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Outlaw Great Job At Old Iron Junk Infested House Sites

Bill G

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Just going to confirm how well the Outlaw does at older sites with a lot of pieces of iron trash in the ground. One of the older areas I go to has a grip of iron trash all around the area is from the late 1800 through today. ( an old Oil Boom town ) A lot of the house's have been tore down and bulldozed. Years ago before modern regulation requirements they just dug a hole and pushed the home into the hole and covered it, these house sites are a nightmare for detectors.The outlaw with the 7" wide scan DD did a very respectable job in this iron trash area better than some other detectors I have hunted this area with over the years. It did pull 6 Wheat's dating in the 1950's and several pennies from the sixties some nickels and dimes more modern from the 1970 & 1980 and old cooper items little valves and fittings. Also as normal it pulled out a lot of the normal trash items associated with these kinds of sites.

The Outlaw pulled several small pieces of brass and other metals out of the sites as well. It really surprises me sometimes how we'll the Outlaw does on small items.

I give the Outlaw a big :thumbup: for it's over all performance. It runs smooth steady and pretty stable considering the amounts of small iron trash I was hunting in. You could hear it disking the iron out while sweeping the coil. I find working it slower and steady is when you get the good tone between the iron trash pieces. I dug several targets with pieces of iron trash in the same hole, not bad at all.

Happy Hunting To All, :detecting:
Bill G
 
I don't get out a lot with the Outlaw but when I have used it I'm happy with it. I've been in the water whenever I can with the tigershark.
 
Great job Bill! May I ask your settings for working this type of site please? My knee jerk reaction would be to set it up to cherry pick if I were digging too many junk targets in such a trashy area.
 
Habanero said:
Great job Bill! May I ask your settings for working this type of site please? My knee jerk reaction would be to set it up to cherry pick if I were digging too many junk targets in such a trashy area.

My settings were just above foil on the disk this knocks out most small iron and foil then I thumb the disk knob to help when working the site.This site has been cherry picked to death if you want to find the good stuff you got to work the site.

This site is a late 1800 site and has produced some older items but it is very tough hunting and if one chooses to cherry pick this place he will miss a lot of the old items. I have pulled Indian heads, V Nickel's, Silver Dimes, Wheat's, old Brass Makeup tins, Watch fobs and old toys, Stick Pin's, Pewter Jewelry, White Gold Class Ring, Decorative Brackets, old Tool Tag's, Dog License/Tag's from the 1900. I even pulled a 1906 five dollar Gold Coin in extra fine condition out of this place (see pic below). If I had been cherry picking some of these items would have been missed the White Gold Ring for sure and possibly the 1906 Five Dollar Gold Coin and other items listed.

Today if I had been cherry picking I would have missed one of the Wheat's I found it dropped out for what ever reason a hair above pull tab when thumbing the disk knob and was scratchy ( may have been on it's side ) the other Wheat's I found did not do this. These coins had been in the ground a while they were dark in color and tarnished green.

Happy Hunting, :detecting:
Bill G
 
I agree the outlaw is a fine machine , Tesoro did not miss anything with this unit it is my NO .1 preferred machine for sports fields, for now the Compadre is my detector its nice having the threshold all metal to check targets,
 
I have both the Tesoro Bandido II µMax and the Outlaw. I haven't worked them enough at iron laden sites to be conclusive in my opinion, but it seems to me that the Outlaw handles iron better than the Bandido II µMax does. I know for sure that I like the audio tone on the Outlaw better.

tabman
 
Would like to try an Outlaw at some of the cellar holes I haunt. Sounds like it would be the perfect machine there.

Awesome gold coin Bill G! :drool:
 
square_nail said:
Would like to try an Outlaw at some of the cellar holes I haunt. Sounds like it would be the perfect machine there.

Awesome gold coin Bill G! :drool:

Thank You,

It is one of my most prized finds. :clapping: I found it about 10 maybe 12 years ago with a White's XLT by an old tree stump about 4" down where an old library use to set at one time. It was found at one of the many sites I was mentioning in the original thread above. Again these are some of the toughest sites I have worked in all my years of detecting, lot's of iron trash and trash in general and the ground can be really hard certain times of the year. You better bring a lunch that's for sure :tongue:

Happy Hunting, :detecting:
Bill G
 
Thanks for the settings advice Bill; I hope my Outlaw can be put to work the same way next time I'm out.
 
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