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DeepTech

Outlaw Find in Northern Nevada

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TAB.HUNTER

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I was hunting a 1920's hot springs spa this morning. The owner told me good luck and I probably wouldn't get anything because the site has been gone over with detectors for many years. There was a lot of old cans and 22 shells. The silver was 3 1/2" inches down. Of course dipstick here wasn't expecting to find anything so I thought it was a large flat washer and nicked the edge a little with the digger.
The soil here is mildly hot. You can pull particles out with a magnet. I know the soil has a high alkali content. The Outlaw was easy to ground balance. I'm still learning it so I'm not sure if I got the G.B. right. I used the 5.75 coil.
 
Way to go! That's a really beautiful coin.

Something in the water or soil must have tarnished it. Most of the silver that I dig comes out all shiny and bright.

tabman
 
Oh ya. Definitely something. There is a sulfur smell from where the water comes out of the earth. It smells like Yellowstone. The area has mounds of limestone & steam coming out of the ground. I've been told there is high levels of arsenic up here too. Lord knows what else is in the soil. It is vicious on anything that is dropped here. There are alkali flats nearby too and we drink the city water.:unsure: I doubt my hair will grow back anytime soon.
I'm pretty impressed how well the Outlaw handles this ground.
 
Great find on the silver dollar, I'd bet there are more great finds at that place.
 
WOW , I have never found a silver dollar. and to see the outlaw get that in bad ground with the concentric is a good sighn, you can shure tell it sat thear for a wile, I would go back and dig in threshold all metal and dig evey thing good chance somthing is masked in that spot , how could the other guys have missed that big thing , unless they figured it was a pop can or maybe du to the minerals the VDI numbers went off, thats whats nice about tesoroes they get you exploring things other pas up .
 
kaolinwasher said:
WOW , I have never found a silver dollar. and to see the outlaw get that in bad ground with the concentric is a good sighn, you can shure tell it sat thear for a wile, I would go back and dig in threshold all metal and dig evey thing good chance somthing is masked in that spot , how could the other guys have missed that big thing , unless they figured it was a pop can or maybe du to the minerals the VDI numbers went off, thats whats nice about tesoroes they get you exploring things other pas up .
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Kaolinwasher I'd like to see you turned loose in good location like this one with your Outlaw. Nothing would get by you. Your videos would top the charts.

tabman
 
Something that i have learned about ground balancing with the Outlaw is that you want to balance until almost all the noise is gone. It says in the manual that go until the detector is as quiet as you can get it. I first started by going from neg to pos and getting it close but if you can fine tune it more so very little noise is heard it becomes very deep and the sounds are very distinctive, Makes a BIG difference.
 
Thanks for the info. I actually did find more on the first outing. One silver spoon, several pounds of 22 shells, a few 44-40's, hundreds of rusted cans, and many items too numerous to mention. We are going out again Monday. Oh, I forgot - one hand forged pitch fork. I found it by sight but I was holding my Outlaw. I guess I can say I found it with my Outlaw!?:bouncy:
 
well this is it the trash is in the way , somtimes you just have to get it out to find the good targets.
 
OMG....!!!!!! How did I miss this? Beautiful coin! I've only dug 1 silver dollar (1879s morgan) and almost passed it up thinking it was most likely an aluminum can. Detector hit and almost blew my head off. Just goes to show that you have to dig some of those real "iffy" signals......

WTG....!!!!!!
 
The sulphur in the soil really tarnished it. I soaked it for 3 hours in Tarn-x. A rubbery, slimy disc slid off of it. For what it's worth, I was over this same section with my V3i. Not that it wasn't a capable detector, I just simply believed I wasn't going to find anything with it. We just couldn't bond.:cry:
 
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