AirmetTango
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Hopefully my comparatively lackluster hunt postings aren't annoying the md'er veterans, but I'm hoping that by showing my (slow?) progress, I'm helping the other newbie detectors on the forum feel better if they aren't turning up silver or great keepers every time they go out.
Anyways, I spent about an hour at a former school site that was new for me, and I was very pleased with the results - not because I came home with anything spectacular, but because I felt like I made real progress in understanding what the detector was telling me.
The site was pretty trashy, mostly because the school was demo'd fairly recently, plus the area is now pretty much an open, public area. Despite the trash, I was able to pick out several coins (although still nothing but Lincolns) - and for the first time, I (arguably) came away digging more interesting objects than junk! Depends on whether you count the zincolns as finds or junk!
More importantly for me as a beginner, I guessed correctly every time except once whether I had a coin/relic or trash 
The pic below shows everything I dug, including all trash.
The pull tabs I intentionally dug knowing they were probably tabs on the off chance of finding a gold ring, and the can slaw I dug just to confirm that my guess was right.
Of all things, the bolt fooled me - if I remember right, it was signaling in the nickel range. It came right after I found a mini-pocket spill (the 3 pennies grouped near the key in the pic), so I was getting jazzed up and dove right into the dig. If I was more methodical, and hit the Iron Audio feature of the Ace like I normally do, maybe I could have guessed more accurately? I don't know - the jury is still out for me on whether the Iron Audio is really useful or not.
I guess I was technically fooled by the small bracket too - it was ringing like a dime, and I felt sure it was a good signal. But since it turned out to be sort of relic-like rather than can slaw, I'll count it in the "good" column
The key was a cool find - mainly because I recognized it immediately! As soon as I got home, I asked to see my wife's keys - sure enough, it's a perfect match for the office/room keys issued to staff at BGSU (second pic). I suppose I'll need to make an effort to return it to the university - the reverse side has an ID number imprinted on it. Who knows - maybe it'll open the door for doing a little detecting on some University owned property I've had my eye on
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Anyways, I spent about an hour at a former school site that was new for me, and I was very pleased with the results - not because I came home with anything spectacular, but because I felt like I made real progress in understanding what the detector was telling me.
The site was pretty trashy, mostly because the school was demo'd fairly recently, plus the area is now pretty much an open, public area. Despite the trash, I was able to pick out several coins (although still nothing but Lincolns) - and for the first time, I (arguably) came away digging more interesting objects than junk! Depends on whether you count the zincolns as finds or junk!
More importantly for me as a beginner, I guessed correctly every time except once whether I had a coin/relic or trash The pic below shows everything I dug, including all trash.The pull tabs I intentionally dug knowing they were probably tabs on the off chance of finding a gold ring, and the can slaw I dug just to confirm that my guess was right.
Of all things, the bolt fooled me - if I remember right, it was signaling in the nickel range. It came right after I found a mini-pocket spill (the 3 pennies grouped near the key in the pic), so I was getting jazzed up and dove right into the dig. If I was more methodical, and hit the Iron Audio feature of the Ace like I normally do, maybe I could have guessed more accurately? I don't know - the jury is still out for me on whether the Iron Audio is really useful or not.
I guess I was technically fooled by the small bracket too - it was ringing like a dime, and I felt sure it was a good signal. But since it turned out to be sort of relic-like rather than can slaw, I'll count it in the "good" column
The key was a cool find - mainly because I recognized it immediately! As soon as I got home, I asked to see my wife's keys - sure enough, it's a perfect match for the office/room keys issued to staff at BGSU (second pic). I suppose I'll need to make an effort to return it to the university - the reverse side has an ID number imprinted on it. Who knows - maybe it'll open the door for doing a little detecting on some University owned property I've had my eye on
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