McCDig
Silver Member
- Jan 31, 2015
- 3,753
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- Detector(s) used
- Fisher F75
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Do enough detecting and you too can detect fat-free!
Today I had my first surface-find fatty Indian. I heard a signal in the low 30s on my F75; this can be a nickel or a pull tab ring but it was loud, so I expected a surface target. At first I just passed it by thinking it was trash but then thought "I better check that out. It's on the surface and should be easy to locate. Hey, it may be something good". Got out the pinpointer and located an 1863 fatty Indian right on the grass. A detectorist must have dropped it or flipped it out and lost it. Who knows, it could have been me. That's a first for me...an Indian in the grass...and I didn't have to dig for it...my first fat free target!
Later in the hunt, while detecting along the walkway I got a solid faint signal and saw that it was over where I had dug a plug earlier in the week. Excavating was easy and as I took out some additional soil I soon got a chirp from the pinpointer and with a little more digging pulled out a shield nickel. When I had first investigated this hole the batteries were weak in the pinpointer. This is a good example to me to replace the batteries when the sound and response from the pinpointer is getting weak.
Found two cuff links today. The first has blue-colored glass and is a match to an intact cufflink I found near that same spot two months ago. The fellow lost the pair that day. The next cufflink had detail on the front and all I could make out was something that looked like a wheel. So I see a wheel and I'm thinking military artillery. This turned out not to be the wheel of a cannon but the wheel of a rickshaw. A tiny carved metal inset to the cufflink was set in abalone; the inset pictures a rickshaw with footman and passenger and measures no more than 6 x 6 millimeters.
Other finds included a 1918 wheat, 1941 nickel and a plated earring.
Today I had my first surface-find fatty Indian. I heard a signal in the low 30s on my F75; this can be a nickel or a pull tab ring but it was loud, so I expected a surface target. At first I just passed it by thinking it was trash but then thought "I better check that out. It's on the surface and should be easy to locate. Hey, it may be something good". Got out the pinpointer and located an 1863 fatty Indian right on the grass. A detectorist must have dropped it or flipped it out and lost it. Who knows, it could have been me. That's a first for me...an Indian in the grass...and I didn't have to dig for it...my first fat free target!
Later in the hunt, while detecting along the walkway I got a solid faint signal and saw that it was over where I had dug a plug earlier in the week. Excavating was easy and as I took out some additional soil I soon got a chirp from the pinpointer and with a little more digging pulled out a shield nickel. When I had first investigated this hole the batteries were weak in the pinpointer. This is a good example to me to replace the batteries when the sound and response from the pinpointer is getting weak.
Found two cuff links today. The first has blue-colored glass and is a match to an intact cufflink I found near that same spot two months ago. The fellow lost the pair that day. The next cufflink had detail on the front and all I could make out was something that looked like a wheel. So I see a wheel and I'm thinking military artillery. This turned out not to be the wheel of a cannon but the wheel of a rickshaw. A tiny carved metal inset to the cufflink was set in abalone; the inset pictures a rickshaw with footman and passenger and measures no more than 6 x 6 millimeters.
Other finds included a 1918 wheat, 1941 nickel and a plated earring.
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