Test Garden help.

[sasquache]

Hello everyone im looking too make a test garden and was wondering how too go about it specifically for my coinstrike. Thank you sas

 

[bigdad75]

all i did was bury some clad and wheat's 4-6-8" then another row with the same with some junk above it or next to the coin like nails pieces of steel, a clean area and a junk area, i put a notch on a screw driver and just pushed it into the ground so i wouldn't disturb the ground much

 

[MarkCZ]

Hello everyone im looking too make a test garden and was wondering how too go about it specifically for my coinstrike. Thank you sas

Well I suppose your thinking coins for starters.
Here is what I've done,

First a shallow coin garden,

Dig it by digging a plug about the depth you want and make and the shape of a boat or bathtub (oval), that way it will go back in the same rotation.
3"
US Quarter,
US copper penny or dime, and then a
US Nickel.
The shallow garden is a good test for any detector because if it has a problem and can't hit that then you'll know something is wrong. Also, around the 3" range the garden will test okay or work right off the bat.


Next would be a six inch garden with pretty much the same set of like coins.
6"
US Quarter,
US Copper Penny or Dime,
US Nickel (This nickel at this depth will never read as a nickel with a good bit of the detectors out there)
This garden will most likely take some time to season before it will even work at all, no, I don't understand it but that's just the way it is, or has been for me? (after its been at rest for about a year it will start to respond like it should)
The 6" garden is a good test depth for a lot of detectors to judge as keepers or not, most detectors of modern standards should hit pretty good at six inches, but they are some that will in all metal but will not in discrimination mode, and some that do will ID more like iron than a good coin target.

I have an area or to say our local city park that the OLDEST coins can be down to around the 7" to 8" range, that means for me to hunt at that depth the detector would need to be one that can hit and ID at that depth in our West Virginia soil. So the next garden I planted is an 8" For this garden I decided to plant some different coins, so I went to a flea market and I bought a rough condition US large cent for $4.00 and I dug out an Indian Head penny, the third coin I used was an older clad half dollar.
8"
Large Cent,
Indian Head Penny,
Half Dollar,

Now, I have an idea for hunting this park and that is two different ways, surface hunt down to maybe three inches or so for Jewelry and fresh dropped coins. Then, to deep hunt for silver coins, or just OLD coins.
So, of the detector's I have the C$ is the best for the deep coin hunting, I'm thinking the beep & dig's I'm getting into might be my choice for the surface jewelry hunting. Anyway, the 8" garden is my test depth for my deep coin hunting. I know, 8" inches isn't very deep to coin hunt, LoL! Oh, but a real 8" of dirt and to ID at that depth really is a challenge for even some of the most High End detectors. The Coinstrike hits my 8" really well with the right settings, but with the standard 8" I don't have to run it full throttle.

Oh, and the 8" garden will do better after a year or so of seasoning.
At first I mark these targets with colored golf tee's, later on I will spray a spot of weed & grass killer on each one, its my yard LoL.

For each coin I pre-hunt the spot in all metal so the coins are in CLEAN ground, I know in the real world the coins are not likely to be in clean ground, but the detector needs to be able to do the perfect condition before it has any chance to work in the real world.

Some bury rusty screw caps, rings, silver coins, crushed pop cans, ect.. But a rusty screw cap will not work like it would in the real world because you cannot put back that natural halo of the rust.

You get the idea.

Mark

 

[sasquache]

I copied the info mark and hopfully i will be getting out soon.