BarnacleBill
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somewhere in South America.
It was a balmy 18degF with a 10>15mph breeze with stronger gusts, a lovely day to go tectin'.
My only amigo was this guy on a snow machine.
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I was working a boat ramp that has a fast flowing current and is the site of a cobble field. In the photo below you can see where I had been digging on the shore just inland of the large rock in the water.
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I had detected this site last week for the first time with the Fisher ID Edge with 5.75 coil and the X70 HF DD Elliptical. The hot gravel and cobbles play havoc with ID stability on both machines. The ID Edge consistently was pushing targets up the ID scale by several numbers despite GB'ing often. The X70 could vary in either direction but shortening up the sweep would usually bring things in within a couple numbers. What has to be kept in mind is that the X70 has a significantly higher resolution scale so that a 25% greater variance should be expected. I was not using the stability mode on the X70 as I wanted to compare it more in a heads up fashion to the Edge.
After my experiment with the hot rock from last week I wanted to poke around in the cobble field to see if the Coins mode would ID good targets as iron whereas the Prospecting mode wouldn't. In two hours time in the water I didn't come to any solid conclusions. Some targets such as pulltabs that bounced up and down the ID scale depending on angle of attack in the Coins mode, sounded much more solid in Prospecting mode. At the same time ratty foil wads sounded ratty in both modes.
I didn't expect to find anything earth shattering since spring runoff surely buries or carry's away most previous summer drops. After two hours time, despite keeping my back to the wind, signs of frostbite were setting in. During the hunt if I held a shovel full of sand and rocks up to probe, within about 30 seconds the sand would flash freeze to the shovel. But hey, I'll take this over snakes and bugs anytime!
HH
BarnacleBill
Just a note about safety. I am very familiar with this body of water and was only wading knee deep. The current is not swift enough to carry me downstream and the deepest holes are about five feet deep. I know how to swim and my vehicle was only about 200ft away, so if I ended up in the water I can get my clothes off quickly and get into a spare set, and into warmth. Don't go out and try this on a whim just because some guy on line wrote about doing it, your life is worth more than finding a few trinkets in the sand.
It was a balmy 18degF with a 10>15mph breeze with stronger gusts, a lovely day to go tectin'.
My only amigo was this guy on a snow machine.
[attachment 47455 snowm.jpg]
I was working a boat ramp that has a fast flowing current and is the site of a cobble field. In the photo below you can see where I had been digging on the shore just inland of the large rock in the water.
[attachment 47456 cobble.jpg]
I had detected this site last week for the first time with the Fisher ID Edge with 5.75 coil and the X70 HF DD Elliptical. The hot gravel and cobbles play havoc with ID stability on both machines. The ID Edge consistently was pushing targets up the ID scale by several numbers despite GB'ing often. The X70 could vary in either direction but shortening up the sweep would usually bring things in within a couple numbers. What has to be kept in mind is that the X70 has a significantly higher resolution scale so that a 25% greater variance should be expected. I was not using the stability mode on the X70 as I wanted to compare it more in a heads up fashion to the Edge.
After my experiment with the hot rock from last week I wanted to poke around in the cobble field to see if the Coins mode would ID good targets as iron whereas the Prospecting mode wouldn't. In two hours time in the water I didn't come to any solid conclusions. Some targets such as pulltabs that bounced up and down the ID scale depending on angle of attack in the Coins mode, sounded much more solid in Prospecting mode. At the same time ratty foil wads sounded ratty in both modes.
I didn't expect to find anything earth shattering since spring runoff surely buries or carry's away most previous summer drops. After two hours time, despite keeping my back to the wind, signs of frostbite were setting in. During the hunt if I held a shovel full of sand and rocks up to probe, within about 30 seconds the sand would flash freeze to the shovel. But hey, I'll take this over snakes and bugs anytime!
HH
BarnacleBill
Just a note about safety. I am very familiar with this body of water and was only wading knee deep. The current is not swift enough to carry me downstream and the deepest holes are about five feet deep. I know how to swim and my vehicle was only about 200ft away, so if I ended up in the water I can get my clothes off quickly and get into a spare set, and into warmth. Don't go out and try this on a whim just because some guy on line wrote about doing it, your life is worth more than finding a few trinkets in the sand.
