Mirage
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Well, my son really did good this week. The scenario goes like this - I think up the spots, plan the outings and my son scores all the silver. 
He has been doing very well lately with the DFX. Now he has had some extra time with being off from school and has been at the right place at the right time but some of the signals he has dug I really would never have dug. Anyway, here is his write up(Nate-in-Ohio):
"Today I was just bored so I went out to the front yard to mess around. Haven't found any silver in the yard (my house was built in 1963), but have found some wheats. I haven't detected the front as much as the back, so maybe there'd be some clad left. But BAM, a 1963 dime! That was a surprise.
The past couple days, me and my family took a trip to a cottage near Cedar Point for some relaxation and fishing, etc. The cottage wasn't old but I detected a bit anyway and...yeehaw! My first Ike dollar! This thing is so worn you can barely make out the outline of the eagle and the outline of the head. I also got (also extremely worn) an old looking token. While in the area, we decided to try a park surrounded by very old homes. I wasn't expecting anything, but then I dug 43 merc next to a sidewalk that went through the park. The signal was kinda iffy but the pinpoint was easy. I thought I might as well just keep following the sidewalk and then I got another iffy signal. There wasn't really any iron VDIs/tones in these signals, which always helps to convince me to dig. Now the pinpoint was tough, I had to really press the coil into the ground to find it on the pinpoint. It turned out to be a very nice 1919 merc. After figuring out that these iffy signals can produce good coins, I was still very surprised that these signals were giving me these coins.
I continued along the sidewalk, and a little kid started watching me and then talking to me...aaaahhhhh! LOL I had my pinpointer in my hand and he asks, what's that thing, and can I hold that for you, and here, let me stomp that plug back for you, and hey, grandma, he yells out, look what he's letting me hold! He did witness me find some wheats, and he kept a quarter. Then when he went away my dad came over just as I was getting an iffy signal, with not much iron in it and the VDIs were in the 80s and 90s. I admit that I was not expecting a coin because of the intermittent tones. I tried pinpointing, and I'm serious, there was nothing! This was the first signal that I have ever dug that I could not even pinpoint at all. I dug a huge hole and didn't stop digging till I saw it, a wheat penny. It was only a 1941. I really wish I knew how deep it was.
Back to today, we tried a newer looking school that we hadn't hit before, and I found a shallow 61 dime and a wheat. We'll be back there. The final site was the "1950s school". Since this is gettin long, I'll skip to the good part. (After finding a 47 nickel and a war nickle,) I was wandering about the soccer field in which we only found a silver rosie and some wheats. The signals are so few, so I was digging everything deep. I was bored waiting for a signal when I finally got one. The first tone was a 79 and the rest of the tones were hitting randomly around the scale (a couple 50s, 60s, 20s, 30s, 80s VDIs), but there was no sign of iron in the signal. Most of the VDIs (which weren't appearing on every sweep) were below 70 I believe. In order to locate the target which didn't sound good to me at the moment, I had to smush the coil into the grass to get a faint signal in the pinpoint mode. I dove in. I didn't stop digging till I was almost a foot deep. (You can dig down to a foot in this field in no time.) I scaned my pile and got a repeatable 78. My heart rate soared. I carefully located the silver dime (couldn't believe it), but I could tell what it was. I ran to the car to wash it off. My mouth fell open after realizing it was a seated liberty dime!!! I ran to my dad who was just as amazed. With great detail on the 1877 dime, there has to me more to this site than a "1950s school". Maybe a house was in the field before the school? Well, that's the exciting finds I made recently. Good things are really happening now that I'm not ignoring the iffy signals. I'm learning that the good targets shouldn't give a broken up sound, nor should there be much iron mixed in with the sound. They should have a good amount of 80s or 90s VDIs in the signal, which may not give a tone or a VDI on every single sweep. Thanks for sticking with me, next time I won't make it so long. I hope you guys are getting better with your DFX and finding some great suff. "
He has been doing very well lately with the DFX. Now he has had some extra time with being off from school and has been at the right place at the right time but some of the signals he has dug I really would never have dug. Anyway, here is his write up(Nate-in-Ohio):"Today I was just bored so I went out to the front yard to mess around. Haven't found any silver in the yard (my house was built in 1963), but have found some wheats. I haven't detected the front as much as the back, so maybe there'd be some clad left. But BAM, a 1963 dime! That was a surprise.
The past couple days, me and my family took a trip to a cottage near Cedar Point for some relaxation and fishing, etc. The cottage wasn't old but I detected a bit anyway and...yeehaw! My first Ike dollar! This thing is so worn you can barely make out the outline of the eagle and the outline of the head. I also got (also extremely worn) an old looking token. While in the area, we decided to try a park surrounded by very old homes. I wasn't expecting anything, but then I dug 43 merc next to a sidewalk that went through the park. The signal was kinda iffy but the pinpoint was easy. I thought I might as well just keep following the sidewalk and then I got another iffy signal. There wasn't really any iron VDIs/tones in these signals, which always helps to convince me to dig. Now the pinpoint was tough, I had to really press the coil into the ground to find it on the pinpoint. It turned out to be a very nice 1919 merc. After figuring out that these iffy signals can produce good coins, I was still very surprised that these signals were giving me these coins.
I continued along the sidewalk, and a little kid started watching me and then talking to me...aaaahhhhh! LOL I had my pinpointer in my hand and he asks, what's that thing, and can I hold that for you, and here, let me stomp that plug back for you, and hey, grandma, he yells out, look what he's letting me hold! He did witness me find some wheats, and he kept a quarter. Then when he went away my dad came over just as I was getting an iffy signal, with not much iron in it and the VDIs were in the 80s and 90s. I admit that I was not expecting a coin because of the intermittent tones. I tried pinpointing, and I'm serious, there was nothing! This was the first signal that I have ever dug that I could not even pinpoint at all. I dug a huge hole and didn't stop digging till I saw it, a wheat penny. It was only a 1941. I really wish I knew how deep it was.
Back to today, we tried a newer looking school that we hadn't hit before, and I found a shallow 61 dime and a wheat. We'll be back there. The final site was the "1950s school". Since this is gettin long, I'll skip to the good part. (After finding a 47 nickel and a war nickle,) I was wandering about the soccer field in which we only found a silver rosie and some wheats. The signals are so few, so I was digging everything deep. I was bored waiting for a signal when I finally got one. The first tone was a 79 and the rest of the tones were hitting randomly around the scale (a couple 50s, 60s, 20s, 30s, 80s VDIs), but there was no sign of iron in the signal. Most of the VDIs (which weren't appearing on every sweep) were below 70 I believe. In order to locate the target which didn't sound good to me at the moment, I had to smush the coil into the grass to get a faint signal in the pinpoint mode. I dove in. I didn't stop digging till I was almost a foot deep. (You can dig down to a foot in this field in no time.) I scaned my pile and got a repeatable 78. My heart rate soared. I carefully located the silver dime (couldn't believe it), but I could tell what it was. I ran to the car to wash it off. My mouth fell open after realizing it was a seated liberty dime!!! I ran to my dad who was just as amazed. With great detail on the 1877 dime, there has to me more to this site than a "1950s school". Maybe a house was in the field before the school? Well, that's the exciting finds I made recently. Good things are really happening now that I'm not ignoring the iffy signals. I'm learning that the good targets shouldn't give a broken up sound, nor should there be much iron mixed in with the sound. They should have a good amount of 80s or 90s VDIs in the signal, which may not give a tone or a VDI on every single sweep. Thanks for sticking with me, next time I won't make it so long. I hope you guys are getting better with your DFX and finding some great suff. "
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