Happa54
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Hey Everyone….
I have been working a site that at one time had a couple dozen homes and streets on it. I knew I found a good site as I could see structures on early 1900’s topo maps and images from 1940’s Netronline maps. The whole area was razed early 1950’s. In all total probably 30-40 acres.
Everything that goes into a home is in the ground here. They hauled the lumber away but bulldozed all the smaller stuff into the ground. Nails, slag, aluminum, tin, tiles, screws, bolts, iron pipes, pull tabs, furniture & appliance parts, auto parts, lots of broken bottles with their old caps attached and tons and tons of iron.….pretty much everything you find in a home and garage is buried here.
I dig pull tab, bottle cap and zinc signals because I don’t want to miss the relics, which many come in between 17-21 TID range. Here, I don’t let the size of a target fool me. I dig signals/targets that I would not dig elsewhere…any size and shape. I don’t however, dig targets in the TID range of -1 to 10. And depending on stability of tone, I may or not dig TID range of 15 to 17. Yes, I am missing targets in these ranges but there are just too many to dig. Someday, I’ll start digging within these ranges. All nickel & high CO tones, I dig.
I hunt primarily in Park 1, rec spd 3, all metal, 50 tones, 0 IB, sens varies (18-22). I use a slight threshold and lower the iron volume just slightly. The mineralization for this area hovers around 8-15. I pump for GB and rarely need auto tracking here.
I work this site approx. 2 hours per week, and have been working it for over a year now. I figured that I will be in and out of this site for a couple more years to come. It is my go-to-site.
Thus far, I’ve dug mercs, rosies, silver GW, wheats, 2 V niks, 1 barber dime, 3 indians, ’35 walker half, dateless SLQ, ’03 mexican silver 5 cent piece, 2 war niks, buttons, various tokens, old badges, rings/jewelry, etc, etc, etc. My buddy dug a 1850’s quarter, US and Canadian silver dimes here as well. Yesterday dug a dirty war nik buried under a piece of concrete slab.
I haven’t purchased the 6” coil yet but I do know its effectiveness since I use one on my Safari. The 6” coil could increase my finds but I am too confident at this time with the stock 11”.
Based on what I’ve described, what would you do differently? Or, what do you think I should be doing differently? Right now, I’m grabbing for suggestions, a different method or settings with my Nox that will enhance or increase my effectiveness here. I’m convinced from what this site has produced thus far, that there is a Barber quarter or a Shield Nik here… and I’m gonna find em. Surprised I haven’t dug a Buffalo here…yet.
There is a lot of masking going on here, and I move my coil low and slow and cover very little ground at a time. It’s just this kind of site. There are a lot of hidden keepers at this site. I have found that moving too quickly and not analyzing signals, you are missing a keeper, of something or another.
I look forward to your feedback.
I have been working a site that at one time had a couple dozen homes and streets on it. I knew I found a good site as I could see structures on early 1900’s topo maps and images from 1940’s Netronline maps. The whole area was razed early 1950’s. In all total probably 30-40 acres.
Everything that goes into a home is in the ground here. They hauled the lumber away but bulldozed all the smaller stuff into the ground. Nails, slag, aluminum, tin, tiles, screws, bolts, iron pipes, pull tabs, furniture & appliance parts, auto parts, lots of broken bottles with their old caps attached and tons and tons of iron.….pretty much everything you find in a home and garage is buried here.
I dig pull tab, bottle cap and zinc signals because I don’t want to miss the relics, which many come in between 17-21 TID range. Here, I don’t let the size of a target fool me. I dig signals/targets that I would not dig elsewhere…any size and shape. I don’t however, dig targets in the TID range of -1 to 10. And depending on stability of tone, I may or not dig TID range of 15 to 17. Yes, I am missing targets in these ranges but there are just too many to dig. Someday, I’ll start digging within these ranges. All nickel & high CO tones, I dig.
I hunt primarily in Park 1, rec spd 3, all metal, 50 tones, 0 IB, sens varies (18-22). I use a slight threshold and lower the iron volume just slightly. The mineralization for this area hovers around 8-15. I pump for GB and rarely need auto tracking here.
I work this site approx. 2 hours per week, and have been working it for over a year now. I figured that I will be in and out of this site for a couple more years to come. It is my go-to-site.
Thus far, I’ve dug mercs, rosies, silver GW, wheats, 2 V niks, 1 barber dime, 3 indians, ’35 walker half, dateless SLQ, ’03 mexican silver 5 cent piece, 2 war niks, buttons, various tokens, old badges, rings/jewelry, etc, etc, etc. My buddy dug a 1850’s quarter, US and Canadian silver dimes here as well. Yesterday dug a dirty war nik buried under a piece of concrete slab.
I haven’t purchased the 6” coil yet but I do know its effectiveness since I use one on my Safari. The 6” coil could increase my finds but I am too confident at this time with the stock 11”.
Based on what I’ve described, what would you do differently? Or, what do you think I should be doing differently? Right now, I’m grabbing for suggestions, a different method or settings with my Nox that will enhance or increase my effectiveness here. I’m convinced from what this site has produced thus far, that there is a Barber quarter or a Shield Nik here… and I’m gonna find em. Surprised I haven’t dug a Buffalo here…yet.
There is a lot of masking going on here, and I move my coil low and slow and cover very little ground at a time. It’s just this kind of site. There are a lot of hidden keepers at this site. I have found that moving too quickly and not analyzing signals, you are missing a keeper, of something or another.
I look forward to your feedback.
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