Recent finds: Few firsts!! 1781 Spanish Half Real, Cufflinks, .69 cal. loner.

matt092079 · May 4, 2012

I dug my fourth and OLDEST silver coin for the year today! A 1781 half real and man is it tiny! I almost walked away from this bouncy signal. On the F75 it read out as a 71 vdi but jumped to iron on different directions. I probably swung the coil over this for about 2 minutes...almost walked, but said I will dig this. Pop the plug put the pro-pointer in the hole, not in the hole so I search the plug and it's in there! I pop it out and I thought I had another pewter type flat button. I broke the dirt off of the back and I knew instantly I had a spanish real! Talk about stoked man! My first one! Took me a long time to find something else, but I ended up finding a flattened thimble(my second one and both flat!) and then a crusty indian head about 2 feet away from that.

This past sunday I detected for a little bit and found my first pair of cufflinks...not sure on the era these come from. I'm guessing early 1800's and I also dug a CW pistol bullet that day then my metal detector went bunkers with the moister and highly mineralized ground so I called it a day.

And kinda my unexpected find for the week was this .69 caliber 3 ringer! I work in winchester and where we keep our equipment for our lawncare business I decided to detect there for a little. About 4 minutes walking up behind one of our trailers I get a 60 vdi and an inch down in the dirt pops out the bullet! Kinda shocked to find it considering we don't find any confederate bullets around there.

Well that's my finds and thanks for looking! HH!

Wldbil · May 6, 2012

Great Finds... Congrats!

matt092079 · May 6, 2012

VOL1266-X said:
Glad to share Matt as I had lots of veteran F75 users give me tips when I bought my first one in 2009. We hunt in AM Motion mode for relics. I trust it for weak signals as opposed to Disc. mode. We use factory settings in +1 threshold and 70 sensitivity. The unit runs very quiet and I don't think we miss many deep signals. I don't know why but I prefer to hunt in F5 frequency instead of the F4 default but I doubt that makes any difference. I don't see how people keep their sanity with a 90 or higher sens. setting-too much input for your brain to assimilate.
As to hot soil, readings are significantly lower on the display. For example, a .58 bullet may only read 12 or 13 in very hot soil. GB OFTEN in hot soil. When you swing the coil and get a "ping" each sweep, Fast grab GB it. Above all, dig everything with a solidi signal. Don't expect it to do as well as the GPX or TDI units as it's a VLF detector. Deep signals that are 10 in. or deeper may only read 12 on the display but read 60 when you get them out of the hole. Even though it's not recommended, change the 4 AA batteries after the battery meet gets down to the 3rd bar. It will work better and weak batteries make the machine sound erratic. HH, Quindy.

Wow, thanks a lot Quindy! That's very informative and helpful. I will be using those techniques next time out there at this property. My only problem with this property is I don't know what makes the machine so chattery. Not sure if it's hot soil or interference with the frequency from powerlines or other things. Either way, my first 3 ringer I dug from the field was a very low(compared to a normal 60 or so vdi) it was a 30 and sound like iron on some sweeps. Either way you look at it, I'm pretty much digging everything. I'm not afraid to dig nails or iron if that means I'm gonna eventually get a nice coin or relic. HH buddy!