DIGGER27
In Memory Of
(Still hunting this site, still more coming out of the ground...update below)
This is just a little post to let you know why I don't believe any site is ever hunted out completely...ever!
Here is a tiny park in my neighborhood that is just down the block from where I live.
Very small, as you can see.
There is a public pool in the back, a tot-lot and a small amount of grass with 2 picnic tables.
The first time I went here I hit the tot-lot with my Compadre.
There is a huge amount of EM at this site for some reason, the closer you get to the pool the worse it gets.
I have never heard so much noise coming out of my Compadre before, and I actually had to turn it up past iron to keep it quiet enough to hunt.
Still managed to read through all the false signals that day and came home with this after about an hour hunt.
A few weeks later I went back with my F2 which didn't seem to be bothered any where near as much as my Compadre, and I hit that tot-lot again and went into the grass a little to see if anything was out there.
Wasn't there long, but I did come home with this...
I had found out what I needed to know by just wandering around the grass quickly...there was plenty of clad here and if there is clad, there might be jewelry, my favorite targets to hunt.
A little while later I came back with the F2, my coin monster because I use the tones and the screen to avoid some trash when I coin shoot, and had a few hours so I went slow and tried to cover every inch I could with my 8" coil. I walked this site from left to right as you look at the picture.
I am not an expert with any of my detectors, but I think I am pretty good and can hold my own, and this time I came home with a bunch of clad, almost a record for me.
There was much more here than I thought, and I am sure I am the first one to hunt this place if not ever, at least in a long time.
Those are all quarters in the top row, dimes in the row under that.
About $8 in just a couple of hours.
Looks like I got it all, or most of whatever is here, right?
Today, I went back and this time I took my Vaquero which is set up with a 10X12 DD coil.
I also changed directions and walked from the sidewalk to the pool instead of the other way.
Still had some issues with the EM, ground balancing was almost impossible but I was going deep enough to find dimes 5 and 6 inches down so that was good enough.
I hit the same areas I had hit before, if you notice this place is tiny, but if you think there was very little left because I got most of it on my last hunt, you would be wrong.
Evidently I did not get it all, it is an almost impossibility, statistically speaking, to hit every square inch of any site no matter how much it is hunted.
I love the fact that not only did I find that cool truck, I managed to pick up my second wheatie from this site,(1945), another foreign coin, this time a French 10 Franc, and even a Sacagawea dollar.
Think I am done here?
I don't...not by a long shot!
I am thinking the F2 with the sniper coil might be fun to try next time.
Maybe I will search in a diagonal pattern, too.
Bet I'll find even more.
By changing machines, or coils, or just hitting your old worn out spots in different directions and going slow and really overlapping, you are going to find plenty more, I guarantee it.
I hit several spots over and over and keep finding the goodies and have since I started.
Never give up...Never surrender...learn your machine, go slow and have patience.
You will be rewarded.
HH
This is just a little post to let you know why I don't believe any site is ever hunted out completely...ever!
Here is a tiny park in my neighborhood that is just down the block from where I live.
Very small, as you can see.
There is a public pool in the back, a tot-lot and a small amount of grass with 2 picnic tables.
The first time I went here I hit the tot-lot with my Compadre.
There is a huge amount of EM at this site for some reason, the closer you get to the pool the worse it gets.
I have never heard so much noise coming out of my Compadre before, and I actually had to turn it up past iron to keep it quiet enough to hunt.
Still managed to read through all the false signals that day and came home with this after about an hour hunt.
A few weeks later I went back with my F2 which didn't seem to be bothered any where near as much as my Compadre, and I hit that tot-lot again and went into the grass a little to see if anything was out there.
Wasn't there long, but I did come home with this...
I had found out what I needed to know by just wandering around the grass quickly...there was plenty of clad here and if there is clad, there might be jewelry, my favorite targets to hunt.
A little while later I came back with the F2, my coin monster because I use the tones and the screen to avoid some trash when I coin shoot, and had a few hours so I went slow and tried to cover every inch I could with my 8" coil. I walked this site from left to right as you look at the picture.
I am not an expert with any of my detectors, but I think I am pretty good and can hold my own, and this time I came home with a bunch of clad, almost a record for me.
There was much more here than I thought, and I am sure I am the first one to hunt this place if not ever, at least in a long time.
Those are all quarters in the top row, dimes in the row under that.
About $8 in just a couple of hours.
Looks like I got it all, or most of whatever is here, right?
Today, I went back and this time I took my Vaquero which is set up with a 10X12 DD coil.
I also changed directions and walked from the sidewalk to the pool instead of the other way.
Still had some issues with the EM, ground balancing was almost impossible but I was going deep enough to find dimes 5 and 6 inches down so that was good enough.
I hit the same areas I had hit before, if you notice this place is tiny, but if you think there was very little left because I got most of it on my last hunt, you would be wrong.
Evidently I did not get it all, it is an almost impossibility, statistically speaking, to hit every square inch of any site no matter how much it is hunted.
I love the fact that not only did I find that cool truck, I managed to pick up my second wheatie from this site,(1945), another foreign coin, this time a French 10 Franc, and even a Sacagawea dollar.
Think I am done here?
I don't...not by a long shot!
I am thinking the F2 with the sniper coil might be fun to try next time.
Maybe I will search in a diagonal pattern, too.
Bet I'll find even more.
By changing machines, or coils, or just hitting your old worn out spots in different directions and going slow and really overlapping, you are going to find plenty more, I guarantee it.
I hit several spots over and over and keep finding the goodies and have since I started.
Never give up...Never surrender...learn your machine, go slow and have patience.
You will be rewarded.
HH