Thought I got it all...I was wrong! (warning, a long one)
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RyanChappell
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Thanks!
I just figured since most of you guys don't hunt where I do, I can share.
A note to Ryanchappell.
Michael...This is not for you....just move on....nothing for you to read here.
"These are not the droids that I am looking for."
I went detecting with Bonesquat Sunday, he had some great sites picked out, but ... One was a church. It was Sunday so we ditched that. Florence was too far, since we only had a few hours. Another was a school that had produced silver, we spent an hour there and realized someone had CLEANED it out bad.
We went to another school, found some clad, and got really BORED. I mean really BORED. After Bonesquat found a junk ring in a concrete contained area with 10' x 10' foot dirt spots for trees, etc, he did changed his strategy.
He just started randomly locating surface targets with his Pro-pointer and digging them. We did this for an hour or so? He found 3 or 4 junk rings total, and we both found more clad in that one hour than we did the other 3 or 4 hours combined.
RyanChappell
Elite Member
Wash plant
Here is another idea I came up with for areas like those islands.
Fill up a garbage can at a time with the soil, possibly take it home, or somehow, run it through a specially modified sluice. You would need bigger holes in the runs for grabbing the coins, and to adjust the angel for coins, as they probably wash out easier? or differently?
I originally had this idea for getting the goodies from under stadium seats littered with trash, and aluminium seats.
It might work to wash most the rocks and aluminum junk away, less nails, bolts, and junk to sort through.
I don't know if it would be worth the time and effort, but it would be fun.
Here is another idea I came up with for areas like those islands.
Fill up a garbage can at a time with the soil, possibly take it home, or somehow, run it through a specially modified sluice. You would need bigger holes in the runs for grabbing the coins, and to adjust the angel for coins, as they probably wash out easier? or differently?
I originally had this idea for getting the goodies from under stadium seats littered with trash, and aluminium seats.
It might work to wash most the rocks and aluminum junk away, less nails, bolts, and junk to sort through.
I don't know if it would be worth the time and effort, but it would be fun.
DIGGER27
In Memory Of
Uhhh...OK.
I just picked this up on a good deal from the classifieds on the other forum I am a member of..."The Friendly Backhoe Forum."
Where do you want to start?
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Bonesquat
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That last school was FUN! It was mind boggling running the pin pointer on the ground and digging all beeps. I got a pocket spill of 3 nickels down 4 inches right next to a tree. I'd have never dug that. Also some junk rings like Michael said. It cracked me up when you had a hole like a foot deep next to a tree and were still getting targets in the hole.
Sure was a learning experience digging everything in all metal. Amazing all the crap left in the ground.
ct01r
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WOW! It was also one of the best ones I've read in awhile! Thanks for the time it took to put your thoughts down for us. Curt
ct01r
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WOW! Thiswas one of the best posts I've read in awhile! Thanks for the time it took to put your thoughts down for us. Curt
ct01r
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WOW! This was one of the best posts I've read in awhile! Thanks for the time it took to put your thoughts down for us. Curt
dan
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DIGGER27
In Memory Of
LOL!
Also thanks Dan for your additional input in your previous post.
Slow and tight works for all the shallower targets, but because of the ice cream cone shape and small area of the field at depth on a concentric coil, it is very important to do this when going after those deeper targets.
HH
Burbank Bob
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This post made me more money last night... thanks Digger! 
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=78247
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=78247
DIGGER27
In Memory Of
This post made me more money last night... thanks Digger!
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=78247
You are very welcome!
Joves
Elite Member
Thanx! But I have already been doing that. I have to swing slower because of the amount of trash in some of my areas. I found a quarter the other day next to a nail swinging very slowly, it was 4 inches deep. The one area I search has my machines buzz blanked out 70% of the time so Im going to increase my overlap rate and see how that works out.
dan
Elite Member
Joves, I visited your photo site and I have to tell you, I love the way you open your lens to throw the background out of focus on some of your shots. They really look professional. Have you had any of them published?
sllingshot47
Elite Member
The thing I liked about it was I had discovered my BH Tracker found more coins with a slow sweep in some grounds so I thought of overlapping even tighter and the coil sweep speed did not have to be so slow as before. I just imagined the small 4" inner coil was the main coil and things got really good. Thanks.
Joves
Elite Member
Why thank you. No not yet but Im working on finding a good printer for postcards to sell here locally. And Im sort of writing a book that I have decided to name the Lazy Mans Guide to Arizona with drivable off the path places to go. I have been shooting since I was 9, I come from a family of photogs, I guess I got the gene for it. I took up MDing as a good side hobby for the photography, it is something I do while waiting for the light to get right.
DIGGER27
In Memory Of
I agree...beautiful pictures.
I am a bit of a shutterbug, myself, but I haven't picked up my Nikon since I started this hobby.
Seem to have other things to do with my free time, lately.
HH
I am a bit of a shutterbug, myself, but I haven't picked up my Nikon since I started this hobby.
Seem to have other things to do with my free time, lately.
HH
Midasmulligan
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Beautiful pics Joves. Curious what you shoot and the lenses on hand?
I'm brand new to this and keep walking out back to practice different stuff as I read it here, most helpful.
Being an OCD type and very unsure of what I'm doing I move pretty slow anyway. My biggest problem has been that I pick up too many signals. I'm practicing in an area of my property that I've cut and filled myself with what I thought was virgin soils...wrong. It's really pretty amazing just how much stuff you can find hiding in just a small patch of ground. No gold yet, but I think I've pretty well cleaned out all of the pull tabs and bottle caps (which I really don't get 'cuz I refuse to drink canned beer...the caps on the other hand, mea culpa).
I'm brand new to this and keep walking out back to practice different stuff as I read it here, most helpful.
Being an OCD type and very unsure of what I'm doing I move pretty slow anyway. My biggest problem has been that I pick up too many signals. I'm practicing in an area of my property that I've cut and filled myself with what I thought was virgin soils...wrong. It's really pretty amazing just how much stuff you can find hiding in just a small patch of ground. No gold yet, but I think I've pretty well cleaned out all of the pull tabs and bottle caps (which I really don't get 'cuz I refuse to drink canned beer...the caps on the other hand, mea culpa).
DIGGER27
In Memory Of
***update***
Ok, just to bump this thread for the newbies, many others are learning this lesson and find so much at "hunted out" sites.
I have been back to this same site with my newest philly in the stable, a Compadre, and guess what?
Still plenty more to be found....and I have hit this place so many times with 3 different machines it is hard to count.
Learn your machine...use the right techniques...hit sites from different angles, really overlap and slow down if you tend to be a fast swinger like I used to be.
There is more under the ground than you might think.
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=86773
Also adding a sad note...
Bill Revis passed away in August, and he is sure to be missed by many in his life and in our hobby.
A friend, a writer and a teacher...and he left a vast legacy of knowledge in his posts over the years.
I urge you to read some of them if you have time.
817 PAGES of his listed posts.
http://www.findmall.com/search.php?32,author=24,match_type=USER_ID,match_dates=0,match_threads=0
RIP Uncle Willy...you will be missed.
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php?topic=419744.0
Ok, just to bump this thread for the newbies, many others are learning this lesson and find so much at "hunted out" sites.
I have been back to this same site with my newest philly in the stable, a Compadre, and guess what?
Still plenty more to be found....and I have hit this place so many times with 3 different machines it is hard to count.
Learn your machine...use the right techniques...hit sites from different angles, really overlap and slow down if you tend to be a fast swinger like I used to be.
There is more under the ground than you might think.
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=86773
Also adding a sad note...
Bill Revis passed away in August, and he is sure to be missed by many in his life and in our hobby.
A friend, a writer and a teacher...and he left a vast legacy of knowledge in his posts over the years.
I urge you to read some of them if you have time.
817 PAGES of his listed posts.
http://www.findmall.com/search.php?32,author=24,match_type=USER_ID,match_dates=0,match_threads=0
RIP Uncle Willy...you will be missed.
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php?topic=419744.0
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stewart73
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Great original post! It's scary to think how much stuff we are passing over and leaving 'unfound' because of being in a hurry. I have to keep reminding myself to slow down and overlap more...tough sometimes but I'm slowly getting better at it. 
