I was able to get out today for a couple of hours. I just bought a super12 coil and couldnt wait to get some dirt under it. I ran the recovery delay at 30. Yes 30..... to deal with the abundant iron that plagues all my hunting grounds that are easy to get to. I ran correlate and a span of 57. I did dig some large iron nails, 4 of them, and several large pieces of cast iron stove. This is a hunting ground where any positive vdi or even broken questionable vdi should be dug.
I found the first coin at 8" and it rang up like a quarter, it is a Finish 5 pennia 1899.
The second one was a little broken up but would consistently gave me a positive vdi and the real catcher was the pinpoint hitting on the 7.5 and 2.5 instead of the 22. I would have dug it either way. The field has 4" at least of grass and the coin was a solid 12" down, deepest coin I have ever dug in the dirt.
It hit hard and strong and must have had a generous halo around it. There where scraps of nails all through the recovery and I was absolutely shocked when I pulled out this 1894 midwinter San Fransisco Commemorative token. I had the gain at around 10 and disc at 86 or 88, this made for relatively quiet hunting and gave me awesome depth. I was so happy watching my depth gauge jumping all around from 10-13", I could finally see the deep targets and not get so much edge effect from cranking up the d2.
I also got a clock mechanism with the spring rusted into a solid ball and nails all through it, for some reason the v3i saw it as a 53vdi. I know it is because of the conductive properties of the brass but there was just so much iron masking it I was shocked. I dug some of the iron just to get it out of the field in case it is masking a coin. Breaking up signals in the 22.5 are almost always iron and sometimes in the 2.5 large nails will get me. But you have to dig the 2.5 or you will miss silver pocket watches, and I didnt want to miss anything today...
Oh by the way if you are going to use the super 12 you are going to need a shovel. I use a small 30" relic shovel and digging until you run out of handle is not uncommon...
Of course you can always start with a bigger hole, but expect to dig a 3" square pieces of iron at 20". No way would I want to do that with a lesche.
I found the first coin at 8" and it rang up like a quarter, it is a Finish 5 pennia 1899.
The second one was a little broken up but would consistently gave me a positive vdi and the real catcher was the pinpoint hitting on the 7.5 and 2.5 instead of the 22. I would have dug it either way. The field has 4" at least of grass and the coin was a solid 12" down, deepest coin I have ever dug in the dirt.
It hit hard and strong and must have had a generous halo around it. There where scraps of nails all through the recovery and I was absolutely shocked when I pulled out this 1894 midwinter San Fransisco Commemorative token. I had the gain at around 10 and disc at 86 or 88, this made for relatively quiet hunting and gave me awesome depth. I was so happy watching my depth gauge jumping all around from 10-13", I could finally see the deep targets and not get so much edge effect from cranking up the d2.
I also got a clock mechanism with the spring rusted into a solid ball and nails all through it, for some reason the v3i saw it as a 53vdi. I know it is because of the conductive properties of the brass but there was just so much iron masking it I was shocked. I dug some of the iron just to get it out of the field in case it is masking a coin. Breaking up signals in the 22.5 are almost always iron and sometimes in the 2.5 large nails will get me. But you have to dig the 2.5 or you will miss silver pocket watches, and I didnt want to miss anything today...
Oh by the way if you are going to use the super 12 you are going to need a shovel. I use a small 30" relic shovel and digging until you run out of handle is not uncommon...
Of course you can always start with a bigger hole, but expect to dig a 3" square pieces of iron at 20". No way would I want to do that with a lesche.