Ron B
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I left early this morning, headed back to an old two story house I begged permission to hunt just yesterday! I changed my settings on both my Explorer SEs to ALL METAL MODE---IRON MASK-OFF---SENSITIVITY 32 MAXED-with SEMI-AUTO ON---GAIN@10---FERROUS after experiencing an unpleasant bout of major Threshold blanking by both machines due to heavy mineralization. I chose to use Minelab's 8 inch coil on #1 SE. My very first find was a 1916 wheat followed by a 1915 Barber dime! I thought dam; may be on to something. More wheats followed by a 1898 V Nickel. I also found a writing merit pin and an old Navy button with an anchor on it about the size of a dime and a handful of clad. ALL METAL certainly takes some getting use to as you hear every signal. Hunting in FERROUS, all iron made low blat sounds; non-ferrous-high pitched. My threshold remained steady! There was quite a large amount of old ammo brass, 45-70 and the like and also twenty two lead bullets. During the day, I swapped detectors having my backup SE #2 (taken off the hands of Captain Jack) already equipped with Excelerator's 4 inch DD coil. It's a nice coil but I found I had to concentrate on working really small areas. Being able to work the flower beds close to the house resulted in a lot of clad but no old coins. I did find a sterling silver pepper shaker top and other misc. items but nothing worth bragging about.
One more thing I found useing both the 8 inch and 4 inch, I had to go really, really slow in order not to miss any high pitch targets.
Depth was amazing on the 8 inch DD coil. The barber dime had to have been down at least 8 inches as was the V nickel. The neat Trinidad Bar 2 1/2 token was found at about 5 inches.
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I came back to add; about those scratches on the barber dime! I was showing the lady of the house the dime and she commenced to rubbing the dirt off of it to see the date more clearly! What can a poor Metal Detecting fellow do but watch? I offered it to her to keep but she graciously said no thank you.
Thank you for your interest and a Special "Thank you!" to the SandMan!
GRB
I left early this morning, headed back to an old two story house I begged permission to hunt just yesterday! I changed my settings on both my Explorer SEs to ALL METAL MODE---IRON MASK-OFF---SENSITIVITY 32 MAXED-with SEMI-AUTO ON---GAIN@10---FERROUS after experiencing an unpleasant bout of major Threshold blanking by both machines due to heavy mineralization. I chose to use Minelab's 8 inch coil on #1 SE. My very first find was a 1916 wheat followed by a 1915 Barber dime! I thought dam; may be on to something. More wheats followed by a 1898 V Nickel. I also found a writing merit pin and an old Navy button with an anchor on it about the size of a dime and a handful of clad. ALL METAL certainly takes some getting use to as you hear every signal. Hunting in FERROUS, all iron made low blat sounds; non-ferrous-high pitched. My threshold remained steady! There was quite a large amount of old ammo brass, 45-70 and the like and also twenty two lead bullets. During the day, I swapped detectors having my backup SE #2 (taken off the hands of Captain Jack) already equipped with Excelerator's 4 inch DD coil. It's a nice coil but I found I had to concentrate on working really small areas. Being able to work the flower beds close to the house resulted in a lot of clad but no old coins. I did find a sterling silver pepper shaker top and other misc. items but nothing worth bragging about.
One more thing I found useing both the 8 inch and 4 inch, I had to go really, really slow in order not to miss any high pitch targets.
Depth was amazing on the 8 inch DD coil. The barber dime had to have been down at least 8 inches as was the V nickel. The neat Trinidad Bar 2 1/2 token was found at about 5 inches.
**
I came back to add; about those scratches on the barber dime! I was showing the lady of the house the dime and she commenced to rubbing the dirt off of it to see the date more clearly! What can a poor Metal Detecting fellow do but watch? I offered it to her to keep but she graciously said no thank you.
Thank you for your interest and a Special "Thank you!" to the SandMan!
GRB
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