Sultan of Swing
Junior Member
- Joined
- Aug 23, 2023
- Messages
- 95
Hello everyone, just began detecting in April. Purchased an AT PRO and Pro Pointer. Had awesome beginners luck and found a 28' standing Liberty Quarter, 2 50's Washington's, and a 20' Merc, in my own backyard. Started hunting old public places and realized I was about 40 years late to the party. I spent countless hours/days with not so great results. I did manage to get 2 more Washington's, 3 more Merc's and a handful of Wheaties. A couple of 70's foreign coins, British 2 pence, and Swiss 10 Rappa, a small silver ring, about a 1/2 coffee can of clad , a couple cool relics, and a boat load of trash. I live about 10 miles from the ocean in the N.E. so I decided to try the beach. My wife came along and she loved it so much that we decided to get her a beach machine. Wasn't sure how often we would do the beach and wanted something lighter for her. We ended up buying a M L Vanquish 540 Pro pack with 8" and 12" coils. Awesome affordable machine. But NOT water proof. I recently got my first permission to hunt a private 1650's colonial house with a four acre lot. The home owner said a friend of his had done it about ten years ago. I figured it would still be better than the public places and boy was I right. I just finished today and ended up finding over 20 coins ( excluding clad) . Starting with the oldest, 1781 Hibernia 1/2 cent, 1795 large cent, 1820 large cent, 1840 large cent, 1895 Indian, 1906 Indian, 1924 SLQ, no date Buffalo, 1936 Buffalo, 1938 Merc, 1941 Merc, 1943 war nickel, 1944 s Philippines One Centavo, and 12 Wheaties. Couldn't be happier. So after that long winded intro, I have a question. Twice in the last week I've had solid two way repeatable non bouncy high tones 93/94 AT PRO, and 33/34 Vanquish, with the plug out and about 12" deep both machines still had rock solid signals but nothing in the hole with the carot. I went down a couple inches and rechecked the hole with the Vanquish and still had the same solid signal and re pin pointed, and it indicated that it was in the side wall cut another 5" out of the side and gently removed the 1/2 plug out of the hole. Thats when I completely lost the signal. As if it never happened. Rechecked the hole with both machines and the pin Pointer and nothing. Does anyone know what causes this.