CZconnoisseur
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Hello again! Thought I'd post the efforts of two weeks' worth of detecting at least three hours daily since Oct 7th - kinda breaking myself back into detecting after a long stint without. There was $31.81 in clad coinage, and of course it was nickel-heavy since the CZ is great with them! NOT PICTURED are the aluminum targets dug, ranging from can-slaw to aluminum siding to pieces of cast aluminum "nuggets" resulting from a past fire - we all like those 
innochio right! Those made up a pile about as large as the pennies...
Anything brass or copper is saved since that ends up being worth a bit after a while...overall dug more than 1000 targets, and I really see the value of a pinpointer now! But for now will just have to live with the old method. Only found one piece of silver which was a heart-shaped pendant with the ring broken off but any silver is good silver!
In the last minutes of hunting today I turned up a Jakob Nacken "World's Tallest Man" ring from my backyard, which gave an overload signal from the Fisher but I decided to dig anyway, looking for older targets after removing all surface targets first. Was only about 2" deep and appears to be the original pot-metal composition, as this neighborhood is c.1949-1952 timeframe. Figured I post now since something a little unusual from time to time always refreshes interest in the hobby rather than the same old modern-day coins.
Everything recovered was no more than 200 yards from my front door and had to spring for dollar-store 9V batteries once for $2.18 - which goes to show that the money is out there. There is undoubtedly more silver around here, along with gold, but the gold will most likely turn up in the tot-lot not 50 yards from the front door at some point Can-slaw is ridiculous around here - I spent 3 hours yesterday in a 15' X 50' flagged-off area and dug EVERYTHING NON-FERROUS; recovering more aluminum than coins around a 3:2 ratio of slaw:coins. That really killed me physically, but I wanted to see what I was up against with quantity vs quality. It might really be a 1000:1 ratio of slaw:gold - whatever it is wasn't reached yesterday but tried to!
The CZ-6 has a bad habit of seeing the aluminum pencil eraser holders as deep nickels I remember from the 1990s, and still rings true today! Probably dug three holders for every nickel, but it was a GOLD hunt and I'm sure it's there - only a matter of time before it surfaces!
Start the big J-O-B tomorrow, and with quitting time at 6:00 along with this time of year equals narrow-window for detecting
Ending on a good note only whets the appetite for future hunts!
innochio right! Those made up a pile about as large as the pennies...Anything brass or copper is saved since that ends up being worth a bit after a while...overall dug more than 1000 targets, and I really see the value of a pinpointer now! But for now will just have to live with the old method. Only found one piece of silver which was a heart-shaped pendant with the ring broken off but any silver is good silver!
In the last minutes of hunting today I turned up a Jakob Nacken "World's Tallest Man" ring from my backyard, which gave an overload signal from the Fisher but I decided to dig anyway, looking for older targets after removing all surface targets first. Was only about 2" deep and appears to be the original pot-metal composition, as this neighborhood is c.1949-1952 timeframe. Figured I post now since something a little unusual from time to time always refreshes interest in the hobby rather than the same old modern-day coins.
Everything recovered was no more than 200 yards from my front door and had to spring for dollar-store 9V batteries once for $2.18 - which goes to show that the money is out there. There is undoubtedly more silver around here, along with gold, but the gold will most likely turn up in the tot-lot not 50 yards from the front door at some point
Can-slaw is ridiculous around here - I spent 3 hours yesterday in a 15' X 50' flagged-off area and dug EVERYTHING NON-FERROUS; recovering more aluminum than coins around a 3:2 ratio of slaw:coins. That really killed me physically, but I wanted to see what I was up against with quantity vs quality. It might really be a 1000:1 ratio of slaw:gold - whatever it is wasn't reached yesterday but tried to! The CZ-6 has a bad habit of seeing the aluminum pencil eraser holders as deep nickels I remember from the 1990s, and still rings true today! Probably dug three holders for every nickel, but it was a GOLD hunt and I'm sure it's there - only a matter of time before it surfaces!
Start the big J-O-B tomorrow, and with quitting time at 6:00 along with this time of year equals narrow-window for detecting
Ending on a good note only whets the appetite for future hunts!