tabman
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Technically I Wasn't Really Detecting, But I Played It Safe Anyway
I headed out this morning to take a guy some tomato plants and to buy a detector from him, a Fisher CZ 70 Pro. I wanted to try it out before purchasing, so I got his permission to grid search his front yard with it. Man that sucker is deep and was nailing coins super hard at 6 inches or so. After about 10 minutes of swinging it I told him that wanted to buy it.
I paid the guy for the detector and headed for home. Then it dawned on me that none of the coins that I found were silver. Lucky for me on my way home I saw a girl out in her front yard with her 3 year old boy. I hit the brakes!
I introduce myself and asked permission to detect her front yard. She said go ahead and detect the back yard as well if I wanted to. She told me that the house was built in 1951.
I started a grid search of the front yard and found over a dozen wheat pennies but no silver. I got a funky nickel audio signal and popped a Jefferson nickel. I scanned the hole again and got a beaver tail VDI reading. Remembering that war nickels sometimes read a little higher, I dug down deeper and popped a 1943 war nickel. That made me feel better.
I went around in the back yard and dug around 5 more wheat pennies before getting my search coil over a 1942 Mercury dime. That's all I needed, so I thanked the girl and headed for home.
This was my 42nd hunt for the year and my silver coin total for the year now stands at 129. All done without getting skunked on a single hunt.
My F75DST detector settings: 9.0, Sensitivity 80, DE Mode, 3H Tones, Disc Level 0, GB 67.
tabman
I headed out this morning to take a guy some tomato plants and to buy a detector from him, a Fisher CZ 70 Pro. I wanted to try it out before purchasing, so I got his permission to grid search his front yard with it. Man that sucker is deep and was nailing coins super hard at 6 inches or so. After about 10 minutes of swinging it I told him that wanted to buy it.
I paid the guy for the detector and headed for home. Then it dawned on me that none of the coins that I found were silver. Lucky for me on my way home I saw a girl out in her front yard with her 3 year old boy. I hit the brakes!
I introduce myself and asked permission to detect her front yard. She said go ahead and detect the back yard as well if I wanted to. She told me that the house was built in 1951.
I started a grid search of the front yard and found over a dozen wheat pennies but no silver. I got a funky nickel audio signal and popped a Jefferson nickel. I scanned the hole again and got a beaver tail VDI reading. Remembering that war nickels sometimes read a little higher, I dug down deeper and popped a 1943 war nickel. That made me feel better.
I went around in the back yard and dug around 5 more wheat pennies before getting my search coil over a 1942 Mercury dime. That's all I needed, so I thanked the girl and headed for home.
This was my 42nd hunt for the year and my silver coin total for the year now stands at 129. All done without getting skunked on a single hunt.
My F75DST detector settings: 9.0, Sensitivity 80, DE Mode, 3H Tones, Disc Level 0, GB 67.
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