Texasgopher
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So here is what I've been thinking. The oldest park in my town was developed in 1890. It is 4 city blocks by 2 city blocks in size. Seated coins have been found there and 1 gold coin that I know about. My hunting buddies and myself have found our fair share of silver there but nothing older then a mercury dime. Real old coins run pretty deep. Just from personal digs I have found a 1920 wheat at 7 in.
(Accurate, 7 in! Not a guess. My machine said 7-8 in and I measured with my digger at 7 in. It has inch marks in it. I think that anyone can ONLY measure accurately when they dig down and see the coin in the dirt or get it in their intact plug. If you dig up a coin and find it in loose dirt that you have dug but your hole "looks" 8 in deep, this is NOT accurate, in my opinion. The coin could have been in the side of the hole much shallower and you just knocked it loose as you kept digging deeper. I think the way some people measure is too much a guess some times.)
ANYWAY, I also dug a 1936 silver quarter here at 7 in (accurately.)
Both the penny and the quarter was a bell tone in only one direction. So I've been wondering if there might be some more good coins at this depth that just aren't reading as good as I would think they would. I can't imagine anything being deeper than that....but who knows.
So I've really been wanting to find either a barber or Indian coin at this park but just have never made it happen. So I was thinking of really trying to use the all-metal mode and learn it's secrets. Everyone says that it goes deeper in all-metal mode. I have only used it a few times but have never made a commitment to really use and learn it.
My initial thought is that running in the all-metal mode is going to be like learning a whole new detector. Anybody out there agree or disagree with that thought?
Based on the information I provided do you think that all-metal is the way to go? I have been MDing this park for about three years now. The old coins are few and far between but they are still there. Does anybody out there only use all-metal or most of the time?
My technique would be to run in all-metal and dig every signal between nickel and dollar but only if it's 4+ inches deep. You can't use surface elimination with all-metal mode.
So my other thought was to turn the sensitivity up just a little higher than I normally would, run with Surface Elimination set on 4 and dig the same range of targets as before. I have used Surf Elim before and it's probably psychological, but I never seem to find much with it on and when I turn it off I seem to find much more all the sudden (within the range I have set it, for surf elim.) Now it could be purely in my head and I just need to take time and go nice and slow and trust my machine.
Which would you do?
Also, This is the trashest park in town and has been pounded for years by anyone that owns a MD around. Most get discouraged with the trash which is why I think I still find some keepers now and then.
TG
(Accurate, 7 in! Not a guess. My machine said 7-8 in and I measured with my digger at 7 in. It has inch marks in it. I think that anyone can ONLY measure accurately when they dig down and see the coin in the dirt or get it in their intact plug. If you dig up a coin and find it in loose dirt that you have dug but your hole "looks" 8 in deep, this is NOT accurate, in my opinion. The coin could have been in the side of the hole much shallower and you just knocked it loose as you kept digging deeper. I think the way some people measure is too much a guess some times.)
ANYWAY, I also dug a 1936 silver quarter here at 7 in (accurately.)
Both the penny and the quarter was a bell tone in only one direction. So I've been wondering if there might be some more good coins at this depth that just aren't reading as good as I would think they would. I can't imagine anything being deeper than that....but who knows.
So I've really been wanting to find either a barber or Indian coin at this park but just have never made it happen. So I was thinking of really trying to use the all-metal mode and learn it's secrets. Everyone says that it goes deeper in all-metal mode. I have only used it a few times but have never made a commitment to really use and learn it.
My initial thought is that running in the all-metal mode is going to be like learning a whole new detector. Anybody out there agree or disagree with that thought?
Based on the information I provided do you think that all-metal is the way to go? I have been MDing this park for about three years now. The old coins are few and far between but they are still there. Does anybody out there only use all-metal or most of the time?
My technique would be to run in all-metal and dig every signal between nickel and dollar but only if it's 4+ inches deep. You can't use surface elimination with all-metal mode.
So my other thought was to turn the sensitivity up just a little higher than I normally would, run with Surface Elimination set on 4 and dig the same range of targets as before. I have used Surf Elim before and it's probably psychological, but I never seem to find much with it on and when I turn it off I seem to find much more all the sudden (within the range I have set it, for surf elim.) Now it could be purely in my head and I just need to take time and go nice and slow and trust my machine.
Which would you do?
Also, This is the trashest park in town and has been pounded for years by anyone that owns a MD around. Most get discouraged with the trash which is why I think I still find some keepers now and then.
TG
