Pocket Spill
Bronze Member
Haven't posted in a while. Have been out hunting some but just the occasional merc or Indian.
Sometimes it seems like the signals on the Etrac come in real good in certain ground conditions. Case in point is some hunting I got in at the end of last week. I hunted a hillside in a pounded Chicago park that I have hunted several times along with a few members on this forum such as Gimmie the Loot and Etrac007. The place is extremely trashy with a heavy shallow layer of modern trash and then alot of iron at medium and deep depths. I would say half the older coins I have found here have one or more trash targets in the hole. The first two times I hunted a few years ago it gave up several Indians, a few silvers and a bunch of wheaties. Then the finds started to thin out with just a few older coins each time I hunted it. I had hunted it a few months ago and got one merc and 2 wheaties.
But on last Thursday night, it was a different story. There must have been just the right amount of moisture in the ground because the signals were coming in real good and I got alot of deeper targets. In about 2 hours of hunting on Thursday night I got 3 silvers, 3 indians and 12 wheaties. Went back on Saturday morning for another 3 hours and got 2 silvers, 2 Indians and 16 more wheaties. Didnt change any settings on the detector, use a different coil or hunt any differently then I usually do. Alot of the signals were a little iffy but repeatable and deep enough to make me want to dig. Pictured below are the 5 silver dimes - 1908 Barber with full liberty and 4 Rosies - 1946, 1948, 1952D, 1953D. 5 Indians - 1888, 1893, 1894, 1905 and 1906.
Also found some sort of token. It has L.B. on one side (pounds?) and 2 1/2 on the other side. Anybody have any idea what it is?
Sometimes it seems like the signals on the Etrac come in real good in certain ground conditions. Case in point is some hunting I got in at the end of last week. I hunted a hillside in a pounded Chicago park that I have hunted several times along with a few members on this forum such as Gimmie the Loot and Etrac007. The place is extremely trashy with a heavy shallow layer of modern trash and then alot of iron at medium and deep depths. I would say half the older coins I have found here have one or more trash targets in the hole. The first two times I hunted a few years ago it gave up several Indians, a few silvers and a bunch of wheaties. Then the finds started to thin out with just a few older coins each time I hunted it. I had hunted it a few months ago and got one merc and 2 wheaties.
But on last Thursday night, it was a different story. There must have been just the right amount of moisture in the ground because the signals were coming in real good and I got alot of deeper targets. In about 2 hours of hunting on Thursday night I got 3 silvers, 3 indians and 12 wheaties. Went back on Saturday morning for another 3 hours and got 2 silvers, 2 Indians and 16 more wheaties. Didnt change any settings on the detector, use a different coil or hunt any differently then I usually do. Alot of the signals were a little iffy but repeatable and deep enough to make me want to dig. Pictured below are the 5 silver dimes - 1908 Barber with full liberty and 4 Rosies - 1946, 1948, 1952D, 1953D. 5 Indians - 1888, 1893, 1894, 1905 and 1906.
Also found some sort of token. It has L.B. on one side (pounds?) and 2 1/2 on the other side. Anybody have any idea what it is?
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