Second hunt with the Sovereign GT

[fwcrawford]

My buddy and I got out for some hunting today and tried a local school for about 2 hours.
I did some testing with the Sovereign at this site and listened and compared targets trying to guess what they were.
I found a few clad coins and this machine did well on hitting nickels and seems to do well at separating them from pulltabs which were also plentiful here.
We then went to an old park in the old section of town that has been hunted many times over the years.
We also did well here and my buddy managed to find a 1958 dime just below the surface which surprise him.
Besides the many clad coins we found, I found 6 wheat pennies dated 1918,1930,1941,1945,1952,and 1954.
I believe there are still some nice finds in here and after I get the hang of this Sovereign, hopefully I can rescue some of them.
I am really starting to like this detector and the language was a little confusing at first, but today I learned a little more about listening to the tones and interpreting the meter readings.
The pennies were between 5 and 6 inches deep and gave a nice signal even with the sensitivity turned down to about 2:00.
I think I got a winner here and am starting to understand why so many folks can't give them up once they have used them for some time.
After we quit hunting for the day, we stopped by Long John Silvers to eat a bite before going home and as we were eating, the cashier was checking some change that he had just loaded into the register and found a roll of nickels that had about half buffalo nickels in it.
He gave a couple of them to us although there were no dates on any of them.. oh well, you can't always have everything!!
Thanks for looking,
Felix

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Felix,good hunt,with the number of wheats found you are on your way to a silver find.HH Ron

 

[Nauti]

Well done Felix.

 

[Critterhunter]

Good job! And remember, where there are wheats there is silver. Many spots that still have wheats are because guys have cherry picked out the silver. My feeling is that if they left the wheats they also left a lot of silver. Some silver at certain spots will read like a penny due to soil conditions, being on edge, or laying with other coins (such as low conductivity trash like iron or tabs, nicklesm, or maybe a few pennies causing the silver to read lower). I'll be posting another hunt with the 15x12 today that had two silver finds that both read like pennies due to BOTH situations described above.

Yes, nickles are VERY easy for the most part to tell from tabs or other trash. Nickles should read somewhere between 139 and 146 (though I think most of mine are reading 143 to 146) and probably most round/square tabs start at about 149 or so. Nickles will also have a good solid sound to them and won't bounce around much, maybe by 1 to 3 digits at the most but not real bouncy like trash or say tab tails which can read in that range and will also sound "sick". Just dug a good nickle yesterday that I knew was a nickle due to the above and this was at a spot we've gridded over the years with different machines.