FOUND SILVER QUARTER TODAY THANKS TO THE FORUM.........

LETSHUNTNOW · Jul 29, 2010

I was so excited after finding my walking liberty half sunday that i have been reading in the forum about my mxt wanting to learn more....I learned a little about hunting in the relic mode and went out with a pocket full of coins to practice...I practiced with each coin seeing what it read on my mxt then i started hitting my yard....sure enough, found a 1934 wheat, a little gold band of some sort and then my mxt kept reading 83 buckle and it was deeper than usual...out popped a 1935 washington quarter...Its nicked up but i love it....I have been over my yard a hundred times......My house was built in 1902 and i have found a barber quarter,standing liberty quarter,3 mercury dimes, 2 rosies, 2 indian heads and a bunch of wheats and now thanks to the forum i have a washington quarter.....I am not sure what the little gold band is

its paper thin.....Good luck to everyone on your next hunt.......Letshuntnow..

De.Digger · Jul 29, 2010

Congrats! You have some really nice finds there. There are some really good guys here on T-net, You should be well hooked already.
Good Luck & HH

waterfalljay · Jul 29, 2010

Nice finds! :thumbsup:

I believe you have a cigar band there.
HH!

m bryan · Jul 29, 2010

How deep were they?

ES66 · Jul 29, 2010

Very nice finds!! You've got some great stuff buried in you yard!

LETSHUNTNOW · Jul 29, 2010

m bryan said:
How deep were they?

Hello, all three read 9 or 10 inches deep on my mxt....most of the time it reads 4 to 5 inches deep in coin and jewelry but in the relic mode it said it was deeper and it was...i have noticed the depth is always a little off....if it reads 10 inches deep its about 7.....I am going to go back to a few places i have hunted where i found silver and try it in the relic mode....I just cant get enough of this....I love it....................

watercolor · Jul 29, 2010

You're doing very well :thumbsup:

Just for fun, re-hunt the same areas of your yard from a perpendicular direction.
(If your first hunt was North-South, your second hunt will be East-West).

Good luck!

Mr Tuff · Jul 29, 2010

great hunt!!!!!!!!!!! i always go with the clean out type hunts.. just dig and dig and dig till i get it all.. MR TUFF

Skelly607 · Jul 29, 2010

Nice quarter! Just keep at it.

Tuberale · Jul 30, 2010

watercolor said:
You're doing very well

Just for fun, re-hunt the same areas of your yard from a perpendicular direction.
(If your first hunt was North-South, your second hunt will be East-West).

Good luck!

Excellent suggestion!

And after that, try the same thing at 22.5 degree angles. The deeper you search, the smaller the actual amount of ground you cover. If you don't overlap your sweeps by 50%, you will be missing the deeper signals. And even then, you still may miss some of them.

Try waiting until the ground is very wet, too. I've noticed I always get better depth and better targets right after the grass has frozen, and thaws out the next day or two.

BTW, GREAT finds! You're learning just the right way to search.