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Well I finely got out to the lake that was drained. It is a known place for people to swim off of the dam. In fact there are steps going into the lake from the dam so you can get in the water easy. It was drained for a couple of weeks before I got to go, but I was excited. I was told that there had been a bunch of people with detectors there already. When my wife and I got down on the lake floor we noticed that there were very few places that looked like that they had been dug. The floor was mud, dried and cracked open with a lot of aluminum cans on the surface of the dried mud. I found very few shallow targets and they were all cans, so I started looking for deep targets. With my detector set in the coin range I found none, so I went to all metal and then checked the targets with the discriminator set on foil, then a lot of deep targets popped up. I dug the first one. At nine of ten inches of some of the gummiest mud that I have ever encountered I retrieved a modern day pull-tab. I dug several more targets and all were pull taps at nine or ten inches in this gummy mud. My wife had the same experience. There were two places where some one had dug to the bottom of the mud and it was a good 18 inches. We decided that any good targets would be at the bottom of this mud which was silt before the lake was drained and out of reach of our detectors. Being in our 70
Well I finely got out to the lake that was drained. It is a known place for people to swim off of the dam. In fact there are steps going into the lake from the dam so you can get in the water easy. It was drained for a couple of weeks before I got to go, but I was excited. I was told that there had been a bunch of people with detectors there already. When my wife and I got down on the lake floor we noticed that there were very few places that looked like that they had been dug. The floor was mud, dried and cracked open with a lot of aluminum cans on the surface of the dried mud. I found very few shallow targets and they were all cans, so I started looking for deep targets. With my detector set in the coin range I found none, so I went to all metal and then checked the targets with the discriminator set on foil, then a lot of deep targets popped up. I dug the first one. At nine of ten inches of some of the gummiest mud that I have ever encountered I retrieved a modern day pull-tab. I dug several more targets and all were pull taps at nine or ten inches in this gummy mud. My wife had the same experience. There were two places where some one had dug to the bottom of the mud and it was a good 18 inches. We decided that any good targets would be at the bottom of this mud which was silt before the lake was drained and out of reach of our detectors. Being in our 70