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The Barnacle had a great plan, and well......., a-hem......

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BarnacleBill

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it looked good on paper, a paper map that is. A lake nearby is still drained to winter level and an old girl scout camp(pre-1930) sits along the shoreline of the lake. Could there be old silver there in the beach area? Sounded plausible.

So believing in being well provisioned for any expedition, I mounted the MF coil on the X70 and headed out with two shovels.:) And the end result is I found no silver, I did find a couple of holes that looked like they had been dug by a detectorist last fall. The three wheat pennies I did find (oldest '42) were not that deep, which leads me to believe the place has been well cleaned out. Oh well.:shrug:

I did run the X70 wide open at +30 sens, and she GB'd around 14, but I did use stability since the numbers were a bit jumpy. Did find what look to be some cast musket balls, whether modern or old I have no clue. The rifle cartridge is head stamped L C 5, or C L 5 depending on how you read it.

HH
BarnacleBill
 
Whats that? :) I made it out to the cornfield that gave me fits the other day for a couple hours with the X-70 to try and figure out the problem I was having. Well I got r' dunded. :thumbup: It wasn't the uneven ground or at least that wasn't the whole problem. It was the iron! My "other" machine was handling it well at aobut 80% sens so I thought <italic>why not the X-70</italic> Big mistake! This thing sees a lot more than I am used to. I dropped the sensitivity to 20 and she smoothed right out with none of the sputtering and very few of the bleeps & bloops I was experiencing the other day. The end result was a couple IH's, 1 rivet, 1 button and a couple other odds and ends, but they were found right in among the dig holes of the "other" machine.

Like Andy said, this thing has a lot more power than you can make use of all the time. Oh, I did stop by a site that does allow high settings and the depth was very impressive.

HH Tom
 
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