Tesoro Golden µMax :tesoro::usaflag: My First 950 Silver

[tabman]

I was dragging a little this morning from being out late last night watching a high school football game. I haven't gone detecting much in the last month or so because of the heat and dry hard ground. We just got plenty of rain and some cooler temperatures but I was in no hurry to get out in it. I ate a nice breakfast and decided to hunt in close today, so I went to a nearby park that I've hunting to death to put in a few hours of swing time in to loosen up the ole muscles some. I found plenty of clad coins. I had the Golden set up to notch out beaver tail pull tabs because the place is loaded with them and I didn't feel much like digging every target today. I got a great high tone signal and with the way it sounded I thought it might be a large silver ring or a half dollar. I popped a nice 7.03 gram 950 silver pendant that was around 3 or 4 inches deep. I looked for the chain in the surrounding area but had no luck. What surprises me is the fact that I have grid hunted that same area where I found the pendant several times and didn't find it. I guess it's hard to hunt a place completely out.

tabman

 

[dirt doctor]

Very nice . Sometimes that rain will do magical things on that dry ,hard , previously pounded to death ground . Also perhaps you notched out something nearby that kept your find hidden on your previous hunts . . There are so many possible variables in detecting , that's one of the things that keeps it interesting .

 

[Walknstik]

Nice find! Sometimes I think it's more than North South East West type of gridding as there are many more angles to swing to possibly be able to pick the good stuff out of the trash. A lot has to do with the way the good target is laying with the trash and WHAT are the close surrounding targets at that particular angle.?

 

[hihosilver]

Nice find Tabman! What coil are you using with that GUmax? At 4 inches deep, plus an inch or two between the coil and the ground, something like that could be easy to miss, even in a well searched area, using a concentric coil.

 

[Wolfdog]

Oh yea that's what I am talking about,Wow. Still waiting to find one of them,all I seem to find are the junk rings and pendents

 

[tabman]

Nice find Tabman! What coil are you using with that GUmax? At 4 inches deep, plus an inch or two between the coil and the ground, something like that could be easy to miss, even in a well searched area, using a concentric coil.

I was using the 8 inch doughnut coil. When I first heard the audio signal I knew that it was something good, so I circled the target and got a good signal from all directions. I've been over that same exact area a bunch of times with different coils and different detectors and didn't find it. I'm guessing that there might have been something in the grass that was masking it and it got removed somehow.

tabman

 

[Rainyday101]

Nice find Tabman! I really don't believe you can hunt a place out. I have an area like yours that I have gridded and regridded, yet I go there and meander around and still find coins that I have missed. It amazes me every time I find one in this area. I just think that we don't get our coils over square inch of the ground like we think we do.

 

[ken ward]

Like you always said. It is never hunted out. I have done the same thing in places I hunt to peaces. You think there is nothing left. Than you find something real nice. At least you found it before someome else did. Good job... KEN

 

[mudpuppy]

Very troubling post! Thats a big piece of silver to miss over and over...maybe encouraging too? Makes us wonder what we all left in the dirt! Congratulations Tab on that 950, great chunk there.
Mud.

 

[hatpin]

Thats a real beauty. Do you think its old ?

 

[tabman]

Thats a real beauty. Do you think its old ?

Thanks. I'm sure if it's old or not.

tabman

 

[kaolinwasher]

Nice tab , good to see you out , like your old self, very nice silver find this time

 

[Woodchuck]

Its in the rain man, I've hunted a favorite spot a zillion times like you ,and a little rain comes along and bingo, and the tabman keeps chalking em up WTG!!!