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

[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.

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....

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.

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Hard work paid off .

Some good items recovered !!!

 

[dave5710]

That is a good lesson for all of us.

 

[Critterhunter]

Good post. If I'm drawing a blank as to where to go I sometimes will go to a hard hit place and just dig anything above iron. So long as you have old sites that are still loaded with trash you'll never run out of places to hunt in your life time, and many of those coins still left are the older and more valuable ones, since odds are they have had trash layed over them as the years went by, which is less likely with newer silver. Also, even a coin not masked by any junk can be on edge or in such a high mineral ground matrix that it just won't give a good coin ID. Digging what you think is just another deep pulltab might surprise you with a very nice silver coin.

 

[Critterhunter]

Another trick is to just mark off say a 10x10 foot area and spend the day digging every single signal, even iron if it isn't all over the spot. Now go back in a month or two and re-hunt the spot with a larger coil. The ground has had time to heal and will often signal off to coins that were still being masked by the disturbed ground of the prior trash you dug. Wait for a good rain so the soil is as good as it's going to get in terms of giving up the deepies.

Another trick is to hunt spots from a 90 degree angle to what you did last time. Often targets will only sound off one way. Better yet, even when hunting a spot for the first time that you know has been pounded don't parallel the grass and say sidewalk like everybody else does. Go at the area in a diagonal angle, which almost nobody will do because it's just not human nature. People like conforming to patterns, and will usually parallel the edge of the woods, sidewalk, driveway, or whatever else borders the grass.

 

[GunnarMN]

[size=x-large]exelent reprt ,you are so right and the good thing is next time its easear to hunt i have found coins masked by nails and im to the point i just hunt in all metal unless i get really tired then i will disq hunt [/size]

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Might try a smaller coil as it will help...Indeed masking is the culprit that prevents us from getting a nice coin or piece of jewelry...