CZconnoisseur
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Have been really busy lately getting ready to move, selling off some things we are not taking on the trip, including our beloved Honda which found a new home today!
Got out with Dad today after performing some car maintenance to a spot not far from his place, where an old church was torn down in the late 1960s. There was a mobile home that burned on the site sometime in the 1970s, according to the landowner, and upon hearing this, my heart sank. Why? As I figured, there were blobs of once-molten aluminum all over the site which ring up anywhere from "nickel" to "half dollar" range on the Deus, which is between 32 and 88 using 4 khz. So just about every target that sounded like it could be a coin turned out to be either globular aluminum, aluminum shards, brass plumbing fittings, or aluminum can tops...very frustrating to hunt!
We both spent about an hour pulling up mostly trash, but there were a couple good signals mixed in, including the sterling flatware piece (that sounded exactly like aluminum LOL). Both Wheats (1944, 1947 D) were 4-6" deep and I dug plenty of aluminum screwcaps from the same depth. We talked to the landowner after the hunt, and he said after the mobile home burned, the lot was bulldozed, making our endeavour even more challenging!
Even so, it was absolutely perfect weather to be out hunting, and later this week I have a night hunt lined up that could be stellar - you just never know until you get a coil over it!
Got out with Dad today after performing some car maintenance to a spot not far from his place, where an old church was torn down in the late 1960s. There was a mobile home that burned on the site sometime in the 1970s, according to the landowner, and upon hearing this, my heart sank. Why? As I figured, there were blobs of once-molten aluminum all over the site which ring up anywhere from "nickel" to "half dollar" range on the Deus, which is between 32 and 88 using 4 khz. So just about every target that sounded like it could be a coin turned out to be either globular aluminum, aluminum shards, brass plumbing fittings, or aluminum can tops...very frustrating to hunt!
We both spent about an hour pulling up mostly trash, but there were a couple good signals mixed in, including the sterling flatware piece (that sounded exactly like aluminum LOL). Both Wheats (1944, 1947 D) were 4-6" deep and I dug plenty of aluminum screwcaps from the same depth. We talked to the landowner after the hunt, and he said after the mobile home burned, the lot was bulldozed, making our endeavour even more challenging!
Even so, it was absolutely perfect weather to be out hunting, and later this week I have a night hunt lined up that could be stellar - you just never know until you get a coil over it!
HH jim tn
It's nice that you got out with your dad and did some detecting on such a pretty day.