silversweeper
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- Aug 22, 2011
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- 252
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Etrac, CTX 3030
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Got out twice this week. Monday met some friends at a house for a few hours that one had gotten us permission to hunt on. My two buds were probing for bottles when I arrived. I was itching to detect.... (actually they were too, they just didn't want to admit it...). The one who had been to the property before, and had found a great many relics with his white's, told me about the different things he and others had found in the front yard. "BUT" he says, "The whole yard is full of iron" and he didn't make it sound too promising. "WHAT?!" I thought to myself! That's just what I like to hear because my etrac excells at picking goodies out of iron. So off I trudged across the driveway, etrac in hand. I got less than 10 ft. into the yard and had dug my 1st 58 cal. drop...of course I had to show it off...lol. Now my one friend is a new detectorist and has never found anything like this. You could literally see his eyes pop and mouth start watering... I headed back across to my etrac and went back to swinging. My friends probed for a while longer and checked in on me after a few minutes. I dug a few pieces of camp lead (not pictured) and not much else for a while and then hit two more 58's in a row within a few feet of each other. That did it...lol....both bottle probes went back into the vehicles and out came the detectors. The newbie I handed one of my 58's to so he could see how it read on his machine, and I let him keep it to seed start his collection. My other buddy found a 1918 merc after a few minutes and then I had to head home. Went back this morning and got permission to hit a couple of yards next door, not much there but did find a 44 cal. bullet and a 1900 V nickel (actually in decent shape but I havn't tried to clean it up much yet), some assorted modern coinage. Headed back to the first yard before going home, mostly to try and catch the owner at home, and before too long I'd dug another 58 and one flattened, chewed bullet. The 58 I dug more on gut feeling than on signal. I was hunting in TTF with a pretty open screen. It hit as 2 close together Ferrous signals for the most part with just a whisper of sound (no high tone) in between. But the numbers jumped around a lot with the CO hitting on low to mid 30's. I just knew it was a deep bullet and....for once I was right..lol. Would love to head back tomorrow but it's raining pretty good out right now and I really need to get back to work tomorrow anyway. Lots of yard left to detect there and I'm hoping there are many more good relics waiting under all that iron. Love my etrac!!
HH to all.
HH to all.
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