? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?What is the deepest target you have dug,
one of the deepest that I eve seen was just north of Navojoa in Mexico. A small group approached me to use my detector. The story was that an old woman had seen the Revolutionaries take over a Federal train that was carrying forced donations for the Gov't (you donate to the cause or we shoot you). She said that she had seen them throwing money, bars, etc off of the train just before a small bridge and burying it.
Since it was alongside of a main highway, they insisted upon going at night in order to not attract attention, even though the operation was legal.. Since it was a full moon, I reluctantly agreed. I quickly established that there was no metal reaction and told them that they were wrong on which bridge, they disagreed, and insisted on digging. I said "ok, but there isn't any metal down there".
They had dug down about 18 ft in steps when they hit water, they still continued digging. I, and another were looking over the edge at the man digging in knee deep water. He would take a shovel full of sand, lift it up to the next man, who in turn would lift it up to the surface.
I was getting very bored when I saw the glint of a silver coin in the shovelfull of sand & water. I was stumped and was thinking of reasons to tell them why I hadn't detected the metal withthe detector. We all gathered around looking at the silver coin when I noticed that it had been minted in 45?? Supposedly the coin had been buried in 1909 -10?? About this time the man that had been looking over the side with me suddenly looked rather foolish, put a hand to his shirt pocket, then said in an embarrassed tone, " sorry guys, it is mine, I must have dropped it while I was leaning over the hole".
This stopped the digging. that night, however on another night they even beat that ! Another story.
Jose de La Mancha ( I tilt windmills )