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I can't speak for anyone else's experiences but my own. But there is a local schoolyard that I hunt often. It is right around a 100 years old, but there has been activity on the land for at least 150 years. In a back corner there is a huge Live Oak tree (the kind that South Louisiana is famous for), and it just reeks of "kids". It has low-hanging branches and forms an umbrella and kids have been playing on it for the last 100 years at least. I know this because I have pulled over 175 coins from under this tree. The VAST majority of these coins have been from 8-12 inches deep. I have found silver dimes, quarters, war nickles, 2 halves, and countless wheats. I don't really know why all of the coins are so deep...it may have something to do with the amount of leaves that the oak tree drops that allows the soil to build up so quickly. Also the ground is near an old bayou and rather soft. I have been over this area with other cheaper detectors and found NOTHING except several clad coins, and this struck me as odd...this spot just looked "coiny". When I got my Explorer last fall, this was one of the first places I went, and I am still finding coins.
Yes it is tough digging so deep for coins. There are two layers of clam shells that I have to dig through to get every coin (clamshells were used widely as fill in the past in So.La.). Some of the coins were deeper than 12 inches I think, but I quit measuring after the first couple of trips (let's put it this way, holding my Leche digger the hole was past my wrist). It WILL find the deep coins that no other detector will.
Yes it is tough digging so deep for coins. There are two layers of clam shells that I have to dig through to get every coin (clamshells were used widely as fill in the past in So.La.). Some of the coins were deeper than 12 inches I think, but I quit measuring after the first couple of trips (let's put it this way, holding my Leche digger the hole was past my wrist). It WILL find the deep coins that no other detector will.