mpostma
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Ahhhhhhhh, Swinging a coil again! Spring is getting here, gradually.
An afternoon of chopping frozen turf and leaves will most likely pay off big, just in the savings. It was getting close to having to pay a therpist if I didn't get out soon!
Packed up all my stuff, loaded fresh batteries in the Quattro and the pinpointer. Temp was at the bottom of the 40's, but I could see that some fields and hillsides showed some brown between the eternal white spaces! Drove from spot to spot, wearing tennis shoes, looking for any of my haunts that I could hunt without wading through the snow to get to clear ground.
In the end I found myself at the old cooperage, and the towns first scrapyard. I know the whole area is covered with scrap iron and parts of old cars and machinery. This is an area I've done alright with my 5" coil, but today I had a new pro coil to finally try out.
The fields were flat from the months of deep snow. With the big coil in all the trash and metal I listened to so many signals in all metal that I made up for all the months of non detecting over the winter!
Found more scraps of metal of every kind than I will ever feel like identifying. Not a single coin did I find. I really was trying to see how much the pro coil would seperate targets in a trashy field. I also wanted to see how accurately I could pinpoint with it.
I learned a few things. First, I was rusty from not hunting for so long. Second, I have quite a bit to learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the pro coil.
Third, I need to bring a jackhammer along on early spring hunts!
The one interesting find was a E. Ingraham pocket watch, from Bristol Conn. It was a solid silver hit on the Quattro, and came up from well over 12" down.
I had been over the same area with my slimline and with my 5" last year, and never even got a bump. I had picked out a late 1800 IH about 10 feet from where I got the watch.
No idea how old it is, but it still opens.
Thanks for reading this long winded post!
Best of luck to you all!
Mark
An afternoon of chopping frozen turf and leaves will most likely pay off big, just in the savings. It was getting close to having to pay a therpist if I didn't get out soon!
Packed up all my stuff, loaded fresh batteries in the Quattro and the pinpointer. Temp was at the bottom of the 40's, but I could see that some fields and hillsides showed some brown between the eternal white spaces! Drove from spot to spot, wearing tennis shoes, looking for any of my haunts that I could hunt without wading through the snow to get to clear ground.
In the end I found myself at the old cooperage, and the towns first scrapyard. I know the whole area is covered with scrap iron and parts of old cars and machinery. This is an area I've done alright with my 5" coil, but today I had a new pro coil to finally try out.
The fields were flat from the months of deep snow. With the big coil in all the trash and metal I listened to so many signals in all metal that I made up for all the months of non detecting over the winter!
Found more scraps of metal of every kind than I will ever feel like identifying. Not a single coin did I find. I really was trying to see how much the pro coil would seperate targets in a trashy field. I also wanted to see how accurately I could pinpoint with it.
I learned a few things. First, I was rusty from not hunting for so long. Second, I have quite a bit to learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the pro coil.
Third, I need to bring a jackhammer along on early spring hunts!
The one interesting find was a E. Ingraham pocket watch, from Bristol Conn. It was a solid silver hit on the Quattro, and came up from well over 12" down.
I had been over the same area with my slimline and with my 5" last year, and never even got a bump. I had picked out a late 1800 IH about 10 feet from where I got the watch.
No idea how old it is, but it still opens.
Thanks for reading this long winded post!
Best of luck to you all!
Mark
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