Thank you!
Congrats on a damn good clad haul...great digging!
Thanks Captain Silver! It been a great week. Found silver and even a worn-out large cent earlier this week.
Thats a major clad haul! And a lot of digging, great job!
Thanks LandOLincoin! Once in a while, I get lucky.
I'd be mighty proud of that hunt. Good work.
Thanks Stiffwrists! I had some good days, but days like this keep me motivated in finding more of these locations.
Nice coin smorgasbord.
Thanks metalddict! From calories to coins at the smorgashord...lol. I thought the zipper on my pouch was going to break from stuffing it will all those coins.
Wow! That's some serious clad, In not sure I could dig that many coins in one day.
Congrats on a fantastic hunt!
Thanks Ron 71! No sooner my Lesche shovel was out of the ground, it was back in.
I'm liking those numbers you pulled there!...Good post about the NOX's capability as a Mega Clad Hammer! If I get one, this will be a big factor in my decision and also on the calculation of a speedy payback potential...(at that rate, @20 days in clad alone is where a guy needs to be to justify)...
Question...I know its early in the learning process, but are you able to distinguish a copper penny from a dime based upon the tones/target profile yet? Strictly audio hunting and not looking at the screen? Slamming D's and Q's and Nickels?
Your ratio of Dimes to P's per time in field is saying 'yes'...Could you please post your settings?..are you running full tones? Very Impressive work there JAK! 'Labs are not generally accepted or considered to be Clad Hammers...Except for Sandgroper in Aus, we dont often see anybody slamming clad with a 'Lab...
Reports are coming in from arw40 and NcToad...thank you for your results!
Thanks Mud-puppy! In short, I am still learning this machine. And everyday, it becomes more natural as it talks to me, Pretty much like the old Tesero did, the different type of tones from every beep. Since I don't count my clad until the end of the year, I am projecting that I will probably triple my clad finds from last year and many of these new finds are from old sites I have been to previously!
Dimes vs. Copper, the short answer is No. They both come in about the same VDI of approx. 26-27. Nickels come in 10-14; but 13 is the common number, but so are tabs which generally will have a bit stronger and scratchy sound.
Mud, it is a killer machine on deep dimes and nickels. It unmasks coins very well in rust and/or with nearby zinc coins too. I usually will drive it in multi-frequency but will experiment with single frequency too. Once in awhile I will flip it to 20 or 40 frq. gold setting and I have gotten some deeper nickels with that too that I missed before.
Most of the time I use 50 tones, but in heavy trash 5, but again, I prefer the 50 even sometimes in trashy areas. I only discriminate out iron. I crank up the sensitivity/gain as high as the ground allows, usually like 22-24, even to the point where it sounds like a noisy threshold tone. But with these higher numbers it will throw off the standard VDI readings.
As with you, I am sure, I dig everything that sounds good. Only to glimpse at the VDI screen as some sort of validation meter. I hunt mostly by sound. When in doubt I just dig it, I find it takes too much time and effort fooling around deciding to dig or not to dig...in the time I try to second guess myself, I can squat down down and have the target dug and recovered and on to the next target. Anything else, let me know.