Swinging slow sucks....

[Ism]

................those good signals out of trashy areas.

Y'all thought I was starting trouble didn't ya....lol

I found these beauties yesterday and today. The two Rosie's at a school I never dug silver from yesterday.
The 36 Merc and 53 Canadian are from a school I went over thoroughly with 2 detectors. I gridded the area two directions.
Football bleachers that are no longer there. It was full of trash and these were right in the middle of it.

The rest is a some modern clad and a couple wheat's that I didn't look at yet.

 

[Rick(ND)]

With the going slow it is seeing those targets many miss out on, just one of the many things you will be learning by going out to actually use it. I also notice in the picture there is quite a few nickles too, so it looks like you are able to tell the nickles from the pull tabs well also.
I am glad to see you posting this as it shows what the Sovereign can do plus give a little more confidence to those new to the Sovereign as to not give up.

Rick

 

[GunnarMN]

the faster you travle the less you see, now you have proven that slowing down works, and I congradulate you on the hard to find silver VERY GOOD JOB

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Nice finds.HH Ron

 

[deepdiger60]

Good finds, tomorrow ill be doing exactly what you did today at a local school yard i have detected many times before , slow and low with the Sov GT Jim

 

[JimmyCT]

nice job pulling out the silver. Yes, lots of dedication (slow sweep) is needed but definitely pulls out the goods. Thanks for sharing - Jim

 

[Tin Fin]

Nice Ism, nice....

 

[matthias]

Good thread. Thanks for the reminder. HH. Matt

 

[Critterhunter]

Good job. So do I understand you right...That you swept really slow this time and got those coins?

Yea, the Sovereign is killer on nickles. If I get a nice smooth round sound and the meter locks onto one or two digits (seems like 144, 145, or 146 mostly for me using noise band 2) I'll bet money it's a nickle. It's real easy to avoid the trash because it won't sound as smooth usually and also usually will change by 3 digits or more if it's ununiform in shape.

Bryce, that Explorer expert who does real well on silver, says that he swings at a rate of 4 seconds per sweep. That's pretty slow. Even slower than I normaly sweep. Today I hit an old park and decided to swing super slow like this to see what it would do. I was able to run at max sensitivity with the 12x10 and the machine was still very stable. Unfortanetly no silver today, but I did dig some nickles. Only spent about two hours there.

I need to hunt some known deep coin spots to see if the 12x10 can find some deeper silver. Yesterday I tried to go to one of my deep coin spots but the road to it was closed with no way to get in. I'm pretty confident that this coil and it's ability to run at higher sensitivity settings will get deeper coins than the 10" Tornado. I've popped deeper wheats with it than I have with the Tornado in dry conditions. Also, I once buried a silver dime and at 3PM the stock coil couldn't hear it while the 12x10 could.

 

[Ism]

Yeah, I'm getting pretty good at the nickles. I dig my share of trash but mostly because it sounds nice from all directions in hopes of a gold ring.
Critter, I slow way down in trash, I would say to about 3-4 sec/sweep. Fastest would be 2 sec/sweep in clean neutral soil.

OK, today I went to the same general area. I didn't find any silver, but I found an area about 10-15 ft dia that I pulled 10 wheaties from (all 40's and 50's).
Once again, this is an area that I combed thoroughly with other detectors. And I'm not the first person to hunt this school. But I bet I'm the first with a Sovereign....hehe.

 

[Critterhunter]

In the woods when you can go a long time between signals I'll swing fairly fast, just listening for any threshold change. If I start hitting targets or the threshold drops out (meaning iron), then I slow down and work the area. If I was to swing at my normal slow rate in the woods I wouldn't cover much ground at all. Sometimes I'll throw it into Silent Search because it can get old listing to a non-changing threshold for hours at a time. Also, they say you can sweep a bit faster in Silent Search.

There was guy on here about a year ago that hunted an area with an Xterra pretty good. When he got a Sovereign he went back and started popping old coins. Even shallow ones that the Xterra plain out missed. Probably due to ground minerals or the coins being on edge, because the Sovereign usually gives a perfect coin signal on most coins on edge. Not always, sometimes they "warble" from one direction, but often they give good coin signals all the way around the target.

Today I think I'll head to a beach on lake Erie in the hopes of a gold ring or perhaps some silver coins. This beach I gridded last late summer but a friend was just there and said there is massive amounts of errosion, so that's why I'm hoping for some silver or at least some gold. Nice hunting using a long handled sand scoop, and a quick way to rack up my clad totals.