SGAFEIOF!

[d-dub]

Got out with P2C and L4S today to a chicago park. On the drive out I was telling L4S that my goal was to get my first IH and Barber for the year and I am happy to say that I accomplished both.

First in the pouch was the 1900 IH. Next came the 1904 Barber dime. A little while later I found a sterling silver St. Christopher pennant. All through the hunt at the park I also managed a few wheaties and the usual clad, nails, and trash. About 12:30 we broke for lunch and decided to check out a grove.

After spending 4.5 hours at the park with the discrimination almost wide open I was overcome by beep fatigue and decided to try a program/discrimination program I found online which allows most gold, nickels, pennies, dimes, and quarters in. I decided to recover any target that the pattern let through as long as it was repeatable. Bunkered down in a little section of open grass and hit it hard.

One of the targets that I dug was a screw cap and after removing it from the plug, I rescanned the hole and to my surprise, I was getting a solid quarter signal. Dug a little deeper and got a keeper. A 1941 Washington! One of the benefits that I found with this pattern is the way that nickels just seem to jump out of the ground and into the pouch. After digging over 10 clad nickels from this little area I FINALLY found my first war nickel. A 1945P. Towards the end of the hunt and after digging a pouch full of foil looking for the elusive gold I decided to ignore anything below nickels. Luckily silver is above a nickel because my last keeper for the day was a sterling silver women's ring which ended up being my last keeper. I will definitely be using this pattern in the future.

It was great hunting with you guys today.

 

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[p2c]

You had a great day Dan! you are really rocking that Etrac. I think L4S and myself felt we had a long hard day, each with just 1 silver. I bet you felt you had a really great day!

It was good hunting with you two. Now I know what to do when I have to relieve myself in Chicago Parks...

Hope to get out in your posse again sometime...

 

[treasurefiend]

Awesome job bud!!!

 

[Lookn4Seated]

Way to go man
At the rate your going, you should hit 100 in no time.

 

[Pocket Spill]

Dude, you are on FIRE! Great hunt!

 

[DPBOB]

Drooling!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P :P :P

 

[Lookn4Seated]

Dude, you are on FIRE! Great hunt!

Yeah, your gonna need a fire extinguisher to put yourself out

 

[Lowbatts]

Yeah, what they said! Sweet pickens!

 

[kimsdad]

Great finds, Dan!!!

 

[watercolor]

And your season saga continues

Nice hunt Dan!

 

[Dirt fishing Wolf]

Nice digs D-Dub!!

 

[outlaw007]

another great hunt dan keep diggin!

 

[justdigging50]

Great Finds! How do you pick up that many nickels, I never find any.

 

[d-dub]

Thanks for the comments everyone. I just can't believe the days I've been having. I think its a combination of the new detector as well as really studying the habits of some of the more successful hunters here on TNET and implementing them into my own technique. The biggest of the lessons I have finally learned is to slow down.

another great hunt dan keep diggin!

IS YOUR KEYBOARD BROKEN? I KID, I KID....

Great Finds! How do you pick up that many nickels, I never find any.

I found a pattern online which has most trash discriminated out. It allows gold, nickels, and everything from pennies up. The tone that nickels make really stand out with this pattern so it was easy to know when you had one. The fact that it discriminates most trash helps with the bombardment of tones you get with the built in coins and jewelry program which I believe was designed for coins from all over the world. But remember when tightening down the discrimination you do loose some targets.

I was surprised how many nickels between use came out of this little area though. This place was hit HARD too. There was basically no clad left, but the nickels were abundant. Just shows how many people cherry pick their targets(I USED to be one) and with the right program/pattern, you can really clean house with what other people choose to leave behind.

 

[Mayo South Elgin]

Love those oldies Dan!

Was that the same pattern I was running at the library site?
I switch the ground from normal to trashy and that helps eliminate some of the junk signals.
If the ground is pretty clean, I'll put it on normal.
And most of the time I run in automatic sensitivity +1 or +2 if I get too much falsing in manual.
I can't seem to set it more than about 22 manual before I get false signals at every swing.
I also tried pitch hold but didn't really like it. So much to learn... so little time - and they're saying SNOW on the weekend?

Don't they know the detecting season has begun?

 

[d-dub]

It was this Coin and Jewelry Pattern.

Here is a video that explains the pattern.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-vihGyLlj4​

I feel this program is best for park type sights. IE looking for gold/silver jewelry as well as clad. Although, it will pick up silver coins too.

After reading Andy's book, a good suggestion on what ground setting to use is based off of the auto sensitivity level. If it read 22 or lower, switch to difficult, and if its higher that 22 use normal. This is just a suggestion and you should use which ever setting works best in the site you are at. I usually run Auto +2/+3.

Here are the rest of the settings I ran with this program.

• Recovery Deep: On. This amplifies the signals from deep/small targets so more signal is available to analyze. Shallow targets are not effected.
• Recovery Fast: Off if its not a super trashy sight. With this setting On it shortens the shutdown time between detected targets but in doing so clips the audio response and reduces the accuracy of the target ID. This could push a good target into the discriminated part of a pattern and the good target could be missed. If your running a wide open pattern its not as much of a concern to have this setting On in the trashy sites. You just have to learn what the clipped response of good targets sound like.
• Trash Density: High. If your running a tighter pattern like the one above and have a pretty trashy sight, you want to set this to high. It allows the detector to lock on to the target that is excepted by the pattern regardless if a nearby target has a larger signal and is discriminated out. If its set to Low, the larger signal target regardless if its allowed or not will be processed and the detector will null out and the good smaller signal target will be passed up.

I won't go into the audio settings as these are personal preferences but I do run multi-tone in conduct audio.

If you don't have Andy's book, I would highly suggest getting his book for the Explorer/Etac. It's only $15.00 or so w/shipping and definitely worth the investment.

Disclaimer: This is my interpretation of what the different settings of the Etrac do after reading the manual and Andy's book. I could be way off and am not responsible for missed good targets you may not encounter!

Hope this helps some of you out.

 

[MR Senior L4S]

CONGRATULATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------ Now You belive ,60% is machine , 40 experience . Did You try that sweping tehnick we were talking about?

 

[twistidd]

Great finds, Dan! A Barber is next on my 2010 wish list.

Joe

 

[Lookn4Seated]

Someone Get A Fire Extinguisher I'm On Fire!

 

[d-dub]

I jinxed myself after this post for sure.