Took my Golden uMax to a park Sunday

[jabbo]

Spent 1 hour looking for ladies gold rings. Used the Narrow Notch, had it set up to reject all pulltabs including those pesky broken-off tails. Dug only 1 pulltab, but the foil gave me problems. Can't eliminate foil without eliminating the rings. Dug 30 pieces of foil and quit for the time being, was anxious to get to the woods 1 mile away where I dug a large sleigh bell, a 1916 Barber dime and a 1937 Merc the previous weekend with my ID Edge. Used the Edge again and searched there for a while, found no coins and was heading back to the car when I got signal that I knew had to be an IH penny. Dug an IH at 6". Then just 15 feet away and 7-8" deep, another IH signal. Dug an IH and a nickle 3 cent piece, they were stuck together and badly corroded. Checked the hole again, got a silver high tone and out came a 1875 seated dime. Whohoo. Checked the hole again, another silver high tone, out came another seated dime, 1876. Had to be a coin spill. That made my day so I headed back to the car, will go back when the ground is not so soggy and muddy. I love the Golden it's the best I have for gold jewelry, but when I need to search deep I use the ID Edge or the Cortes, they are about equal in depth and at ID'ing coins. The problem searching in the woods is the thorn bushes, thick layer of leaves, tree roots everywhere and all that other stuff that makes it impossible in certain areas. But the woods seems to be virgin territory, I found 4 silver coins there so I will go back real soon. These woods and a river are next to a pre Rev war town. There has to be more old coins there but some areas are so over grown a snake couldn't get thru it.

 

[GaryF]

I'd be smiling at that coin spill myself....really nice finds.

Now take a Vaquero through there and find the deep stuff...lol

Great job and HH
Gary

 

[jabbo]

Gary, the Vaquero might be a little deeper. I used one for about 2 years, my deepest find was a wheatie at a measuered 8", it was still embedded in the hole. Sold it and got the Cortes because I like meters. Still have it, but also bought the ID Edge, has meter and 4 tones, tones are great to have. The Edge with 10" coil gives proper tone ID on a 10" quarter in air tests, thats pretty good I'd say. To get tones on the Cortes you have to press the SUM switch and because of that I prefer using the Edge, especially where there is a lot of low tone iron signals, I don't have to look at the meter to see if its iron, but I always look at the meter when I get mid-tones or high tone.

 

[digginLa]

cool finds

 

[GaryF]

Believe me I wasn't meaning to knock any of the detectors..

I know the depth of the Fishers...had a 6a myself...it was a beast but just heavy.

They should be able to put something like a sunray on a tesoro like they have for minelab detectors. Just thinking out loud sorry.

I'd prefer a tone detector over a VID tho....I've not had the chance to try an Edge or Cortes or I'd probably have one..lol

Sounds like you have a really good spot there....I live in a town that was owned by GW....and I'm the only one around here with a detector other than a few guys running around with
bounty hunters. I let them clean off the first 5" and then get everything under that....(evil grin)

G

 

[davef99]

I tried the Golden, it's nice,but 4 tones seemed too close together??

I also tried the Deleon,but it's meter jumps ALL over the place..HOWEVER the Deleon does go deeper than the Golden...

Also had the Vaquero and Cibola,but the monotone seems too difficult to discern a pulltab from a coin..

When will Tesoro make a 600+ hertz, non metered machine,with the new HOT technology??

(I guess its called the "high tone" Cibola, but I have yet to get my hands on one of those!)

Dave F.

 

[davef99]

I'd say the edge does to The Edge,when it comes to deep silver..
Lower frequency goes deeper on higher conductivity targets,than higher frequency Tesoros..

Dave F.
Pa.