n0madic
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- Feb 15, 2015
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Went out scouting today. Tried to get permission to two awesome places, one built in 1870. One place the owner wasn't home, the other said no. On my way home I stopped at a third location I've been eyeing for awhile and the owner was extremely nice. He gave me permission to the yard but said he and a buddy had hunted it before and found a ton of old silver. Kinda bummed, he quickly pointed me to another house, even older, and to his knowledge it has never been hunted. I spent about 2.5 hours hunting. I found several old car parts and one really nice ax head that was a foot deep next to a rock wall.
One thing I noticed that happened several times with my F2 was that I'd get a dime or quarter signal, repeatable, deep, and when I'd start digging I'd run into tree roots. On several of them I dug pretty thoroughly and found nothing. I was using the 8" coil and didn't try the 4" at all. Also noticed that several old cans showed up as dime or quarters.
After an hour of digging junk I discriminated out everything but dime and quarter. I found no coins at all. Granted I only had a small amount of time to hunt and wasn't really doing,any sort of grid, I really expected to find some silver. Anyway just wondering if I need more time on the F2 and more locations, or if a better machine would be more beneficial.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. I'll attempt to attach a pic of the house.
One thing I noticed that happened several times with my F2 was that I'd get a dime or quarter signal, repeatable, deep, and when I'd start digging I'd run into tree roots. On several of them I dug pretty thoroughly and found nothing. I was using the 8" coil and didn't try the 4" at all. Also noticed that several old cans showed up as dime or quarters.
After an hour of digging junk I discriminated out everything but dime and quarter. I found no coins at all. Granted I only had a small amount of time to hunt and wasn't really doing,any sort of grid, I really expected to find some silver. Anyway just wondering if I need more time on the F2 and more locations, or if a better machine would be more beneficial.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. I'll attempt to attach a pic of the house.