New life from an old site

[Cherry Picker]

You may remember my story about our local city park and the extremely deep coins due to the Arkansas river that runs next to it that floods on average every 30-40 years leaving from 3-6" of mud. A flood in 1965, one in 1942 and one in the early 1900's. The park dates from 1888.

Well I had cleaned most of the shallower coins out over the years but knew the really old stuff was still there. This Sunday I had about an hour to hunt and decided to do some tweaking on the DFX and see if I could gain some keepers in the process.

Using the factory Coin/Jewelry I turned the PAG(preamp gain) to 4 and it was stable. I then set it for 6 filters and figured I'd sweep slow. I walked to the center of the park where most people hunt and double checked my ground balance. I hadn't walked 5 steps when I got that old sweet sound. A sound I hadn't heard in a long time.

My VDI jumped around from nickle to high dime and the depth was 9". I dug and at about 8" I found a buffalo nickle which I couldn't read the date because of the crud. I checked the hole and still had a signal so at about 9" I found a 1924 mercury dime. Hum, multiple coins just like the old days. I waled another 2 steps and got that good old sweet sound again saying 9". It turned out to be a wheaties with a date I could not read again due to the crud.

Anyway, looks as if I have reopened my favorite site with just a few adjustments.

 

[SteveMN]

Sounds exactly like the old city park I hunt in my home town. The river has flooded several times in the past and I know there are deep coins there somewhere but just haven't been able to get to them. It is so cleaned out now that I think if I had a super 12 I might be able to reach them. Good luck and keep us posted.

 

[Cherry Picker]

It is so cleaned out now that I think if I had a super 12 I might be able to reach them.

I've been thinking the same thing. I have no doubt there are coins well below the depth I'm reaching. I've dug coins as deep as 12" in other areas in the park. I think this area must have more mineral issues that the others and thats why going with 6 filters seems to have helped. Also I know there are coins back to the 1800's to be found here and I seem to have made it past the 1942 flood.

I got one signal that had the sweet sound and a high reading that measured 12.5" I didn't feel like spending 30 mins on one coin, since my time was limited, so I left it. For being at 12 1/2" it sounded really good.

The wheatie had that thick green patina you usually find on Indian Heads. Thats why I can't read the date. But I'm guessing I'll find its an early 1900's probably in the teens as well as the buffalo nickle.

I've heard good reviews from the new supper 12"

 

[OkieDigger]

I was using the super 12 these last two weekends on quick hunts. I really like it. I haven't tried 6 filters, but there's no way I could use PAG 4 in my area. That DFX would be way too noisy.

 

[CyberSage]

Awesome finds Detector! I have experienced this same phenomenon at my old local park. My problem was deep iron and nails coming in real high on the VDI. I posted this link to the program I have been tweaking before.

http://home.comcast.net/~whitesdfx/Super12.html

The Super 12 is just great. I have pulled 45 Wheats, 3 Mercs, and 3 Rosies in about a month from the same hunted out park. Most of the time I can push the Preamp to 4. The Correlate mode along with a low VDI Sensitivity took care of the deep Iron and most of the nails. It's a great feeling to have a complete do-over on the old park.

Keep Swing'in
Jack

 

[cnhunter]

nice stuff