Mike Hillis
Well-known member
Had the week off from work but the big boss had me lined up with chores here at home. Finally got all the honey do's done for the week and got the "all clear" signal from my better half last night to swing a detector today. 
cheekkiss
Started the day with the Golden/Cleansweep combo. I use the same settings all the time. Discrimination at minumum, Notch width set to the 10:30 o:clock position, Threshold at the 3:00 o:clock position. Sensitivity just into the red pass the 10. First site was a wood chip tot lot. It was frozen and recovering targets was like chipping them out of stone. The 1973 half dollar and the earrings, and that ss pendant with the baby photo came from there. The half was used as target practice. Someone had shot it with a pellet or BB. Pretty good shot. Got a few coins. Mostly dimes and pennies Next I moved to the adjoining sports field. The field had been resodded in patches and they had "keep off the new sod" signs in place. Hunted a bit in the field just to see what was going on, which wasn't much. Then moved to a few low hill sections where the spectators might sit. Got a nice tiny gold tone response and brought out the Uniprobe probe to recover. Down about 1-1/2" I lifted out a section of chain. The links looked just like what a gold chain would look like but it wasn't shiny. I sat down and spent about 10 minutes to recover chain intact. Finally got it out. It is marked 14K, weighs 13.5 grams. Under the tarnish, which is blood red in many places, the knife revels shiny gold through and through.
Since there is a silver dime included in the picture, I'll tell it's story too.
I went home and ate a sandwich, put the Golden up and got out the F5 with the 5x10" DD coil. Sweet coil on a sweet machine. Took it to another sports field and was able to run it maxed out in both Gain and Threshold. First time I've ever been able to run my F5 that hot. Most of the quarters and dimes came from there. One of the dimes turned out to be a 1956 silver dime and my first silver coin with that coil. It was only around 4" deep and doesn't show much wear. The ring is a plated ring, junk, but was a interesting find as it was partially masked with by a clad quarter. The F5 is a fast responder and was picking up both but since they were vertically lined up the TID was really bouncy. But the high tone had a good "ing" to it. Dug a plug and recovered the quarter, then the reswept the hole and got a good read on the next target below, which turned out the be the ring down around the 6" mark. I was hoping for another gold find, but wasn't to be this time.
Golden got the gold, the F5 got the silver. I got the happy face
oh, and 6.67 in clad change.
HH
Mike
opps...Forgot the pictures.
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cheekkiss Started the day with the Golden/Cleansweep combo. I use the same settings all the time. Discrimination at minumum, Notch width set to the 10:30 o:clock position, Threshold at the 3:00 o:clock position. Sensitivity just into the red pass the 10. First site was a wood chip tot lot. It was frozen and recovering targets was like chipping them out of stone. The 1973 half dollar and the earrings, and that ss pendant with the baby photo came from there. The half was used as target practice. Someone had shot it with a pellet or BB. Pretty good shot. Got a few coins. Mostly dimes and pennies Next I moved to the adjoining sports field. The field had been resodded in patches and they had "keep off the new sod" signs in place. Hunted a bit in the field just to see what was going on, which wasn't much. Then moved to a few low hill sections where the spectators might sit. Got a nice tiny gold tone response and brought out the Uniprobe probe to recover. Down about 1-1/2" I lifted out a section of chain. The links looked just like what a gold chain would look like but it wasn't shiny. I sat down and spent about 10 minutes to recover chain intact. Finally got it out. It is marked 14K, weighs 13.5 grams. Under the tarnish, which is blood red in many places, the knife revels shiny gold through and through.
Since there is a silver dime included in the picture, I'll tell it's story too.
I went home and ate a sandwich, put the Golden up and got out the F5 with the 5x10" DD coil. Sweet coil on a sweet machine. Took it to another sports field and was able to run it maxed out in both Gain and Threshold. First time I've ever been able to run my F5 that hot. Most of the quarters and dimes came from there. One of the dimes turned out to be a 1956 silver dime and my first silver coin with that coil. It was only around 4" deep and doesn't show much wear. The ring is a plated ring, junk, but was a interesting find as it was partially masked with by a clad quarter. The F5 is a fast responder and was picking up both but since they were vertically lined up the TID was really bouncy. But the high tone had a good "ing" to it. Dug a plug and recovered the quarter, then the reswept the hole and got a good read on the next target below, which turned out the be the ring down around the 6" mark. I was hoping for another gold find, but wasn't to be this time.
Golden got the gold, the F5 got the silver. I got the happy face
oh, and 6.67 in clad change.
HH
Mike
opps...Forgot the pictures.
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