tabman
Bronze Member
I almost didn't go detecting this morning, but I finally gave in and lit out to find a new place to swing my search coil. I finally found a spot around 8:15.
The ground was super dry and really hard to dig in, so I thought it would be best to do some cherry picking. I set up my modded Cibola/Sharpshooter coil combination with a little negative on the ground balance, a slight audio hum, full sensitivity and set the discrimination to point where most pull tabs discriminate out.
After just digging a few clad coins, I hit the big one. It sounded so good that I almost passed it by because it sounded kinda like a flatten pop can but a little more mellow. I dug a plug and dug down a few more inches in the dry hard dirt and popped a 1953 Benjamen Franklin Half Dollar.
Whoopee! I had a great day made metal detecting even if I didn't find another good target for the rest of the day.
I continued grid searching the yard and in the very corner next to the shrub bed, I popped a Sterling Silver Signet Ring. Happy, Happy, Happy. I decided to lower the discrimination to see if I could find a gold ring.
I dug a few pull tabs and foil pieces and gave up that quest up until there is some soaking rain to soften the soil. The ground is way too hard to be digging every target.
Oh yeah, I also found 7 wheat pennies, a Craftsman screw driver and some clad coins.
Around 10.45 I decided leave there and swing by a place that I already had permission to detect to see if the ground would be soft enough for me to dig in without messing up the guy's yard.
The owner was out in the yard when I went by so I stopped and spoke with him for awhile and he said that they got a good rain last night and it should be soft enough to dig in, but he would water the yard really good later on this evening, so it will be easy for me to dig in when I get there in the morning. I gave him a sack full of home grown tomatoes and said thank you.
tabman
The ground was super dry and really hard to dig in, so I thought it would be best to do some cherry picking. I set up my modded Cibola/Sharpshooter coil combination with a little negative on the ground balance, a slight audio hum, full sensitivity and set the discrimination to point where most pull tabs discriminate out.
After just digging a few clad coins, I hit the big one. It sounded so good that I almost passed it by because it sounded kinda like a flatten pop can but a little more mellow. I dug a plug and dug down a few more inches in the dry hard dirt and popped a 1953 Benjamen Franklin Half Dollar.
Whoopee! I had a great day made metal detecting even if I didn't find another good target for the rest of the day.
I continued grid searching the yard and in the very corner next to the shrub bed, I popped a Sterling Silver Signet Ring. Happy, Happy, Happy. I decided to lower the discrimination to see if I could find a gold ring.
I dug a few pull tabs and foil pieces and gave up that quest up until there is some soaking rain to soften the soil. The ground is way too hard to be digging every target.
Oh yeah, I also found 7 wheat pennies, a Craftsman screw driver and some clad coins.
Around 10.45 I decided leave there and swing by a place that I already had permission to detect to see if the ground would be soft enough for me to dig in without messing up the guy's yard.
The owner was out in the yard when I went by so I stopped and spoke with him for awhile and he said that they got a good rain last night and it should be soft enough to dig in, but he would water the yard really good later on this evening, so it will be easy for me to dig in when I get there in the morning. I gave him a sack full of home grown tomatoes and said thank you.
tabman
