Little Red Schoolhouse

[solaryellow]

Returned to a old one room schoolhouse nearby.

Been there plenty of times before, and found some Mercury Dimes.
But it has been a few years, so I figured I would go back and play around in some different areas.

Although it is right off the main road, and available for anyone to walk through, the site contained very little junk in the way of iron and cans and whatnot.
This type of scenario I like, I turned Disc off. maxed out all sensitivity.
I was getting constant strong readings of nickel, but it turned out to be a square nail.
a few of them.....
Even with Disc off, my Garrett MH/CX still throws a few broken blips into the mix, but I dug them anyway.
Usually I would ignore them, but it was when I found an indian head penny, that I decided to dig all.

Unfortunately the date can't be read, and it looks like the head side is seperating from the rest of the coin.
The back side shows pretty much everything.
Still happy that I didn't walk away empty.

My Garrett does strange things sometimes.
That penny read nickel on the meter, but it was a distinct solid blip while swinging the coil both ways.
usually junk will produce a solid blip one way, and a broken blip the other.
Either way, it was pretty obvious that this was a coin based on all my previous target blips.



One thing I don't like is the loss of sensitivity to nickels if you start turning the ferrous reject knob up.
Free air I can get solid tones on a nickel at 12" with my 12" hothead.
Turn that ferrous reject 1/8th and it cuts it in half, let alone breaks up the blip leading you to believe it isn't anything good.
This also effects gold rings.

Got more ground to cover....

 

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[davesx]

Hi solaryellow
Wellcome to Tnet from UK
Sounds like you know your md real well,
hope you get to dig plenty of targets.

HH Dave.

 

[tymcmurray]

My old white started acting up like that and the factory said the spring under the discrimination knob needed to be replaced. Just and idea.

 

[solaryellow]

Thanks for that info.

I haven't noticed anything strange with the disc knobs, but I have noticed that when I bump my coil it beeps sometimes.
I was planning on having it serviced by Garrett, but I don't know what to ask for.
Maybe just tell them to give it a complete overhaul..
It is 15 years old just about.
But still does everything as normal, just with some quirks here and there.
Tomorrow I am hitting the outskirts of an old cemetary. 1700's.
Doubled as a meeting place for worshippers.
It's off the beaten path in the middle of nowhere.
Of course I won't be going near the dozen or so headstones, but the place is historic and old.
The headstones are pretty much jumbled rocks with trees growing all around them.
Quite an interesting place..

 

[Rob66]

Weclome!!!!!! And, can't wait to see some of your finds!!!!! :P
RD

 

[solaryellow]

I will try and put a collage together of some of my nicer coins.

My oldest is a 1887 Indian Head,
It beat my prevvious 1888 IH.

I have a couple Barber dimes 1898, 1907.

Buffalo Nickel no date.

1 Standing liberty 1927

1 walking liberty dollar 1926

Tons of Mercury dimes.
And even more wheat pennies.

A nice 25 gram 1905 Venezualan coin. was given to me

I found a few foreign coins too including a 1943 German 10 Pfennig with Nazi emblem.
Forgot where I found that one..

I was hoping for at least one coin of each value to make a set.
The park I got most of these at are off limits now.
See my post in "Connecticut" part of forum.

I am hoping for some colonial era coins, my town dates to 1707, but there were settlers as early as 1690. I have a few locales to try out, but it's a crap shoot with guessing where people actually camped/walked/hungout....
I am still investigating some early topo maps.