It seems that almost all the older coins that I have been finding lately are masked with junk. Virgin sites are long gone for me and I have found that slow thorough hunting will still produce a few good coins each time out. I believe that the C$ might be the best at finding something good next to something bad. Saturday, I hunted a park an hour away and this park always produces some silver. This park dates to the early 1900's and I have found Barbers and IH's here. I started hunting at the entrance to the playground and was in the disc mode(foil and tabs notched) and hunted about a half hour with just two clad coins to show. On a hunch, I switched to all metal and slowed my sweep down and listened to all the trash. You have to watch the numbers closely because there is only one tone. I looked for any 20's to 30's numbers that were deep. Right of the bat, I got a mid twenties number and from 8 inches deep comes a early wheat penny. In the same plug was foil. I went back over the area I started in and right by the gate I got a 30 some number that I could only get in one direction, but it pinpointed a 20 so I knew it was deep. Again at 8 inches,somewhat vertical I saw silver. A 1917 merc. I always check the hole before I cover it up and sure enough, there was another signal. I wish I could say it was another coin, but it was a small rusty bolt. This detector will separate with the best of them. I ended up with 3 more wheats and two of them were close to junk. This type of hunting will drive most people crazy with the noise, but I am a firm believer that eventually, this is how we are all going to find older coins. I like to sweep slow and using all metal allows me to do this. HH R.L.
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Target Masking
- Thread starter RLOH
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Mike Hillis
Well-known member
I think you are the first to report good results by slowing down. Most of the time all I have heard about the CS is how it needs to be swung faster than a CZ. Course without owning a CZ you never know what that actually means. I'm going to half to try and slow it down and see what results I get.
Good report.
Happy Coin$triking
Good report.
Happy Coin$triking
Tony N (Michigan)
Active member
n/t
when I had my CS.It read great in one direction with good numbers,,lousy at ninety degrees,wanted to go into negative numbers and all over.I was only around 5 inches deep and I almost passed on it but it sounded so good in one direction, so I dug it.Got a nice old merc with a glob of rusty bottle cap or something sitting right on top the coin
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Mark in NC
Member
The C$ can pick those non-ferrous goodies out from the midst of the iron. I've dug many things that I just shake my head and smile to myself and say "wow".