kleinerschmitter
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- Aug 21, 2010
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Howdy all,
Got out yesterday for my first hunt of the season. I've been scouting some places and one is a middle school right by where my fiancee lives. Spent around 6 hours there, the mosquitoes are already a problem here in Dallas and I didn't even have any mosquito spray with me. I was using the G2, usually on my first hunt in a new place just to gauge it I'll disc out almost everything but the very high VDI numbers and see what kind of years are on the coins and what depth.
I set my disc at +78, my sens at 100 but halfway through dropped it down to 80 and my ground balance was 43. Between the softballs and soccer fields I dug the 4 wheat pennies, from 1939-1957. All were around 5-7 inches. The dirt here is packed black dirt, almost clay-like so the coins didn't sink down far and it tarnishes silver.
A couple of hours in got my first solid +84 at 2 inches and out popped the 1964 Rosie, 1st silver on the board! Another couple of hours pass and I'm getting a bouncing +86-89 at 4-5 inches and it turned out to be a 1958 Washington this was on edge, accounting for the little bit of bounce. Very next target was 2 feet away and a +83 at 0-1 inch and out popped the silver ring. It's a knot ring and on the inside is stamped 'AVERY STER' so I was very happy with the hunt.
Now, I need to go back and dig everything so I can finally look for some gold there! I did spend a bit of time down in the 60s on my disc, lots of can slaw from the lawn mowers.
Got out yesterday for my first hunt of the season. I've been scouting some places and one is a middle school right by where my fiancee lives. Spent around 6 hours there, the mosquitoes are already a problem here in Dallas and I didn't even have any mosquito spray with me. I was using the G2, usually on my first hunt in a new place just to gauge it I'll disc out almost everything but the very high VDI numbers and see what kind of years are on the coins and what depth.
I set my disc at +78, my sens at 100 but halfway through dropped it down to 80 and my ground balance was 43. Between the softballs and soccer fields I dug the 4 wheat pennies, from 1939-1957. All were around 5-7 inches. The dirt here is packed black dirt, almost clay-like so the coins didn't sink down far and it tarnishes silver.
A couple of hours in got my first solid +84 at 2 inches and out popped the 1964 Rosie, 1st silver on the board! Another couple of hours pass and I'm getting a bouncing +86-89 at 4-5 inches and it turned out to be a 1958 Washington this was on edge, accounting for the little bit of bounce. Very next target was 2 feet away and a +83 at 0-1 inch and out popped the silver ring. It's a knot ring and on the inside is stamped 'AVERY STER' so I was very happy with the hunt.
Now, I need to go back and dig everything so I can finally look for some gold there! I did spend a bit of time down in the 60s on my disc, lots of can slaw from the lawn mowers.
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,won't do that good at any schools out here, silver is a rare thing anywhere out here basically 
