littlehugger
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- Nov 23, 2005
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Weather was very borderline today, above freezing, and raining on and off, but it was a rare day off for me, and I decided to hit a local playground that has a lot of wood chip area. Too sloppy to hunt anything else.
Must not have been hunted recently, because I did great.
I found 18 quarters, 13 dimes, 7 nickels, and 27 cents. Oh, and one of those new dollar coins too.
I could have done a little better in total coins, but I was skipping pennies. Most was found with Wifeys Garrett GTAx 1250 using a small sniper coil. Its a very good coin machine in the chips, with a clear, definite.ID tone, and a meter. At these shallow depths, the meter was always right.
It pinpoints easily too, and gets very close to all the metal poles for the play equipment. But that tiny coil does not cover much territory.
I really like that Garrett. Very nice, very user friendly.
I also used my Fisher CZ6a with the stock 8 inch coil for the more open areas. It works well too. The nice thing about the Fisher is it includes nickels in the high coin tones. Both find and ID nickels well.
One minor problem with the Fisher, is it tends to be optimistic in its ID. Cents will often ID in the upper part of the meter, in the dime/quarter range, especially if its shallow, and close to the coil.
This is a product of the CZ's sensitivity though. Not actually a bad thing.
So far, I have found $9.90 in 3 outings to woodchip playgrounds. Not too shabby. At least its good practice for when the weather improves.
Happy New Year all,
Hugger
Must not have been hunted recently, because I did great.
I found 18 quarters, 13 dimes, 7 nickels, and 27 cents. Oh, and one of those new dollar coins too.
I could have done a little better in total coins, but I was skipping pennies. Most was found with Wifeys Garrett GTAx 1250 using a small sniper coil. Its a very good coin machine in the chips, with a clear, definite.ID tone, and a meter. At these shallow depths, the meter was always right.
It pinpoints easily too, and gets very close to all the metal poles for the play equipment. But that tiny coil does not cover much territory.
I really like that Garrett. Very nice, very user friendly.
I also used my Fisher CZ6a with the stock 8 inch coil for the more open areas. It works well too. The nice thing about the Fisher is it includes nickels in the high coin tones. Both find and ID nickels well.
One minor problem with the Fisher, is it tends to be optimistic in its ID. Cents will often ID in the upper part of the meter, in the dime/quarter range, especially if its shallow, and close to the coil.
This is a product of the CZ's sensitivity though. Not actually a bad thing.
So far, I have found $9.90 in 3 outings to woodchip playgrounds. Not too shabby. At least its good practice for when the weather improves.
Happy New Year all,
Hugger
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