small experiment

[homebre]

It was such a beautiful day on Friday I decided to skip work and do my taxes! After 3 hours it was time to go metal detecting. Bad news to start--I went to the church conference retreat I usually hunt, and the director told me that he'd rather I not hunt there anymore as the field was getting muddy. This had nothing to do with me, but I could not argue as he was the director. So I went to a church I usually hunt, and the Rev. was painting the door. I asked him if I could there, and he said sure. There is a plot of lawn about 40x30 feet, so I hunted first with the 9x8 stock Vaquero coil and then over the same area with the 10x12 SEF butterfly coil. Picture 1 shows the results for the 10x12 SEF and picture 2 the 9x8 stock elliptical coil. The results are not really scientific as I should have retried the area with each coil, but the results seem to speak for themselves. Settings: threshold ~3; sensitivity just below 10, and DISC one notch below nickel. Did also find more iron with the double D SEF.

The dime is a 1951 Rosie and the gold think may be a piece of an earphone(?). Also, found 2 girl scout pins or some type.

Andy from Hillsborough

 

[dirt doctor]

Nice going on the silver homebre . I always tell myself I'm going to bring two detectors on a hunt and go over all the found targets with both . When it comes time to do it though I always say to " heck with it that's too much trouble , I just want to detect and not carry two detectors around" . I will work a place to death though by using different detectors and coil combinations on different trips . I tend to find more iron with double D coils also .Thanks for sharing your hunt , nice post .

 

[kaolinwasher]

andy thats a beautiful silver dime , looks like that SEF is a nice coil I bet the DD is handling the dirt better than the concentric, I find my 5.75 DD is very quite in the gravel as opposed to the concentric which gives me all kinds of sound s and piks up lots of stones and so on Good to see you found silver