Testing Out My New Detector - Last Dig A Barber

[tabman]

I just recently obtained a Omega version 6 from detectiongMO a few days ago and I decided to take it out for a test run today. Settings - 4 Tone, Sensitivity 60, GB 63, Discrimination 0. I dug a lot of targets today to see what the numbers and tones were telling me.

My first silver, a 1944 Mercury Dime, came from a site that I've detected several times before. It's high audio tone was mixed in with low grunts from the surrounding iron. I found a few wheat pennies, but I couldn't get my search over anymore silver so I left to search some curb and sidewalk strips.

As I was detecting along a curb line a guy came of his house and I quickly dashed over to ask permission to detect his corner lot. I got the OK. The house looked to have been built around 1910 or so. I was tired from all the previous digging, but I was pumped to be able to detect such a fine yard.

I wasn't finding much of anything except for copper pennies and they were everywhere! My back and legs were killing me, but I pushed on because I just knew that this vintage yard had to have some old silver in it. Finally, I got a whisper of a high tone, I dug down and popped a 1899 Barber Dime. Happy, happy, I head for the house.

This was my 94th hunt for the year and my grand total for silver coins this year is 252. That's averaging a little over 2.5 silver coins per hunt.
I'll total all my gold and silver rings and other jewelry at the end of the year.

tabman

 

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[vpnavy]

Nice finds tabman! Thanks for sharing...

 

[trapperart]

Congrats looks like 160 in your future

 

[Loco-Digger]

Congrats on the Barber & Merc tabman. Did the concentric slow you down a little?

 

[tabman]

Congrats on the Barber & Merc tabman. Did the concentric slow you down a little?

Thanks! Yeah, you can't cover as much ground with it as you can with a DD search coil, but it does separate and discriminate well. Next time out, I'll have the NEL Sharpshooter search coil attached. It's been awhile since I've swung a Omega and it will take me a few hunts to get used to it again.

tabman

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice job on the silver finds!

 

[tabman]

Thanks everyone! I'm laying in today to rest up for tomorrow's final hunt for the year.

Oh yeah, I forgot that I found this silver piece near where I found the Barber dime. It was too big to go in my coin water bottle so laid it in the SUV and forgot about it.



tabman

 

[G.A.P.metal]

tabman
Congrats on the silver !
I ran an Omega Ver. 4 for a year had NEL Sharpshooter and Hunter coils, but liked the factory 10" concentric the best on that machine.
The Nel Coils did realy quit down the ver. 4,i hear the ver. 6 is not that chatty .
I see over on the "other forum" JimTN.is gettin a lot of Silver there in Germantown...must be loaded there .
Happy New Year
Gary

 

[tabman]

tabman
Congrats on the silver !
I ran an Omega Ver. 4 for a year had NEL Sharpshooter and Hunter coils, but liked the factory 10" concentric the best on that machine.
The Nel Coils did realy quit down the ver. 4,i hear the ver. 6 is not that chatty .
I see over on the "other forum" JimTN.is gettin a lot of Silver there in Germantown...must be loaded there .
Happy New Year
Gary

Thanks! We don't hunt in Germantown, we hunt in Memphis for old silver coins. The Omega versions 5 and 6 do run a lot quieter. I heard speculation that they did something to better shield them and made them hit harder on silver. Who knows, they won't say. I hunt around a lot of EMI and the NEL search coils sure do help out.

tabman