Mr Silver...and Greg....Thanks!!! I learned something big time

[Wyatt Earp]

Hey Gang.....

I was talking to Greg on the phone last night, and he told me that the whole time the gang was at the park....Perry only worked an area about 30 feet square....hmmm....he also bagged the most silver. Perry that's a testimony to your skills with your machine.

I wanted to try tuning a little differently tonight. I usually hunt in silent mode TR....and I tried setting the threshold to where the detector would just scream if I lifted it even slightly off the ground. Read on...this worked wonderfully.

Having hunted that park, I know of one area that seems to stay wet, so I wanted to see how I would fare hunting this area in a slower fashion. I am talking really slow, crowded sweeps of the coil.

Well guess what? It works. I was there for about 30 minutes and popped the 43 washington quarter out at a depth of 8 inches...a personal best for me. The 42 merc was at 7 inches....also exceptionally deep on a dime for me.

2 valuable lessons in one day....and 2 silver coins not 10 feet apart in an area that I had already hunted pretty hard (I thought). It was the same corner that had given up the really slick standing liberty quarter a few weeks ago. Fact of the matter is....that the quarter came out of a hole that I (or somebody else) gave up on and re-filled...or was it the same hole that had the standing liberty in it and I made the stupid assumption that the hole was empty once the coin was removed...hmmm some more). I figure it was probably me in any case. Sometimes, I figure if I am just at my max depth and get a weak signal, then the signal seems to disappear (maybe just holding the coil a little higher over the grass flap) and since I don't have a pinpointer (it's on my christmas list) I will occassionally give up the chase. There might even be a 3rd lesson in there somewhere. I'm pretty sure there is.

I have to thank the both of you guys. Greg...had you and I not had that conversation, I wouldn't be making this post. Perry...You're quite the teacher, my friend....and I wasn't even "in class" the day you guys were down.

Looks like the park will be coughing up some more goodies to my pouch after all....and I thought I was doing pretty good before....thought I'd done all the damage me and the old 6000 could do.

Happy hunting to all.

Wyatt

PS: I got all of those coins from my buddy in Tx today, so I left the dirt on these for the first photo. I usually wash them at the park in the drinking fountain before I even bring them home....but I wanted to present these au naturale....so you guys would know I wasn't pulling your leg.

Wyatt that is a really nice post. It goes to show people just how wonderful the people on TQ are toward each other.

[Wyatt Earp]

Gotta give credit where credit is due. I think I improved my depth by about 15 to 20 percent tonight just because of the experience that I wasn't even there to take part in. I learn something new everyday. These lessons are "gooduns". They'll pay off in the nice jingly stuff that we all like

If any of the readers here ever visit T-net...in the archives there's a 3 part series on coinshooting. It's "must read" material for every coinshooter. It's information that the seasoned pros already know.....and stuff that anybody who wants to be more successful ought to know.

Wyatt

[Mr.Silver]

Do you have a Disc. setting on your machine Wyatt?
I use these Disc setting all the time w/my setting just above old pulltabs setting on my discrimator
knob and I pinpoint with my push button all the time I never use my TR/DISC. setting to confusing and I get sounds from false items beneath the ground. I use GEB/Disc setting on the time and recheck the hole with GEB/ALL Metal Mode for pinpointing, then I start digging and ALLS WAYS CHECK YOUR HOLES FOR MORE COINS!!!

Mr.Silver

[Wyatt Earp]

The preset notch for my discrimination is about 5 I think. I run mine closer to 3 or thereabouts. I don't have too much trouble with falsing, but occassionally I will hit a piece of deep foil that will fool the machine.

I tried the GEB circuitry for awhile last night....meter is slow to react, and because of the motion required for that circuitry...by the time the meter hits, I'm well past the target. TR is much quicker and allows me to sweep the coil more slowly.

Went down for an hour this morning before the post office opened....no silver but a few modern coins and a couple wheats at 6 inches or more. This morning's were a 1929 and 1956-D....and last night I scored a 1944 and a 1931 wheat at similar depth. It's supposed to rain here, starting tonight and through tomorrow. That may be a good thing, because aside from that corner of the lot that stays moist...the ground is drier than the proverbial popcorn fart.

Wyatt