Trust my ears??

[DirtDean]

I'll keep at it....I'm down, but not out.

In the last 1-2 years, I've logged at least 500 hrs. between a CZ70, Cortes, and for the last 3 months the Etrac. In that time, I've only got 2 good coin finds...and even those two finds feel a little cheap. By that, I mean that they were both less than 3" deep. They were both sitting on top of big trash that preventing them from sinking.

Judging by what I read on here, I may be the most futile etrac user on the planet. I'm 99% sure my lack of finds has to do with location. I can count on one hand the times I've dug a signal over 6" deep that had a chance of being a coin (conductive over 40). I'm convinced I live in a freakish area that all the coins sink too deep for a detector(really hope I'm wrong). I've spent whole hunts where I only dig good signals and I've spent hunts that I dig everything over 6", regardless of the numbers. So, I go out everytime thinking this "will be the breakout hunt" and I always go out with a specific plan in mind.

I have the full compliment of SEF coils to go along with the pro coil and I think it says something about my area that my deepest finds have come with the smallest (6x8 SEF) coil. There is a ton of iron.

I would love nothing more than for a couple of you guys that really know your stuff to come down here and show me what I'm missing. The invitation is open, I've got permission to hunt some pretty old spots and I'd be thrilled for someone to find these goodies. At this point, it isn't even about ME finding an old coin, I'd just like to see one come out of the ground.

Thanks guys for listening to me b*tch and moan, I guess I just needed to vent a little bit. Actually decided not to go out hunting tonight, think I'll just stay in and watch Justice League with my 5 yr. old daughter. She's a Superman fanatic.

Best of luck to all and thanks again for all your feedback,

Brad

what area do u live at?

Shame I'm several states away or I'd be there in a minute! Give it a little more time & you'll be posting them killer finds
Bryce gives sound advice so you will do better at first to dig the positive signals and leave those "iffys" for another day.
I refuse to believe those gooduns are out of detection range for the e-trac!

Goodluck!

 

[OhioCoinHunter]

Recently I was hunting a small town park. There was a bare area of ground in the shade of a tree. No grass grew there, I'm guessing, because sunlight couldn't penetrate the upper foilage of the trees. I ran the coil over the gound and got, surprisingly, a shallow signal that screamed, "Silver!" to me. Normally I don't dig too many shallow targets. However this one compelled me to investigate. I dug down about 3 to 4 inches and a Mercury dime was visible in the black soil. With Variability and Limits maxed out to 30 run a clad dime under the coil. Then do the same with a silver dime. You'll hear the difference. When you hear that sound, you just have to dig it!