tabman
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I got a early start this morning at the 1853 home site permission. I've pounded this site really super hard with my CTX 3030, Equinox, F75DST, CZ3D, and Deus detectors. I've pulled string lines to make sure that I'm getting my search coils over every inch of ground. Keep in mind, with every detector I'm digging all repeatable non-ferrous targets regardless of ID. I'm going back over all of it again with my Tesoro detectors and I'm still finding lots of targets.
This morning right off I found a horse shoe and I figured it was going to bring me some good luck. I had my modded Cibola with a 8 inch concentric search coil attached. I set the threshold to a slight hum, turned the sensitivity all the way up, set to discrimination just barely high enough to disc out an iron nail and ground balanced so it would be a little on the negative side. It was running sweet and smooth.
I was finding plenty of targets to dig that the other detectors had missed. I was finding pull tabs, some nickels and some other low conductors. In my mind those could have been gold rings. For some reason Tesoro detectors just finds stuff that other detectors can't or they talk you out of digging. lol
Anyway, I got my search coil over nice sounding target and popped a plug. I checked the plug with my pin-pointer and it sounded off. I knock off some dirt and saw about an inch of deep yellow gold chain. I knew by how it looked that it was the real deal! I started saying oh God please let it be a whole chain that I didn't cut in half with my digger. It took a minute or so to compose myself before I started slowly and carefully pulling the chain from the plug.
Lucky me, I didn't hit it! It's old gold marked '750' which is 18k gold. It's 25 inches long and weighs in at whopping 17.25 grams! Talk about getting excited. Finding that much gold 'dirt fishing' doesn't happen too often. I was so excited that I decided to come on home early because I couldn't concentrate on detecting. You have to be able to concentrate when you're detecting. lol I'll go back in couple of days and do some more swinging with my Tesoro detectors.
tabman
This morning right off I found a horse shoe and I figured it was going to bring me some good luck. I had my modded Cibola with a 8 inch concentric search coil attached. I set the threshold to a slight hum, turned the sensitivity all the way up, set to discrimination just barely high enough to disc out an iron nail and ground balanced so it would be a little on the negative side. It was running sweet and smooth.
I was finding plenty of targets to dig that the other detectors had missed. I was finding pull tabs, some nickels and some other low conductors. In my mind those could have been gold rings. For some reason Tesoro detectors just finds stuff that other detectors can't or they talk you out of digging. lol
Anyway, I got my search coil over nice sounding target and popped a plug. I checked the plug with my pin-pointer and it sounded off. I knock off some dirt and saw about an inch of deep yellow gold chain. I knew by how it looked that it was the real deal! I started saying oh God please let it be a whole chain that I didn't cut in half with my digger. It took a minute or so to compose myself before I started slowly and carefully pulling the chain from the plug.
Lucky me, I didn't hit it! It's old gold marked '750' which is 18k gold. It's 25 inches long and weighs in at whopping 17.25 grams! Talk about getting excited. Finding that much gold 'dirt fishing' doesn't happen too often. I was so excited that I decided to come on home early because I couldn't concentrate on detecting. You have to be able to concentrate when you're detecting. lol I'll go back in couple of days and do some more swinging with my Tesoro detectors.
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