tabman
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- Presently: CTX 3030, Tesoro Modded Cibola, F75LTD-2, XP Deus, Tesoro Mojave, MXT Pro, Tesoro Eldorado, Whites MXT All Pro, Minelab Equinox, Fisher CZ5 & CZ3D
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Just teasing. 
The Cibola tied with a Indian Head Penny find at the last moment before leaving.
I headed out this morning to a detect the yard of a home that was built in 1951. The site looked good and I was expecting to have a good day. I first pulled out the F75 with the NEL Sharpshooter coil attached. My settings - 9.0, 0 discrimination, 4H tones, DE mode and full sensitivity.
It didn't take long before I started finding wheat pennies. That's always a good sign. Finally, I cornered a couple of Rosie Dimes (1952, 1963). Both times, I was pretty sure that I had silver under the search coil before I even dug.
The F75 was having a little trouble with thin flat pieces of metal about inch square. The stuff was all over the yard and causing the F75 to give high tones and high VDI readings. I could tell that it was not a good target, but it was getting kind of frustrating to listen to so I decided to switch detectors.
I pull out my modded Cibola with the NEL Sharpshooter coil attached. I set the discrimination just a little higher than where a iron nail discriminates out, a very slight hum on the threshold, a little negative on the ground balance and full sensitivity.
I found a few wheat pennies and a junk earring, before I got a audio tone that just stops you in your tracks and says dig me. I was under a very old magnolia tree and the audio tone was rich, loud and smooth. I popped a 14k gold ring. I always get excited when I find gold.
After going over the front yard again I got a soft audio tone and dug down around 7 inches and popped a 1900 Indian Head Penny. It must have gotten lost back when the land was a plantation, before they built the subdivision. You just never know what you're going to find until you dig it.
tabman
The Cibola tied with a Indian Head Penny find at the last moment before leaving.I headed out this morning to a detect the yard of a home that was built in 1951. The site looked good and I was expecting to have a good day. I first pulled out the F75 with the NEL Sharpshooter coil attached. My settings - 9.0, 0 discrimination, 4H tones, DE mode and full sensitivity.
It didn't take long before I started finding wheat pennies. That's always a good sign. Finally, I cornered a couple of Rosie Dimes (1952, 1963). Both times, I was pretty sure that I had silver under the search coil before I even dug.
The F75 was having a little trouble with thin flat pieces of metal about inch square. The stuff was all over the yard and causing the F75 to give high tones and high VDI readings. I could tell that it was not a good target, but it was getting kind of frustrating to listen to so I decided to switch detectors.
I pull out my modded Cibola with the NEL Sharpshooter coil attached. I set the discrimination just a little higher than where a iron nail discriminates out, a very slight hum on the threshold, a little negative on the ground balance and full sensitivity.
I found a few wheat pennies and a junk earring, before I got a audio tone that just stops you in your tracks and says dig me. I was under a very old magnolia tree and the audio tone was rich, loud and smooth. I popped a 14k gold ring. I always get excited when I find gold.
After going over the front yard again I got a soft audio tone and dug down around 7 inches and popped a 1900 Indian Head Penny. It must have gotten lost back when the land was a plantation, before they built the subdivision. You just never know what you're going to find until you dig it.
tabman
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