Unbelievable, Deep nickels from pounded park with ATX...Piece of cake!

[Old California]

Hunted an old park today with a friend, Funny thing is wasn't armed with the right detector for deep turf so used the ATX. A 2-3 hour hunt but the ATX managed to snag 5 deep nickels, 4 Liberty, 1 Buffalo and a cool late 1870-90's era watch fob, pistol ball and a couple of vintage junk rings.

Two deepest nickels were a measured 10" inches in the park turf, ATX still had some depth to go had they been deeper. Going after weak high low signals, Dug several pieces of low conductive trash but over all the ratio was fantastic on deep nickels. Believe sooner or later a gold coin will surface from this park, and when it does it's going to be the ATX making the score.

The dates are,

1887,
1898,
1910,
1911,
1920,

Amazing, Who would have figured a Pi having such a success getting deep nickels from a pounded park. Only a few Pi's could have pulled this off glad the ATX is one of them.

Paul (Ca)

 

[dmnz]

Awesome!

 

[Booty Hunter]

Nice Paul,

I went to a pounded beach park awile back and pulled 2 nickles out of the water and they too were real deep. Just clad though.

 

[John-Edmonton]

You sure got a lot of great finds utilizing the low-high audio only! And you should, as the ATX is very deep. I have done the same, hunting old spots and only digging the high-low audio. Thanks for your inspiring post!

 

[Old California]

Thanks John, Booty Hunter and dmnz,

That's a cool token John, In the right area especially pounded parks were old silver have been dug chances are allot of the older deeper nickels were left behind. Was surprised to get a low ratio of low conductive trash, And just few bits of iron the ratio of nickels was terrific.

It's areas like these, the ATX may be about the best Pi on the planet for getting deeper low conductive targets such as older nickels and tokens like yours from old parks.

Can't wait to hit this park again, Hopefully in two weeks.

Thanks again forum friends
Paul (Ca)

 

[Dancer]

A great feeling of pleasure nailing a deep one. Now maybe gold.

 

[Syd BC]

Old California, Last fall I was reading a post by John-Edmonton where he had made some great finds in a pounded park while digging only the low-high signals. I gave it a try in one of our old parks and was amazed at how many good coins I found. I posted a picture last September. Did you find all those nickels with the high-low tone? I think I'll go back and give it another try digging all signals. This machine is opening up new ground, and it's just below the ground we've been searching all these years...Syd

 

[lytle78]

Great finds Paul. Do younfind the ATX to be generally deeper than the TDI?

Also, are you running with the GB off?

 

[Old California]

Thanks Dancer,

Yes indeed, A wonderful feeling with the ATX pulling out nice finds from an old park normally detected by VLF/FBS/BBS.

Unheard of using a Pi for parks, Can't wait to go on my next day off

Thanks again,
Paul

 

[Old California]

Hi Syd,

Hopefully can see yours and John's post in the near future with the good finds your guys made from parks in your areas, That would be very encouraging for both myself and ATX users.

I'm only going after high-low sounds, Going after weak signals and trying to avoid surface or near surface signals those signals near the surface tend to increase the ratio of trash. Now, If I was going after park jewelry then will dig all high-low signals.

Haven't tried low-high due to increasing the ratio of iron and using the high-low reduces false iron digs at least it does for me. Plus, What I found out relic hunting is a wide range of conductive targets fall in the high-low range and I believe sooner or later the 1/2 dime coinage or thin reales will surface in the high-low range. Buried coins tend to ID lower in my area, So I'm hoping my theory will show this to be true with the older Spanish era silver coinage and American 1/2 silver dimes and such. The conductivity are lower on these coins and I believe the ATX will eventually find some in the high-low audio.

Please, Go back to your parks and relay your results with us. This is very encouraging for us ATX users and I agree the ATX is opening up areas we had long ago give up on.

Thanks again,
Paul

 

[Old California]

Hi Rick,

Haven't owned a TDI in years, Hard to say which of the two are deeper. After conducting a GB, That's where I leave it and it stays smooth and solid from there.

Still in the learning stages of park hunting with the ATX, But what has helped me was logging in several hundreds of hours using the ATX as a Relic machine. So when I hit the park the other day it was a piece of cake, As compare to relic hunting areas laced with iron. However, This park does have allot of iron mostly square nails, underground piping and such so I had to adjust and sometimes move over to cleaner areas avoiding the masking from underground piping. hunting in iron is ok I can handle that but when larger pipes from underground effect the area then I'll move over until the ground has less masking.

Can't wait to hit the park again, On my next day off

Thanks again Rick!'

Paul

 

[Mega]

Paul,as you had been using the ATX with the stock coil in the parks,would you see any advantage of possibly using the 8'' Mono coil in parks rather than the larger coil ?? Of course i understand that you do loose the slight abiility of some discrimination by using the 8'' coil but the advantage would be better pinpointing while still having good depth.

Or do you not see any advantage at all.

 

[Old California]

Thanks a great idea Mega, It would depend with depth but may gain it back with separation hunting in areas the larger coil is just too big hunting near underground pipes and such.

Come to think about using iron check, I really don't use it on the weaker signals when relic hunting but found myself using it at the park. Maybe iron check doesn't work on the deeper weaker signals but now that you mentioned it I'll see if it makes a difference at the park, If no difference is there might as well use the 8" mono coil can see an advantage hunting closer in the masked areas.

Thanks so much for bringing up the 8" coil, I'll give it a try next hunt at the same park and share the results. .

HH, Paul

 

[Grilled Scallops]

Great finds Paul. Do younfind the ATX to be generally deeper than the TDI?

Also, are you running with the GB off?

ATX is slightly more sensitive to small stuff, TDI is a little deeper on the ring sized stuff (assuming stock coils and no mods).