mudkicker
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Good morning everyone.
Yesterday I finally got out to a real site with my new T2 SE. I had been reading stuff on the various forums and had been messing around in my yard which is pretty clean.
So yesterday we went to the home site that has produced close to a dozen wheats, a merc dime, and a sterling silver ’62 class ring. This site is fairly trashy as it was bulldozed over in the ‘60’s. In any case, I decided I was going to ramp the sensitivity all the way up, disc at 15 and run in Boost Process mode.
Man, we hunted for two hours and I was fatigued afterwards. And it wasn’t from digging holes it was from listening to all the chirps, zips, and pffts.
I am not unhappy, but I had a hard go of it yesterday. I dug no less than 3 empty holes. One read in the 50’s at 7 inches, another read in the 70’s at 9 inches but was iffy. Sounded good two directions, and grunty the other direction. The last, which really was strange, was a solid 94 in all 4 directions and pin pointed at 5 inches. I was sure that was going to be something good, but I dug the hole, stuck the pinpointer in and nothing. Scanned with the detector….and there was nothing in the hole or in my mountain of dirt. What the heck???
All was not lost though. I did manage to pull out a 1927 Wheat Penny, a 1947 Nickel, and old key from a local key shop that has been in business since the ‘20’s. The best find of the day, however, was a 1908 Indian Head Penny that is in remarkable condition. The really cool thing about this find was I found it at about 5 inches but there was a little iron latch thing a couple of inches above it in the same hole. The T2 saw the penny no problem, but it read as zinc. Not sure what it would have ready without the decoy in the hole, or if it even would have mattered.
One thing that I kept noticing was I would get a zip of high tone sometimes but would not give me a vid. The zip would be sporadic too. I mean once I would hear a zip while gridding I would stop and swing around. I would sometimes hear them again, but they were quick zips on maybe once out of every 4 or 5 swings when I could narrow down the area where I tagged them. This happened several times. Is that a signal worth investigating? I tried to pin point one, but it was very hard to tell with the trash stuff laying around.
So, my first day out was somewhat tiring, a little frustrating but in the same hand rewarding. I know there are old coins and relics to be found here just with what we have been able to pull out, but it will take time to learn my machine I guess.
Yesterday I finally got out to a real site with my new T2 SE. I had been reading stuff on the various forums and had been messing around in my yard which is pretty clean.
So yesterday we went to the home site that has produced close to a dozen wheats, a merc dime, and a sterling silver ’62 class ring. This site is fairly trashy as it was bulldozed over in the ‘60’s. In any case, I decided I was going to ramp the sensitivity all the way up, disc at 15 and run in Boost Process mode.
Man, we hunted for two hours and I was fatigued afterwards. And it wasn’t from digging holes it was from listening to all the chirps, zips, and pffts.
I am not unhappy, but I had a hard go of it yesterday. I dug no less than 3 empty holes. One read in the 50’s at 7 inches, another read in the 70’s at 9 inches but was iffy. Sounded good two directions, and grunty the other direction. The last, which really was strange, was a solid 94 in all 4 directions and pin pointed at 5 inches. I was sure that was going to be something good, but I dug the hole, stuck the pinpointer in and nothing. Scanned with the detector….and there was nothing in the hole or in my mountain of dirt. What the heck???
All was not lost though. I did manage to pull out a 1927 Wheat Penny, a 1947 Nickel, and old key from a local key shop that has been in business since the ‘20’s. The best find of the day, however, was a 1908 Indian Head Penny that is in remarkable condition. The really cool thing about this find was I found it at about 5 inches but there was a little iron latch thing a couple of inches above it in the same hole. The T2 saw the penny no problem, but it read as zinc. Not sure what it would have ready without the decoy in the hole, or if it even would have mattered.
One thing that I kept noticing was I would get a zip of high tone sometimes but would not give me a vid. The zip would be sporadic too. I mean once I would hear a zip while gridding I would stop and swing around. I would sometimes hear them again, but they were quick zips on maybe once out of every 4 or 5 swings when I could narrow down the area where I tagged them. This happened several times. Is that a signal worth investigating? I tried to pin point one, but it was very hard to tell with the trash stuff laying around.
So, my first day out was somewhat tiring, a little frustrating but in the same hand rewarding. I know there are old coins and relics to be found here just with what we have been able to pull out, but it will take time to learn my machine I guess.
No, you were most likely over deep iron on the 2, and the 94 was probably big aluminum something. In a scenario like your 3 empties, raise the coil 4-6" and scan the target, if it's still there, it's big junk. You did excellent for the first time out, it's a beast once you begin to learn it. Congrats on your finds!
