Found My First Coin! (Using Headphones)

steelheadwill · Apr 7, 2011

Hello Everyone :hello:

I decided to take the plunge and start using Headphones yesterday :sign13:

It's like using a new detector, the sounds are totally different, but you sure get a better 'look' into what's down there :wink:

I will have to say it makes recovery of signals a lot more time consuming, using the speaker, I can usually dig my target without putting the detector down.
No more digging 150 targets in 3-4 hours :P
I was hunting the 1770 meetinghouse and militia training grounds.
Really soft ground, any metal sinks deep quickly, I opened the sensitivity and scanned the forest in all metal, nothing but recent casings and some lead.
discovered a stone 'Corral', this was full of iron, so I switched to TTF mode.
recovered a heel plate, a 'horn cap' (is this the correct term ?)
And

A Coin

, it's been a while :laughing7:

figured it was a fattie, so I carefully wrapped it in a leaf & headed home.
looks to be an 1860 pointed bust.
just sprayed it with water, dried & dipped in oil.
Toasted, this area is pretty acidic Pine soil.
Whether the scrape came from my shovel or other metal/rocks during recovery I'm not sure, (heck, I'll take the blame :-[

)
I found an 1863 last year in better condition

From what I've read, these are the same alloy (88/12 cupronickle) as the Flying Eagle Cents. they don't look like the same metal to me :icon_scratch:

must be the different ground conditions.
last photos are also a 'todays find', plucked it off my shoulder after it had gotten a pretty good meal, I squeezed him & he popped like a bubble wrap & squirted blood 3 feet onto the wall

They're out up here in NH with snow still on the ground !
Thanks for looking & Great Digs to All :thumbsup:

steelheadwill · Apr 8, 2011

ivan salis said:
peachy best be glad ticks and spiders do not cross breed .--- a fast moving blood sucker that likes humans --ouch.

eeek,
The slow ones are creepy enough for me :laughing9:

terpfan · Apr 8, 2011

steelheadwill said:
VOL1266-X said:

I rarely use headphones because I mostly hunted alone before Dman and Josh started hunting with me and it was important that I knew what was going on around me as I was hunting remote wooded areas. We usually don't use headphones with the F75s but Dman does with the SE. I know about the ticks and they usually leave me alone (too sour I guess-LOL) but I got a big one off my back last night. I have a friend who I started hunting with and he hunted all one summer and contracted Lyme disease. Be careful, good finds, and HH, Quindy.

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Thanks Quindy
My sister got Lyme disease 3 years back and still suffers. Gotta watch for that bullseye at bitesite. :P

A bullseye rash can be used to confirm Lyme disease, but 2/3 of Lyme disease patients never get the rash. The good news is that if you see a bullseye the Lyme disease is pretty easy to treat. Of the four of us in my family who have had Lyme disease, only once have we seen the tell-tale bullseye rash.

artyfacts · Apr 8, 2011

ivan salis said:
peachy best be glad ticks and spiders do not cross breed .--- a fast moving blood sucker that likes humans --ouch.

They did cross breed and even worse they grew wings and stalk you. The dreaded Jersey Mosquito. Legend has it that they can pick you up and fly away with you...

BobinSouthVA · Apr 8, 2011

Cool finds.

I've had my Explorer for 5 months now and have always used headphones. Yesterday I got over to hit a friends coin garden to do some testing and took the headphones off so he could hear the signals as well. I'll tell ya it was like a completely different machine and the silver did not sound as sweet. Maybe it has something to do with the stereo effect of the headphones :dontknow:

Oh and great picture with the coin and the leaf, good stuff. :icon_thumleft:

steelheadwill · Apr 8, 2011

BobinSouthVA said:
Cool finds.

I've had my Explorer for 5 months now and have always used headphones. Yesterday I got over to hit a friends coin garden to do some testing and took the headphones off so he could hear the signals as well. I'll tell ya it was like a completely different machine and the silver did not sound as sweet. Maybe it has something to do with the stereo effect of the headphones

Oh and great picture with the coin and the leaf, good stuff.

Agreed, totally different experience.
I returned to a spot I hit almost daily for the last year.
with headphones targets were jumping out like I had never searched it

ewcoinhunter · Apr 8, 2011

Nice finds. As far as the fricken tick, one down 400 billion to go, I hate them.

hikeinmts · Apr 9, 2011

Good find. Yes, those earphones will get you the deeper signals, the whispers.....
BUT BUT BUT
I began using headsets about 30 years ago......great for the soft signals......got me many inches deeper into the ground.
BUT.....now I have tenitus........I have lost the hearing almost 100% in my left ear, and my right ear is going.
I only hear ringing......and it is from.....not the soft, deep signals, but the loud, deafening signals close to the top of the ground.
How to avoid what I am going through now......I hope you never experience the frustration that I feel most of the time when
talking to someone, but not being able to hear/understand them.
BE CAREFUL......please. Don't injure your ears like I did mine. Right now, Tinitus has no cure....no surgery.....
only ringing, noises, in my ears.....from the time I wake up in the morning, to the time I go to sleep at night.....
right now, as I am typing this, it sounds like water running over rocks in my left ear, and some kind of soft crunchy sound
in my right ear. Not joking, guys, gals......please take care of your ears.....what to suggest, as to how to use earphones and not get tinitus....I don't know that answer. I really feel that there should be some kind of warning label on the things.
Nuff said. Learn this lesson from me.....don't make the same mistake I made......noone warned me.....I am telling you.

steelheadwill · Apr 10, 2011

hikeinmts said:
Good find. Yes, those earphones will get you the deeper signals, the whispers.....
BUT BUT BUT
I began using headsets about 30 years ago......great for the soft signals......got me many inches deeper into the ground.
BUT.....now I have tenitus........I have lost the hearing almost 100% in my left ear, and my right ear is going.
I only hear ringing......and it is from.....not the soft, deep signals, but the loud, deafening signals close to the top of the ground.
How to avoid what I am going through now......I hope you never experience the frustration that I feel most of the time when
talking to someone, but not being able to hear/understand them.
BE CAREFUL......please. Don't injure your ears like I did mine. Right now, Tinitus has no cure....no surgery.....
only ringing, noises, in my ears.....from the time I wake up in the morning, to the time I go to sleep at night.....
right now, as I am typing this, it sounds like water running over rocks in my left ear, and some kind of soft crunchy sound
in my right ear. Not joking, guys, gals......please take care of your ears.....what to suggest, as to how to use earphones and not get tinitus....I don't know that answer. I really feel that there should be some kind of warning label on the things.
Nuff said. Learn this lesson from me.....don't make the same mistake I made......noone warned me.....I am telling you.

Thanks for the warning Hike,
my detector has volume limit and gain controls, these help.
I've heard that tinnitus is one of the worst of conditions $:-\$

ANTIQUARIAN · Apr 12, 2011

Cool finds Herbie, your post made for an interesting read! :icon_thumright:

I need to get me a pair of corless headphones, I find the
cords always getting in the way! :tongue3:

I remember years ago my Chesapeake Retriever got a tick on her neck and somebody suggested using a lighter to remove it. Well, I touched the flame to the ticks body and it backed right out in a hurry head and all! :laughing7:

Dave