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SOV/GTING IN NW FLORIDA

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DonNWF

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This is my lst post. Found this forum last July when I went hunting for info on the Sov GT. Thanks to all of the great info posted by RickND, ArtOH, Mike Bearden, and many others, I decided to go with the GT, based on their good advice. What I wanted was an MD with superior audio feedback. Do to eye problems setting up TID screens and getting visual target info was more then I could or wanted to deal with. However I did go with the GT meter after I figured out that I could mount it closer to my face (Yes Mike Bearden I stole your original design) :clap::clap: . For those with good eyesight the GT meter location and positioning is bad. The good part is that I knew all this going in from all the forum posts about the GT design. Anyway I bought the detector and the meter and went hunting and thats when the forum posts paid off big time. I hunt NW Florida for coins and relics, and do some beach hunting, which was all covered in one way or another by the forums users and testers. All the good SOV/GT operating and hunting techniques got me up to speed pretty quick. The GT is a great detector. I'm still learning GTspeak and quirks and its fun. That covered, let me ask------Where have all the SOV/GT users gone??? No posts , no pictures, no finds??? The beach guys with their EXCALs are showing great stuff. My GT works good on the beach too , in the wet sand. I know I can visit the other forum groups but I like it here. HH Don in NW Florida
 
As they say this is the rest of the story. The 1808 East India found in local park. Most likely dropped by English traders here.
 
Looks like you have the situation well in hand, Don.

I think a lot of Sov swingers have been a little busy for a while getting ready for winter. Cold enough here. Rick must be freezing his butt off by now.

I think most of us pretty much hunt with quiet confidence. You can never tell who is hunting, or how much they hunt.

Keep digging the junk. I dig anything that I don't think is iron or aluminum. I'm a real sucker for bullets, sinkers, and clock parts. They sound different from the other trash. Can find some interesting things that way.

Pretty soon you guys down south will be the only ones posting pictures of anything but snow drifts.

Keep on swinging.

HH
 
You guys up there set your sensitivity back for all that white clutter. We be swinging all winter down here. DonNwf
 
Beautiful set of wheels for sure.

If I could afford that one, I would have gotten a bigger snow blower and spent the rest on pizza and beer.

Have fun now.

HH
 
NICE FINDS, Don!! Where in general did you find the 1808 Trade Token, was it in dirt, or at a beach, and how deep was it, when you detected it? Curious minds want to know! Congratulations on some nice coin finds, as well as the hupcap. HH
 
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Been some cold days with some in the single digits, ground seem to be froze so we cant dig. Been getting caught up in my wood cutting as with the price of fuel we re trying to burn a little wood.
I hope we have a early spring or some nice weather yet. A few years ago I could detect until the first week in Dec and back out first week in Feb.

Rick
 
Quite a few around here got a lot of wood this spring. Had a real bad ice storm that really tore up the trees.

Might have been some good detecting without any electricity to cause any interference, but the freezing rain and falling limbs made it too dangerous for me and the Sov. Dirt was still froze too if I remember right.

Like to keep a good supply of kerosene for backup heat and a good supply of gas for the generator for emergency.
Also enough food, beer, and cigarettes to tide me over for a few days.

If it isn't a blizzard, an ice storm, or a wind storm, then some drunk redneck will knock down a power pole or drive into a substation.

Don't ya just love it.

HH
 
Hi NAMVET. I live close by Pensacola Fla. The British held the city from 1760 to 1781 when the Spanish returned and kicked them out. However, English traders traded with the area Indians, mostly CREEKS, until 1812 when the USA took over. Their trading sites are mostly along natural waterways. The Indians would come down through the woods and trade. I believe that where I found the coin is one of those sites. Its on Santa Rosa Sound (main land side) the natural protected waterway along the coast. The area is in woods along a stream path close to shore at a natural landing place (part of the area is currently a park boat ramp). The coin was only minted for the year 1808 for use by English traders in India. Logically it could have been dropped in Fla by a trader after 1808, who had been to India, or just had it in his possession. The coin was about 6 inches down in crushed shells, sand, and debris. It came out of the ground as a recognizable coin shape but covered with a thick coating of black crust. No doubt that it had been in place a long time. I compared it to a US quarter. The shape was larger and I knew it was something different. Two weeks of cleaning showed the good stuff. Didn't have my meter then, good sound though. HH Don
 
Your info and guidance helped me a lot in getting past the initial learning stage for the GT. It definitely is not a pick up and ping detector. Your words of wisdom : listen to the sounds, listen for the differences, have patience, take it slow, and practice good techniques, --work. I'm still learning, still practicing, having fun, and finding stuff. I'm kind of looking forward to seeing some winter modifications for the GT from you and Art. Lets see, just where would you mount an ice scraper? :confused: Swingin in the sun down south HH Donnwf
 
I agree. This is an awesome machine. I dig everything because I can see no reason not to. I too am still learning the GT but I really like that. Challenges alway's bring rewards...
I am thinking about buying a second, lighter, detector for casual use and for first passes but I know I will alway's keep my GT.

Have you learned to use the sensitivity yet? We have a lot of mineral here in NW GA and i've been using auto a lot but I just discovered last week that I get better depth in manual. I also visit SW GA and NW FL on occasion. My parents live in Moultrie and I get down there quite a lot then we go to Mexico Beach at least once a year. Are you nears those places?

Julien
 
I went right to manual and set it about 10 (Ignoring all Rick/Art good advice) , thinking , go for the power because on my medium priced MD the only way to get depth was to run at max SENS. I couldn't get the threshold to hold and was falsing on every sweep. I also was swinging way to fast. After I got the message that slow means slow and set the SENS at 12 o'clock it started to work for me. I do run in AUTO when I get a lot of falsing.
I went to a Bay water site last week at low-tide (minus tide time,uncovered flats way out) and shocked myself when I found I could operate in manual at 10 o'clock and run good in silent mode (not always totally silent). I don't Gulf beach hunt much but the GT works great at our beach. I've found that depth is much greater in Gulf beach sand then at land sites. Its easy to over estimate depth when digging in sand but I'm sure I've dug stuff at over a foot and the sounds are loud and clear, even on small stuff. I think it has something to do with the clean sharp sand. I don't take a scoop , I carry a short shovel. I live in Navarre up by Pensacola. I've been to Mexico Beach. Nice place. Take the GT and hit the beach. A note on our beaches. Navarre Beach and most other beaches up here are being re-NOURISHED (read that as bulldozers piling sand 4 foot deep on top of the good stuff). Good Gulf beach hunting here, this winter, is out of the question. HH Don
 
My first post was A MESS because I hadn't figured out the picture thing or the Preview thing. Then in a visually hampered moment and with a single finger touch,-- away it went into ----wherever this stuff goes before it alights as a full blown Post for ALL the Forum World to see. One look and it was panic time. So I set about sending a SO-SORRY-post following that with a CORRECTED-post. But only for the pictures because my original TEXT flew away into WWWEB space. Now I start getting REPLY-posts , and of course they fall between my ORIGINAL-post and my SO-SORRY-post, and my CORRECTED-post. Then I want to send a nice REPLY-post to the replies, and of course these fall between my ORIGINAL-post, my SO-SORRY-post, and my CORRECTED- post. Then two guys who I have great respect for start sending WEATHER-posts and these posts fall in the string, and I'm not much worried about my weather because the hurricane lamp is out and I'm not into hunting frozen ground so I go answer INFORMATIONAL-posts and of course these fall between all the other stuff and well you viewers can all see the chaos that has occurred. This all became clear to me when I saw the count of hits on my ORIGINAL-post and the number of hits on my CORRECTED-post. Obviously many saw my screwed up post and didn't ever look at my SO-SORRY-post or my CORRECTED-post and thought to themselves --what idiot put this together??

I know a real person or persons must run this thing, I mean its not all beyond our control , is it? Can a bad post be corrected or DELETED after going global??? Tell me, I can take it. :crazy:

To the many great posters on this forum who will say DISC him out before he hurts someone, I'm gone. I'm going detecting the rest of the week to find some of the good stuff , then I'm going to DisneyWorld to see the rodent and all will be well in Florida again:wiggle::wiggle::wiggle: come on down HH Donnwf
 
Put aside what you have learned some time just for a few minutes and try this.

Everybody thinks that the best way to set sensitivity is to crank it up to just before it falses. That may work on MOST detectors, but not always on a Sov.

I got the idea to try this after reading Andy Sabisch's beach hunting book. He made mention that some times you get better depth at minimum sensitivity than at max at some beaches.

Have tried this at several locations with several coils in my dirt and found something like it to be true in dirt also.

Have found that 11 o'clock on the 2a and 12 o'clock on the GT give the best depth, strongest hits, and best meter readings as long as conditions will let me run at that setting.

In places I can run at max without APPARENT problems, but depth can be poor and targets sound bad.

To run above 11 or 12 o'clock is simply the WRONG thing to do no matter what.

I start out with these settings depending on which Sov, and will run lower if I have to but never higher.

Exactly what is best at your location may be a lot different than it is here, so try this out some day.

Find a weak target and adjust sensitivity for the strongest response. Pick up the coil as far as you can before losing the target, and tweek the sensitivity a bit more (both up and down) to see if it you can find the very most sensitive setting.

You may find that you need different settings for wet or dry sand or for dirt hunting.

A note here about the difference between the 2a and GT.......
The knobs are indexed about an hour different, so internally they are really adjusted the same. Could change one of them if I wanted, but don't see the need.

HH
Art
 
Click on your post (read it), then scroll to the bottom of your post. There is an option bar right below it. The rightmost option is "edit". Click on that and edit your post.

HH
 
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