FooserPaul
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Hello all!
Let be start by saying I'm noobsauce here... meaning... Hi my name is Paul and I've been an addict for 2 months now...
I started detecing with a Bounty Hunter LandStar... I found clad... a 1911 Bronze Australian Penny and a few wheat pennies... as I read I knew I wanted a high end detector... and after spending a few weeks reading and asking on the boards... I settled on Minelab's X-Terra 70.... I found a 1951 Silver Roosie and a few days ago Dug a nice '34 Walking liberty...
Yesterday with the family we were in a town across the river from us. We were driving around enjoying the day and my mine is scopping detecting locations
I spot an old school... a few parks... I head over to that older school built in the 1890's. I was dugging clad... 70's to the 90's... 2 nickles, 4 dimes... 7 pennies... I decide to try the playground out back... but it appears to be use as a park by the local community being as the school is closed and I'd need a smaller coil than my 10.5 MF DD.
I head back to the front of the school, but closer to the building.. I am getting lots of faint signals... and depth is all over the place... I keep going... You know... in a hurry for that big find!
The next faint signal... I pinpoint... rescan... 40-42 and but there, its not there... I decide to pull the plug to scan... Its there... its not there... I pull one scop of dit and I see the mercury sitting there at an angle...
What did I learn....
[attachment 92323 1stMercHead1941S.jpg]
[size=large]Go SLOW, Learn -n- Trust your Detector and.... ENJOY THE JOURNEY![/size]
I only had about 90 minutes there... I'll be back after the picnic tonight... I'm sure there is more "JOURNEY" there for me to enjoy
Let be start by saying I'm noobsauce here... meaning... Hi my name is Paul and I've been an addict for 2 months now...
I started detecing with a Bounty Hunter LandStar... I found clad... a 1911 Bronze Australian Penny and a few wheat pennies... as I read I knew I wanted a high end detector... and after spending a few weeks reading and asking on the boards... I settled on Minelab's X-Terra 70.... I found a 1951 Silver Roosie and a few days ago Dug a nice '34 Walking liberty...
Yesterday with the family we were in a town across the river from us. We were driving around enjoying the day and my mine is scopping detecting locations
I spot an old school... a few parks... I head over to that older school built in the 1890's. I was dugging clad... 70's to the 90's... 2 nickles, 4 dimes... 7 pennies... I decide to try the playground out back... but it appears to be use as a park by the local community being as the school is closed and I'd need a smaller coil than my 10.5 MF DD.
I head back to the front of the school, but closer to the building.. I am getting lots of faint signals... and depth is all over the place... I keep going... You know... in a hurry for that big find!
The next faint signal... I pinpoint... rescan... 40-42 and but there, its not there... I decide to pull the plug to scan... Its there... its not there... I pull one scop of dit and I see the mercury sitting there at an angle...
What did I learn....
[attachment 92323 1stMercHead1941S.jpg]
[size=large]Go SLOW, Learn -n- Trust your Detector and.... ENJOY THE JOURNEY![/size]
I only had about 90 minutes there... I'll be back after the picnic tonight... I'm sure there is more "JOURNEY" there for me to enjoy
