Silver Spoon, Silver Coins, Indians, Wheats, Old Nickles and a bunch of relics.

[JerV3]

Hi all, Was back in normal hunting form last week. Went out 3 days. Got tiered of waiting for it to get cooler out.

Fought the 90 degree heat and headed for some old park woods. This time was different though.

I have been using my 1400 coil now in this park. I have also re tweaked the dfx to find more.

This is a great metal detector if you know how to use it. Everytime I re adjust it I find more in spots I hunted hard.

All hits were deeper than 6 inches.

I was digging dimes at 7 or 8 inches in hard packed path soil with rock and clay. The dfx could easily hit them with the way I set it up.

I had a few light scratches on a few of the dimes. Not real happy about it. But when there that deep and the ground is that hard and your digging with a shovel just to get to them it happens.

I actually hunted 3 days by myself. I concentrate better when alone for some reason.

The find I liked the most was a old tiny silver spoon. It's about three or 4 inches long and was made by the westmoreland silver co. It dated betwen 1900-1940. It used to be a pin or brooch. The pin is missing from the back.

I think there is alot more to be found in this area that I thought I had cleaned out. The hits are deep and I have never took a shovel to this park ever.

Some of the dates on the coins were this. 44 and 16 merc. 1913 barber dime. 1920 buffalo. 1901 v-nickle. One transit token from Pittsburgh. It's in bad shape. 1 1899 Indian and a 1906. Most wheat's were teen dates. One was a better 1912.

I will keep you all posted.

Thanks for looking,

HH Jeremy

 

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[Nana40]

WoW Jer! Fantastic finds! It's very hot and dry here too. And I will have to say that you have a lot more stamina than I! If the targets are more than three inches down....I leave them! The ground is so hard and the heat so intense that I can't stay out and hunt for more than an hour or two.

I think I miss winter. I didn't just say that!

Way to go on the finds Jeremy!

Nana

 

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[JerV3]

Thanks for all the nice replies everyone.

Boy the heat is tough let me tell you. I have to woods hunt in shorts and a wife beater just to stand it. I get all scratched up and when I sweat bug off makes my lips and eye's burn some.

I can stay out for about 2 hrs or so then I'm done. I am also swinging the 1400 coil and it is heavy.

I found the same silver spoon on e-bay. It was a salt spoon but it was also a pin to be worn on a shirt or jacket.

It has the moldings on the back were it used to be. The spoon was bent in half when I found it. Bummer but I bent it back and there is just a slight crease in it now.

I wouldn't go deeper than 4 or 5 inches in this dirt without a shovel. It's just to much work with the large coil also.

Deer hunter, The dfx is a tough machine to figure out. I have the high pro program tweaked out pretty well.

The more you accept reject the deeper it will help it go. I accept from minus 40 through plus 95.

You can go all the way down to -80 but it may be to unstable. Everyone's grounds are different.

The threshold needs to be set correctly. Take it down to 6. Sweep speed of 1. Pre amp at 4. A.c sense at 85. The hot rock reject should be set as low as it will stay stable.

Also the bottle cap reject should be as low as it can go. But not to low. It will get unstable. Numbers like 10 or lower for those two settings.

You also need to purchase a 14X8 DD coil. They run about 200.00.

I have dug large cents at a foot in the clay. Depth will depend on the type of grounds your hunting also.

Some soils they get really deep. And then others they are in the 4 to 6 inch range.

I have heard good depth results from minelab explorer users. But I would take my dfx up against one any day with the large coil and as well as I know it.

This unit has no flaws hardly. It will find any type of metal large or small. It is the best all around unit I have seen built.

This is just my opinion. I have been to many hunts even held and used an explorer. I like the dfx the best of any detector on the market right now.

It fits me well and hunts my soils like a monster. I'm sure if I had other top end units I could do near as well.

At the end of the day you have to have locations to hunt that will produce the finds.

Good luck to all,

Hope my opinions don't disturb anyone.

HH Jer

 

[Mirage]

Re: Silver Spoon, Silver Coins, Indians, Wheats, Old Nickles and a bunch of reli

Nice bunch of finds. Glad to see you are not waiting around.

Concentrate better alone.....Not me. I find that if I go alone I am apt to quit early and generally do a sloppy job. If I'm with Nate, then my game is on - competition.

I believe you are really a "master" DFX user. A lot of people sell the DFX because they don't want to go through all that trouble of tweaking. The DFX will do the depth - you have to make it though.

Mirage

 

[JerV3]

Thanks alot for the nice words Mirage.

You are exactly right. What makes the dfx so difficult is figuring out how to set it up for the best depth in your soil conditions.

Everyones if different. Like if I went down south on vacation my program may be to unstable for the grounds.

It will get you deep but only a handle of users can get them to perform like that.

I have had this machine for 5 yrs. And for 2 or 3 yrs straight I was hunting 4 5 days a week.

I also had some really good contacts on another forum at the time. I was able to talk with guys who used whites for 30 40 yrs break it down to me day after day.

That's how I got to really understand the unit. There was a engineer for white's who frequented the rooms who told me alot of things also. He helped design the dfx.

The forum is no more but I never forgot what I was told. There was to much brand bashing and negative things going on they shut the forum down.

It was the best chat and the worst chat at the same time.

HH Jer

 

[Gabbit]

wow -- looks like you really had to work for your loot -- but looks like it was well worth it -- nice finds as always

 

[JerV3]

Thanks Gabbit.

Yeah it was work. We got alot of rain this week so I went out. It was better.

It's amazing that once the ground gets rock hard. It doesn't matter if it pours for three straight days.

It still hard in some area's.

HH Jer

 

[Farmer X]

Looks like u got er dialed in----nice job!!!!!



HH Farmer Dan

 

[Farmer X]

Jer

Seems you got er dialed in alright!!!!!!!!

HH Farmer Dan

 

[Gabbit]

Thanks Gabbit.

Yeah it was work. We got alot of rain this week so I went out. It was better.

It's amazing that once the ground gets rock hard. It doesn't matter if it pours for three straight days.

It still hard in some area's.

HH Jer

no kidding -- must have a lot of clay in your soil or something. Around here it is usually bone dry unless your in the park where they water every day -- the water really helps get that extra inch or two of depth. If it rained for 3 days here we might have an extra lake on our hands -- in the area I have been hunting it takes me about an hour to dig 5 or so holes - very slow going to want to be sure I have a pretty good signal before I dig down

 

[JerV3]

Yeah there is alot of clay around. This area only has about 4 inches of black soil.

Then your down to clay. And with the paths the way they are washed out from rains it's all clay.

Luckily we got alot of rain so it's been great 75 to 80 with moist soil.

The rain helps depth some and keeps silver from getting scratched in the process.

I pick and choose in the dry hot heat also. I have been bringing a shovel though to get deeper without killing myself.

The heat keeps me from digging every signal. And alot of real deep signals read funny and lower audio at times. They will also be tougher to pinpoint.

Oh well guess it can't be perfect all the time.

HH Jer

 

[dave-enc]

terrific finds Jeremy, wtg
hh
dave+bobbie

 

[JerV3]

Thanks you guys.

Wish I could pull the gold like you two kings do.

HH Jer

 

[trk5capt]

JER, Very Nice Haul, Congrats. trk5capt...

 

[JerV3]

Thanks for the reply Capt.

HH Jer

 

[Boobydoo]

Nice finds there Jer, congrats!
Love that Spoon/pin, very cool!

Smiles!
BDoo

 

[nybuford]

Wow... beautiful coins Jeremy. Congrats!

 

[JerV3]

Thanks for the replies guys.

The spoon was also my favorite find.

I can always find old coins. No matter if it's slow or a ton I can find them.

It's the relics that make up a neat collection in cases.

HH Jer

 

[BuckleBoy]

Nice hunt! My favorite is the broken pair of pliers, but the spoon is really cool too.

 

[JerV3]

Thanks buckleboy.

The spoon was a really nice surprize.

It's not often do you find any type of silverware that is actually sterling.

Alot of plated but not alot of silver.

HH Jer