tabman
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Last night I looked around the room and came to the conclusion that I have way too many detectors. It's time to thin the herd some. After some thought I decided to sell my Teknetics Omega 8000 version 6. I was getting ready to take the wrappings off the handle and remove the display screen protective cover and give it nice cleaning before taking some pictures of it. Well I got busy last night doing something else and I never got around to doing it.
This morning when I was loading up the detectors to go detecting, I decided to take the Omega since I never got around to removing everything on it last night. In the past every time that I sold one of my Omega detectors I ended up buying another one. Seller's remorse!
I decided go back and hit the pounded site again, the one where I found the gold ring. I set the Omega up in 4 tones, 0 discrimination, full sensitivity and after ground balancing I manually lowered the GB numbers by 5 points. It was around 6:30 when I started my grid search pattern.
It didn't take long before I got my search coil over a 1964 Rosie dime. It wasn't all that deep, but it had some rusty iron in the hole with it. The Omega was running super smooth and doing its thing, finding silver. It loves silver! I read that the Omega is Dave Johnson's favorite detector that he engineered.
My next silver coin find was a 1942 Mercury dime. It had some depth to it and I knew before I even dug that it was going to be a silver coin because I was getting high ID numbers and the Omega was giving that sweet soft high audio tone.
I fooled around and found 3 deep wheat pennies with the Omega, a 1917, a 1926 and a 1934. A couple of them where just on the edge of detection. I was getting a high audio tone, but some iron grunts were starting to break through. With the small 10 inch elliptical concentric search coil 7 inches on a wheat penny is pushing it. 8 inches on a dime and 9 inches or so on a quarter. With the large 11 inch DD coil you can pick up about 2 more inches in depth.
Anyway I ended up swinging my Deus and MXT Pro for awhile before leaving, but I didn't have nearly as much as I did when I was swinging the Omega. I'm going to hang onto the Omega, because I know if I sell it I'll end up buying another one. At 10:15 I called it a day and headed for the house.
tabman
This morning when I was loading up the detectors to go detecting, I decided to take the Omega since I never got around to removing everything on it last night. In the past every time that I sold one of my Omega detectors I ended up buying another one. Seller's remorse!
I decided go back and hit the pounded site again, the one where I found the gold ring. I set the Omega up in 4 tones, 0 discrimination, full sensitivity and after ground balancing I manually lowered the GB numbers by 5 points. It was around 6:30 when I started my grid search pattern.
It didn't take long before I got my search coil over a 1964 Rosie dime. It wasn't all that deep, but it had some rusty iron in the hole with it. The Omega was running super smooth and doing its thing, finding silver. It loves silver! I read that the Omega is Dave Johnson's favorite detector that he engineered.
My next silver coin find was a 1942 Mercury dime. It had some depth to it and I knew before I even dug that it was going to be a silver coin because I was getting high ID numbers and the Omega was giving that sweet soft high audio tone.
I fooled around and found 3 deep wheat pennies with the Omega, a 1917, a 1926 and a 1934. A couple of them where just on the edge of detection. I was getting a high audio tone, but some iron grunts were starting to break through. With the small 10 inch elliptical concentric search coil 7 inches on a wheat penny is pushing it. 8 inches on a dime and 9 inches or so on a quarter. With the large 11 inch DD coil you can pick up about 2 more inches in depth.
Anyway I ended up swinging my Deus and MXT Pro for awhile before leaving, but I didn't have nearly as much as I did when I was swinging the Omega. I'm going to hang onto the Omega, because I know if I sell it I'll end up buying another one. At 10:15 I called it a day and headed for the house.
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