Eric in RI
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Good day everyone! I managed to get out to my favorite park last night for a 2 hour hunt. Started off by wiping myself down with the Off deep woods towelettes. They work pretty good, providing you dont sweat it all off lol! Started off at 8pm right where I left off. Been hitting this baseball field that has keepers in it, but you gotta work for them. The field is pretty non-existent of higher toned items. Armed with my XLT, I decided to dig everything. Within my first half hour, I had about 10 pulltabs, some can slaw, about 3 zincolns and an older jefferson nickel. I came across this signal that bounced around, but had a good high tone to it. It only sounded good from one left to right, but when I did the 90 degree turn, it would break up and chatter like there was a small beaver tail rolled up, or some iron fragments. The depth showed 4.5 inches, but it was more like 6 inches when I stuck my Sunray probe in the hole. Found the target, scooped it out and this silver disc literally flew at me. Wiped her off to reveal a nice 1943 Mercury dime. Sweet! This ballfield still has silver! Mind you I've been hunting the crap out of this field for the last 4 years. Everytime I get out of work, I head over to the park for a couple hours every night as its only a half mile from my house. Usually I end up with a wheatie, an old nickel or nothing.
After that dig I did a quick fist pump and went back at it. An hour later, my pouch full of pulltabs (I must've dug about 30 of those suckers!) it was about time to call it quits. At that point I only had 2 older Jefferson nickels, 2 clad dimes, 3 zincolns, numerous beaver tails, foil, crushed bottle caps and the lonely merc. I said I wasn't leaving until I got another coin in my pouch, I didn't even care if it was clad, I just wanted another coin. Dug a few more pulltabs and beaver tails and said "there's gotta be a coin here somewhere!" Then it happened. Got a real nice signal that was bouncing from 83 - 91. I kept hoping for a silver. The depth meter also said 4.5 inches which is usually where the good stuff is. Dug a nice wide plug because I was anticipating a half.... Stuck the sunray probe into the hole in pin-point mode and found the target. I carefully dug around and under where it was, to be rewarded with a pulltab. What the F!!!! I checked again with the probe, nothing! I put the plug back, filled in the edges, switched the machine back over to detect mode and swung again. Now I got the sweet sound of silver again, only this time it was 6 inches to the left of where I dug. Again, the depth was 4.5 inches. Dug another plug, stuck the probe in the hole in pinpoint mode, found it. Low and behold, I nearly fell over when a silver dime came up. 1940-S Mercury dime! Been awhile since I pulled double silvers from this park. What a way to end a hunt, on a silver coin, rather than a crappy clad whatever that I was going for!!! All in all, you gotta dig the trash to get the treasure. I am a firm believer of digging everything positive on the scale, even if its foil. I dig every crappy signal that jumps around as I find target ID is not always accurate the deeper you go.
As for the settings, I use a customized relic program. I accept everything from -45 to +94. AC Sens 66, VCO on, Tone ID on, transmit frequency 6 (4 is the default, but I usually hunt with someone else and our machines interfere if I leave it on factory default) Pre-amp at 10. The machine runs fairly stable, but I did notice if I left the machine on the ground when in pinpoint mode and then switched it back to detect mode and left the machine on the ground, it would false like crazy. I would have to pick up the machine while still in pinpoint mode, point it to the stars and then flip the switch back to detect mode and then put it to the ground. The falsing then stopped everytime I did that... bad coil????
Thanks for reading and HH!
After that dig I did a quick fist pump and went back at it. An hour later, my pouch full of pulltabs (I must've dug about 30 of those suckers!) it was about time to call it quits. At that point I only had 2 older Jefferson nickels, 2 clad dimes, 3 zincolns, numerous beaver tails, foil, crushed bottle caps and the lonely merc. I said I wasn't leaving until I got another coin in my pouch, I didn't even care if it was clad, I just wanted another coin. Dug a few more pulltabs and beaver tails and said "there's gotta be a coin here somewhere!" Then it happened. Got a real nice signal that was bouncing from 83 - 91. I kept hoping for a silver. The depth meter also said 4.5 inches which is usually where the good stuff is. Dug a nice wide plug because I was anticipating a half.... Stuck the sunray probe into the hole in pin-point mode and found the target. I carefully dug around and under where it was, to be rewarded with a pulltab. What the F!!!! I checked again with the probe, nothing! I put the plug back, filled in the edges, switched the machine back over to detect mode and swung again. Now I got the sweet sound of silver again, only this time it was 6 inches to the left of where I dug. Again, the depth was 4.5 inches. Dug another plug, stuck the probe in the hole in pinpoint mode, found it. Low and behold, I nearly fell over when a silver dime came up. 1940-S Mercury dime! Been awhile since I pulled double silvers from this park. What a way to end a hunt, on a silver coin, rather than a crappy clad whatever that I was going for!!! All in all, you gotta dig the trash to get the treasure. I am a firm believer of digging everything positive on the scale, even if its foil. I dig every crappy signal that jumps around as I find target ID is not always accurate the deeper you go.
As for the settings, I use a customized relic program. I accept everything from -45 to +94. AC Sens 66, VCO on, Tone ID on, transmit frequency 6 (4 is the default, but I usually hunt with someone else and our machines interfere if I leave it on factory default) Pre-amp at 10. The machine runs fairly stable, but I did notice if I left the machine on the ground when in pinpoint mode and then switched it back to detect mode and left the machine on the ground, it would false like crazy. I would have to pick up the machine while still in pinpoint mode, point it to the stars and then flip the switch back to detect mode and then put it to the ground. The falsing then stopped everytime I did that... bad coil????
Thanks for reading and HH!
Nice find im getting ready too hunt an old baseball field hope too have some goddies like urs
awesome........... dig it ALL,, dirtyray