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Racer & Racer 2 snags a few goodies.

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OregonGregg

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Went down to NV. for a bit on Monte's outing. As always the trip was fun, met up with some familiar faces and well as some new folks. This trip was a little tougher than previous outings, had the freak storm come thru and it snowed Wed. night and into Thurs morning. ( The last several days were nice) The weeds have overgrown the better (older) sites but all in all, it still was a fun trip and found a few things.

I took along my Racer w/Sharpshooter coil and the Racer 2 w/Snake coil. In one of the older sites, I did manage to find some areas lacking weeds and the Racer 2 managed to get me an 1856 Seated dime out of all the iron and rusted tin. Also got an intact Henrys bullet, a nice military button, cuff links, one with a Tiger Eye design and other ghost town doodads. Also got an auto tag off of a "Marmon" car. Didn't know they made such a thing, guess they built cars from about 1902 to 1930"s

Looking forward to the next outing.

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gregg
 
Great finds Gregg! I'm hoping to hear from others on the trip also to see how they did. I'll be heading up to the Oregon outing in a couple of weeks. Going to make it a month long Vacation through the North West.
 
Hi Tom, look forward to seeing you again on the Oregon outing. Should be a fun little outing and some better weather.

When I get the time I'll have to google "Marmon" and see what all comes up.
 
Nice digs, congrats on the seated dime!!! I like the assortment of period costume jewelry you found too, it bodes well for finding jewelry made from gold or silver eh?

I need to make one of the WTHO trips!

hh,
Cal
 
Congrats on the silver & other goodies. Sounds like a fun trip!
 
Thanks Guys, and yes Brian hope to see you on a future outing. After the Oregon outing coming up in a few weeks I don't know where the next outing (s) will be. Wells NV. is out and will no longer be going back there. So if anyone has a idea/place to hold a future outing give Monte a shout.
 
One of these days I'm hopping a plane to your side of the country for one of your meetups!!!
 
Well Stoof, you just Keep Calm & Chive right on over here. You really should, the outings are always fun and a chance to find some neat stuff. You still have time to book a flight to Boise Idaho.
 
Lol. I spent alot on a trip to South Carolina in July.
But soon Gregg, soon.
 
Hi Brian, well weeded out for the most part, but we have been in the Wells area for five outings. Time to find different areas/places. For example, the one in Eastern Oregon gives the folks in western Oregon, WA and ID etc a chance to do an outing and not have to drive so far. So you have any spots ( not your top secret ones) in or around your area that might have potential for an outing next year ??

Monte would like to try and find spots in different areas of the US. That way it would give folks a shot at an outing that might be fairly close to them.
 
OregonGregg said:
Hi Brian, well weeded out for the most part, but we have been in the Wells area for five outings. Time to find different areas/places. For example, the one in Eastern Oregon gives the folks in western Oregon, WA and ID etc a chance to do an outing and not have to drive so far. So you have any spots ( not your top secret ones) in or around your area that might have potential for an outing next year ??

Monte would like to try and find spots in different areas of the US. That way it would give folks a shot at an outing that might be fairly close to them.
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Closer to Michigan..... (Nudge nudge):poke:
 
I got a used Racer 2 with 3 coils over the winter. What settings/coil size do you recommend for trashy sites in black dirt?
I need to get out and use it. I am used to using my MXT, ACE250 machines. Will the Racer 2 be hard to use?

-Tom
 
tvanwho said:
I got a used Racer 2 with 3 coils over the winter. What settings/coil size do you recommend for trashy sites in black dirt?
I need to get out and use it. I am used to using my MXT, ACE250 machines. Will the Racer 2 be hard to use?

-Tom
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Hi Tom, actually the Racer 2 is an easy machine to use, especially once you have your settings saved, it becomes very easy. Turn the machine on, toggle the pinpoint button forward and ground balance and your set to go. You said you have three coils so I'm gonna take a guess that you have the 7 x 11" Stock, 5.5 x 10 and the 5" small coil ?? In extremely trashy areas I would use the 5" coil. The small coil stays on my machine almost all the time. If you are dealing with moderate trashy areas the 5.5 x 10 works great and the stock for open areas, parks etc.

As far as settings, it's kinda a personal preference thing but here are my settings when hunting ghost towns etc ( very trashy sites) with the small coil.

Mode...........................Three Tone
Gain............................85
ID Filter.......................03
Notch.........................NA
Iron Audio..................1 or 2 ( Just barely enough to here the iron)
Tone Break.................10 & 65 ( lowered the high tone to 65 so most Indian Head pennies will be a high tone)
Audio Tone.................User Preference ( I have mine at 10-30-70 )

Anyhow hope this helps a little. Maybe use this as a starting point and tweak it to your likings. In less trashy(moderate) areas then I would op for two tone, larger coil and kick my gain up and leave tone break at 10.
 
I'm very impressed with your finds from the Racer 2.
Just curious about what your approximate percentage of trash to goodies are? Even with my Minelab Explorer I often dig trash just to see what it is. Ya just knever know. :)

Beautiful finds! Wow! Love 'em!
 
Tony N (Michigan) said:
curious about what your approximate percentage of trash to goodies are? Even with my Minelab Explorer I often dig trash just to see what it is. Ya just knever know. :)
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Well, I have no idea about the percentage of trash to goodies ratio, never have kept track. But when I post a pic of the finds I don't post one of the 5-gallon bucket of junk I also found that day. :) I dig a lot ( bad, iffy and of course good signals) Digging trash/junk is part of the game.

If I ever do get frustrated, it is when I detect hours on end, finally get that beautiful signal, one that you would bet your life that it is a coin, pop the coin out of the ground in a 150-year old ghost town and it's a 1960-70's era coin.

But you are absolutely right when you say " I often dig trash "signals" because you never know when that trash just might be something nice. Last year on the Red Racer I got a solid mid-tone signal, that was about 8 points lower on the VDI scale than a Nickel. In my mind I am thinking small 22 shell casing or something along those lines. I still dug the target out and to my surprise, it was an 1874 three cent Nickel. So yes sometimes that trash turns into something nice.
 
That was a 'nickel' [size=small](the primary metal alloy)[/size] 1874 3¢ piece. Some folks might struggle to figure out a 3¢ 5¢ coin thinking it was a 'Nickel' not knowing that some of the 3¢ pieces were made of 'silver' and some made of 'nickel.'

The tinier 'silver' 3¢ pieces are more difficult to find due to their small size, but the 'nickel' type 3¢ coins are more difficult to find due to the effects on the metal 'nickel' [size=small](a ferrous type or magnetic-based metal)[/size] on the EMF. Those are some of the coins we encounter, like a Flying Eagle or other 'fatty' type early Indian Head 1¢ coins that easily fool the 'average' Coin Hunting hobbyists into ignoring them because they don't have a nice-and-proper 'Coin Type' visual Target ID response, thus over-reliance on a visual TID can lead to many desirable coins/target being ignored because they7 don't appear to be a common coin.

Monte
 
OregonGregg said:
Hi Brian, well weeded out for the most part, but we have been in the Wells area for five outings. Time to find different areas/places. For example, the one in Eastern Oregon gives the folks in western Oregon, WA and ID etc a chance to do an outing and not have to drive so far. So you have any spots ( not your top secret ones) in or around your area that might have potential for an outing next year ??

Monte would like to try and find spots in different areas of the US. That way it would give folks a shot at an outing that might be fairly close to them.
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There are some in eastern NV (close to Austin) that I think merit a group hunt, let me think about it and I'll shoot Montee some suggestions.

My largest block is time to get out and detect :rant: Oh and most of my sites are getting played out :(

ttys,
Brian
 
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