ecmo
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After mowing a section of my yard hopefully for the last time this year I grabbed my mx5 and headed for a small farming community about 12 miles from my house.
There's a grassy area of about two acres bordered by a paved running track. A baseball backstop just inside a curve on one end of the track that looks like a game has not been played there in a long time. That end of the track is adjacent to a school and playground which has been closed a number of years due to consolidation. These two properties are owned by seperate people. I was told by the city clerk that way back in the day that much of this area had been the old stockyard. Anyway last week got permission to hunt it, I hunted the school grounds abound 3 years ago.
Last week I hunted primarily the far end finding some cheats and clad, but had zigzaged hit and missed the area where I hunted today. Last week I used both my racer 2 with stock coil (the only one I have for it), and my mx 5 with 9" concentric. Didn't find a lot on the acre around the ball field other than a scant few modern coins a couple wheats, a childs flatened aluminum drinking cup, and a Canadian dime. The few wheaties were around 5 1/2", everything else shallower.
That brings me to today, put my large 12" spider coil on the mx5 because most of this area is not very trashy. Parked on the side of the gravel road that serves as a street in this poor rundown town, crossed the ditch and the paved walking trail, turned on my detector and set the threshold, swung for about twenty feet and got a good solid hit for a quarter at 8 1/2" down. It was a 1939 Washington.
So to try to wind this story down, I picked a "destination" about fifty yards away from the track where the grass appeared thiner and made only two trips there and two back. Beside the quarter I found two mercs, a'27 and '41 and my shallowest coin was a 1902 Barber at 4 1/2 in. down and an inch below a purple plastic comb piece.[emoji1] Also got four cheats and four nickels. Other than the Barber everything was in the 5 1/2--8 1/2 " range.
Now for the puzzler; I seldom use that 12 inch coil and had always read that a large coil would not hit well on a small objects. Well folks I found this tiny stainless disc about the size of the rivet for jeans pockets at 8 plus inches, running on two ton I was getting a higher tone and vdi's bouncing around in the 40's, sometimes tone and numbers would both cut out. Dug it because not that many targets and this was showing real deep on pinpoint, wasn't quite that deep though. The other item was what looks like the outer rim for a locket. That was giving a scratchy, intermittent tone but fairly consistent 14 to 16 or 18 VDI at 8 1/2 " but was only at 6 1/2 " according to the gauge on the TRX pinpointed.
I was very impressed with the large coil on small deep objects. As for particulars: we had over 5 inches rain a few days back, last week my racer 2 would show no mineralization bars and SAT of 60 upon gb at this location. Thanks for staying awake and for looking.
Don
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There's a grassy area of about two acres bordered by a paved running track. A baseball backstop just inside a curve on one end of the track that looks like a game has not been played there in a long time. That end of the track is adjacent to a school and playground which has been closed a number of years due to consolidation. These two properties are owned by seperate people. I was told by the city clerk that way back in the day that much of this area had been the old stockyard. Anyway last week got permission to hunt it, I hunted the school grounds abound 3 years ago.
Last week I hunted primarily the far end finding some cheats and clad, but had zigzaged hit and missed the area where I hunted today. Last week I used both my racer 2 with stock coil (the only one I have for it), and my mx 5 with 9" concentric. Didn't find a lot on the acre around the ball field other than a scant few modern coins a couple wheats, a childs flatened aluminum drinking cup, and a Canadian dime. The few wheaties were around 5 1/2", everything else shallower.
That brings me to today, put my large 12" spider coil on the mx5 because most of this area is not very trashy. Parked on the side of the gravel road that serves as a street in this poor rundown town, crossed the ditch and the paved walking trail, turned on my detector and set the threshold, swung for about twenty feet and got a good solid hit for a quarter at 8 1/2" down. It was a 1939 Washington.
So to try to wind this story down, I picked a "destination" about fifty yards away from the track where the grass appeared thiner and made only two trips there and two back. Beside the quarter I found two mercs, a'27 and '41 and my shallowest coin was a 1902 Barber at 4 1/2 in. down and an inch below a purple plastic comb piece.[emoji1] Also got four cheats and four nickels. Other than the Barber everything was in the 5 1/2--8 1/2 " range.
Now for the puzzler; I seldom use that 12 inch coil and had always read that a large coil would not hit well on a small objects. Well folks I found this tiny stainless disc about the size of the rivet for jeans pockets at 8 plus inches, running on two ton I was getting a higher tone and vdi's bouncing around in the 40's, sometimes tone and numbers would both cut out. Dug it because not that many targets and this was showing real deep on pinpoint, wasn't quite that deep though. The other item was what looks like the outer rim for a locket. That was giving a scratchy, intermittent tone but fairly consistent 14 to 16 or 18 VDI at 8 1/2 " but was only at 6 1/2 " according to the gauge on the TRX pinpointed.
I was very impressed with the large coil on small deep objects. As for particulars: we had over 5 inches rain a few days back, last week my racer 2 would show no mineralization bars and SAT of 60 upon gb at this location. Thanks for staying awake and for looking.
Don
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