Taking It Real Slow = Find More Stuff

[lloyd0161]

There is a lot more left in the ground than you may think. I decided to hunt for less than an hour before sunset this evening at a small park that we have been working for weeks now. All of the parks around me have been hit hard by the local detector club that meets once a month and has many members. So far this park has netted me a 14k gold ring and a fist full of wheat pennies. Tonight I tried literally moving the coil as slow as possible and methodically working a small area. With the settings I'm using the detector will sound off nicely on iron from certain angles but I'm learning to tell the difference from coins, etc. The goodies will usually reveal themselves with patients and a lot of wiggling the coil, etc to sniff them out. I dug a couple more wheats at 8 to 10 inches and was approaching the car to pack up for the night when I got another iffy signal mixed with iron. It was nulling in one direction but was mostly good in the other. I got a couple hits 00 29 and 10 inches depth. Digging this target produced a rather large men's sterling ring. I was hesitating going out for this short hunt but glad I did.

 

[NealNoIN]

n/t

 

[Critterhunter]

There was a guy that I read a while back had a hurt back and leg or something. He ended up working a small patch of grass right next to the parking lot in a worked out park. He had hit that patch many times before but this time being injured he had no choice but to work that spot because he didn't want to walk far at all, and also had no choice but to work it super slow, advancing the coil just a mere inch or two at a time as he slowly swung. He ended up pulling more silver out of there than he ever had if I remember right.

Also, that same thread has a huge pile of silver including big silver like barber quarters and such from either that story or one about a Bounty Hunter entry level machine dong the same slow/careful working of a pounded out site.

It wasn't the machines but rather these men that made the difference with their patience and technique. I'll see if I can dig that thread up for you where those stories from them were re-posted. Really gives you inspiration that these guys did so well just by paying attention to the small things with coil technique/use, one guy being forced to due to injury and other guy did well even using an an entry level machine, yet they both scored a bunch of silver out of a worked out sites, all because of method/attitude. If that's the case, then why are any of us Minelab users having worrying ourselves about all our sites being "dead?

 

[Critterhunter]

Here, dug it up to inspire people. This thread is on the topic of "it only takes an inch", meaning the slow/methodical method, but if you don't want to read that then do yourself a favor and scroll down the thread to the second to last post or so and you'll see the two stories I re-posted from those guys I was just talking about above. And if you still aren't inclined to read their stories then take a gander at this pile of silver concerning it below. That should get your juices flowing...

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?21,1729831,1746878#msg-1746878

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[lloyd0161]

Here, dug it up to inspire people. This thread is on the topic of "it only takes an inch", meaning the slow/methodical method, but if you don't want to read that then do yourself a favor and scroll down the thread to the second to last post or so and you'll see the two stories I re-posted from those guys I was just talking about above. And if you still aren't inclined to read their stories then take a gander at this pile of silver concerning it below. That should get your juices flowing...

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?21,1729831,1746878#msg-1746878

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Thanks Critterhunter. I will have a look and read. Thanks again.

 

[Hotcz70]

Lloyd.....the slower....the better with the Explorers...and you ae finding that out.

Sometimes in heavy trash when I'm working a small coil I will just stand in one spot and "scan" the ground for minutes at a time before even taking a small step forward.