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Made it out for most of the day since the temps were in the 40s here - it was a gloomy, misty sort of day and all three locations I hunted were mucky (so much for cleaning the detector!)
Started out at a recently vacated house whose original owner passed last summer, but this person must have never ventured out of the house since hardly any coins or other targets were found. I spent three hours at the first location and all I had to show was a dime, a couple copper pennies, some keys, and a 1958 dog tag which was the best find IMO at this place. On the way to this house I noticed a construction crew was building a few new houses on an old site. The ground was scraped and the new foundations were about to be poured, so I mozied over to the construction site and looked around a bit. Again, not much was to be had at this place, and finally after digging one too many bottlecaps I decided to head towards the old neighborhood since there's always at least one house I can hunt most times.
Didn't see anything that I hadn't already hunted, so I turned a corner and saw a "For Rent" sign in the front yard of a nice candidate. I cold-called the number on the sign, and the owner was very agreeable. I thanked her and then started to scan the front yard. I noticed a few bottlecaps in plain sight and picked them up as I made my way across the yard. It wasn't long before I came upon my first Wheat, and the trash was primarily bottlecaps at this place. I got into one area that was a little chatty, so I switched to 4 khz and could isolate targets better.
Most of the hunt was conducted in 4 khz using Reactivity = 3 and a boatload of notch...00-70 and 92-99. I was after (most) Wheat pennies and higher in conductivity, but I also had my trusty 12 khz program one click away when I wasn't receiving many targets. Was able to pluck a couple of nickels...one dated 1941...in between a 6 X 6 area that churned out 8 or 9 Wheats only 2-3" deep. Not far away I got a "72-74" signal while in 4 khz which turned out to be a nice Merc!
Not five feet from where I parked the car I got a steady "75-76" signal which was another Merc only 3" deep. Two feet closer to the car I found 3 Wheats and 2 High-relief Memorials in the same hole. If I had moved the car back a little bit I'm sure more coins would turn up. I really didn't expect this rental to be so productive, but I also didn't expect the first TWO houses to be so DRY, either! Maybe a return trip is in the works for this rental...
I was able to get a lot better quality video this outing - the better finds are in the last 10-15 minutes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX133CWcewU
Started out at a recently vacated house whose original owner passed last summer, but this person must have never ventured out of the house since hardly any coins or other targets were found. I spent three hours at the first location and all I had to show was a dime, a couple copper pennies, some keys, and a 1958 dog tag which was the best find IMO at this place. On the way to this house I noticed a construction crew was building a few new houses on an old site. The ground was scraped and the new foundations were about to be poured, so I mozied over to the construction site and looked around a bit. Again, not much was to be had at this place, and finally after digging one too many bottlecaps I decided to head towards the old neighborhood since there's always at least one house I can hunt most times.
Didn't see anything that I hadn't already hunted, so I turned a corner and saw a "For Rent" sign in the front yard of a nice candidate. I cold-called the number on the sign, and the owner was very agreeable. I thanked her and then started to scan the front yard. I noticed a few bottlecaps in plain sight and picked them up as I made my way across the yard. It wasn't long before I came upon my first Wheat, and the trash was primarily bottlecaps at this place. I got into one area that was a little chatty, so I switched to 4 khz and could isolate targets better.
Most of the hunt was conducted in 4 khz using Reactivity = 3 and a boatload of notch...00-70 and 92-99. I was after (most) Wheat pennies and higher in conductivity, but I also had my trusty 12 khz program one click away when I wasn't receiving many targets. Was able to pluck a couple of nickels...one dated 1941...in between a 6 X 6 area that churned out 8 or 9 Wheats only 2-3" deep. Not far away I got a "72-74" signal while in 4 khz which turned out to be a nice Merc!
Not five feet from where I parked the car I got a steady "75-76" signal which was another Merc only 3" deep. Two feet closer to the car I found 3 Wheats and 2 High-relief Memorials in the same hole. If I had moved the car back a little bit I'm sure more coins would turn up. I really didn't expect this rental to be so productive, but I also didn't expect the first TWO houses to be so DRY, either! Maybe a return trip is in the works for this rental...
I was able to get a lot better quality video this outing - the better finds are in the last 10-15 minutes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX133CWcewU
