BarnacleBill
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Only had an opportunity for about an hour for a quick hunt on a lake-shore. While the sun set to the West over the mountains, an almost full moon lay to the East reflecting off of the water above multi-colored fall trees. The beach is one of my favorite haunts as it has "history", but with that history comes iron, lot's of it.
Like many freshwater beaches in the northern climes it is subject to the freeze/thaw cycle that changes the beach. But an even more powerful engine of change are the thick winter ice sheets formed on the lake, which are then pushed ashore by expansion and act as very slow bulldozer blades to carve up the sand. During the Spring the sand drys out and the wind re-distributes the sand and smooths the beach to it's normal Summertime appearance.
So work as hard as you may in the Fall to clean out a portion, the ice changes the position of targets by Springtime. As a matter of fact, I have gone back in the Spring and found wheat pennies laying on the surface where I know I cleaned out an area.
Tonight I decided to use the X70 with the HF DD elliptical coil for some casual hunting while I enjoyed the scenery. I ran the threshold at 4 in this heavy iron area and hoped to squeak out a few more targets. Overall I did OK except for one target, and that is the 1951 Wheat penny(greenish) in the photo.
On this target the X70 with it's quick response and the DD coil showed it's stuff. The wheatie was right next to a piece of iron and deep(~9 inches. The coin only gave a mild report from one direction, the West, from the N,S, or E it was effectively masked. Only by approaching from the West and moving the coil no more than an inch side to side could the coin be heard. Any slight deviation in orientation NW,SE etc. caused it to be masked by the iron.
Monetarily it's not a great find, but in the satisfaction of pulling it out next to some iron on a beautiful fall evening, I'm copacetic.
[attachment 37042 wheat.jpg]
HH
BarnacleBill
Like many freshwater beaches in the northern climes it is subject to the freeze/thaw cycle that changes the beach. But an even more powerful engine of change are the thick winter ice sheets formed on the lake, which are then pushed ashore by expansion and act as very slow bulldozer blades to carve up the sand. During the Spring the sand drys out and the wind re-distributes the sand and smooths the beach to it's normal Summertime appearance.
So work as hard as you may in the Fall to clean out a portion, the ice changes the position of targets by Springtime. As a matter of fact, I have gone back in the Spring and found wheat pennies laying on the surface where I know I cleaned out an area.
Tonight I decided to use the X70 with the HF DD elliptical coil for some casual hunting while I enjoyed the scenery. I ran the threshold at 4 in this heavy iron area and hoped to squeak out a few more targets. Overall I did OK except for one target, and that is the 1951 Wheat penny(greenish) in the photo.
On this target the X70 with it's quick response and the DD coil showed it's stuff. The wheatie was right next to a piece of iron and deep(~9 inches. The coin only gave a mild report from one direction, the West, from the N,S, or E it was effectively masked. Only by approaching from the West and moving the coil no more than an inch side to side could the coin be heard. Any slight deviation in orientation NW,SE etc. caused it to be masked by the iron.
Monetarily it's not a great find, but in the satisfaction of pulling it out next to some iron on a beautiful fall evening, I'm copacetic.
[attachment 37042 wheat.jpg]
HH
BarnacleBill