DIGGER27
In Memory Of
Watched this vid then went out to the most hunted place I know...my tiny front lawn.
After several years of scouring this tiny patch of land and digging all decent signals I am down to the the odd, weird, strange, severely masked and incomprehensible ones only.
I watched this vid, got inspired, and went out to try to find one decent target using some of his advice...just one.
I didn't do exactly everything I saw done in this vid, my dirt is way weirder than his, but I tried a few things and the most important point I attempted to prove to myself was just slow down...examine targets a bit more closer, don't just blow off jumpy signals or others that don't make sense.
Not that I really ever do but on this hunt I looked at each signal I got with a more critical eye and attitude than usual.
Could still be junk hiding down there, could be wasting a bit more time over some iffy targets but none of my hunts are timed events, I just go out and get signals and decide whether to dig....or not.
If it takes a little more time to figure out a confused signal, site or situation so be it.
The rewards for extra patience might be nothing but maybe, just maybe...they could be great.
My Nox had the sniper mounted, I did a factory reset before the hunt to start with a clean plate and didn't modify too many of the factory settings.
I hunted in 5 tones, Park 2, usually I use Field 2 but changed it up a bit on this one....I left the horseshoe on through most of this short hunt.
Fe was at 6, recovery at 5, switched to Fe2 after awhile and eventually maxed it out along with the recovery but didn't find much else after these four targets showed up.
It wasn't all peaches and cream, I still got fooled on a couple of rusty nails and a few small and crazy tiny pieces of iron but not all that much, dug very little trash that wasn't iron so I was happy with that.
The 1953 nickel was the absolute first target dug, short, sweet, jumped a bit from 11-13 and a bit iffy unlike most of my nickel signals but when this thing popped up first thing I was shocked and thrilled.
The lead hem weight was an older one, #4, nice and heavy and really jumpy initially but solid once I dialed the coil into its location.
The dime is modern but hiding in a tiny crack vertical between the grass and the curb.
The older Naval button was the prized treasure of this hunt, the only one I have ever found.
Faces to the left so pre WW ll as they changed the eagle from looking left in 1941 to looking to its right.
Don't believe civil war and could be anywhere from 1850 to 1941...but I am thinking maybe around or a bit later than WW l on this one.
Mower hit but sweet find never the less.
Kept switching between 4kHz and multi checking out many targets, other frequencies too, I still don't see a whole lot of advantage to me in my sites using 4kHz or any other single frequency but I still switch to them to check some signals and will continue to do that until I see something positive or just lose patience and give up.
Basically, my point of this post is just to urge you to look a bit closer at some of your signals, with a bit of extra attention and coil manipulation signals can change from initially good to bad or, hopefully, from initially bad to good.
Also to thank this hunter for taking the time to make this vid and seeing his thought process, experience and skill on display.
If any of us take just one thing, idea or insight from watching the vid that could make a difference for any of us even in just one stellar piece of future treasure it will be 49 minutes well spent.
After several years of scouring this tiny patch of land and digging all decent signals I am down to the the odd, weird, strange, severely masked and incomprehensible ones only.
I watched this vid, got inspired, and went out to try to find one decent target using some of his advice...just one.
I didn't do exactly everything I saw done in this vid, my dirt is way weirder than his, but I tried a few things and the most important point I attempted to prove to myself was just slow down...examine targets a bit more closer, don't just blow off jumpy signals or others that don't make sense.
Not that I really ever do but on this hunt I looked at each signal I got with a more critical eye and attitude than usual.
Could still be junk hiding down there, could be wasting a bit more time over some iffy targets but none of my hunts are timed events, I just go out and get signals and decide whether to dig....or not.
If it takes a little more time to figure out a confused signal, site or situation so be it.
The rewards for extra patience might be nothing but maybe, just maybe...they could be great.
My Nox had the sniper mounted, I did a factory reset before the hunt to start with a clean plate and didn't modify too many of the factory settings.
I hunted in 5 tones, Park 2, usually I use Field 2 but changed it up a bit on this one....I left the horseshoe on through most of this short hunt.
Fe was at 6, recovery at 5, switched to Fe2 after awhile and eventually maxed it out along with the recovery but didn't find much else after these four targets showed up.
It wasn't all peaches and cream, I still got fooled on a couple of rusty nails and a few small and crazy tiny pieces of iron but not all that much, dug very little trash that wasn't iron so I was happy with that.
The 1953 nickel was the absolute first target dug, short, sweet, jumped a bit from 11-13 and a bit iffy unlike most of my nickel signals but when this thing popped up first thing I was shocked and thrilled.
The lead hem weight was an older one, #4, nice and heavy and really jumpy initially but solid once I dialed the coil into its location.
The dime is modern but hiding in a tiny crack vertical between the grass and the curb.
The older Naval button was the prized treasure of this hunt, the only one I have ever found.
Faces to the left so pre WW ll as they changed the eagle from looking left in 1941 to looking to its right.
Don't believe civil war and could be anywhere from 1850 to 1941...but I am thinking maybe around or a bit later than WW l on this one.
Mower hit but sweet find never the less.
Kept switching between 4kHz and multi checking out many targets, other frequencies too, I still don't see a whole lot of advantage to me in my sites using 4kHz or any other single frequency but I still switch to them to check some signals and will continue to do that until I see something positive or just lose patience and give up.
Basically, my point of this post is just to urge you to look a bit closer at some of your signals, with a bit of extra attention and coil manipulation signals can change from initially good to bad or, hopefully, from initially bad to good.
Also to thank this hunter for taking the time to make this vid and seeing his thought process, experience and skill on display.
If any of us take just one thing, idea or insight from watching the vid that could make a difference for any of us even in just one stellar piece of future treasure it will be 49 minutes well spent.
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