Here They Are...Over 500 Wilvers!!

[Captn SE]

Hello Everyone,

As promised, here's a couple pics of my 507, and counting, silver coins I've dug this year so far. The first pic contains my Halfs, Quarters, Barbers, Mercs, and War Nickels. The second pic are my Rosies. Total coinage value is about $57. Total weight is about 3.5 pounds. All were individual silver finds, mostly from the turf, from a total of about 44 parks...no caches...I had a few multiple silver holes, which are always exciting to dig. My best silver and most rewarding find so far has to be the 1858 Seated Half I found about 3 weeks ago in a heavily hunted area. Interestingly, after almost 450 silver dimes found, I've found about the same number of mercs as rosies. To pull these silvers out of the ground, I had to dig over 2200 wheaties, a handful of Indian Heads and Buffalos, lots of clad(about $900 worth), a good amount of jewelry(about 68 silver pieces, a few gold), and a mess of trash. It's been a truly great year for me so far. Just looking at these pics has brought back so many great memories of my prior hunts(I just did a double fist pump!!)....hoping to get maybe a 100 more before the year end....we'll see.

If I had to give one helpful bit of information for all md'ers out there it would have to be this:
Never give up on an area that you think has been hunted out.....it hasn't...

Thanks for looking,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[birdman]

Man, I can't even find that many pennies.
lol Amazing!

 

[halfdime]

Incredible!

 

[Rich in Central PA]

Captain.........that is friggin' amazing. My hats off to ya, you put forth alot a' effort to get them wilvers.......Rich

 

[rebelLT]

Your are the silver king ............this year! How many of these silvers did the "bounce" on you SE? Does the SE even do the "BOUNCE" thing on deep coins? I assume you run f sounds with slow of and deep on to find that many great silvers in California parks! Ya Smakin my man!

 

[Jack(IN)]

Thats it?? Well, I guess I'll just have to say great totals and that is alot of silver!! How about a pic of all that jewerly and have you found much gold?

 

[Captn SE]

Your are the silver king ............this year! How many of these silvers did the "bounce" on you SE? Does the SE even do the "BOUNCE" thing on deep coins? I assume you run f sounds with slow of and deep on to find that many great silvers in California parks! Ya Smakin my man!

RebelLT, all my silver came in Conduct sounds. I've been hunting with FAST and DEEP both off for the past 3 months, and like this mode the best. The SE is plenty fast at recovering with both filters off. Gain is at 8. Yes, the SE bounces the Smartscreen ID all over the place on deep targets...I really don't go by the ID to tell me to dig....it's all in the tone and depth of the target....that's the beauty of the machine.

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[Baldingboy]

Unfreakingbelievable!!!

 

[Captn SE]

Thats it?? Well, I guess I'll just have to say great totals and that is alot of silver!! How about a pic of all that jewerly and have you found much gold?

That's it, Jack!! I'll post my jewelry in a separate thread. I need to lay it all out, and take multiple pics of them....haven't found very many gold items this year....I'm not really looking for them...I've been targeting old, deep silver in all the parks (over 44 of them) around my area. Maybe after I can't find an old silver from them anymore, I'll start to dig all the trash in hopes of finding the gold....I just don't like digging all the low conductor trash at these parks.

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[John (Ma)]

Thats outstanding SE! Great finds!

 

[NC_Horn]

Well swat my hind with a mellon rind. That is a nice stack of silver, and sounds like a nice pile of wheat to go with it. Most of us love finding the ocasional silver. Way to go!

Congrats!!! and Happy Hunting

 

[vpone]

congrats - talk about inspiring !!!!!
makes me want to run out with my detector right now !!!!

couple questions from a fellow se user
why Fast & Deep both off ? do you gain anything by doing this ?
(i run cond sounds, deep, 8 gain)

also do you use only the stock coil ?

not sure i've run into the "SE bounce" on deep targets - can you explain ?

thanks in advance

vp

 

[Captn SE]

Thanks, VP!!

I found that when running FAST ON, Deeper signals are easily missed because the Explorer will "clip" the sound...it's like a short chirp....deeper targets can easily be missed if you're not swinging slow enough. When using DEEP ON, the machine will be less responsive because extra processing is required to give a more accurate ID when DEEP is on. So good targets that are next to iron or trash will be less likely to be found with this setting ON. Then why not set both ON?? Well, a tech at Minelab I spoke with said not to do this...setting both filters on will produce erratic results from the machine. I used to run DEEP on when I first got my machine, then I tried just FAST on...I found silver with both these settings, but now just set both OFF, and I've been having great results....coil changes(smaller coil) actually make a bigger difference at the machines ability to find good targets next to trash. I have an 8" sunray coil, a coiltek platypus elliptical coil, and a stock Exp. II coil. I have found lots of silver wth each coil, but lately have been using the Exp. II coil with great success.

The Explorer bounce is when the the target icon on the smartscreen display keeps changing position(bounces) a little back and forth, or diagonally from it's usual position on a known target. This happens on deeper targets. The sound is still that un-mistakeable fluty tone.

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

congrats - talk about inspiring !!!!!
makes me want to run out with my detector right now !!!!

couple questions from a fellow se user
why Fast & Deep both off ? do you gain anything by doing this ?
(i run cond sounds, deep, 8 gain)

also do you use only the stock coil ?

not sure i've run into the "SE bounce" on deep targets - can you explain ?

thanks in advance

vp

 

[Green1]

great year for sure !!!!! holy cow,,,,,

kirk will want to move in with you now.....

 

[Captn SE]

Thanks, Green1! Can't wait for him to see the pics.

Congrats again on your seated quarter find....it's a beauty!!

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

great year for sure !!!!! holy cow,,,,,

kirk will want to move in with you now.....

 

[Colonial KirkPA]

Dan the Man,

What else can I say? You continue to amaze KirkPA with your great wilver seeking skills. I would find it hard to compete with you, and I am GREAT, so you must be SUPER GREAT.

Let me state this, "If I lived in your county, hometown, on your street, etc., I would feel very threatened by your detecting skills."

Keep the wilver pride high, brother!

Kirk

 

[Captn SE]

Thanks, Kirk!! I think we'd have a great time hunting sites together. No threats. Just think of the great stories you could tell.

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[Colonial KirkPA]

Thanks, Kirk!! I think we'd have a great time hunting sites together. No threats. Just think of the great stories you could tell.

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

That is true, bud. But, I probably would be looking over at you once in awhile and think, "Now, why is he digging again? That hole looks deep, oh my." LMAO

The stories would be published...they would be that great.

 

[silverfreak]

Sweet pics Dan.
I have always hunted in conductive as well but have recently bumped the gain to 10 and hunting in semi auto sensitivity at about 26. I have actually been hunting with fast and deep both on but will now give your settings of both off a try and see what happens. What do you run your iron mask at?

 

[Colonial KirkPA]

Seriously, Captn, you should post all of your clad, too. There are some clad hunters on here, but I don't see any at $900 and just think, you aren't really trying for those coins. If you started to hunt only clad, you would have over $2,000.