i need help!!!!!

petrosky · Jan 18, 2013

My brother has a lot better detector then i do and i let him come search my yard with me since i have found over a dozen wheaties in a 20 foot area and now he is pulling out my silver. I have a bounty hunter sharp shooter II and i could use any tips offered, thanks

Toby1858 · Jan 20, 2013

Go really slow, turn your discrimination down, dig every thing as long as the signals not too broken, and spend some serious time detecting. Oh, and have fun. :coffee2:

petrosky · Jan 20, 2013

Thank you Toby. I will go and practice later today. For coin shooting it tells me to place my discrimination on 3:00, yesterday was the first time i tried it. Other then heavily oxidized materials it cut my trash digging down tremendously. Between my brother and i we have unearthed around 200 coins so far and probably 50 of them are wheaties. He has found an Indian,war nickel,silver and merc dimes, buffalos, a large cent which is his oldest to date-1844, and all kinds of newer coins. I have a good back yard which is funny cause cause its probably only about 30 square yards. Thanks for the advice. Im addicted 8) happy digging

boris · Jan 20, 2013

petrosky said:
Thank you Toby. I will go and practice later today. For coin shooting it tells me to place my discrimination on 3:00, yesterday was the first time i tried it. Other then heavily oxidized materials it cut my trash digging down tremendously. Between my brother and i we have unearthed around 200 coins so far and probably 50 of them are wheaties. He has found an Indian,war nickel,silver and merc dimes, buffalos, a large cent which is his oldest to date-1844, and all kinds of newer coins. I have a good back yard which is funny cause cause its probably only about 30 square yards. Thanks for the advice. Im addicted 8) happy digging

your site must be incredible, what state? go slow is right with no discrimination so you get the 5 cents and gold, try around where the rain washes the ground too.

petrosky · Jan 20, 2013

Thanks for the advice Boris, i live in Elizabethtown pa, can't find too much on this town but it only held population of less then 2,000 until the end of wwII, in not sure where all the stuff came from my yard but it definitely has peaked my curiosity. Thanks for the advice

fyrffytr1 · Jan 24, 2013

Post your yard with "No Trespassing" signs and don't let your brother in! :laughing7:

If you are finding the coins in the backyard there may have been a clothes line there at one time.

63bkpkr · Jan 24, 2013

Petrosky,
It is pretty much understood, if your are on this forum you do need help! You do have a very intriguing yard with lots of coins. I would suggest that if you want to find out details about why your yard is so prolific you could go to the city or county land office and check out the history of owners of the property and that might lead to some clues as to why there are so many coins there.

I would also suggest you test some coins and your machine: coins - silver dime, clad dime, wheatie, zincalon, nickle, clad quarter. Have the coins spaced a good distance apart or as your yard has 'so much in it' IF you can find a piece of ground with no target in it you might just use that on piece of ground and just change the coins out. So here goes, place a coin on the surface or just under it, have the discrimination at zero, with the machine on wave the coil over the target. Record what signal/reading you get from the machine. Bring the discrimination up slowly and test swing. At some point it is likely the coin will be discriminated out though silvers maybe never. Mark the spot on your discrimination knob setting indicator with a small piece of tape where each type of coin drops out. If you have any other 'setable' switches/knobs run this same test with them along with the discrimination. When you've completed this for all the various items including a small gold ring you will notice you have a super tuned machine in that you know where each type of material including pull tabs, yup include those and tin foil in your tests. Simply by going through a few swings/knob twists/switch flips you will pretty much know what is in the ground.

You might want to put some very weak batteries in your brothers machine. Good Success............63bkpkr