WHADIFIND
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I decided I would go out this AM to see if any Easter gifts had been left for me to find. 
Mornings are not my usual venue anymore but the weather was calling for rain later. So, I thought I'd try this school up the road. I knew a few things about it from my research but I didn't realize just how mineralized the ground was up there!
It tuned out at around 90-91!!! Now, that USED to scare me a bit. But since I've grown to understand this AT-Pro, it has proven to me that it can and does shoot very well in such ground. It's also a bit of a welcome sign to me now. I know that even though the area has been hunted, lesser detectors who cannot compensate for mineralization as well are going to be leaving things behind.
It proved true today as well. I only searched for about 1-1/2 hours before the rain commenced. Small but quality take.
Now, talk about a miss being as good as a mile. 1937 - check! "D" - check check!!! "4 legs" - crap!
But, it's ok. There was still a "star" of the day and it was a VERY interesting dig!
I got this very mixed signal on some slightly uneven ground, (Uneven ground makes it doubly difficult in highly mineralized ground). After digging down about 8 inches I noticed a dime sized coin laying on top of the dirt I just scooped out. Ok, that explains the high squeek. But as I was putting the dirt back in the hole and checking it as I go I noticed these little pieces of metal. They would've come out earlier/shallower in the dig. They didn't look like iron and they were very thin. I saw that they sort of fit together so I gather as many as I could find.
When I got home and cleaned them up a bit, they reassembled like this:
A little hard to see but I believe this is what's left of an old protractor. It's brass and very thin & fragile.
I think I am very grateful to the AT-Pro's ability to separate and identify multiple targets in a hole. Let alone the fact that it did this in very mineralized ground! The signal was pretty bouncy, 60 all the way up to 89. Very difficult to judge whether garbage or not. I could see others coming thru and dismissing this as just a collection of can slaw. Still, the AT not only saw the silver, it also noticed the brass and whatever else might have been in this hole. AND, the key part, is that it STILL gave me a signal that was convincing enough to cause me to dig.
Here's the star of the day and my Easter present.
Not greatly detailed, but would ANYONE turn this down?
Happy Easter everyone!
HH!
Mornings are not my usual venue anymore but the weather was calling for rain later. So, I thought I'd try this school up the road. I knew a few things about it from my research but I didn't realize just how mineralized the ground was up there!
It tuned out at around 90-91!!! Now, that USED to scare me a bit. But since I've grown to understand this AT-Pro, it has proven to me that it can and does shoot very well in such ground. It's also a bit of a welcome sign to me now. I know that even though the area has been hunted, lesser detectors who cannot compensate for mineralization as well are going to be leaving things behind.
It proved true today as well. I only searched for about 1-1/2 hours before the rain commenced. Small but quality take.
Now, talk about a miss being as good as a mile. 1937 - check! "D" - check check!!! "4 legs" - crap!
But, it's ok. There was still a "star" of the day and it was a VERY interesting dig!
I got this very mixed signal on some slightly uneven ground, (Uneven ground makes it doubly difficult in highly mineralized ground). After digging down about 8 inches I noticed a dime sized coin laying on top of the dirt I just scooped out. Ok, that explains the high squeek. But as I was putting the dirt back in the hole and checking it as I go I noticed these little pieces of metal. They would've come out earlier/shallower in the dig. They didn't look like iron and they were very thin. I saw that they sort of fit together so I gather as many as I could find.
When I got home and cleaned them up a bit, they reassembled like this:
A little hard to see but I believe this is what's left of an old protractor. It's brass and very thin & fragile.
I think I am very grateful to the AT-Pro's ability to separate and identify multiple targets in a hole. Let alone the fact that it did this in very mineralized ground! The signal was pretty bouncy, 60 all the way up to 89. Very difficult to judge whether garbage or not. I could see others coming thru and dismissing this as just a collection of can slaw. Still, the AT not only saw the silver, it also noticed the brass and whatever else might have been in this hole. AND, the key part, is that it STILL gave me a signal that was convincing enough to cause me to dig.
Here's the star of the day and my Easter present.
Not greatly detailed, but would ANYONE turn this down?
Happy Easter everyone!
HH!
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