"What is the deepest hole you ever dug while detecting, what did you find"!

[bucketofguts]

"What is the deepest hole you ever dug while detecting, what did you find"!

mine was 14 inchs in hard red dirt for a 1950s alum. or tin tube of cows ass, or utter cream at the local fair grounds! thank you for your time!

 

[homefires]

Re: "What is the deepest hole you ever dug, what did you find"!

220ft, Some of the best water in New Mexico!

 

[Pulltab Parson]

Re: "What is the deepest hole you ever dug, what did you find"!

A drain pipe about 2 feet down. . . .

I thought it was a cache

HH

Pull-tab

 

[relichunters]

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10 1/2" for a whole beer can

 

[radarwill]

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5 foot by 8 foot and I found the Dead Sea Scrolls ...

 

[Montana Jim]

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Cripes... I have no idea what the deepest was...

 

[Slingshot]

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About 2 feet, I found an unexploded CW artillery shell, and covered it back up, as old ordnance gives me the creeps!

 

[goldencoin]

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three feet, found the top of some barrel

HH
-GC

 

[Born2Dtect]

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18 inches. It was an old metal milk bottle cap, ID'ed as a silver dollar on my Whites IDX Pro. Talk about disappointment, color and size, but not a dollar. Would have been my first. This type of results made me get a Minelab EXP II. Now I don,t dig as much junk. Once I find a few pieces I stop digging that sound for the day. I have checked this method out well and check it frequently. So far I have not had a good find ID'ed wrong when checked.

Ed D.

 

[Old Dog]

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In the early 80s 83 I think,
The Colorado river came up out of it's banks and dumped a lot of silt on top of a bunch of stuff that got scattered by the water.
the hole was 5 foot by 8 foot deep...
The object was a fender and bumper from a 1936 ford pickup.
these were carried to the end of a drainage slew and buried under the silt.
It was early Oct. before the stuff dried out enough to dig.

 

[Kentucky Kache]

Re: "What is the deepest hole you ever dug while detecting, what did you find"!

18 inches. It was an old metal milk bottle cap, ID'ed as a silver dollar on my Whites IDX Pro. Talk about disappointment, color and size, but not a dollar. Would have been my first. This type of results made me get a Minelab EXP II. Now I don,t dig as much junk. Once I find a few pieces I stop digging that sound for the day. I have checked this method out well and check it frequently. So far I have not had a good find ID'ed wrong when checked.

Ed D.

What size coil were you using? I didn't know the IDX Pro would reach 18" on a silver dollar size object. Good news.

 

[Born2Dtect]

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Standard coil. It was the deepest hole I ever dug with the IDX. The same day found two war nickels (1943, 1944) stuck together at about 14". The ground was hard and compacted so the targets were left in there tracks for a good measurement. I use my digger as a measurement tool marked every two inches and is 14 " long. I was on a club hunt and we did find a lot that day at a site that had been hunted before. I credit perfect conditions not the detector user as I only had it about a year.

Ed D.

 

[TooManyHobbies]

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About 14 inches. Old Well cover as far as I could tell. It was bolted down.

Slingshot, nice longbow.

 

[silverswede]

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About 3 plus feet in hard packed soil to discover the soil was hard packed because it was an old road and the target turnet out to be a perfectly good 24" galvanized culvert!

 

[sniffer]

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I was at the LBH in april, just got my spider coil for my DFX, and I dug down to about 12 inches and found............. a nice rusty piece of wire about 6 inches long LOL

 

[Old Dog]

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220ft, Some of the best water in New Mexico!

I thought I was deep at seven frrt chasing a horse radish root. LOL
Homefires, you got me beat.

Thom

 

[bedpanmoneyman]

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Around 14 inches....chrome car door handle (never did find the rest of the car )

 

[COUNTRY GIRL]

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Shoot! No one else has dug to China? That cache of naiils was SWEET!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Eu_citzen]

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Around 16 to 20 inches, soda can I think it was. (w/ DFX 14" Detech coil)

 

[siz3petite]

Two feet --for the donut.

I dug two feet deep at the edge of a creek in Alaska. What I thought was some kind of bone turned out to be an old elk antler peeking through. Bummer.