Brett
Bronze Member
Well I met up with my Dad today after my morning chores... we hunted in some woods for about 3 hours or so. Right away off in some remote area I got a quarter signal but it was shallow. Turned out to be a '73, clad. It gave me some hopes that there were coins out there though. My next repeatable signal with some strength behind it was reading really low... like between a zinc penny and indian, about 35 on the E-Trac. I was surprised to see a 1919-s wheatie come out. Even after it was out and clean, it wasn't reading very high. My Dad was saying 40-50's VDI's with his DFX. Weird.
My next decent signal was anything but decent. Just off a trail I got a sputter of a low tone and going back over it was sounding off maybe every other time, real short and quick. The numbers were close to a nickel, 13-15 conductive so I decided to open up a hole. Removing the top 3" of dirt revealed nothing with the probe. I thought it could be a ghost signal so I switched back to the main coil, and sure enough it was still there. After removing another layer of dirt the probe was bup bup buping. Out popped a nickel... right away I knew it wasn't silver, but thought that it had to be OLD! I turned off the detector and rushed over to the creek (5 feet away
) to rinse her off. Immediately I saw the date of 1889! Whoopitydooda my first V-nick! I was jumping around and showing it off to my Dad. Couldn't believe it. This is the first 1800's coin we've pulled from these woods... but I think after all of the swinging we did today there, and due to the green stuff growin' again, we probably won't be going back there until fall or winter.
I can't wait to do some clean-cut turf hunting. I've grown sick of snagging my coil on those little twigs and climbing in and around all of the obstacles in the woods. It's not too bad when it's winter/early spring... but it's gotten down right ugly in there now with new growth.
My next decent signal was anything but decent. Just off a trail I got a sputter of a low tone and going back over it was sounding off maybe every other time, real short and quick. The numbers were close to a nickel, 13-15 conductive so I decided to open up a hole. Removing the top 3" of dirt revealed nothing with the probe. I thought it could be a ghost signal so I switched back to the main coil, and sure enough it was still there. After removing another layer of dirt the probe was bup bup buping. Out popped a nickel... right away I knew it wasn't silver, but thought that it had to be OLD! I turned off the detector and rushed over to the creek (5 feet away
) to rinse her off. Immediately I saw the date of 1889! Whoopitydooda my first V-nick! I was jumping around and showing it off to my Dad. Couldn't believe it. This is the first 1800's coin we've pulled from these woods... but I think after all of the swinging we did today there, and due to the green stuff growin' again, we probably won't be going back there until fall or winter.I can't wait to do some clean-cut turf hunting. I've grown sick of snagging my coil on those little twigs and climbing in and around all of the obstacles in the woods. It's not too bad when it's winter/early spring... but it's gotten down right ugly in there now with new growth.
