mpostma
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With the weather warmed up, and the weeds and bugs nowhere in sight I decided to give a shot to the steep hillside behind the old fairgrounds. The slope is steep, covered in brush, and shows signs of having earth, and everything it held, bulldozed over the edges. It is tough going, especially when it is hot out, but I've long wondered how many goodies had been pushed over the edge of that hill.
I put the procoil on the Quattro and decided to see what I could find. With not a single silver coin in the pouch this year I was willing to try anything. I just had to break the dry spell!
After a little over an hour of working my way up and down the side of the hill I was doubting my theory, and my sanity.
Then I found a depression with a mixed up signal when I put the coil over it. I got a nickel signal, a silver signal, some lower signals, like brass, with some iffy penny signals and small iron signals. Every time I changed the angle I got a different signal, with a different depth. I just kept getting sweet little silver tones that were driving me crazy. No way to pinpoint any signal, since on pinpoint the Quattro got the stutters, so many little targets.
Finally I decided to just dig up the depression. The entire depression was about 18 inches in diameter. I wasn't too worried about making a clean hole, since I was deep in the brush and probably the only human crazy enough to climb in there in the last 15 years.
I found some nails, of course, first. Then up came a Buff!(a1925 or '29?), then a 16 Guage shotgun shell, a 1943 War Nickel, a 1943 Washington, and then some odd pieces of metal I couldn't identify.
By the time I had everything from the hole it was growning dark, so I headed home.
I put the procoil on the Quattro and decided to see what I could find. With not a single silver coin in the pouch this year I was willing to try anything. I just had to break the dry spell!
After a little over an hour of working my way up and down the side of the hill I was doubting my theory, and my sanity.
Then I found a depression with a mixed up signal when I put the coil over it. I got a nickel signal, a silver signal, some lower signals, like brass, with some iffy penny signals and small iron signals. Every time I changed the angle I got a different signal, with a different depth. I just kept getting sweet little silver tones that were driving me crazy. No way to pinpoint any signal, since on pinpoint the Quattro got the stutters, so many little targets.
Finally I decided to just dig up the depression. The entire depression was about 18 inches in diameter. I wasn't too worried about making a clean hole, since I was deep in the brush and probably the only human crazy enough to climb in there in the last 15 years.
I found some nails, of course, first. Then up came a Buff!(a1925 or '29?), then a 16 Guage shotgun shell, a 1943 War Nickel, a 1943 Washington, and then some odd pieces of metal I couldn't identify.
By the time I had everything from the hole it was growning dark, so I headed home.
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? nice finds on the cions!!!
