AirmetTango
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I've only been getting out for very short, sporadic hunts lately with the kids and wife off for the summer, and Saturday was no exception. I had about an hour to detect, but I didn't have any good permissions lined up, so I decided to head back to an interesting park nearby that I've been to a couple times. It's big enough and I'm slow enough that I haven't come close to detecting the whole area yet, and I've dug sufficient goodies to tell me the park hasn't been thoroughly hunted out yet (this is the same park where I found the Vietnam era dog tags several weeks back along with a few Wheats).
About a half hour into the hunt, I had a couple Zincolns and some of the trash shown in the full hunt pic. But then I came across an area that had a somewhat scattered surface spill, which netted me the 2 quarters and 1 dime grouped at the top of the hunt pic. The 3 coins were scattered in an area just a little more than 2 ft square and barely under the surface. I've noticed the Ace 400 seems to get a little confused or overwhelmed with strong, surface targets, picking up "ghost" signals a short distance from the actual target, etc, but I soon had the 3 coins in hand.
Continuing to hit the immediate area hoping for more spillage, I decided to dig what looked like a possible nickel signal showing 2-4" down, and ended up with one of the pieces of trash in the pic.
Right after that minor disappointment came an very iffy signal - sometimes it rang around 84, sometimes only around 76-77. No real consistency - in fact, in one direction I had trouble duplicating the signal at all, and got at least one hit in the 40s that direction. I activated the "Iron Audio" feature on the Ace (which I apparently don't really know how to properly interpret) and got some grunts which made me think "trash". But the target was showing 6" down - knowing I was finding Wheats in the 4" range on previous visits, I was reluctant to disregard the signal. In the end, it was the depth that finally sold me on digging the target - and I'm so glad I did! After some brief digging under the plug, I was rewarded with the obvious shine of silver - a 1946 Rosie in nice looking shape! I'm amazed at how clean they look compared to all the scraggly looking clad dimes I'm used to digging - even a noob like me knew instantly that I had silver! I don't think it was actually 6" down - I think more like 4.5 or 5" max. Anyways, I'm super excited to finally break the silver barrier, but now also very paranoid that I probably skipped some silver on my hunts!! If the signal had only shown 4", I very likely would have skipped it because of the "trashy" sound.
To round out the hunt, not more than a couple feet away, I found the 1952D Wheat at the "standard" 4 inch depth.
All in all, a nice little hunt, with a great find-to-trash ratio
I'm looking forward to going back - and probably revisiting some of my skipped signals [emoji38]
Rosie by the hole:
Full hunt:
Close ups:
Sent from my XT1635-01 using Tapatalk
About a half hour into the hunt, I had a couple Zincolns and some of the trash shown in the full hunt pic. But then I came across an area that had a somewhat scattered surface spill, which netted me the 2 quarters and 1 dime grouped at the top of the hunt pic. The 3 coins were scattered in an area just a little more than 2 ft square and barely under the surface. I've noticed the Ace 400 seems to get a little confused or overwhelmed with strong, surface targets, picking up "ghost" signals a short distance from the actual target, etc, but I soon had the 3 coins in hand.
Continuing to hit the immediate area hoping for more spillage, I decided to dig what looked like a possible nickel signal showing 2-4" down, and ended up with one of the pieces of trash in the pic.
Right after that minor disappointment came an very iffy signal - sometimes it rang around 84, sometimes only around 76-77. No real consistency - in fact, in one direction I had trouble duplicating the signal at all, and got at least one hit in the 40s that direction. I activated the "Iron Audio" feature on the Ace (which I apparently don't really know how to properly interpret) and got some grunts which made me think "trash". But the target was showing 6" down - knowing I was finding Wheats in the 4" range on previous visits, I was reluctant to disregard the signal. In the end, it was the depth that finally sold me on digging the target - and I'm so glad I did! After some brief digging under the plug, I was rewarded with the obvious shine of silver - a 1946 Rosie in nice looking shape! I'm amazed at how clean they look compared to all the scraggly looking clad dimes I'm used to digging - even a noob like me knew instantly that I had silver! I don't think it was actually 6" down - I think more like 4.5 or 5" max. Anyways, I'm super excited to finally break the silver barrier, but now also very paranoid that I probably skipped some silver on my hunts!! If the signal had only shown 4", I very likely would have skipped it because of the "trashy" sound.
To round out the hunt, not more than a couple feet away, I found the 1952D Wheat at the "standard" 4 inch depth.
All in all, a nice little hunt, with a great find-to-trash ratio
I'm looking forward to going back - and probably revisiting some of my skipped signals [emoji38]Rosie by the hole:
Full hunt:
Close ups:
Sent from my XT1635-01 using Tapatalk
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