06-03-2018, 06:42 PM
I've been pretty busy at work with prepping for tournaments and chasing mowers with stripers, the few times I did get out I wound up with a few handfulls of clad and not much else. Not that I'm complaining about the clad because now I find enough to make the gas for the trip worth it in the RAV.
I took yesterday off, even though it was a dynamite day to go detecting, weather wise. I just didn't feel like it. I was in a kind of stretch and relax and have a few beers' day.
Today though I was back in the mood and got a late start (Noon) after securing and delivering 3 bags of mulch (The last 3 bags of Black Mulch Home Depot possessed.) for the live in plant lady (my wife) and helping her spread it.
So just as I land in an area I've done before and start snooping around, but this time with the sense at 28, I come upon this distinct tone with numbers jumping all over the place, and not holding no matter what I do. I only have my Hori, Hori digger so I dig a plug among the roots and find nothing with the pinpointer. Suddenly a very large flash appears and a clap of thunder shakes the ground. I'm only 100 yards from the RAV and I start running. For the next 20 minutes after I get to the RAV it pours buckets of rain. I check radar and it's all going to be over in 20 minutes. I wait it out.
After the weather settles I go back to the same spot and this time with my compact shovel. And I turn the sense up to 30. And I get it. It's a 1939 Merc, 12" down, in the clay 4 inches below the upper layer of forest humus, after digging 2 plugs. Sweep the area, same signal but weaker. 4" over from the 1939 Mercury a 1937 Mercury. Same depth, and a lot of mineralization and iron nails or something. Start my circles as best I can around 2 very large oak trees. Here we go again! Signal all over the place but tone high and intermittent. Dig a 1940 wheat, a 1942 Canadian penny (not shown) and finally some signal for silver. A 1941 Mercury. All above were between 11 and 12" deep and all were so iffy that a newbie would have passed them easily. On both areas I dug a total of 18" diameter plugs when all said and done. Also dug about 6 pieces of nails, bolts, whatever, in an around the same spots. Halo from iron with the 11" Pro coil is tremendous at 30 sense.
GL & HH out there and have fun! And FIND SOMETHING!
Ed
I took yesterday off, even though it was a dynamite day to go detecting, weather wise. I just didn't feel like it. I was in a kind of stretch and relax and have a few beers' day.
Today though I was back in the mood and got a late start (Noon) after securing and delivering 3 bags of mulch (The last 3 bags of Black Mulch Home Depot possessed.) for the live in plant lady (my wife) and helping her spread it.
So just as I land in an area I've done before and start snooping around, but this time with the sense at 28, I come upon this distinct tone with numbers jumping all over the place, and not holding no matter what I do. I only have my Hori, Hori digger so I dig a plug among the roots and find nothing with the pinpointer. Suddenly a very large flash appears and a clap of thunder shakes the ground. I'm only 100 yards from the RAV and I start running. For the next 20 minutes after I get to the RAV it pours buckets of rain. I check radar and it's all going to be over in 20 minutes. I wait it out.
After the weather settles I go back to the same spot and this time with my compact shovel. And I turn the sense up to 30. And I get it. It's a 1939 Merc, 12" down, in the clay 4 inches below the upper layer of forest humus, after digging 2 plugs. Sweep the area, same signal but weaker. 4" over from the 1939 Mercury a 1937 Mercury. Same depth, and a lot of mineralization and iron nails or something. Start my circles as best I can around 2 very large oak trees. Here we go again! Signal all over the place but tone high and intermittent. Dig a 1940 wheat, a 1942 Canadian penny (not shown) and finally some signal for silver. A 1941 Mercury. All above were between 11 and 12" deep and all were so iffy that a newbie would have passed them easily. On both areas I dug a total of 18" diameter plugs when all said and done. Also dug about 6 pieces of nails, bolts, whatever, in an around the same spots. Halo from iron with the 11" Pro coil is tremendous at 30 sense.
GL & HH out there and have fun! And FIND SOMETHING!
Ed
Maybe you know how difficult it is to find deep coins. Man, you have to test sweep and dig all over the place. The reward is fabulous but the digging is real work! Especially with all the nails and trash and trying to not damage the coin!!! 
