detectorben
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So today I got off early and snuck in an hour and a half hunt at another late 1800s park. I had a pretty solid sounding quarter signal on the Nox. It was pretty steady at 30 on VDI. I dug a plug flipped it out and saw a large round rusty chunk of iron. I thought surely that can't be what that nice sounding 30 was!? So I stuck my pin pointer back in the hole and got another signal just below the junk. Out pops a 1965 nickel. Again not a 30. So I go back for more and find a 1965 quarter. There it is! But wait there is more in the hole. I keep looking and find 4 more coins. A 1965 penny, 1963 penny, 1966 dime and 1941 wheat penny. All in the hole under that rusty piece. Now that was impressive. And so close to a silver spill! I am pretty sure my Etrac would have just seen iron there. I have hunted this exact area many times as well with at pro and etrac because I found other wheats there and wanted to scour the area for silver.
I also found the 1918?? green wheat penny at a solid 10 inches. It was 2 inches deeper than my pin pointer. I was on recovery speed of 7 and sensitivity of 23 so I did not expect it to reach that depth. Signal was pretty clean and VDI was hitting 25 and repeatable. Wish I would have had my CTX to compare these targets with.
Also found this shotgun shell top a good 10 inches down under a tree root. It rang up like a wheat penny that is why I chased it down. From what I can find online it is a 12g U.MC CO shell from 1867-1911.
Today was first time I have seen the Nox do something my Etrac couldn't. I am warming up to this machine. Now if I could just find some silver!
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I also found the 1918?? green wheat penny at a solid 10 inches. It was 2 inches deeper than my pin pointer. I was on recovery speed of 7 and sensitivity of 23 so I did not expect it to reach that depth. Signal was pretty clean and VDI was hitting 25 and repeatable. Wish I would have had my CTX to compare these targets with.
Also found this shotgun shell top a good 10 inches down under a tree root. It rang up like a wheat penny that is why I chased it down. From what I can find online it is a 12g U.MC CO shell from 1867-1911.
Today was first time I have seen the Nox do something my Etrac couldn't. I am warming up to this machine. Now if I could just find some silver!
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