12/13 Silvers FTY

[FLOOD]

Finally breaking out of the silver slump with 4 silvers in the last seven days. I had a new permission for part of a hospital side yard on May 11th. The hospital has been there since the early 50s. Nice spot with some trees covering a long grassy area. Pulled out 40 coins, including a '45 Merc, a '57 wheatie, and had a 9-coin spill in one spot. Pretty nice visit. Pic of the yard in the bunch attached.

Second spot was an old ball field I've visited quite a few times. In the past, it has provided a lot of good coins, including 11 silvers and more than 40 other old coins, like wheats, Buffs, and a V nickel. Today, the spot came thru for me again, using a slightly different recovery speed of 5 on my Legend. First coin I grabbed as a '51D wheatie, which was encouraging. I was getting clad in lots of spots around the field. Had a couple dozen in my bag when I got a target that was kind of iffy. I was thinking maybe a zincoln or possibly a dime as the tone was scratchy and not really consistent. I was really surprised when I dug it and scored a very nice 1962 Washington in right field. Pic of the ballfield from out in left field in the attached. I scratched George's face a little, but I hope he doesn't mind too much. Overall, I grabbed 44 coins out of the field again, bringing my ball field total to 231 this year, and this Merc and Wash got me to my 12th and 13th silvers for the year so far. Thanks for looking.

 

[hoser]

Well done on the silvers. You are smokin it. Congrats.

 

[Wolf-Dog]

That's a clean looking GW for sure! Nice job on the merc, too.

 

[markinmichigan]

Today, the spot came thru for me again, using a slightly different recovery speed of 5 on my Legend.

How does changing the recovery speed to 5 improve your hunt?

Thanks.

Mark in Michigan

 

[markinswpa]

Finally breaking out of the silver slump with 4 silvers in the last seven days. I had a new permission for part of a hospital side yard on May 11th. The hospital has been there since the early 50s. Nice spot with some trees covering a long grassy area. Pulled out 40 coins, including a '45 Merc, a '57 wheatie, and had a 9-coin spill in one spot. Pretty nice visit. Pic of the yard in the bunch attached.

Second spot was an old ball field I've visited quite a few times. In the past, it has provided a lot of good coins, including 11 silvers and more than 40 other old coins, like wheats, Buffs, and a V nickel. Today, the spot came thru for me again, using a slightly different recovery speed of 5 on my Legend. First coin I grabbed as a '51D wheatie, which was encouraging. I was getting clad in lots of spots around the field. Had a couple dozen in my bag when I got a target that was kind of iffy. I was thinking maybe a zincoln or possibly a dime as the tone was scratchy and not really consistent. I was really surprised when I dug it and scored a very nice 1962 Washington in right field. Pic of the ballfield from out in left field in the attached. I scratched George's face a little, but I hope he doesn't mind too much. Overall, I grabbed 44 coins out of the field again, bringing my ball field total to 231 this year, and this Merc and Wash got me to my 12th and 13th silvers for the year so far. Thanks for looking.

Congrats on the GW, Merc and a pretty nice clad haul. Good luck. Mark

 

[Leave-No-Coins-Behind]

Finally breaking out of the silver slump with 4 silvers in the last seven days. I had a new permission for part of a hospital side yard on May 11th. The hospital has been there since the early 50s. Nice spot with some trees covering a long grassy area. Pulled out 40 coins, including a '45 Merc, a '57 wheatie, and had a 9-coin spill in one spot. Pretty nice visit. Pic of the yard in the bunch attached.

Second spot was an old ball field I've visited quite a few times. In the past, it has provided a lot of good coins, including 11 silvers and more than 40 other old coins, like wheats, Buffs, and a V nickel. Today, the spot came thru for me again, using a slightly different recovery speed of 5 on my Legend. First coin I grabbed as a '51D wheatie, which was encouraging. I was getting clad in lots of spots around the field. Had a couple dozen in my bag when I got a target that was kind of iffy. I was thinking maybe a zincoln or possibly a dime as the tone was scratchy and not really consistent. I was really surprised when I dug it and scored a very nice 1962 Washington in right field. Pic of the ballfield from out in left field in the attached. I scratched George's face a little, but I hope he doesn't mind too much. Overall, I grabbed 44 coins out of the field again, bringing my ball field total to 231 this year, and this Merc and Wash got me to my 12th and 13th silvers for the year so far. Thanks for looking.

Good job breaking out of the silver slump and for finding lucky #13 fty!

 

[FLOOD]

How does changing the recovery speed to 5 improve your hunt?

Thanks.

Mark in Michigan

Increasing the recovery speed lets me swing a little faster. In the spot I am in, the targets are generally less than 8 inches down. the lower recovery is better for depth, but the swing speed has to be slowed down. I typically run recovery at 3, and it’s easier to miss targets if the swing speed is moving along too fast. I’ve been noticing I am finding targets in places I’ve hunted already, that by making tweaks, like changing my recovery, or switching from M1 to a single freq, like 10khz, I come up with good targets that I missed on a prior visit. Paystreak has a decent YouTube video swapping the Legend recovery between high and low, and explains it pretty well. He said that in virtually all of his digs, he uses the highest recovery speed. He has a really fast swing, way faster than I am comfortable swinging, but I have found that upping my recovery to more of a mid range seems to be paying off for me hitting places multiple times.

 

[markinmichigan]

Appreciate the info, I will play with that and see how that works.

Mark in Michigan