Hey everybody - it's snow, ice and -10F wind chill here at the moment so I'm plotting strategy on the old schoolyard that has yielded the only really cool coins I've found so far. Most of them were found in a relatively small area that I'm thinking may have been the playground. There is also a lot of iron including bits of rusted to pieces wire and cans that drive me nuts. I feel like I've covered the "sweet spot" fairly well - one of the last trips I went perpendicular to previous outings and cut some diagonals. Last trip I tried to be smart - took a wheatie and a silver Rosie out there along with a rusty nail and air tested them to discriminate the nail out. That day I still dug junk only. Only have the Mojave with stock coil so that's my only option there. I would really like to have some assurance I've done all I can on the sweet spot before I go do more on the rest of the property, which has yielded nothing better than a couple of headstamps and has some tough digging with gravel in the dirt etc.
One thought is to actually mark grid corners and record to the best I can what I have gridded and detected instead of eyeballing it and depending on memory. Also getting there after a significant rain. I use rechargable 9-volts I got on Amazon, if I use a fresh Energizer will it give a bit more voltage and therefore a bit more depth?
Anyway, I'm sure y'all will have better ideas than what I've come up with. Thanks in advance!!
One thought is to actually mark grid corners and record to the best I can what I have gridded and detected instead of eyeballing it and depending on memory. Also getting there after a significant rain. I use rechargable 9-volts I got on Amazon, if I use a fresh Energizer will it give a bit more voltage and therefore a bit more depth?
Anyway, I'm sure y'all will have better ideas than what I've come up with. Thanks in advance!!