Tesoro Cibola:tesoro::usaflag: On The Rampage:detecting:

[tabman]

I've been cooped up for about a week with all this rain and with my car being in the shop, so hit it like a Banshee Indian this morning. It was muddy but I was happy to be out swinging my new modded Cibola again. I got off to a slow start, but I finally started finding a bunch of wheat pennies (1921, 1937, 1945, 1935, 1945,1939, 1928, 1942, 1940, 1918, 1927, 1956). I was working over a patch of ivy with a lot of poison ivy mixed in when I got a nice soft audio tone. I dug down around 7 inches and recovered a 1939 Mercury Dime. Now that but a smile on face. Right after that I dug a couple of War Nickels (1944, 1945) and one of them almost hit the trash pouch, because it was so tarnished. I also found a sterling earring, a 1939 West Africa 1/10 Penny that was made into a earring, a bunch of clad coins, a Hyatt Regency Key and a 1936 Buffalo Nickel. I love finding Buffalo Nickels. Last but not least a 6.83 gram 10K gold ring. It's smashed and broken, but the melt value is way over a $100 dollars. It was about 3 feet from a sidewalk when the Cibola nail it. There was no doubt that it was going to get dug. It gave off a loud and clear signal. Happy, happy, happy.

I running full sensitivity, threshold a sight hum and the discrimination was set just below the first line below nickel. On my Cibola, a foil cap is just discriminated out.

This Cibola sure loves finding coins and gold.

tabman

 

[hershey1]

Good job Tabman. Congratulations on some great finds. It has finally got wet enough to dig here in the eastern part of TN. You are on a roll or you have hit a real honey hole. Looks like both. HH

 

[kaolinwasher]

Tab that is nice , what is amazing about the cibola & Vaquero is they hit so hard on gold , but still hit really well on silver I compare that to my gold bug that i had so the cibola has the best of both worlds that ring is paying on the modes cibola , the color of the buffalos is so cool

 

[tabman]

Tab that is nice , what is amazing about the cibola & Vaquero is they hit so hard on gold , but still hit really well on silver I compare that to my gold bug that i had so the cibola has the best of both worlds that ring is paying on the modes cibola , the color of the buffalos is so cool

Gunnar you got that right!

tabman

 

[tabman]

Good job Tabman. Congratulations on some great finds. It has finally got wet enough to dig here in the eastern part of TN. You are on a roll or you have hit a real honey hole. Looks like both. HH

I'm thankful to have such good place to hunt. You have to be where good stuff is to be able to find good stuff.

tabman

 

[OhioMike]

That's a great hunt. How do you like the Sharpshooter coil Tabman? I'm thinking about one for my Vaquero.

 

[tabman]

That's a great hunt. How do you like the Sharpshooter coil Tabman? I'm thinking about one for my Vaquero.

It works pretty good, but it doesn't discriminate as well as the 8 inch doughnut coil does. It doesn't discriminate out rusty pry caps at a low discrimination setting very well. I like it though because it's light and covers a lot of ground fast.

tabman

 

[Lightstryder]

"working over a patch of ivy with a lot of poison ivy mixed in"...
Man you are brave, but with those kind of finds, I may have braved the poison ivy too. We have tons of poison oak here, I would never go near it, if I did I would end up in the E.R.
Congrats on some excellent finds Tabman.

 

[mudpuppy]

Great! I knew you'd go out and find one after Treborbdiggin's post the other day! Man! Lookat that junk lid wouldja! Nice work, Tab!
Mud

 

[tabman]

Great! I knew you'd go out and find one after Treborbdiggin's post the other day! Man! Lookat that junk lid wouldja! Nice work, Tab!
Mud

I find gold rings when it's least expected. I never expected to find one at this site.

The good thing about running low discrimination, you always have your hook baited for a gold ring if one comes along.

tabman

 

[kaolinwasher]

: Lightstryder remember if you do dig into poison Ivy, its the oil that gets you best thing to do is Wash it off with soap & water , I know when i trap gophers I sometimes dig right into exposed roots I just go wash my arms good and don't have a problem . its when you don't realize its on you when it gets you .

 

[hatpin]

Man , you are on fire. Makes me want to go bad. Unfortunately my proPointer had to be sent in. It was unusable , falseing whenever it touched the ground. I have gotten use to it and am not going to hunt without one .

 

[tabman]

Man , you are on fire. Makes me want to go bad. Unfortunately my proPointer had to be sent in. It was unusable , falseing whenever it touched the ground. I have gotten use to it and am not going to hunt without one .

That's is why you need a back-up ProPointer. I get frustrated watching videos where they're waving pieces of dirt across the coil to find the target.

It takes them forever to find the target and I'm about to go to asleep watching them trying to find it.

I laugh when I hear these guys say that they have never used one, don't need one and have been doing fine without one for thirty something years.

tabman

 

[mudpuppy]

Hey!

I dont have a hand held PP so to speak..OK sure, so I have an Fpoint, which is like saying I dont have one! I bet it leaves my vehicle maybe once a week if I'm hunting on a deep loam field, where i think there might be a chain....I generally leave it in the car, along with my trowel...

Hunting without one does take just a bit of practice, and that means using a probe like a screwdriver.......OK, so I'm hunting clad and jewelry in the top 5"...cant remember when I've waved a handful of dirt across a coil..I laughed about the youtube vids of guys trying to find a target waving fistfuls of dirt!...takes them FOREVER!. Its a wonder they find 20 targets per day at that rate!

Its amazing how sensitive the Human hand is on a well stabbed screwdriver...a guy can tell immediately if he's hitting a coin, a rock, a piece of glass, a tab, some foil, slaw...etc...who needs a stinking Pinpointer? Matter of fact, who needs a digging tool? A guy can do right well with nothing more than a 6" screwdriver, 1/4" shaft, and run circles around all you poindexters with your fancy Propoints and lesches!

Hatpin..one things for sure, I CANNOT hunt without a screwdriver!...you should take this time while waiting on your pinpointer to go and try it out..you will get good real fast...and its always nice to be able to do without something if a guy has to...Tab, you find more gold rings than most.....I have learned a whole lot from you...especially the lid of junk targets...you have certainly developed a super fast and effective method...one of these days I'm gonna come on down and watch....
Mud

 

[tabman]

Mud I tried that poking with a screwdriver. I'd have better luck threading a needle blindfolded using a pair of chopsticks than poking for coins with a screwdriver.

Besides, the first time I scratched a Barber coin poking with a screwdriver, I'd let loose with all kinds of bad words.

I really would like to see a video of you in action. It must be an amazing sight.

tabman

 

[kaolinwasher]

I know it you see some making a video about a detector and they wear headphones and you don't hear anything they just show the find after the fact , and show them digging a hole forever I just want to hear how it sounds and see what it was , but then I go over board with my gophers