Neil in West Jersey
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I had to send my Garrett metal detector out for servicing earlier this week , but with sunny, 70 degree weather I decided to take out my old White's PRL1 detector. It has no readout, only a manual discrimination (the advertisement says it is ideal for finding property stakes!).
I had to pick a place which would be fairly easy to find targets that are not deep under roots due to the fact that I had no way of telling depth. I remembered a park that had been an old swimming hole around the turn of the century. It is very sandy in parts, but there is much underbrush in what had been the swimming area. I decided to stay in the sandy area, but the mosquitos found me anyway .
In 2 hours I dug over 100 coins, nearly all Memorial cents, plus some clad, but nothing old, not even a wheatie. I decided to walk down a path away from the park when I got a bunch of signals, still new stuff. I was ready to give up when I found the Barber next to a 1918 penny. I am glad I hung in there and the nice weather made it all worthwhile.
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I had to send my Garrett metal detector out for servicing earlier this week , but with sunny, 70 degree weather I decided to take out my old White's PRL1 detector. It has no readout, only a manual discrimination (the advertisement says it is ideal for finding property stakes!).
I had to pick a place which would be fairly easy to find targets that are not deep under roots due to the fact that I had no way of telling depth. I remembered a park that had been an old swimming hole around the turn of the century. It is very sandy in parts, but there is much underbrush in what had been the swimming area. I decided to stay in the sandy area, but the mosquitos found me anyway .
In 2 hours I dug over 100 coins, nearly all Memorial cents, plus some clad, but nothing old, not even a wheatie. I decided to walk down a path away from the park when I got a bunch of signals, still new stuff. I was ready to give up when I found the Barber next to a 1918 penny. I am glad I hung in there and the nice weather made it all worthwhile.