Nick-nick-nick Nickel - OD - ian!!!

[WHADIFIND]

I made mention in another post today, that I had a plan:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/today-s-finds/508166-i-just-had-know.html#post5040958

So, I put it into action and......

Well, I'll let the pictures tell the story: (and...there are a *few* )
















On top of everything else, how many Buffs
are found with a full date?



AND......THIS!!!! The coup-d-gras!

I have NEVER found 5 of these in the same hunt in nearly half a century!
Suppose....I will never see it again.

What's more, this tiny little area where I hunted has been pounded by
everybody and their brother! ALSO.....it was hit EXPLICITLY, and in detail/grid, by ME!!!

I have found there many times before but the last 10 times, nothing. I just knew
that there was a limit to my reach and that this place was holding. Especially nickles!
Because almost everyone else hunts for silver. I have pulled 3 war nickles from here
once before. The ground is highly mineralized and has a LOT of trash! Ground balance
is around 92-93!!! The 2 day soaking was JUST what the doctor ordered! But, it wasn't
JUST that, I also listened to the ATP in a whole other way today. I was hearing the indications
of coins, IN BETWEEN the trash!!

I figured to only find a couple coins today and that was ok! It was the plan and the testing that
was important! I feel I learned my machine just a LIL bit better today!

Hope you enjoyed the ride!

Thanks for the support and the peek.

 

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[WHADIFIND]

Excellent pickings,, that's quite an accomplishment.
51- 52,, 51- 52,, 51- 52, 51- 52,, 51- 52,, 51- 52,,
You will be pulling gold soon enough.
Congratulations

Yep, that's close enough to the range I concentrated on but guess what? Almost NONE of those
nickles rang up at that normal range! I got everything from an iron grunt with a burp to about a 60!

On a side note, at least one of the finds showed me a bit of why these
are so difficult to find:



Look at the build up of green corrosion around that nickle!!
When the conditions are dryer and in highly mineralized ground
that just has to make it difficult to pick up! Especially if discriminating!

 

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[nsdq]

Dang happy to find one or in a year but 5 in one hunt killer hunt well done

 

[jeff of pa]

yep the conditions can be as varied as the coin Size & Positions.
Then add the direction & Speed you swing over them,
and how your mind interprets the sound, and says dig.

congrats on a great hunt

 

[WHADIFIND]

yep the conditions can be as varied as the coin Size & Positions.
Then add the direction & Speed you swing over them,
and how your mind interprets the sound, and says dig.

congrats on a great hunt

The "easy" way is to just dig EVERY signal. Can you imagine how tired you'd get!? LOL
I figure I paid for a good discriminating detector for a reason. Still. LOL

nice! Bet that was a kick in the pants, my friend. Way to save some history.

Yes, it most certainly was, Skippy! AND....it was SORELY needed!!
Thanks!

Dang happy to find one or in a year but 5 in one hunt killer hunt well done

I'm the same way. These were all in a small area but I don't think I could call them all a "pocket spill". Unless they scattered.

I've done 3 before and in this same field. But, NEVER 5! LOL
One thing that did make me happy also, was that all of these coins came out from 7-9 inches deep!
That's pretty impressive for any machine!

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Makes ya wonder what went on in that spot years ago to accodate losing all those nickles. :what:

 

[Greastart]

First of all, one has to learn their machine. The sounds come in such a large amount! You HAVE to learn to at least be able to hear the different, subtle differences in frequencies. AND....sorry to say, but, that ONLY comes from long, long hours of listening!

One habit I've always had though is "call my shot" before EVERY plug. I take note of whatever info I can gather from the signal. The VDI, the sound, the volume, the depth, the difference between the normal sweep and the pinpointing sounds. Then, I say what I believe I've found. After being surprised many, many times, I've finally started understanding what it's been saying.

The only true way to understand, is to do all that above and dig everything! At least for a while. Even an hour or so each time out will help. When it gets too tiring/frustrating just go back to the type of hunt you're used to/normal.

Just know this, if you concentrate too much on trying to discriminate out things, you ARE going to miss
good stuff.


Hope that helps! Sorry, there are no magical secrets.

I never look for magical secrets....but I have learned to listen to the voices of wisdom and experience when they are willing to speak! What you shared above is what I was hoping for.

Thanks for sharing your finds...and the insight.

Grease

 

[WHADIFIND]

I never look for magical secrets....but I have learned to listen to the voices of wisdom and experience when they are willing to speak! What you shared above is what I was hoping for.

Thanks for sharing your finds...and the insight.

Grease

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I just feel like I don't really have anything special to offer
except the fact of time put into this hobby. Put in enough and something just has to
get through! LOL Even this ole hard head!

Most of what I say is just common logic. But, I see far too many people trying to find that "perfect" machine! You
know, the one that skips all trash and only beeps on gold & silver. The newer to this hobby sees all the
wonderful things posted without considering all the trash that isn't reported. Like clad.
I figure that EVERY signal has potential for finding and for learning. The only way is to put in the time and to
learn what your machine is trying to tell you. A practice garden at home is a REALLY good way to do that initially.

 

[Old Dude]

Wow Gary! Now that just won't be duplicated any time soon!

 

[WHADIFIND]

Wow Gary! Now that just won't be duplicated any time soon!

Yep, Dave, despite the misnomer, I thought you could appreciate just how really special a day like this really is, they just don't come around very often.

Thanks!

 

[heepiepow]

Agreed, time is the best teacher, and jumping into the pool is the best way to swim (well, no you'll probably drown and die... but I still like that analogy, since detecting some lousy nail won't make us die).

And listening to everything and digging everything the best way to learn a new detector. And I like your "call my shot"...with my detector a buried aluminum can sounds a lot like a silver thingie on the number report. But the depth indicator plus pinpointer plus size of where it signals/overlaps can tell me it's likely just that, a buried, awful beer can instead of a small real silver thing. (I still dig it, still haven't found a silver ingot! But have found other things, including smaller things than indicated, etc. Detectors aren't perfect!) Also, a high-pitched beep and low depth indicator often saves me time whether pull-tab or coin, because from experience such is likely barely below the surface so I just need to grab with my hand and not dig.

That said, I had some bad tinnitus for about a year before it suddenly went away (atypical thankfully, most suffer for the rest of their lives after the initial onset)... ), and perhaps not all detectorists have the same hearing ability. Or even realize they have any hearing loss, since health care sucks and even if not, a random check-up won't test for hearing hertz levels. There actually could be some detectorists underwhelmed by their machines because they can't hear some tones.

Greastart--make that test garden WHADIFIND notes, and keep using the detector full-bore, dig everything! Plus--the other key to detecting aside from knowing the machine is location! That private park might actually suck, even if it has '60s pulltabs! A lot of useless sites have such, and I've also found them in random modern areas! (just as I've found very old things in modern areas, 1800s at the same stratigraphic level as 2000s coins, finds are often baffling.) Plus sure--if that park was established only in 1960, it'll have those pulltabs, and some 60s clad, but if the ground was barely touched by humans prior to that, not likely to have much before the '60s.

My hunch is that you've done a good job there and have cleaned most of it up, but it's just not that old a site.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Also if the soil is dusturbed and moved around for any reason, landscaping, construction, etc. The old stuff can be moved up and the new stuff buried deeper.
Sometimes thats why we find old silver and can slaw at the same depth.

I am finding that under drier soil conditions clad dimes & quarters can read as screw caps with a bounce in numbers but a slightly higher pitch. The zincs are a lost cause, they read straight up screwcap when they start decaying and crumbling.

I have finally learned the nickle zone on my detector, but once in a while the metal part of a pencil erraser will get me. It's at just the right angle with just the right soil conditions, nickle!...not! .
Odd signals are investigated just to see what they are, which is usually a combination of metals, like hotwheels, which are neat to find.

Your deep nickle patch was an awesome find!