Milspec6
Jr. Member
Well, I had to replace a broken pipe off my water heater today so I didn't get started on the hunt until after dinner....doesn't seem like I missed much by waiting.
This was my first hunt ever and I was using the Simplex, a White's hand digger and the Nokta pinpointer. Over-all, the detector worked really well, finding metal at pretty deep depths. The only thing I noticed though was that it didn't pinpoint all that well when it got deep. Being new to all this that might be perfectly normal, but it irritated me when digging items greater than 6 inches only to miss the spot and having to shift over several inches. Even worse, that Nokta pinpointer shuts off after a delay and I found myself rooting around in the hole only to discover that the pointer was off. I kept going back to the Simplex to try and locate the item only to dig an even wider hole and inspect with a non-functioning pinpointer!! That got old fast. In it's defense, the Nokta pinpointer gives off audible tones when it is about to turn off, but I thought it was picking up the detector when I set it down to dig and didn't realize that it was letting me know that it was powering down. Lessons learned, that was the point of the first hunt anyway, to learn the tools.
As for the finds....nothing good. Several badly chipped lincoln pennies, scrap metal, and some kind of melted metal glob. I kept going intent on staying at it until I found something good. That was when I got a nice repeatedable high tone showing 92 all day. It showed it at 8 inches so I was excited. I dug the hell out of that hole and couldn't find it. This was when the pinpointer was turning off on me and I just kept expanding the hole as a result. I ended up about 9 inches down when I found the most corroded quarter I have ever seen. I had some hope that it would at least be a silver at that depth, but nope, just a simple 1978...a very corroded one at that.
I guess metal detecting is a lot like fishing. It isn't always about what you catch as much as it is just about something to do with the occassional rush of optimism when you think you found something. That quarter was a bust, but it took me 15 minutes digging around trying to find it....like trying to reeel in a Northern Pike only to have the line break 2 feet from the boat.
Until next time.....
This was my first hunt ever and I was using the Simplex, a White's hand digger and the Nokta pinpointer. Over-all, the detector worked really well, finding metal at pretty deep depths. The only thing I noticed though was that it didn't pinpoint all that well when it got deep. Being new to all this that might be perfectly normal, but it irritated me when digging items greater than 6 inches only to miss the spot and having to shift over several inches. Even worse, that Nokta pinpointer shuts off after a delay and I found myself rooting around in the hole only to discover that the pointer was off. I kept going back to the Simplex to try and locate the item only to dig an even wider hole and inspect with a non-functioning pinpointer!! That got old fast. In it's defense, the Nokta pinpointer gives off audible tones when it is about to turn off, but I thought it was picking up the detector when I set it down to dig and didn't realize that it was letting me know that it was powering down. Lessons learned, that was the point of the first hunt anyway, to learn the tools.
As for the finds....nothing good. Several badly chipped lincoln pennies, scrap metal, and some kind of melted metal glob. I kept going intent on staying at it until I found something good. That was when I got a nice repeatedable high tone showing 92 all day. It showed it at 8 inches so I was excited. I dug the hell out of that hole and couldn't find it. This was when the pinpointer was turning off on me and I just kept expanding the hole as a result. I ended up about 9 inches down when I found the most corroded quarter I have ever seen. I had some hope that it would at least be a silver at that depth, but nope, just a simple 1978...a very corroded one at that.
I guess metal detecting is a lot like fishing. It isn't always about what you catch as much as it is just about something to do with the occassional rush of optimism when you think you found something. That quarter was a bust, but it took me 15 minutes digging around trying to find it....like trying to reeel in a Northern Pike only to have the line break 2 feet from the boat.
Until next time.....
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