL! I only wish we had found more interesting targets. So it was me with my AT, my other hunting partner with his AT, and he brought an ACE 350, ACE 250 and even a Bandido II uMax (dealers have all the toys). Our hunts took place mostly in Spanish Fort, Tx. but we did a lot of walking and looking around that meant our detecting time was only a couple hours total. My buddy's wife knows the owner of the school in S.F. (which is now fenced off to keep the detectorists out) so it was really easy to get permission to hunt this place that dates back to the '20s! Unfortunately we found nothing noteworthy. Dang, nothing like getting permission to a closed property AFTER it's been picked over..lol! From there we went into Nocona to eyeball some family properties and look for signs of old homesites. Not finding anything, we headed over to a property that once belonged to my buddy's wife's grandfather, who was known for burying things like MONEY in the ground! In the typical twist of fate that seems to go hand in hand with treasure hunting, this man was a welder by trade and hobby. Not too big a stretch to figure out what we found I guess! It's pretty amazing to me how much big iron was just under the soil in that place! So no caches to crow about...yet.
Our Spanish Fort work has only just begun I think, and I hope to move out of the town 'proper' and see what we might find to donate to the local museum! I have no idea if we'll be allowed to search but nothing ventured, nothing gained!
Ok, on to the theater... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8mMtrmxU80
Ok, first notes are...reduce your sensitivity!! If you go out into the trash, and our area had a very high TPSI quotient (trash per square inch), you WILL be getting overloaded by the multitude of signals! This is a very powerful machine! Another thing related to sensitivity is that the machine likes iron (higher freq), so I ended up maxing out the iron disc along with reducing the sensitivity. Now our big nemesis in our hunts was foil and can slaw. We had both in such an abundance I'm not completely sure it wasn't PLANTED there..lol! Even though our goal was coins, I just couldn't bring myself to notch out the aluminum (I like gold and sometimes a ring is in the weirdest places), so I have a nice collection of poptops and pulltabs. The tops seem to ring in around the 50'ish range-pretty much what the TID indicates by the pictures above the scale, the tabs seemed to jump around and ring up to the 60's if they were complete with the ring. I need to find a LOT more targets to get a good feel for the numeric TID. It's too early to be sure, but I think the TID will be pretty spot-on in the coin department, but I only found ONE coin! That prize was a modern penny that showed 70 something-that target was jumped on by my partner and distracted me so I didn't make a proper note of it. Dang. Go hunting a site that has history of activity back to the 1800's and find a modern penny-go figure. Now the depth on all these targets ranged from 3" for a junk peace sign bracelet, to as much as dropping the pinpointer in a hole for a bottlecap. Oh yeah, hope you like bottlecaps!! PLEASE keep in mind that this was my first hunt, we had a LOT going on, and I'm not the best at keeping notes and being terribly organized! I'll get some alone time with the AT, come up with some sort of head mount for the camera, take some notes, and next time I'll have something with more substance.
So, not-detector specific..the hunt itself was a lot of fun in a place with a ton of history! Our hosts were my recently aquired cache hunting partner and his wife and daughter. It's hard to tell who was more excited about detecting, but when you have somebody new to the hobby, getting in there and digging like crazy, then coming up with dirt on her face...ear to ear grin...and it was just pulltab, that's just COOL! I only wish we had found more interesting targets. So it was me with my AT, my other hunting partner with his AT, and he brought an ACE 350, ACE 250 and even a Bandido II uMax (dealers have all the toys). Our hunts took place mostly in Spanish Fort, Tx. but we did a lot of walking and looking around that meant our detecting time was only a couple hours total. My buddy's wife knows the owner of the school in S.F. (which is now fenced off to keep the detectorists out) so it was really easy to get permission to hunt this place that dates back to the '20s! Unfortunately we found nothing noteworthy. Dang, nothing like getting permission to a closed property AFTER it's been picked over..lol! From there we went into Nocona to eyeball some family properties and look for signs of old homesites. Not finding anything, we headed over to a property that once belonged to my buddy's wife's grandfather, who was known for burying things like MONEY in the ground! In the typical twist of fate that seems to go hand in hand with treasure hunting, this man was a welder by trade and hobby. Not too big a stretch to figure out what we found I guess! It's pretty amazing to me how much big iron was just under the soil in that place! So no caches to crow about...yet.
Our Spanish Fort work has only just begun I think, and I hope to move out of the town 'proper' and see what we might find to donate to the local museum! I have no idea if we'll be allowed to search but nothing ventured, nothing gained!
Ok, on to the theater... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8mMtrmxU80
