tabman
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My plan today was to use my modded Tesoro Cibola with the 5.75" concentric search coil to see if I could unmask some good targets in all the nails that were located close to the house. Lucky for me I changed my mine and switched to the 9" x 8" concentric search coil because I that I wanted to go back over the large open area instead.
Keep in mind I've pulled string lines on this front yard and I've used numerous high tech detectors numerous times on previous hunts and was digging ALL repeatable non-ferrous targets with them even if they didn't give a good ID or audio. This old site warrants doing that because you just never know what you might find at a 1853 site.
I found a bunch of nickels! The Cibola really hits hard on them. I found a 1910 V-Nickel, a couple of dateless Buffalo Nickels, a 1943 War Nickel and a Jefferson Nickel. I also found a cut Wheat Penny and a Memorial Penny. How I missed those pennies and nickels on my previous hunts is beyond me!
On my coin spill, I located 2 separate targets about 8 inches apart and both sounded like trash. The first one that I dug turned out to be a small piece of can slaw. I went back over the second one again and it still sounded like trash. I dug down and popped a heavily tarnished coin which turned out to be a 1937 Brass 3 Pence coin. I got to poking around and found 3 nice silver coins in the same hole; a 1918 3 Pence, a 1936 6 Pence and a 1929 One Shilling. They were all heavily stained from the Brass 3 Pence Coin. It pays to dig those iffy targets!
A little later on I got my search coil over another deep iffy target. When I reached into the hole I could feel a handle and I slowly pulled it free. Talk about getting excited when I saw the silver spoon. Just my luck it turned out to be silver plated.
Just look at all those finds on that that 5 gallon lid including the junk targets that I missed on previous hunts. Heck those little broken off beaver tails could have been gold rings. If you don't have a Tesoro with a concentric search coil in your detector arsenal, you're leaving a lot goodies behind.
A rain storm sent me running for my SUV around noon. I'll rest up a day or two before hitting it again. I really need to go over the entire site with the 5.75 inch concentric search coil.
tabman
Keep in mind I've pulled string lines on this front yard and I've used numerous high tech detectors numerous times on previous hunts and was digging ALL repeatable non-ferrous targets with them even if they didn't give a good ID or audio. This old site warrants doing that because you just never know what you might find at a 1853 site.
I found a bunch of nickels! The Cibola really hits hard on them. I found a 1910 V-Nickel, a couple of dateless Buffalo Nickels, a 1943 War Nickel and a Jefferson Nickel. I also found a cut Wheat Penny and a Memorial Penny. How I missed those pennies and nickels on my previous hunts is beyond me!
On my coin spill, I located 2 separate targets about 8 inches apart and both sounded like trash. The first one that I dug turned out to be a small piece of can slaw. I went back over the second one again and it still sounded like trash. I dug down and popped a heavily tarnished coin which turned out to be a 1937 Brass 3 Pence coin. I got to poking around and found 3 nice silver coins in the same hole; a 1918 3 Pence, a 1936 6 Pence and a 1929 One Shilling. They were all heavily stained from the Brass 3 Pence Coin. It pays to dig those iffy targets!
A little later on I got my search coil over another deep iffy target. When I reached into the hole I could feel a handle and I slowly pulled it free. Talk about getting excited when I saw the silver spoon. Just my luck it turned out to be silver plated.
Just look at all those finds on that that 5 gallon lid including the junk targets that I missed on previous hunts. Heck those little broken off beaver tails could have been gold rings. If you don't have a Tesoro with a concentric search coil in your detector arsenal, you're leaving a lot goodies behind.
A rain storm sent me running for my SUV around noon. I'll rest up a day or two before hitting it again. I really need to go over the entire site with the 5.75 inch concentric search coil.
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