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[achetadomestica]

[ I always seem to go out and find a pocket full of clad just shy of the silver dates and not to excited about it.. ]

I am in the same boat. Last weekend I found a 66 quarter. During the Xmas break I hunted an elementary school that has been there since the late 60's.
In 3 days around 8 hours of hunting I found about 350 coins. No silver but I had at least 5 1965 dimes probably around 25 or 30 coins from the 60's but not one silver?
My detector is picking up about 6" sometimes 7". It is a whites mxt and I am in sandy florida hunting. Is the silver hunted out or down below 8" I found a merc the other day
at 7". No problem picking it up. I am hunting an old abandoned house and am finding a few wheats and a war nickel but no silver? The mxt seems to be very accurate, but I don't get hits much below 7" I have a dd eclipse coil and a 12" coil and I don't seem to get much more depth with the larger coil maybe an inch? The bigger coil definitely has constant chatter and multiple hits.
I am trying to figure out if I need to find a better place to hunt or get a better detector?

Mike

 

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[Rawhide]

In my area the soil limits the MXT depth. I hunt with a few guys who use them and they dont tell or not doing as well as the rest of the group.

 

[SD51]

I'd recommend you get permission to detect the yard of a home that's been around for quite a while. By that I mean a house that was built well before 1965. If this site has never been detected, you will have a great chance of finding silver. Last summer, I found a merc and silver rosie along with a wheat penny in the same hole, only down about 3". I bet your detector would have easily found these coins. We all at some time or another, question our detectors depth capabilities.