against the wind
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- Port Allegheny, Pennsylvania
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- E-trac, Excalibur, XP Deus, & CTX 3030.
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- All Treasure Hunting
Ten days ago I visited a park that I had hit 2 years ago with the AT PRO. This time, I was using the DEUS. In addition to 30 clad coins, I dug 6 deep Wheat Pennies. They were around an eight inch depth. Well, I mentioned that someone may have Cherry Picked that hill and left behind the Wheat. Boy,, there was a lot of feed back behind that comment. Today I packed up the E-Trac and headed back to that hill. I have had the good fortune of pulling Mercury Dimes on one way signals with the E-Trac. Those silver dimes were an average of 7 to 9 inches deep. In most cases I found the dimes to be sharing the hole with an iron nail or some other piece of iron. A partial mask that the E-Trac was able to see through. I just wanted to see if maybe this hill might have some silver that the E-Trac could sniff out.
I gave it 2 1/2 hours and listened to anything chirping under a slow swing. Although I did manage to find some more clad, there were no deep targets, no additional Wheat pennies, and absolutely no silver. Now before anyone jumps on those results, let me say that I am aware of the fact that there may still be some silver hiding there. The fact that the soil was pretty dry may also be keeping me from finding my desired target. Maybe in a year or two after some freezing winters and wet springs I will approach from just the right angle with the right machine and ask that question,,, How Did I Miss That??
I moved on to another hill and added a few more clad coins to today's totals. After 5 1/2 hours of trying to hunt mostly shaded areas, I surrendered to the fact that I felt like I was wearing my wet suit. The Temps had hit 85 and it was Humid. Yep, good to get in a little dirt fishing, but it was time to quit. I'm okay with 50 coins.
I gave it 2 1/2 hours and listened to anything chirping under a slow swing. Although I did manage to find some more clad, there were no deep targets, no additional Wheat pennies, and absolutely no silver. Now before anyone jumps on those results, let me say that I am aware of the fact that there may still be some silver hiding there. The fact that the soil was pretty dry may also be keeping me from finding my desired target. Maybe in a year or two after some freezing winters and wet springs I will approach from just the right angle with the right machine and ask that question,,, How Did I Miss That??
I moved on to another hill and added a few more clad coins to today's totals. After 5 1/2 hours of trying to hunt mostly shaded areas, I surrendered to the fact that I felt like I was wearing my wet suit. The Temps had hit 85 and it was Humid. Yep, good to get in a little dirt fishing, but it was time to quit. I'm okay with 50 coins.
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