Xraywolf
Silver Member
- Feb 28, 2005
- 3,576
- 4,360
- Detector(s) used
- Ace 400, AT Pro, equinox 800, Simplex,Vanquish 540
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
42,43 and 44 Merc and a silver Rosie, one of my best single days [or nights] ever for me.
A little history of this spot. There
is a school about 4 blocks from my house built in the 1930's. Has tot lots which I have detected dozens of times over the years, and a fair sized field, not huge by school standards but not small, large enough for a small baseball field, which is basically what it was most of its history.
So how many times do you think I have detected the old school field within walking distance from my house over the last decade since I have been into detecting ? Dozens of times ? Countless times ? Pounded to death ?
No, this is the first time I have tried detecting there. Actually tried once years ago in the heat of summer, ground was rock hard and, like a cave man, I thought "Hard ground bad ! Me no like hard ground ! Me no come back here no more !"
So apparently, I had mentally deleted this place from my head as a potential hunting spot. I know some guys will hack stuff out of hard ground, not me. When I run into hard ground or root infested ground, I generally give up and look for greener pastures. Even when I got my Deus XP last year and I was wracking my brain for a decent spots to run it, this field never entered my head, even though I pretty much drive right by it multiple times a day.
So anyhow was out detecting tot lots at night with the warm weather, not much luck in the woodchips so I started veering towards the grass. Planned on just detecting to my truck but I veered off again to the right, thinking with the recent rains ground digging might not be so bad. Dug a couple clad quarters then nailed the 1st merc, I was elated and after that, I started ignoring the screamers and started digging the spotty signals with a good coin sized pinpoint.
Good strategy, just about got more silvers than clad. Was using Ace 400, gotta say the depth of this thing is pathetic, one of the dimes I dug was around 3 inches maybe, I put it back in the hole and swept it and barely got any signal at all ... So everything I found was 3" or less.
Obviously will be going back with the Deus and see what else is there, not that I swept the field with the 400, probably covered less than 1/10th of it. Really, really good sign to find shallow silvers like that right off the bat, tells me I may have stumbled upon virgin land.
A little history of this spot. There
is a school about 4 blocks from my house built in the 1930's. Has tot lots which I have detected dozens of times over the years, and a fair sized field, not huge by school standards but not small, large enough for a small baseball field, which is basically what it was most of its history.
So how many times do you think I have detected the old school field within walking distance from my house over the last decade since I have been into detecting ? Dozens of times ? Countless times ? Pounded to death ?
No, this is the first time I have tried detecting there. Actually tried once years ago in the heat of summer, ground was rock hard and, like a cave man, I thought "Hard ground bad ! Me no like hard ground ! Me no come back here no more !"
So apparently, I had mentally deleted this place from my head as a potential hunting spot. I know some guys will hack stuff out of hard ground, not me. When I run into hard ground or root infested ground, I generally give up and look for greener pastures. Even when I got my Deus XP last year and I was wracking my brain for a decent spots to run it, this field never entered my head, even though I pretty much drive right by it multiple times a day.
So anyhow was out detecting tot lots at night with the warm weather, not much luck in the woodchips so I started veering towards the grass. Planned on just detecting to my truck but I veered off again to the right, thinking with the recent rains ground digging might not be so bad. Dug a couple clad quarters then nailed the 1st merc, I was elated and after that, I started ignoring the screamers and started digging the spotty signals with a good coin sized pinpoint.
Good strategy, just about got more silvers than clad. Was using Ace 400, gotta say the depth of this thing is pathetic, one of the dimes I dug was around 3 inches maybe, I put it back in the hole and swept it and barely got any signal at all ... So everything I found was 3" or less.
Obviously will be going back with the Deus and see what else is there, not that I swept the field with the 400, probably covered less than 1/10th of it. Really, really good sign to find shallow silvers like that right off the bat, tells me I may have stumbled upon virgin land.
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