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Hey guys - Haven't found any silver in a few days but still turning up Wheats pretty well here and there. Dad and I went out to the old homestead but oddly enough only found high-relief Memorials from 1962-1968. We found 15 pennies total, all of them 5-8" deep around where the old home stood over 50 years ago; and we always have the "oldest coin" contest when we detect together. He was gloating over his 1962 memorial while the oldest I had so far was a 1964....
We went on at lunchtime and decided to hit an old school site we used to hunt twenty years ago and had found some Wheats before, maybe one or two Rosies. The grass was 8-10" tall and made it difficult to get as deep as I'd wanted to, but first target was a 1956 Wheat at about 4" that immediately put a frown on dad's face - but he answered back with a crusty green 1941 Wheat 5 minutes later. The building was torn down sometime in the last 20 years but the swingsets remained and we had a good memoty of the place. He decided to hit the playground equipment while I suffered through digging in the packed clay/gravel driveway looking for deeper coins that were more likely missed over the years. Dug a 1930 Wheat which was almost unreadable, and it came up a "61-62" in 4kHz at 6" down. Got a few peeps through the gravel, dug 10-12" or so and found a shotgun shell - but if it were a coin I would have dug it. Learning the "peeps" and "squeaks" of this detector is tiresome - I've dug holes past a foot in my own yard just to see what some of these faintest signals are, and most of the time it's a thicker iron chunk of something, like a piece of cast iron, but not quite.
Didn't want to put craters in the school site as it's turned up a lot of goodies 20 years ago, now it's been bulldozed so there's been some mixing of the coins - just need to find that layer! There's another turn of the century school not 1 mile from there whose grounds have been recently plowed. The building has been empty for 50 plus years - it was dilapidated when we hunted it once but now the surrounding land is cleaned up of the old cars and whatnot - perfect location for the Deus! Sites like this I always used to have a "1-coin" goal - if I could find one old coin from a site, as I remember thinking 20 years ago, I would be satisfied with the hunt. But the Deus makes that so much easier - no matter if it's been hunted or not as I've come to learn!
Not sure how old the "Red Diamond" item is - guessing it's from the 1920s and looks to be a button half...
Spent 4 tiring hours at the fairgrounds on Sunday night - only managed 3 Wheats and a few more clad quarters. Dug a lot of junk as I tried out an area adjacent to the roller coaster site - pretty trashy with cans at 9-12" down and those stupid Vienna sausage containers and lids buried 9" or deeper really trick the detector - no matter what freq you use. Using 4 kHz will allow you to find the aluminum goodies - DEEPER than before
We went on at lunchtime and decided to hit an old school site we used to hunt twenty years ago and had found some Wheats before, maybe one or two Rosies. The grass was 8-10" tall and made it difficult to get as deep as I'd wanted to, but first target was a 1956 Wheat at about 4" that immediately put a frown on dad's face - but he answered back with a crusty green 1941 Wheat 5 minutes later. The building was torn down sometime in the last 20 years but the swingsets remained and we had a good memoty of the place. He decided to hit the playground equipment while I suffered through digging in the packed clay/gravel driveway looking for deeper coins that were more likely missed over the years. Dug a 1930 Wheat which was almost unreadable, and it came up a "61-62" in 4kHz at 6" down. Got a few peeps through the gravel, dug 10-12" or so and found a shotgun shell - but if it were a coin I would have dug it. Learning the "peeps" and "squeaks" of this detector is tiresome - I've dug holes past a foot in my own yard just to see what some of these faintest signals are, and most of the time it's a thicker iron chunk of something, like a piece of cast iron, but not quite.
Didn't want to put craters in the school site as it's turned up a lot of goodies 20 years ago, now it's been bulldozed so there's been some mixing of the coins - just need to find that layer! There's another turn of the century school not 1 mile from there whose grounds have been recently plowed. The building has been empty for 50 plus years - it was dilapidated when we hunted it once but now the surrounding land is cleaned up of the old cars and whatnot - perfect location for the Deus! Sites like this I always used to have a "1-coin" goal - if I could find one old coin from a site, as I remember thinking 20 years ago, I would be satisfied with the hunt. But the Deus makes that so much easier - no matter if it's been hunted or not as I've come to learn!
Not sure how old the "Red Diamond" item is - guessing it's from the 1920s and looks to be a button half...
Spent 4 tiring hours at the fairgrounds on Sunday night - only managed 3 Wheats and a few more clad quarters. Dug a lot of junk as I tried out an area adjacent to the roller coaster site - pretty trashy with cans at 9-12" down and those stupid Vienna sausage containers and lids buried 9" or deeper really trick the detector - no matter what freq you use. Using 4 kHz will allow you to find the aluminum goodies - DEEPER than before
