You Guys Finding More Silver Deep Or In Trash?

[Critterhunter]

Just curious if you guys seem to find most of your silver deep or shallower but in trash? Mention what sized coil you are using because that can make a difference. Many of my sites don't have super deep coins because many of my areas (not all) have a lot of clay mixed in the soil, which seems to limit most targets to about 6 or 7" max depth. I'd say most of my silver has come in that 6 or 7" range, and not as many shallow in trash....But I tend to use larger coils. Need to give the S-5 more use in trashy areas and see what kind of silver in trash I can pull out. Also need to hit more known deep coin spots to see how deep this 12x10 can start popping silver.

 

[matthias]

I have found silver at 4" or less in not so trashy ground. I usually use a Sun-Ray S-5 on my Sovereign GT. HH. Matt

 

[GunnarMN]

critt take the farm feild, i was hunting with the 15"WOT and 75% of my silver coin was less than 3" deep one was 9" deep and take the 1879 dime it was 3.5" deep but was in nail infested ground , and my barber dime was 1" deep yes one inch but was surounded by modern zinc pennys so I figure others figured it was just a zinc but i dig those and found it it was out in a woods path

 

[Critterhunter]

Virgin spots where others haven't hunted of course can have a lot of shallow silver that isn't even surrounded by trash. Most of those shallow ones not masked by trash are gone in areas other people have hunted. But then there are the times (like my 1842 seated dime last summer) where you get a silver coin only 2 or 3" deep with no trash around it and you wonder how people passed that up for so many years. I witnessed a friend dig a barber dime about 3 or 4" deep with no trash around it at one site a few summers ago that has been pounded by people. Some of those coins could have been on edge and you needed to swing the right way over them, or they finally flatened out by being moved from the ground freezing. Another theory I've heard is that iron trash such as an old bottle cap might have been masking the coin but finally the iron washed away in the soil and allowed it to be seen.

 

[Critterhunter]

I think also that some of these shallow silvers are reading like pennies for some odd reason (being on edge, being worn, ground minerals, etc) and people are passing them up thinking they are a lowly modern penny.

I must admit that at hard hit parks I generaly pass up the shallow coin signals unless there is trash around them in that they might be an old coin that others had missed due to the masking. Probably not a good idea. I've dug a lot of good stuff in the past by digging those shallow "clad" signals. Silver rings, old coins, tokens, etc.

 

[bootyhoundpa]

the only deep silver i found with gt was a thimble at 7 inches with 10 coil....i have found 3 half reales with wot coil mostly in the 2-3 inch depth...as far as trashy areas i recently found a rosie and a barber dime with the 5 inch coil at about 2-3 inch range.... did get a silver quarter 6 inch depth at an old drained swimming hole...... but i rarely park hunt with the gt.... mostly farm fields and the ocasional beach....

 

[Ism]

The deepest silver dime) I found was around 7" based on distance from coil to coin. I found most of my silver in trash or iron infested areas but I'd say most were shallow no matter where I found them.

 

[Critterhunter]

The conditions have to be right for deep silver being present. Good fine soil that allows the coins to sink, or areas that get real swampy during rain spells and such. One indicator for me that deep silver might be present is finding clads 6 or 7" deep, and if the area has age to it then one would think that there should be deep silver present. Another good indicator is digging wheats 6 or 7" deep or deeper, of course. Also, if I'm finding round pull tabs deep then that tells me there should be deep silver there too.

I think it's the right tool for the right spot. If you're at a spot where the targets seem to max out at about 6 or 7" then you might be better off using a small coil that can still get that much depth yet has better seperation. I should use my S-5 more than I have, because with the very little I've used it so far I dug a rosie that was 6 or 7" deep that was in between two shallow pull tabs. The signal was so good that I'm confident it could easily been 8" or maybe 9" deep and I still would have got a good signal on it.

 

[Critterhunter]

I have found silver at 4" or less in not so trashy ground. I usually use a Sun-Ray S-5 on my Sovereign GT. HH. Matt

Hey Matt, what's the deepest you've dug a coin with the S-5? I'm getting about 7 or 8" in air tests and as said dug a rosie 6 or 7" deep that sounded so good that I think it could been another few inches deeper and I still would have got it. PinPointing with this little coil is a dream. Still haven't mastered PPing with the center of the coil on my larger coils and tend to use the tip of the coil instead, but with the S-5 I can use the center no problem

 

[matthias]

Hey Critter. I'm getting about the same results you are. My S-5 stays on my GT so much because its easy to PP. S-5 hits hard on good targets. I think it is a great coil. HH. Matt

 

[Ism]

Critter, heres a hunt in trash where I never found silver before. Yesterday I went out for 1-1/2 hr to a local "fee" park that I gave up on last year.
I was bored, its close to home and there is no attendant until Memorial day. I found a couple wheaties here before but there is something huge deep under the ground that makes my Sov null over an area the size of a bus.
This is what I was able to pick out of the area that has been "hunted out".

The rosie was under a tree root. Thats my first good find under a root and I've dug a lot. I didn't even see the Indian on the nickle till I got home.

 

[Critterhunter]

Good job on those.