After a couple of failed attempts to hunt some old houses (nobody home), I went to plan C and went to an old city park to stretch my detecting legs and see if I could turn up a few old coins. Rain is on the horizon, so I didn't think I would have long. Spent the first hour running through programs, checking my last settings, making a few tweaks here and there. Had on the standard coil. Turning up some round and square tabs to make sure everything is working. Zincs still coming in at 38. Can't we just do away with these things?
This park is old for my neck of the woods and has coins deep. I headed to an area I was familiar with to see if I could find something I missed. After a good 40 minutes of creeping along finding deep pull tabs and pull tab tongues I heard a beautiful little high toned chime. I paused over the signal and it was there, but weak. The same from all directions and deep. My depth meter was just off the bottom. I lost the signal almost immediately when I lifted the coil. It was right at 11-46 to 12-47. Tone had a little twinkle to it like on my old Explorer XS on deep silver. I am thinking barber dime, maybe seated. I pulled the lesche digger and cut a full 6" diameter plug and popped it out of the ground with about the same amount of dirt on the roots. Out came the pin pointer and I searched the hole. Nothing. I swept the e-trac over it and the plug. Target was in the plug and still ringing high. I pin pointed with the hand held and slowly removed a little dirt. Sitting there at 4" from the plug was the tiniest little piece of silver I can remember finding. It has a loop on it and appears to be for a charm bracelet or maybe a necklace. Turning it over there is a little winged angel on the front, perhaps a child. The back reads ITALY .925 .
I have to say that I think the little tiny silver charm it very cool. One of the neater bits of jewelry I've found over the many years of hunting. I tucked it away carefully.
Shortly, the clouds moved in and some large drops of rain started splattering about. I headed towards the truck and came across a previous hunters' minefield. Several large holes, plugs returned into the holes roots up. really? Washed out dirt piles were left along the side. Recovered pull tabs sitting adjacent to the holes. Looks like somebody hunted there a day or two earlier. I spend the next 10 minutes tidying up as best I could.
Fortunately for me, the big rain splats stopped and I made a few last swings and turned up a nice deep wheatie type signal. Found a 1946 at a 45* angle at 7-8". And with that I headed to the truck to head to work happy to have made it out with the e-trac and even though it wasn't much, find a bit of silver.
Rich (Utah)
This park is old for my neck of the woods and has coins deep. I headed to an area I was familiar with to see if I could find something I missed. After a good 40 minutes of creeping along finding deep pull tabs and pull tab tongues I heard a beautiful little high toned chime. I paused over the signal and it was there, but weak. The same from all directions and deep. My depth meter was just off the bottom. I lost the signal almost immediately when I lifted the coil. It was right at 11-46 to 12-47. Tone had a little twinkle to it like on my old Explorer XS on deep silver. I am thinking barber dime, maybe seated. I pulled the lesche digger and cut a full 6" diameter plug and popped it out of the ground with about the same amount of dirt on the roots. Out came the pin pointer and I searched the hole. Nothing. I swept the e-trac over it and the plug. Target was in the plug and still ringing high. I pin pointed with the hand held and slowly removed a little dirt. Sitting there at 4" from the plug was the tiniest little piece of silver I can remember finding. It has a loop on it and appears to be for a charm bracelet or maybe a necklace. Turning it over there is a little winged angel on the front, perhaps a child. The back reads ITALY .925 .
I have to say that I think the little tiny silver charm it very cool. One of the neater bits of jewelry I've found over the many years of hunting. I tucked it away carefully.
Shortly, the clouds moved in and some large drops of rain started splattering about. I headed towards the truck and came across a previous hunters' minefield. Several large holes, plugs returned into the holes roots up. really? Washed out dirt piles were left along the side. Recovered pull tabs sitting adjacent to the holes. Looks like somebody hunted there a day or two earlier. I spend the next 10 minutes tidying up as best I could.
Fortunately for me, the big rain splats stopped and I made a few last swings and turned up a nice deep wheatie type signal. Found a 1946 at a 45* angle at 7-8". And with that I headed to the truck to head to work happy to have made it out with the e-trac and even though it wasn't much, find a bit of silver.
Rich (Utah)
