I GAVE MY GILLS A REST AND WENT DIRT FISHING

[against the wind]

Ten days ago I visited a park that I had hit 2 years ago with the AT PRO. This time, I was using the DEUS. In addition to 30 clad coins, I dug 6 deep Wheat Pennies. They were around an eight inch depth. Well, I mentioned that someone may have Cherry Picked that hill and left behind the Wheat. Boy,, there was a lot of feed back behind that comment. Today I packed up the E-Trac and headed back to that hill. I have had the good fortune of pulling Mercury Dimes on one way signals with the E-Trac. Those silver dimes were an average of 7 to 9 inches deep. In most cases I found the dimes to be sharing the hole with an iron nail or some other piece of iron. A partial mask that the E-Trac was able to see through. I just wanted to see if maybe this hill might have some silver that the E-Trac could sniff out.
I gave it 2 1/2 hours and listened to anything chirping under a slow swing. Although I did manage to find some more clad, there were no deep targets, no additional Wheat pennies, and absolutely no silver. Now before anyone jumps on those results, let me say that I am aware of the fact that there may still be some silver hiding there. The fact that the soil was pretty dry may also be keeping me from finding my desired target. Maybe in a year or two after some freezing winters and wet springs I will approach from just the right angle with the right machine and ask that question,,, How Did I Miss That??
I moved on to another hill and added a few more clad coins to today's totals. After 5 1/2 hours of trying to hunt mostly shaded areas, I surrendered to the fact that I felt like I was wearing my wet suit. The Temps had hit 85 and it was Humid. Yep, good to get in a little dirt fishing, but it was time to quit. I'm okay with 50 coins.

 

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[Deft Tones]

I like seeing nickels!

One doesn't need water to catch fish where walking catfish exist.

Good hunting.

 

[jadocs]

Awesome

 

[ScubaDetector]

I can't play with my E-Trac until I get too cold underwater. You found some nice clad there. Congrats.

 

[trapperart]

Nice finds congrats

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice finds, congratulations! Keep working that area.

I bet there is silver hiding. With this very dry soil and shifting VID's due to depth, ground conditions...etc it will be tough to locate. IMHO, digging the "off" signals may yield some interesting results. This evening, I dug a 1938 Mercury dime on edge, at 8 inches, in very dry soil. The VID and TID were way off, shifting towards iron, but lower on the conductivity scale on a wide open Explorer SE Pro. Thinking "outside of the box" usually produces many keepers, at least for me.

GL & HH

 

[tomhighland]

Congratulations on a good hunt. I see you added to your car collection too. Got a windowsill full of those. How do they come up on your e-trac? On an atpro they come up quarters.

 

[Texas Ed]

Nice bunch of clad (50) coins - toy cars & other finds - congrats to you - thank you for sharing your post with us & I wish you lots more while out dirt fishin.

Texas ED

 

[Trezurehunter]

Not bad for a hot humid day ATW. Its hard to even want to hunt in the humidity, but I figure I only get out once a week, and I wont find anything sitting around the house.

 

[against the wind]

Congratulations on a good hunt. I see you added to your car collection too. Got a windowsill full of those. How do they come up on your e-trac? On an atpro they come up quarters.

Yep,, the cars come in just like quarters

 

[treblehunter]

Good work, keep going back, lol

 

[Tommy G]

Quite a haul! Congrats.