Critterhunter
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I had originaly posted this in the other thread about the 8" BBS coil somebody was talking about on his Excal, but I re-edited my message are ripped the story at the end out of there to post separetly as I think it's a halfway decent story...
One time when I was in between machines one of my friends with an Excal and 8" BBS coil he uses to water hunt offered to let me use his Excal for a hunt in the woods to go along with him. He never owned a Sovereign and only used his trusty old Whites for land hunting, even though he is just crazy about his Excal for the water, and yet he never tried to use it on land.
First time I ever used any BBS machine, so I knew ZERO about what I was doing, and to top it off the machine was bad and so the threshold was going crazy on it. I had owned a few Explorers off and on by then and many other machines, but these BBS machines are different beasts all together. Anyway, first thing I noticed is how this is the worst shaft I've ever used on a detector, land or water, and that that coil and such made it so heavy that it was beyond belief.
Despite all that, I'm wandering through the woods and happen upon an old stone foundation made from huge blocks. I always heard the bigger the stones (like car trunk size) the older the foundation probably is, because they would build them like that to protect against unfriendlies. Don't know if that's true but I was always told that. So anyway, me not knowing this machine, it's funny tones, and the threshold going up and down on me due to it being a bad unit, I get a nice clean high tone on this sloping hill about 40 feet from the foundation. I dig down and out pops a 1835 bust dime! My oldest silver coin ever!
We have a thing where if one guy does real good he'll call the other guy over to sweep the ground around the find to see if he can also pull out a keeper. That way less chance of somebody going home skunked. More of a courtesy "you see how you can do bud" type of deal to not be greedy and all that. So anyway, I call him over and show him the dime. I light up a smoke (we always have a "victory smoke" with any old coin find
) and sit on a big log about five feet away from where I made the find, and tell him to sweep that area good and see if there is anything else around. He sweeps around for a few minutes and then heads off further into the woods.
I finish my smoke, pick up my machine, and not one foot from the bust dime I get another sweet high tone. Even though I only had about an hour on this machine I *KNEW* I was in for something real good again. Out pops a large cent! To this day I've never let him live that one down. I told him I can only hook the fish but it's his job to reel it in. I don't know how he missed that coin, unless the Minelab could see it and his Whites couldn't, but it wasn't masked and it wasn't super deep, but then you just never know what these Minelabs will make look easy that another machine can't even see.
One time when I was in between machines one of my friends with an Excal and 8" BBS coil he uses to water hunt offered to let me use his Excal for a hunt in the woods to go along with him. He never owned a Sovereign and only used his trusty old Whites for land hunting, even though he is just crazy about his Excal for the water, and yet he never tried to use it on land.
First time I ever used any BBS machine, so I knew ZERO about what I was doing, and to top it off the machine was bad and so the threshold was going crazy on it. I had owned a few Explorers off and on by then and many other machines, but these BBS machines are different beasts all together. Anyway, first thing I noticed is how this is the worst shaft I've ever used on a detector, land or water, and that that coil and such made it so heavy that it was beyond belief.
Despite all that, I'm wandering through the woods and happen upon an old stone foundation made from huge blocks. I always heard the bigger the stones (like car trunk size) the older the foundation probably is, because they would build them like that to protect against unfriendlies. Don't know if that's true but I was always told that. So anyway, me not knowing this machine, it's funny tones, and the threshold going up and down on me due to it being a bad unit, I get a nice clean high tone on this sloping hill about 40 feet from the foundation. I dig down and out pops a 1835 bust dime! My oldest silver coin ever!
We have a thing where if one guy does real good he'll call the other guy over to sweep the ground around the find to see if he can also pull out a keeper. That way less chance of somebody going home skunked. More of a courtesy "you see how you can do bud" type of deal to not be greedy and all that. So anyway, I call him over and show him the dime. I light up a smoke (we always have a "victory smoke" with any old coin find
) and sit on a big log about five feet away from where I made the find, and tell him to sweep that area good and see if there is anything else around. He sweeps around for a few minutes and then heads off further into the woods.I finish my smoke, pick up my machine, and not one foot from the bust dime I get another sweet high tone. Even though I only had about an hour on this machine I *KNEW* I was in for something real good again. Out pops a large cent! To this day I've never let him live that one down. I told him I can only hook the fish but it's his job to reel it in.
I don't know how he missed that coin, unless the Minelab could see it and his Whites couldn't, but it wasn't masked and it wasn't super deep, but then you just never know what these Minelabs will make look easy that another machine can't even see.