BarnacleBill
New member
Since receiving my new Edge I have been waiting with baited breath to try it in a very specific lake location for wading. In anticipation of the end of the summer season and removal of swim ropes I have been getting the Edge ready for this wading opportunity. The site is a campground that dates from around 1900 and has yielded many wonderful finds for me over the years.
The location has two major issues .22cal carts & iron, oooohh the iron, nails from rotted docks and more flat washers than home depot. The CZ-20 with 8 inch coil is still the depth champion by several inches, but the iron masking prevents seeing as many targets as I would like.
I left port with the treasure barge and arrived on location at mid-day to find that only some of the swim ropes had been removed. The main swim area where most of the targets are, was still enclosed. I have a personal policy of NOT hunting in swim rope enclosed areas in order not to annoy the camp owners. I do this specifically because once I clean out the water areas, I plan to seek permission to hunt the grounds and wish to do nothing that would annoy the administrators/owners.
Getting into the water my first goal was to find a shallow flat washer and a deep flat washer to check the Edge reaction to coil position and height in ID'ng those buggers. They were very easy to distinguish with the Edge, what a relief.
Now this is gonna sound weird, but it was actually fun to stand on a spot where an old wooden dock had been with a nail carpet under sand and swing a detector coil. I used the "Ladd" method, set the Disc to -36 and used all tones for hunting. By using a slow sweep I was picking out .22carts from right next to iron. This due to the fact that the Edge does NOT snap crackle or pop next to iron, and suffers from no lagged pull off response. I had fun in iron!!!
Best finds a little 18K religious medal, '55 wheat, and most interesting a little pocket knife/letter opener. The steel blade was rusted out of it, and I cannot decide if the frame is brass or gold. I don't have a gold test kit, and their are no marks, but it is not tarnished like brass normally is in this lake bottom.
The cheapie key medal is marked the "Key to Heaven", appropriate as the key to Heaven in iron hunting is the Edge!
HH
BarnacleBill
[attachment 33410 maredge.jpg]
The location has two major issues .22cal carts & iron, oooohh the iron, nails from rotted docks and more flat washers than home depot. The CZ-20 with 8 inch coil is still the depth champion by several inches, but the iron masking prevents seeing as many targets as I would like.
I left port with the treasure barge and arrived on location at mid-day to find that only some of the swim ropes had been removed. The main swim area where most of the targets are, was still enclosed. I have a personal policy of NOT hunting in swim rope enclosed areas in order not to annoy the camp owners. I do this specifically because once I clean out the water areas, I plan to seek permission to hunt the grounds and wish to do nothing that would annoy the administrators/owners.
Getting into the water my first goal was to find a shallow flat washer and a deep flat washer to check the Edge reaction to coil position and height in ID'ng those buggers. They were very easy to distinguish with the Edge, what a relief.
Now this is gonna sound weird, but it was actually fun to stand on a spot where an old wooden dock had been with a nail carpet under sand and swing a detector coil. I used the "Ladd" method, set the Disc to -36 and used all tones for hunting. By using a slow sweep I was picking out .22carts from right next to iron. This due to the fact that the Edge does NOT snap crackle or pop next to iron, and suffers from no lagged pull off response. I had fun in iron!!!
Best finds a little 18K religious medal, '55 wheat, and most interesting a little pocket knife/letter opener. The steel blade was rusted out of it, and I cannot decide if the frame is brass or gold. I don't have a gold test kit, and their are no marks, but it is not tarnished like brass normally is in this lake bottom.
The cheapie key medal is marked the "Key to Heaven", appropriate as the key to Heaven in iron hunting is the Edge!
HH
BarnacleBill
[attachment 33410 maredge.jpg]
Especially on -36. But, I really can't take credit for that method. I think Otto used that when the Excel came out, & I kinda carried it over to the Edge field test saying it was like running all metal with 4 tones....