FooserPaul
Hero Member
Hello all!
Let be start by saying I'm noobsauce here... meaning... Hi my name is Paul and I've been an addict for 2 months now... :-)
I started detecing with a Bounty Hunter LandStar... I found clad... a 1911 Bronze Australian Penny and a few wheat pennies... as I read I knew I wanted a high end detector... and after spending a few weeks reading and asking on the boards... I settled on Minelab's X-Terra 70.... I found a 1951 Silver Roosie and a few days ago Dug a nice '34 Walking liberty...
Yesterday with the family we were in a town across the river from us. We were driving around enjoying the day and my mine is scopping detecting locations :-)
I spot an old school... a few parks... I head over to that older school built in the 1890's. I was dugging clad... 70's to the 90's... 2 nickles, 4 dimes... 7 pennies... I decide to try the playground out back... but it appears to be use as a park by the local community being as the school is closed and I'd need a smaller coil than my 10.5 MF DD.
I head back to the front of the school, but closer to the building.. I am getting lots of faint signals... and depth is all over the place... I keep going... You know... in a hurry for that big find!
The next faint signal... I pinpoint... rescan... 40-42 and but there, its not there... I decide to pull the plug to scan... Its there... its not there... I pull one scop of dit and I see the mercury sitting there at an angle...
What did I learn....![Huh ??? ???](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/huh.gif)
![1st Merc Head 1941S.jpg 1st Merc Head 1941S.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/158/158298-53b6f97694da3f50f2e78f388fd49960.jpg)
Go SLOW, Learn -n- Trust your Detector and.... ENJOY THE JOURNEY!
I only had about 90 minutes there... I'll be back after the picnic tonight... I'm sure there is more "JOURNEY" there for me to enjoy![icon_king :icon_king: :icon_king:](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/icon_king.gif)
Let be start by saying I'm noobsauce here... meaning... Hi my name is Paul and I've been an addict for 2 months now... :-)
I started detecing with a Bounty Hunter LandStar... I found clad... a 1911 Bronze Australian Penny and a few wheat pennies... as I read I knew I wanted a high end detector... and after spending a few weeks reading and asking on the boards... I settled on Minelab's X-Terra 70.... I found a 1951 Silver Roosie and a few days ago Dug a nice '34 Walking liberty...
Yesterday with the family we were in a town across the river from us. We were driving around enjoying the day and my mine is scopping detecting locations :-)
I spot an old school... a few parks... I head over to that older school built in the 1890's. I was dugging clad... 70's to the 90's... 2 nickles, 4 dimes... 7 pennies... I decide to try the playground out back... but it appears to be use as a park by the local community being as the school is closed and I'd need a smaller coil than my 10.5 MF DD.
I head back to the front of the school, but closer to the building.. I am getting lots of faint signals... and depth is all over the place... I keep going... You know... in a hurry for that big find!
The next faint signal... I pinpoint... rescan... 40-42 and but there, its not there... I decide to pull the plug to scan... Its there... its not there... I pull one scop of dit and I see the mercury sitting there at an angle...
What did I learn....
![Huh ??? ???](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/huh.gif)
![1st Merc Head 1941S.jpg 1st Merc Head 1941S.jpg](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/158/158298-53b6f97694da3f50f2e78f388fd49960.jpg)
Go SLOW, Learn -n- Trust your Detector and.... ENJOY THE JOURNEY!
I only had about 90 minutes there... I'll be back after the picnic tonight... I'm sure there is more "JOURNEY" there for me to enjoy
![icon_king :icon_king: :icon_king:](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/icon_king.gif)