Two and a half years

[Furious T]

since my last silver ring with the X Terra 70 (mind you, I have found a few gold ones with it in that time). I was beginning to wonder if I had lost my touch, or I was getting lazy, or the detector just wasn't hitting on them. I have been playing with other toys, so I was also wondering if I was losing my touch with the X Terra, or (heaven forbid) no-one was losing silver rings anymore. A week ago today I decided to go to an old park where I have found very little over the last few years, and put in some hard work. We have had a good amount of rain, and the ground is beautifully soft at the moment.
To cut a long story short, over 3 hunts in the one week the X T 70 and I found 4 silver rings, 3 smaller ones (2 with stones) which all gave readings of 34 - 36 on the meter, and a larger one which gave a reading of 38 - 42.

I was using the 10"x5" 18.75 kHz DD coil and couldn't believe my luck. Running on sensitivity of 17. Found two in one hunt, and one each in the two short hunts that followed. (Sorry, no pics at this stage...tech support is not home from uni. yet, but should be here next weekend, so will try then).

Finding the rings reminded me on how important it is to have a good mindset when we are going detecting, not only in interpreting the signals we get from the detector, but also diagnosing what the target could be as well as what it might be. Thanks for reading, and HH

 

[kiwi-jim]

Good things come to those who wait,(so they tell me).you have done real good certainly worth the wait this time.

 

[Furious T]

Thanks Jim,
Patience and determination, I find, are two very important characteristics to have when detecting. You have them, otherwise you would not make the finds that you do. Another important factor, I think, is having fun. When it stops being fun, then I will give it away. I hope that never happens.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

Sounds like a pretty good way to break the drought Furious. I hear you, on using the 'other' toys. I've been distracted by other too. The X-terra is going to get a good work out over the next few weeks though.
Mick Evans.

 

[7centsworth]

Sounds like you are the ring man. I have only found two ever. Congratulations.

 

[Furious T]

Hi Mick,
Yes, I find it good to change from one detector to another from time to time...In this case I think it has been more a matter of "horses for courses". I used one of my other "toys" at this park during my "ring spree".....didn't find any rings with it, but did find a 1964 1d, and a 1938 medallion (celebrating "Australia's 150th birthday). Also learn't something about tuning the other detector to this park, which has serious iron and emi issues. The tones on the X Terra 70 helped, as I was detecting at night on one occasion and did not refer to the meter...as I said in my post...mindset is important.

7 Centsworth...I wish I could say that I find gold and silver every week....unfortunately I cant say that because I dont....however the upside of that is that when I do find something like that I still get a great thrill, which helps to keep me going in the tough times. When the ground is soft enough to dig (without making a mess) I go for everything which I think is in the range of targets I want...I dig a fair bit of junk too, and sometimes get lucky with the good stuff.
HH

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

The medallion would have been a sweet find.
If my memory serves me correctly, your other detector is the Omega. They are rather chatty little detectors. Very prone to overload signals. I've been getting out with the Explorer lately. Got a 5in DD Sunray coil for it today. Not half bad.
HH.
Mick Evans.

 

[Furious T]

It was a sweet find Mick...I didn't know there was such a medallion....seems that there was a large one made (5cm+), but the one I found is about the same size as a 20c piece and features Australian youth....in geat condition...saw one on e-bay selling (asked price) $29.95, but I dont really know how much mine is worth....I dont want to sell it anyway. Yes, Omega, Eldorado, DeLeon etc. etc. and I try to give them all a run from time to time...I find it fun to change detectors...The Explorer is a great machine, and with a 5 in coil should be brilliant in parks etc. Hope the water is getting away from where you are...this could be a wet summer, which we haven't had for a long long time. Great time to get out and about if we can.

The park I've been hunting is an old one in town, but not in the main part of cbd. It has always been hard to detect there because of underlying iron, and I'm sure there are lots of buried cables running through it as well, so increasing sensitivity is not a great option. That's one reason I've been using the 18.75 kHz coil there, and it seems to handle the conditions a bit better than lower frequency coils/detectors. Having said that, once I sorted out the Omega (which did take me some time, but I cant blame the detector for that) it went really well too. The Penny and the medallion were only about 25 to 30cm apart, and gave very similar readings. Both were in great condition, and both were about 10cm (4") down..maybe a bit deeper, but not much. Both gave good signals and I cant figure out why they were still there. HH