AirmetTango
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Like many other areas, NW Ohio has been scorching hot lately, so I haven’t done much hunting. The heat index was roughly equal to the surface of Venus on Sunday, but the itch got overwhelming. So I slathered on enough sunscreen to protect me in case the sun went supernova, and hit one of my farm field permissions that’s laying dormant for the year.
I’ve hunted this field more times than I can count and the good targets are getting rare, but this time I decided to go in with some slightly different settings, a slower sweep speed, and a different search pattern. At first, the only difference I noticed compared to previous visits was that I was sweating a lot more
But within 15 minutes I got over an iffy high tone, 19-22 VDI in most directions, a bounce or two up to 24, but iron grunts on one side. I went after it, and was rewarded with a 1919S Wheatie - which gave me the jolt of hope I needed to keep sweating through a couple more hours of mid tones with few highlights better than a handful of old shotshell headstamps.
Midway through the hunt, I got over a broken up ring which turned out to have an interesting design - mermaids maybe? The center stone is long gone, but the remains of some gold gilding can still be seen in the crevices.
Eventually I got over two more Wheat cents - another 1919S and an unknown date - both of which were partially masked. At that point I was satisfied with my 3 coins and broken ring, and I was literally done sweating, so I started swinging my way back to the car.
I got a high tone when I was close enough to the car that I could have spit on it if the heat hadn’t baked all the moisture out of my body. The tone was so momentary that I almost missed it. Stepping back to check it again, darn if it didn’t repeat! 28, 29, 33...kind of jumpy, and only in one direction. Disappeared completely in other directions. An inch and a half over to one side, and the machine locked on to a definite iron target. The good tone was hard to isolate, but I was convinced there was something good next to that iron target, so I broke ground....I intentionally dug the iron to get it out of the way It didn’t take long to find a rusty nail, but it was bent. Knowing that the Equinox likes to sound off on bent nails, I was afraid I had found the source of my one-way high tone. But swinging over the area, the high tone was still there - dropped to 24-27 and still pretty jumpy, but still there! Turning over a little more dirt, I saw the shiny round coin in the bottom of a big clod! 1900 Barber dime, in pretty nice shape! Amazing how often that seems to happen...I was only maybe 10 steps away from wrapping up the detector to go home!
Edit: Ok, my photo mark up labels turned out to be completely useless and unreadable! Red arrows are pointing to the dirt clod where the iron nail was imbedded (near the coil) and the spot where the dirt clod was excavated from. Green arrow on the right almost makes it to the dirt clod with the Barber still visible in it, while the green arrow on the left points to where that clod was unearthed. Clear as mud??
I’ve hunted this field more times than I can count and the good targets are getting rare, but this time I decided to go in with some slightly different settings, a slower sweep speed, and a different search pattern. At first, the only difference I noticed compared to previous visits was that I was sweating a lot more
But within 15 minutes I got over an iffy high tone, 19-22 VDI in most directions, a bounce or two up to 24, but iron grunts on one side. I went after it, and was rewarded with a 1919S Wheatie - which gave me the jolt of hope I needed to keep sweating through a couple more hours of mid tones with few highlights better than a handful of old shotshell headstamps.
Midway through the hunt, I got over a broken up ring which turned out to have an interesting design - mermaids maybe? The center stone is long gone, but the remains of some gold gilding can still be seen in the crevices.
Eventually I got over two more Wheat cents - another 1919S and an unknown date - both of which were partially masked. At that point I was satisfied with my 3 coins and broken ring, and I was literally done sweating, so I started swinging my way back to the car.
I got a high tone when I was close enough to the car that I could have spit on it if the heat hadn’t baked all the moisture out of my body. The tone was so momentary that I almost missed it. Stepping back to check it again, darn if it didn’t repeat! 28, 29, 33...kind of jumpy, and only in one direction. Disappeared completely in other directions. An inch and a half over to one side, and the machine locked on to a definite iron target. The good tone was hard to isolate, but I was convinced there was something good next to that iron target, so I broke ground....I intentionally dug the iron to get it out of the way It didn’t take long to find a rusty nail, but it was bent. Knowing that the Equinox likes to sound off on bent nails, I was afraid I had found the source of my one-way high tone. But swinging over the area, the high tone was still there - dropped to 24-27 and still pretty jumpy, but still there! Turning over a little more dirt, I saw the shiny round coin in the bottom of a big clod! 1900 Barber dime, in pretty nice shape! Amazing how often that seems to happen...I was only maybe 10 steps away from wrapping up the detector to go home!
Edit: Ok, my photo mark up labels turned out to be completely useless and unreadable! Red arrows are pointing to the dirt clod where the iron nail was imbedded (near the coil) and the spot where the dirt clod was excavated from. Green arrow on the right almost makes it to the dirt clod with the Barber still visible in it, while the green arrow on the left points to where that clod was unearthed. Clear as mud??
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