CAN YOU EXPLAIN PLEASE?

[Peyton Manning]

Ok I live in a city of 50k just north of Indy. Indiana is 200 years a state.
When I began detecting I avoided the city parks because I figured they had been hunted by better people than me for many years.
This year, just for kicks, I decided to hit them and I have found most of my firsts!
1907Vnick, 43 warnickle, several wheats and my first silver ring.
I know the ring could be new, but those coins have been buried for decades.

My question is - how can I be finding stuff this old? There have to be detectors in the city.
Is it because the detectors are that much better? ( I have a whites MXT-PRO)

PS apparently one cannot edit a misspelled title

 

[MrMikeJackie]

You swung you're coil over it, that's all. Are today's machines better then the older ones, not really. They dug 100 silvers to our 1 silver. Remember our silver was their clad.

 

[releventchair]

Repeat what you found.
I've watched guys race across a park full of signals with much better machines than mine.
What are they looking for?
Even decades ago there were silver hounds ,not interested in other things.
Nickles being dug is a good sign to me.
Where your silver ring would ring up on others detectors may factor as well ,IF they had a coil over it.
Where did it register for you?

 

[Oregon Viking]

I have been planting stuff....Just for you!!

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Ok I live in a city of 50k just north of Indy. Indiana is 200 years a state.
When I began detecting I avoided the city parks because I figured they had been hunted by better people than me for many years.
This year, just for kicks, I decided to hit them and I have found most of my firsts!
1907Vnick, 43 warnickle, several wheats and my first silver ring.
I know the ring could be new, but those coins have been buried for decades.

My question is - how can I be finding stuff this old? There have to be detectors in the city.
Is it because the detectors are that much better? ( I have a whites MXT-PRO)

PS apparently one cannot edit a misspelled title

Typo in title has been corrected. [emoji106]

Sounds like you need to detect the parks more......

 

[Peyton Manning]

Repeat what you found.
I've watched guys race across a park full of signals with much better machines than mine.
What are they looking for?
Even decades ago there were silver hounds ,not interested in other things.
Nickles being dug is a good sign to me.
Where your silver ring would ring up on others detectors may factor as well ,IF they had a coil over it.
Where did it register for you?

I have to be honest, I feel that I just "hear" it better now. I really don't go by the readout.

 

[Peyton Manning]

Typo in title has been corrected. [emoji106]

Sounds like you need to detect the parks more......

why , thank you kind Sir. I know it is no big deal I just like to be accurate.
and I will hit more parks as you suggest. I cannot wait for the beach next month!

 

[Peyton Manning]

I have been planting stuff....Just for you!!

where are the silver and gold coins planted?

 

[bill from lachine]

jeff,

Fact is most detectorists don't cover the site effectively and miss lots of stuff....my rings were all found at pounded sites.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[Limitool]

I have been planting stuff....Just for you!!

Damn you O.V... YOU promised not to tell him. Ok, here's the truth.... O.V. and I planted 102 coins from 1805-1898. There planted in the Greenwood area (S. Indy). And I planted about 50 horseshoes give or take 50!!!!!!!

Ok... enough B.S. If you'd like to have some fun just stop by on your way south guy.

 

[Peyton Manning]

Damn you O.V... YOU promised not to tell him. Ok, here's the truth.... O.V. and I planted 102 coins from 1805-1898. There planted in the Greenwood area (S. Indy). And I planted about 50 horseshoes give or take 50!!!!!!!

Ok... enough B.S. If you'd like to have some fun just stop by on your way south guy.

Brad, even though it is not my normal route, I am thinking about stopping for a couple of hours.

UMMMMM are you an axe murderer?

 

[Oregon Viking]

where are the silver and gold coins planted?

Well there was a building....next to another building...I'm not familiar with the neighborhoods around there Jeff....

 

[Loco-Digger]

I agree, parks normally have more trash so many of the people that have previously detected those sites disc'd out many segments and cherry picked. Seems to me you just need to stay the course and continue to pull those keepers they missed.

 

[Roger Mn.]

I used a DFX for years and most coins were 8 inches or less but i did get a dime at 10 inches with a bigger coil.
Then i bought the Minelab E-Trac an detected every place i detected with the DFX. I found 3 Indian Head Cents at 14 inches deep at one park and 2 wheat's and an Indian Head Cent at 14 inches deep at an other park. I have found over 20 silver coins that the DFX couldn't pick up and all the other detectors over the years missed. I don't know what is in the ground to make the other detectors blank out in these certain areas but the E-Trac found them. I know i went over this area and others have also and the sound wasn't that great but this is what i pulled out at 6 inches deep. I got a half dollar at 3 to 4 inches deep and had been over this with the DFX. When i got it out i laid next to the hole and swept the coil over it and the detector blanked out because of some big junk in the ground that caused it. With the E-TRac i only dig high tones. If it isn't screaming loud i don't dig it.
roger

 

[ARC]

I always tell people its like this...

Todays your day.

The dirt was right...
Moisture... depth... settings... the friggin sun wind and rain... whatever... it was just right for you that day...
And perhaps the next...
And the one after.

Coils have minds of there own sometimes.... and the spirits of yester years threw you a bone.

 

[Loco-Digger]

Heck I have gone back over permissions that I have gridded every which way but Sunday and still seem to find something.

 

[Oregon Viking]

Brad, even though it is not my normal route, I am thinking about stopping for a couple of hours.

UMMMMM are you an axe murderer?

If you see a "height challenged" individual, with a compound bow.....
Did you know Brad is an actual world record holder in archery?

 

[joee5]

It's simple. You found them, others did not. End of story

 

[T.C.]

I always tell people its like this...

Todays your day.

The dirt was right...
Moisture... depth... settings... the friggin sun wind and rain... whatever... it was just right for you that day...
And perhaps the next...
And the one after.

Coils have minds of there own sometimes.... and the spirits of yester years threw you a bone.

Don't forget AARC....it's like huntin' arrowheads, sometimes they've got your name on them!!

 

[dirtscratcher]

I've been hitting curb strips that I know have been detected multiple times. The one thing that stands out. I find more old nickels than silver because most were cherry picking.