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Paid homage to one of our local spots yesterday, and managed to keep the "S-mint" streak alive. It's been going for the last 5 or 6 hunts, and it usually comes in the form of a Wheat cent. Used the same program as before, with Reactivity = 0 and Silencer = 2. Second hole was a deep 1897 Indian cent that was about 9.5" deep. After using the "Zero Reactivity" program it seems that it is able to give another inch or so over the "Goodjuju" program which uses Reactivity = 2. Mike and I have been consistently digging these deep coins, and almost every one of them is something anyone would be happy to find! I would say it is the combination of high-end detectors and our collective patience and support of each others' finds that keep us going back for more 
Very, very close to where I located a 1909 S Wheat cent last moth Mike would find a sweet 1897 V nickel! My 4kHz program doesn't quite like the deep nickels as much as copper and silver coins, however my 12Khz analogue program will light them up rather nicely. Unfortunately, the 12kHz program also likes iron and foil a little too well - so I usually stay in 4Khz to try and dig less trash.
We had a lull in the action after Mike found the V nickel - and oddly enough both of us pulled coins about an hour later at about the same time! I had a squirrelly signal co-located with some foil, and much to my surprise I saw a silver coin in the dirt pile (and I didn't scratch it!) I saw that it was a Barber dime dated 1892. Turned it over and saw an "S" and didn't think much else of it until I got home
Mike pulled an early Wheat...I think it was a 1913 D with some remaining detail.
Not far from there I found a 1901 Indian at about 8" deep - it sounded VERY coinlike in the zero reactivity program, and it's a wonder how we both missed it (we know where to start next hunt!) After this Indian I dug a 1942 Wheat some time later, but it the ground seemed very quiet and lacking of even those iffy signals. But we are far from running out of area to scour! Periodically we will "sample" a small patch of an unhunted area to "survey" - to prove there are old coins remaining for future hunts. And the future is very promising for years to come
Very, very close to where I located a 1909 S Wheat cent last moth Mike would find a sweet 1897 V nickel! My 4kHz program doesn't quite like the deep nickels as much as copper and silver coins, however my 12Khz analogue program will light them up rather nicely. Unfortunately, the 12kHz program also likes iron and foil a little too well - so I usually stay in 4Khz to try and dig less trash.
We had a lull in the action after Mike found the V nickel - and oddly enough both of us pulled coins about an hour later at about the same time! I had a squirrelly signal co-located with some foil, and much to my surprise I saw a silver coin in the dirt pile (and I didn't scratch it!) I saw that it was a Barber dime dated 1892. Turned it over and saw an "S" and didn't think much else of it until I got home
Mike pulled an early Wheat...I think it was a 1913 D with some remaining detail.
Not far from there I found a 1901 Indian at about 8" deep - it sounded VERY coinlike in the zero reactivity program, and it's a wonder how we both missed it (we know where to start next hunt!) After this Indian I dug a 1942 Wheat some time later, but it the ground seemed very quiet and lacking of even those iffy signals. But we are far from running out of area to scour! Periodically we will "sample" a small patch of an unhunted area to "survey" - to prove there are old coins remaining for future hunts. And the future is very promising for years to come