Went out with the Excel last nite....

[Jackpine Savage]

and hit the area around the school bus garage. Back in the 40's and 50's the lot where the garage now sits was used for outdoor movies. So far no silver but I have picked up wheat pennys and a couple trinkets in the past there. Anyway, last night I got a hit that read pretty consistently as 20-21, but from different angles I could see 27-28 sneaking in. Hmmm.. coin spill I says to myself.

6 pennys in an area not more than 5 or 6" across and the Excel did not average them! Depending on the sweep angle it read copper penny or zinc with no numbers in between! In my experience not many machines can do that. Maybe the Excels big brother.

Tom

 

[BarnacleBill]

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[North Georgia Relics]

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[Jackpine Savage]

It sure surprised me! This site is just loaded with large and small iron. In all metal it is nearly impossible to find a spot to GB so I just hunt from the FP mode.

BTW I had it out to a Lake Michigan beach the other day and after doing the initial GB it started reading the sand as a -36 and would stay locked on that reading until a target went under the coil. Don't know what was up with that unless it was reading the hot rock sand particles.

Tom

 

[Bill Ladd]

I gut into a yard with mine....I think I keep saying that & found a couple indians & a button. I keep saying I'm gonna scan them right?

 

[Jackpine Savage]

as in pics or readings?

The IH's I have found all read well below zinc, 17-19 if I remember right. Lots of readings between zinc and copper at this site. So far they have ALL been aluminum twist off bottle caps. Depending on how flat they are the readings can jump around but so far never in any of the coin ranges. I love it!

Most of you know I prefer hunting older sites but the Excel makes hunting junky "newer" sites <i><b>fun!</i></b>

Tom

 

[BarnacleBill]

OK, my theory is that there is an underground river, that is flowing from the the Soudan Mine over there Minnesottee way,and the tailings surface just offshore of that beach. Or, Iron Algae, hows the water taste? hmmm beach water, yum...

Seriously, black sand? saline? Have access to an MXT for a ground phase reading? Maybe the new Teknetics T2 will have the same ground phase feature, now there's an excuse to buy a new machine. Have you GB'ed any other machines there? How 'bout a CZ, where would it GB setting wise, and would you get a constant low tone at "0" disc?

BarnacleBill

 

[Jackpine Savage]

Bill,

So far thats the first itme I have seen anything like that on a detector. I hope the Excel is not showing signs of some kind of sickness. There are a few spots on that beach that have a slightly higher concentration of perhaps black sand. The X5 would get very noisy once in a while over a small area and a re-GB was needed. Overall tho the beaches are pretty consistent.

Iron algae..LOL
When Lake michigan warms up like it has this year it will have algae blooms. The prevailing west winds push the algae up against the shore and when it dies off it is very stinky! Yuck!

Tom

 

[BarnacleBill]

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[Jackpine Savage]

get some fuzzies in some areas like I mentioned above.

There is a layer of water worn rocks at varying depths below the sand. Near the waters edge they are shallower and do affect some machines.

Gotta check it out again with new batteries too, it read 6V when I turned it back on the next day.

Tom