John-Edmonton
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- Mar 21, 2005
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- Garrett- Master Hunter CX,Infinium, 1350, 2500, ACE 150-water converted 250, GTA 500,1500 Scorpion, AT Pro
Hunted An Old Sports-field And Gave Garrett's New Digger A Good Workout
Hit an old school sports field this evening, and dug pretty well all signals with a steady audio in all directions regardless of the VDI number. I was playing "Guess The Target" before I dug each one. The pennies were easy, and most of the tinfoil was too. But what surprised me were the other odd signals, around the 60's to 70's. Anything below 3" had the probable potential to be old, and out came buttons, a lead fishing weight, shoe string eyes from runners, a small racing tag and a rusted ball bearing. In other words, I am basically guess-less at deep steady signals in all directions. How many good targets have I left behind? Hows about those deep silver coins which are very deep, oxidized and reading as junk? I will never know, but if it's deep....DIG IT! That old saying, "the one who digs nearly all targets gets the best" is so very true. This area has been hunted yearly for about 40 years, yet I still found coins in the 40's. Had one been a dime or quarter, it would have been silver. I think that I will take a good look at my metal detecting habits and make some changes.
Here are the better finds from today. As mentioned, I put my new Garrett digger for a good work out. The ground is starting to get hard in Edmonton, as we had snow last week and temperatures over night going 5 degrees below freezing. Add to that, some areas in the sports field had a mixture of coal cinders mixed with gravel a few inches under the grass turf. The new digger easily fought it's way through the turf, soil and gravel mixed with coal cinders. The trick was to apply lots of vertical pressure while wiggling the blade forward back and forth. Because this digger is longer then my other digger, it had the advantage of inserting the blade down 4 inches and applying less horizontal pressure, which would force up a nice split plug still attached at the sides. I just had to insert my Pro Pointer to locate the target, and easily retrieve it. The blade did not flex at all with the horizontal pressure. It is a very strong hard carbon blade with teeth on both sides of the blade. But........you need to sharpen both the blade and teeth, as they are pretty dull out of the box. It took about 1/2 hour using a small stone on my rotary tool to get a nice sharp finish on it. It's nice to see Garrett, again being innovative , and making improvements on their equipment.
Hit an old school sports field this evening, and dug pretty well all signals with a steady audio in all directions regardless of the VDI number. I was playing "Guess The Target" before I dug each one. The pennies were easy, and most of the tinfoil was too. But what surprised me were the other odd signals, around the 60's to 70's. Anything below 3" had the probable potential to be old, and out came buttons, a lead fishing weight, shoe string eyes from runners, a small racing tag and a rusted ball bearing. In other words, I am basically guess-less at deep steady signals in all directions. How many good targets have I left behind? Hows about those deep silver coins which are very deep, oxidized and reading as junk? I will never know, but if it's deep....DIG IT! That old saying, "the one who digs nearly all targets gets the best" is so very true. This area has been hunted yearly for about 40 years, yet I still found coins in the 40's. Had one been a dime or quarter, it would have been silver. I think that I will take a good look at my metal detecting habits and make some changes.
Here are the better finds from today. As mentioned, I put my new Garrett digger for a good work out. The ground is starting to get hard in Edmonton, as we had snow last week and temperatures over night going 5 degrees below freezing. Add to that, some areas in the sports field had a mixture of coal cinders mixed with gravel a few inches under the grass turf. The new digger easily fought it's way through the turf, soil and gravel mixed with coal cinders. The trick was to apply lots of vertical pressure while wiggling the blade forward back and forth. Because this digger is longer then my other digger, it had the advantage of inserting the blade down 4 inches and applying less horizontal pressure, which would force up a nice split plug still attached at the sides. I just had to insert my Pro Pointer to locate the target, and easily retrieve it. The blade did not flex at all with the horizontal pressure. It is a very strong hard carbon blade with teeth on both sides of the blade. But........you need to sharpen both the blade and teeth, as they are pretty dull out of the box. It took about 1/2 hour using a small stone on my rotary tool to get a nice sharp finish on it. It's nice to see Garrett, again being innovative , and making improvements on their equipment.
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