Todays Finds. I am looking for advice.

[thunter95]

Here are my finds for today from a local State Park In Central PA. I was out about 2 hours using my White's XLT on factory setting Coins/Jewelry. I have been MD'ing for about a year and a half. Totals for the year are:
Pennys 2108
nickels 191
Dimes 436
Quarters 283
Rings 19
Silver 28
Wheats 43
Junk Jewelry about 40
As you can see I was trying for rings so lots of tabs. The coins are all clad a quarter, Nickel and a Dime. I think I am doing well but not as well as I think I should be. With my machine and the areas I am going I think I should be doing better. Any advice on how to get more bang out of my XLT.

 

[Thomas007]

Hi Terry

Your count looks good. At first i thought those numbers were for today so figured you were searching at the mint or a bank or something. i realized that those were your yearly figures and they are very respectable.

Don't be too harsh with yourself... you are doing great!

I can not advise you on the XLT as i use a MXT but perhaps there are other guys and gals here who can advise you on settings, etc and just trade experiences.

Where in Central PA are you located? Seems to be a lot of Tnetters from the Keystone state

HH

Sanat

 

[kg6yll]

Looks like you dug lots of targets. My only advice would be too dig everything.
The good stuff will come. Just remember everyone on this forum has dug exactly
what you show in your pictures.

 

[MR----B]

Definitely do as kg6yll said about digging everything within your discrimination notches, you never know.

 

[tymcmurray]

Welcome to Tnet!!!
I had a recent post about using my XLT on Specifically nickels and Gold.
A lot of people had advice. Maybe you can use some of the advice too.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,127267.0.html

Good luck!!! And stay in touch.

 

[thunter95]

Sorry for the confusion. Yes, that was 2007 totals. I am just south of Harrisburg in a little town called Lewisberry. The park was Gilford Pinchot State Park. I understand the dig everything and have been trying. It just seems like I dig an aweful lot of junk and end up with nowhere near the daily totals that some other guys here on TNET are pulling off. I think in the 100 plus times I have been out I pulled only a couple 100 coin days and that was beaches in Florida. I have the chance to travel tons. MD'ed PA, MD, FL, SC, NC, and NJ. Beaches, wood chips, camp grounds, state parks, fair grounds, private land, local parks, and those hard to find historical areas. I have tried around basketball courts and schools. So I have pulled some great items besides just coins. I have found two harmonicas, two musket balls, a great pair of WWII dog tags, a couple of old Rail Road locks, most likely 100+ fishing weights and lures. So I am pulling off some finds. I just think I am still doing something wrong. Should I be playing with the other programs out there for the XLT? Should I be using a different factory setting? I have tried locating a local club and jave found a couple guys to bounce some stuff off of. And have hunted with a couple other guys. I subscribe to a couple of magazines, read about 15 books and went to a couple MD'ing stores. So I am willing to learn. Just hope to find if I do something different my counts would go up. Thanks,
Terry

 

[DaChief]

Gold hunting is frustrating especially in areas where there are lots of small aluminum pieces and tabs. You can easily get discouraged. Your first gold find will put some pep in your swing though. It is lots of work and only a very few T Hunters have the patience to keep going after that 20th or 30th pull tab with nothing good to show for the effort.

You did exactly what you needed to do to find the gold. It just wasn't to be that day.

I used White's machines exclusively in my early days. If I was finding a large number of the same pull tabs in an area, I would program that particular tab out of the program. That helps a good bit. I would only do that for those that you are finding a ton of though.

Good luck.

Jim

 

[DFX-SE Gregg]

I will go the other way...dig less of the mid 60's to maybe 70 vdi signals...you are wasting to much time digging pennies...

Focus on digging everything except those zinc cents and I bet even with digging pulltabs your finds increase...

 

[Moonshadow]

First of all, Welcome to T-Net!! You'll love it here! Second of all, ARE YOU KIDDING ME Your totals are awesome!! Have a look at my posts. I haven't found near that amount in a year. It's all about research and a whole lotta luck. You'll find some nice keepers real soon! We all can't be like Natman (fellow T-netter)

Good luck and keep doing what your doing!!
Moon

 

[DFX-SE Gregg]

I roughed out your numbers...not clear if the wheats were included in the cents amount or not...but a rough figure of what you found...(not exact)...

You found in the area of 3089 coins...total value approximately $144.98......

This works out to a PCV (per coin value) of under a nickel per coin... 4.6 cents per find

I think you want this to be over 6 cents per coin....mine ended just over 6.5 cents per coin on 11,533 for 07...this year I will clear over $800 in clad...unless my machine breaks and my pcv should be around 7 to 8 cents per coin.... I dug over 6500 cents last year...over 100 wheaties and found almost everything I dug in the vdi range of 60 to 70 was a stinking zinc cent...with the exception of around 10 mood rings....skip some of those shallow 60 to 70 readings and you will be spending more time digging dimes, quarters,,,, as far as the low readings I have opened my discrimination up this year...but if you want gold focus on +0 to the upper 20's..sure gold can strike higher...but if you are ignoring this range it will cost you...my trash usually bounces and sits on a few numbers...22, 38, and bottle tops show like the zincs for me except with a broken signal hope some of this info helps...last year I kept mentioning digging signals that land on 14... and 18...and a couple people who were ignoring thinking foil...trash...or a nickel got back to me saying they had found gold rings...

 

[kindafoundabuckle]

You are digging the right signals for gold but they were just was not there today. Keep digging those signals and you will get a great surprise soon!

KFB

 

[oddcoins]

I've had my XLT since 1999. I use the coin/jewelry setting often.

Go slow, there's no hurry ~ over lap your swings ~ I usually move ahead a couple inches at a time ~ dig those "iffy" signals ~ cover the same ground over & over ~ you'll be amazed at what you didn't find the first time, or the second time!

GOOD LUCK!!!

Neil