Thats a nice haul. Not to hijack the thread but I am curious if you are getting more depth out of your detectors in Kansas that you did in Alabama. I have a forum buddy in Kansas that I talk from time to time and he gets amazing depth with his detectors, same goes for people in Ohio. Must be real mild ground out that way.
P.S. Tesoroized is a real word, it was added in the Merriam-Webster dictionary the day that the Tesoro Outlaw was released
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Oh yea!
Most people on the forum don't have a clue on how bad the soil in Birmingham really is.
Not only the massive mineralization problems that most of the Southwestern hunters have to deal with, but veins of natural iron ore and what seems like a blanket of iron particles spread all over the area because of the history of the area and the material and garbage in the soil that was used to build the road systems over the years that has seem to spread...everywhere.
They don't call Birmingham "The Steel City" for nothing.
Ryanchappel, my old hunting partner, (Hey Michael!) has run magnets through the dirt and picked up iron, and his E-Track and
all of my detectors had about the same limit on depth in most of that devil soil...about 2-3 inches.
Frustrating.
If I stayed there longer, and I really wanted a chance to find the deep older silver we all suspected is still there but too deep to reach, I probably would have bought a PI unit.
That's not to say we didn't find stuff.
I turned into a clad and jewelry hunter and did pretty well, and Michael has gotten great at outside the box thinking to find washouts and different sites that might hold that old silver he wants to find so bad and is still within reach.
Once in a while we came across some areas that actually had some pretty good dirt, nice dark stuff that is in the valleys or trucked in from somewhere and dumped in some areas in a few parks that I hunted, but that was rare.
Here in Kansas, well, this is a dream for me.
Exactly the opposite.
Nice dark soil everywhere, the depth on all my detectors is something I had to get used to...still amazed, sometimes.
Good and bad targets regularly are found at 5-6 and 7 inches with all my detectors, including the F2 and the Compadre, and I have found coins and other targets up to 8 and 9 inches a few times, maybe more.
I have just started hunting with the Vaq and the threshold tone and to be honest, there was a couple of targets I just gave up on because they were just so deep it was scary, and I am not used to making holes the size needed to dig deep like that.
That's gotta change, I guess.
I invited Michael to visit me sometime and go hunting for a few days but that would probably just ruin him forever if he ever did.