CZconnoisseur
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- Jun 29, 2015
- 209
- 327
- Detector(s) used
- XP Deus All Three Coils (9" currently), Tesoro Vaquero 8x9 and 5.75" DD coil, Fisher F70, White's Spectrum XLT, White's IDX, Garrett AT Pro, Fisher 1265-X, Fisher CZ5, Fisher CZ6, White's TM808, White
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Made it out last night to the site of the bulldozed house - it was close to home and had good potential, so I figured "Why not?"
I remembered the last hunt I had there with the Tesoro and how trashy and broken most signals were, so I put the 5" hockey puck on and started swinging. The other night when I hunted my yard I didn't GB correctly, leading to all sorts of chatter and decreased sensitivity. After properly ground balancing, the machine ran very quietly, and I found myself turning up the sensitivity to 70 and 80 without any interference. Dicked around in the front yard with the 11" DD and found a few modern coins as well as smaller aluminum bits at 2-3". I felt a lot better about the machine once I GBed it correctly
and was ready to put it to work...
Hunted in De, Disc = 1, Notched iron and foil, DP tones, Sensitivity = 75, and Threshold = -3. I brought a dime with me to do some "air testing on the fly". With these settings using the 5" coil I could get a dime down to 6", and I figured that was fine for the area considering the trash quotient. Dp tones really helps with identifying targets especially on a cross-scan, where I couldn't see the screen. At one point I tried the SL speed, but I got so many falses and squeaks that I just went back to De speed.
After digging some non-ferrous trash, I finally got over a confident target which turned out to be a Memorial cent at 3". The audio sounded smooth and had the same tone on a cross-scan, so I surmised the target was round from the audio info alone. Hunting at night I can't see the screen too well, so the DP tones helps in this regard by saving time not having to pull out a flashlight to see the screen ID. I was getting a TON of iffy high-tone chirps that wouldn't settle, and dug some anyway. These all turned out to be trash - some cast iron bits and a few rusty nails. Found a clad quarter among 5 nails in the same hole, the audio was slightly erratic but sounded similar on a cross scan. Out of the hole I placed the quarter on a clean patch of ground and played around with the 5 nails in different configurations, trying to mask the quarter with different nail positions. That little coil really works well in the trash, and I went on to find 3 more clad quarters and a few copper pennies, as well as a few zincolns.
I have two more nights to hunt before we get 8-12" of snow and much colder temps - tonight I'm taking the 11" DD to a rental house where I found a small gold ring to see if there's anything deeper hiding. This house was built in 1904, and I found out it's been hunted before, but there's at least one old coin still waiting for discovery. Has to be.....
The more I hunt with the F70, the better I feel about its potential, and I've only just begun! Hoping tonight I turn the corner with at least a Wheat!
I remembered the last hunt I had there with the Tesoro and how trashy and broken most signals were, so I put the 5" hockey puck on and started swinging. The other night when I hunted my yard I didn't GB correctly, leading to all sorts of chatter and decreased sensitivity. After properly ground balancing, the machine ran very quietly, and I found myself turning up the sensitivity to 70 and 80 without any interference. Dicked around in the front yard with the 11" DD and found a few modern coins as well as smaller aluminum bits at 2-3". I felt a lot better about the machine once I GBed it correctly
and was ready to put it to work...Hunted in De, Disc = 1, Notched iron and foil, DP tones, Sensitivity = 75, and Threshold = -3. I brought a dime with me to do some "air testing on the fly". With these settings using the 5" coil I could get a dime down to 6", and I figured that was fine for the area considering the trash quotient. Dp tones really helps with identifying targets especially on a cross-scan, where I couldn't see the screen. At one point I tried the SL speed, but I got so many falses and squeaks that I just went back to De speed.
After digging some non-ferrous trash, I finally got over a confident target which turned out to be a Memorial cent at 3". The audio sounded smooth and had the same tone on a cross-scan, so I surmised the target was round from the audio info alone. Hunting at night I can't see the screen too well, so the DP tones helps in this regard by saving time not having to pull out a flashlight to see the screen ID. I was getting a TON of iffy high-tone chirps that wouldn't settle, and dug some anyway. These all turned out to be trash - some cast iron bits and a few rusty nails. Found a clad quarter among 5 nails in the same hole, the audio was slightly erratic but sounded similar on a cross scan. Out of the hole I placed the quarter on a clean patch of ground and played around with the 5 nails in different configurations, trying to mask the quarter with different nail positions. That little coil really works well in the trash, and I went on to find 3 more clad quarters and a few copper pennies, as well as a few zincolns.
I have two more nights to hunt before we get 8-12" of snow and much colder temps - tonight I'm taking the 11" DD to a rental house where I found a small gold ring to see if there's anything deeper hiding. This house was built in 1904, and I found out it's been hunted before, but there's at least one old coin still waiting for discovery. Has to be.....
The more I hunt with the F70, the better I feel about its potential, and I've only just begun! Hoping tonight I turn the corner with at least a Wheat!
