Tot Lot treasures ...

[Willee - Texas]

Had a hour of daylight left so I packed the CZ-3D with the 5" coil in the truck and headed for the tot lot a few blocks away.

The ring was the first target recovered.
I seen the "18" stamped on the inside but then noticed it was just a gold plated ring ... ...

Did notice that on several high tone targets they would not pinpoint ... by that I mean no signal.
Assumed it was deep iron or other junk and passed over them.

Anyone else using a CD-3D ever had that happen?

 

[Willee - Texas]

Same area ... same detector.
Down in the dirt about 8"

Very small heart shaped stone.
Stamped "BG925"
My guess it is sterling silver with a zirconium stone.

That 5" coil on the CZ-3D is a real nice set-up for tot lots.
It gets surprising depths and excellent sensitivity to small stuff.

 

[tvr]

My first gold with a CZ was in a tot lot ... but with a 8 inch coil. Haven't gotten recoveries to 8 inches yet with the 5 inch coil, but it is a very useful coil to have.

Congrats on the tot lot finds!
tvr

p.s. Where was the coil in relation to the target when you hit the pinpoint switch and lost the target in pinpoint? Any chance it was right over the target and detuned the detector? Have done that myself trying to size a target and then would need to move the coil off center of the target and then push the pinpoint.

 

[mrwilburino]

I've hit a few really deep targets with the 3D that high toned but wouldn't give a pinpoint signal. Usually if I put it in all metal mode and adjusted the ground balance to get a threshold hum it would then pick it up.

 

[Willee - Texas]

Where was the coil in relation to the target when you hit the pinpoint switch and lost the target in pinpoint? Any chance it was right over the target and detuned the detector? Have done that myself trying to size a target and then would need to move the coil off center of the target and then push the pinpoint.

I tried several times making sure the coil was in the air and away from the target.

I know the Auto-Tune mode will detect items deeper than the pinpoint mode will detect ... but these targets were detected in the discriminate mode.
I did recover two of them and it was small pieces of iron ... after that I disregarded any other signals that would not pinpoint.

 

[tvr]

Willee,
Interesting. Haven't run across that particular scenario.
Thanks for sharing it.
tvr