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Got out yesterday in between rain showers and managed to pull a few goodies from yet another rental. The ground was waterlogged, and any holes dug quickly began to fill with water. My first signal right after checking GB was a surface "95" hit that sounded "too good to be true". I took a picture with my phone after brushing the leaves away to reveal a freshly-dropped sterling ring not even buried yet! This is the second hunt in a row where silver was the first find only a minute or two into the hunt!
About 20 minutes later a couple of newer cars pulled up to the property and a nice younger couple got out. They asked if I owned the house, I said no; and referred them to the number on the rental sign in the front yard. I told them who the owner was, his name, and a brief little bit about the property that I'd learned from researching it online. They proceeded to look around the premises and then the neighbor came out and started talking to them about the neighborhood. I showed all three of them the newly-found sterling ring along with some muddy coins, and the neighbor then gave permission for me to hunt his yard. Score!
I didn't hunt the back yards at both places since the front two yards kept me plenty busy and it looked like deeper water in the backyards. Maybe another time! Good thing about return house hunts is that you can show the owner what you found before and after cleaning, I usually take pictures and in good weather I will shoot video. Many people like the videos and on a return hunt, you can offer them old coins that lay in their yard for years without them knowing...it gives them more of a connection with their property especially if the items have more intrinsic value than coins. Hot Wheels and costume jewelry generally pique their interests and sometimes this will lead to "referral" hunts later on.
After finding exactly one Wheat in the first yard I moved over to the neighbor's front lawn and got to work. First target I received in 12 khz was a soft "87" and at 6" deep I recovered a green 1941 Wheat. Rescanning the hole turned up two more Wheats, dated in the 1940s. That pushed the Wheat total over 100 for 2015 already! I stayed right of the driveway and worked from its edge to 5 feet into the lawn, and was receiving many signals. I had the usual 12 khz Rental program runnning, which is set up this way:
12 khz
TX = 2
Reactivity = 3
Silencer = -1
Disc = 2.0
Sensitivity = 80
Full tones
Notch = 00-35, 61-77, 98-99
GB = Manual 85
Ground notch = 85-90
With these settings I can get dimes around 7" max, but if I drop Reactivity to 2; I can pull dimes from about 9" max. For some reason, EMI is worse in Reactivity 3 than in 2 regardless of the frequency. Got over a deep Wheat after digging a bottlecap...no VDI just a bi-directional high tone...could barely get an audio hit while in Reactivity of 3. Switched to Reactivity 2, silencer 0 and the signal came in much better. Could pinpoint it much more easily...this particular target was a 1957 Wheat at around 8" deep, but hard to say depthwise since the hole filled up with water almost immediately, and was feeling around the bottom of the hole with my fingers when I felt the edge.
Working my way towards the front sidewalk I was digging mostly copper pennies, some freshly-dropped zincolns and occasional deeper Wheats, around 3-5". Seems like the Wheats wanted to indicate a little higher, sometimes registering "90-91" in 12khz, and I was sure I was going after a silver dime. But there were none to be had this hunt, although digging Wheats is enough to keep me going all day long
Today I wanted to go hunting, but my body was pulling me in a different direction...so for the first time in a long time this Monday I plan on taking a day off and recuperating a little bit.
GL & HH
About 20 minutes later a couple of newer cars pulled up to the property and a nice younger couple got out. They asked if I owned the house, I said no; and referred them to the number on the rental sign in the front yard. I told them who the owner was, his name, and a brief little bit about the property that I'd learned from researching it online. They proceeded to look around the premises and then the neighbor came out and started talking to them about the neighborhood. I showed all three of them the newly-found sterling ring along with some muddy coins, and the neighbor then gave permission for me to hunt his yard. Score!
I didn't hunt the back yards at both places since the front two yards kept me plenty busy and it looked like deeper water in the backyards. Maybe another time! Good thing about return house hunts is that you can show the owner what you found before and after cleaning, I usually take pictures and in good weather I will shoot video. Many people like the videos and on a return hunt, you can offer them old coins that lay in their yard for years without them knowing...it gives them more of a connection with their property especially if the items have more intrinsic value than coins. Hot Wheels and costume jewelry generally pique their interests and sometimes this will lead to "referral" hunts later on.
After finding exactly one Wheat in the first yard I moved over to the neighbor's front lawn and got to work. First target I received in 12 khz was a soft "87" and at 6" deep I recovered a green 1941 Wheat. Rescanning the hole turned up two more Wheats, dated in the 1940s. That pushed the Wheat total over 100 for 2015 already! I stayed right of the driveway and worked from its edge to 5 feet into the lawn, and was receiving many signals. I had the usual 12 khz Rental program runnning, which is set up this way:
12 khz
TX = 2
Reactivity = 3
Silencer = -1
Disc = 2.0
Sensitivity = 80
Full tones
Notch = 00-35, 61-77, 98-99
GB = Manual 85
Ground notch = 85-90
With these settings I can get dimes around 7" max, but if I drop Reactivity to 2; I can pull dimes from about 9" max. For some reason, EMI is worse in Reactivity 3 than in 2 regardless of the frequency. Got over a deep Wheat after digging a bottlecap...no VDI just a bi-directional high tone...could barely get an audio hit while in Reactivity of 3. Switched to Reactivity 2, silencer 0 and the signal came in much better. Could pinpoint it much more easily...this particular target was a 1957 Wheat at around 8" deep, but hard to say depthwise since the hole filled up with water almost immediately, and was feeling around the bottom of the hole with my fingers when I felt the edge.
Working my way towards the front sidewalk I was digging mostly copper pennies, some freshly-dropped zincolns and occasional deeper Wheats, around 3-5". Seems like the Wheats wanted to indicate a little higher, sometimes registering "90-91" in 12khz, and I was sure I was going after a silver dime. But there were none to be had this hunt, although digging Wheats is enough to keep me going all day long
Today I wanted to go hunting, but my body was pulling me in a different direction...so for the first time in a long time this Monday I plan on taking a day off and recuperating a little bit.
GL & HH
