litefire56
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Hi Gang! Hope everybody's getting in some good hunting with this cold snap going around the country!
Well, as Rootmaster mentioned in a earlier post, we met up yesterday with Goio, Snowmanfromtexas and McEtrac for one last hunt for this season. I would have been perfectly content ending the year with my first seated dime 2 weeks ago, but with the temps pushing 50 deg. and the thought of getting to a new (very old park) for me was too much to pass up. My DFX, armed with a new, untried 10" DD coil was up for the challenge of digging some oldies, even though the thought of hunting with 4 Etrac-ers was a bit daunting!
The finds for me were slim and the ground was so hard at first that I felt like I was just chipping ice for a good Martini.
Meanwhile, the other guys were digging foot deep birthday cake plugs with the shouts of "wheatie, silver and Injun". Then I got some good advise from Goio! He said, "hey John, quit banging 
your DFX against the tree and put the coil on the ground". Actually I wasn't banging it against a tree, but at times I sure wanted too.
So I did.....also changed some settings and the deepies started ringing through. My next hit was the 3 coin spill
which included a 1899 V nickel, a first for me. After the other guys left for the day, Root and I decided to hit one last spot but were denied by a 10' high fence with barb wire at the top. Well we figured we'd just hit the spot we were at as it was getting dark soon. I turned on the DFX as it was leaning against me and it started popping a quarter tone. I figured it was just falsing and needed a ground balance, but nope, another spill 6" down. 3 wheats and 3 Mercs, all touching.
HH everybody!
Well, as Rootmaster mentioned in a earlier post, we met up yesterday with Goio, Snowmanfromtexas and McEtrac for one last hunt for this season. I would have been perfectly content ending the year with my first seated dime 2 weeks ago, but with the temps pushing 50 deg. and the thought of getting to a new (very old park) for me was too much to pass up. My DFX, armed with a new, untried 10" DD coil was up for the challenge of digging some oldies, even though the thought of hunting with 4 Etrac-ers was a bit daunting!
The finds for me were slim and the ground was so hard at first that I felt like I was just chipping ice for a good Martini.
Meanwhile, the other guys were digging foot deep birthday cake plugs with the shouts of "wheatie, silver and Injun". Then I got some good advise from Goio! He said, "hey John, quit banging your DFX against the tree and put the coil on the ground". Actually I wasn't banging it against a tree, but at times I sure wanted too. So I did.....also changed some settings and the deepies started ringing through. My next hit was the 3 coin spill
which included a 1899 V nickel, a first for me. After the other guys left for the day, Root and I decided to hit one last spot but were denied by a 10' high fence with barb wire at the top. Well we figured we'd just hit the spot we were at as it was getting dark soon. I turned on the DFX as it was leaning against me and it started popping a quarter tone. I figured it was just falsing and needed a ground balance, but nope, another spill 6" down. 3 wheats and 3 Mercs, all touching.
HH everybody!
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Keep on hunting! Great finds! 
