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So You Think The Place Is Hunted Out? Well Try This To Still Squeeze Out Some More Goodies :surprised:

John-Edmonton

John-Edmonton

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Lots of good targets are still out there, even in those hunted out spots. Junk targets tend to mask good targets. Junk targets can totally eliminate a decent signal from a good target nearby or underneath or even change a signal to read a good target as junk. And we all know that there is lots of junk out there mixed with some decent targets such as old coins and rings.

My buddy and I couldn't figure out at first over coffee this morning where to hunt. The same old places were giving up less and less good targets. We decided to change our approach, and hunt a few places we knew that were littered with pull tabs, nails, wire, bottle caps.....yet were located near several spots giving up silver. Our goal was to remove all the junk targets and see if there were any other good targets masked amongst all this junk. After about 45 minutes of digging "ALL" junk targets, we started to get some good results.


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Removing a rusty nail opened up the area to respond to a coin at about 6 inches. Out came a 1920 wheat cent. A little while later, my buddy was removing a pull-tan and foil, when he too got a coin signal. He lucked out with a beautiful girls ring, which appears to have a couple of black pearls on it.

This new approach seems to work. The same scenarios appeared several more times....

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A couple more coins found in a junk littered area, right beside a path, which has been hunted many, many times in the past by several detectorists. There was a broken Coke bottles laying in the dirt, and I found the bottom nearby which had the number
53 on it, dating the bottle to being produced in 1953.

Both of us got coins. He got the ring and silver coin today. I got the oldest. We both had a great time....

Below is my take for the day, minus the junk.
 
John, I am pretty new to this fun. It did not take long to learn that there are ALOT of good targets hidden by trash. If you want older coins then dig some iffy signals. As I learn and progress it would seem that you have the key to future success. It looks to me like DD and small coils can be a huge advantage for the guys after the old stuff. We should be using quality machines also. I have found, in the neighbor hoods I hunt, that target seperation or luck are prime factors.

You proove what I have read in other places; Good stuff is masked by trash.

Nice work
Jeff
 
Yeah junk hides a lot of goodies if a guy wants to dig it all and open the area up but it can be a grueling hassle and takes one back to the old days before discrimination and notching where one naturally had to dig every target. Out in my shed I still have a box or two full of junk from those days including a few horse shoes.

Bill
 
A lot of people don't realize just how many good targets are actually blocked from all the trash. All it takes is one tiny rusty staple.
 
Never thought about this, but it certainly makes sense. Thanks for giving us all something to think about!
 
Dueling Garrett metal detectors. That's what crossed my mind when I saw those two metal detectors crossed like that. Thanks for the advice and the photos.
 
Yeah there could be one piece of trash with a dozen good targets under it but the detector would only see the trash as the signal stops on the first target encountered and ignores anything under it.

Bill.
 
While hunting at an older school and using beep-dig, the meter indicated alum. or possibly brass. Turned out it was a 1/4" brass nut with a broke off brass stud in the nut. I rechecked the hole, this time the meter indicated dime and about 1 1/2" deeper was a very, very worn dateless seated dime.
 
I bet that same scenario has repeated itself to many hunters. I too dug up a deep rusty old bottle cap, rechecked the hole and out popped a real old silver dime.
 
My best hole for coins yeilded two pulltabs on top, then my first walking liberty half and a merc dime too, along with 8 wheaties amd one memorial. From a hammered schoolyard. Under the trash lies treasure!
 
Yeah many years ago I dug up a flattened out beer can just full of probe holes but no one had bothered to dig it up and find the complete roll of silver quarters buried under it.

Bill
 
Uncle Willy said:
In a park one day I dug up several pieces of aluminum foil. Wrapped up in each was a quarter. Go figure.

Bill
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Dang, if we could get everybody to do this, no need to clean coins anymore.:rofl:
 
Hi Folks,

I've been working dilligently to clean an area of the yard where the old
clothesline was. I have removed numerous nails and clothespin springs
and it seems that each time I do, I go back and find more silver or a wheat.
It absolutely pays to be thorough where time and location permit. Regards, Jim
 
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