gwdigger
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Don't know if I have ever mentioned it but my wife and I have our hands full raising a 20 year old, 193 lbs, special needs son. He's 100% incontinent and has no speech whatsoever. This after already having raised a 30 year old son and 26 year old daughter. I've just gone back to work this past Sept too so needless to say there is little time for anything let alone metal detecting. So if I don't post or comment on your finds it doesn't mean I'm not looking and admiring as a lurker. I did just step down to 4 days a week so maybe we'll be a little more active in the farm fields. Lord I hope so.
Anyway, here's what we've found the last 4 or 5 trips out. We can only do 4 hrs at a time as thats all the respite we can get at a time from our son. I got the half cut 2 reales as my last find yesterday around 3pm. The cufflinks just before. I had my Deus cranked to 99 sens, 0 disc, 3 reactivity and -1 silencer, manual gb at 87. What i was doing was eking out finds in the dense iron bed. Lots of promise with this method. Its only good for the iron bed of course. What it seems to be doing is amplifying the non ferrous tones. But you have to listen close. This cut 2 reales is hands down the worst sounding silver reale I ever dug. But I took the chance on the crappy signal and it was a nice surprise. The cuff links have what appears to be silver or tinned material under the glass gems and show what may be 4 leaf clovers. I want to clean them but scared to take the chance.
I dug the other cut Spanish when we were last out. My wife got the pillar half reale and the Conn copper B4 that. I still need to brush off the 1831 large cent but it looks to be a real keeper. I dug a small cannon ball (will be making a video soon) and my wife found what may be a gun flint.
HH, Gary and Jo
Anyway, here's what we've found the last 4 or 5 trips out. We can only do 4 hrs at a time as thats all the respite we can get at a time from our son. I got the half cut 2 reales as my last find yesterday around 3pm. The cufflinks just before. I had my Deus cranked to 99 sens, 0 disc, 3 reactivity and -1 silencer, manual gb at 87. What i was doing was eking out finds in the dense iron bed. Lots of promise with this method. Its only good for the iron bed of course. What it seems to be doing is amplifying the non ferrous tones. But you have to listen close. This cut 2 reales is hands down the worst sounding silver reale I ever dug. But I took the chance on the crappy signal and it was a nice surprise. The cuff links have what appears to be silver or tinned material under the glass gems and show what may be 4 leaf clovers. I want to clean them but scared to take the chance.
I dug the other cut Spanish when we were last out. My wife got the pillar half reale and the Conn copper B4 that. I still need to brush off the 1831 large cent but it looks to be a real keeper. I dug a small cannon ball (will be making a video soon) and my wife found what may be a gun flint.
HH, Gary and Jo
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