Nice finds! I liked and subscribed, so can I come hunt with you now?
I love seeing your buddies tried and true old Minelab Explorer II sucking out Seated silver. Great "old" machine for silver. Awesome scores on some wonderful old coinage. Question? I see you run a pretty nice set of various machines. How do you rate the Nokta Impact's performance compared to your other metal detectors? I probably just need to quit him hawing and purchase one for myself. Thanks for the excellent hunt and sharing it with us.
I like the Impact quite a bit BUT for some of these sites that're highly mineralized, a multi-frequency machine really opens the site up. Hoping that the coming Minelab Equinox will be a winner. I would say of the machines I currently have, the Racer 2 is my favorite. It's light, feature packed, yet very simple to operate, and it does a darn good job. The Impact is nice because I can change the frequency, and it has lots of modes (although I find myself using the DI3 mode 90% of the time), and I find that these highly mineralized sites hunt pretty well with the 20 kHz setting, but the mineralization still handicaps a VLF machine IMHO. I sold off my AT-Pro, it was great in iron, but I never really got very good depth with it. Same thing with the Omega, although it was great at demolition sites, just had a knack for plucking silver out of the junk, and the Etrac was too heavy, and once I moved from mostly turf hunting to mostly relic hunting, it didn't seem to do too well in the iron infested sites. The F75 is still a good machine, at the right location. I found a lot of great stuff with the F75, but I also feel that it missed a lot of stuff.
Yes. Mid 1800s. "Long Rifle". Fits right in with the dates of our coins.
In the meantime: Here's the final results of one of the coins of our trip (after ezest persuasion) :
