- Mar 30, 2020
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1964, 1964 D, a Sentinel Click watch (1940-49) and maybe a .75 ball. Strange mix. My colonial sites seem to be drying up. I'm looking over old maps, scratching my head, trying to figure out which areas to attack next. Sometimes it's hard to walk away from sites which have produced on many outings. But I'm missing that excitement of passing the coil over unfamiliar ground with unknown possibilities.
I started the detecting hobby just over a year ago. Focussed mostly on colonial history and have made many nice finds. But I am suffering from nail burnout. Reluctant to dig targets between 15-19 on the Nox 800 scale while knowing some good stuff falls in that range. The unstable bouncing target range and poor pinpointing with iron are annoying. Having a big hit in the 30's whittle down to a number in the teens with additional swings is frustrating. The nails are comforting in that you know they were there.
Recently I been working sites with coins from the late 1800's through late 1900's. Much easier. Stable responses, shallower depths, higher-pitched clear tones. Easy to guess coin ID's before digging. Sometimes feeling as though I have learned the hobby backwards, starting with the difficult first. But I realize that picking through multi-layered debris fields with pull tabs and bottle caps is just a different challenge than searching in areas without any signals. My obstacles have been nails and bullets mixed into miles of nothing. I have little experience picking through mixed sites. I can recognize cellar pits, farm field moat boundaries, and old ruts from logging and roads. I am reluctant to work salt beaches because of corrosion damage to metals. I realize I have to experiment with beaches since I live in an area surrounded by miles of coastline. Deer hunters may push me out of the woods to the waterline.
No matter what I am going out swinging. Just have to be smarter as the days get shorter and praise the decrease in biting insects with the cooler weather.
I started the detecting hobby just over a year ago. Focussed mostly on colonial history and have made many nice finds. But I am suffering from nail burnout. Reluctant to dig targets between 15-19 on the Nox 800 scale while knowing some good stuff falls in that range. The unstable bouncing target range and poor pinpointing with iron are annoying. Having a big hit in the 30's whittle down to a number in the teens with additional swings is frustrating. The nails are comforting in that you know they were there.
Recently I been working sites with coins from the late 1800's through late 1900's. Much easier. Stable responses, shallower depths, higher-pitched clear tones. Easy to guess coin ID's before digging. Sometimes feeling as though I have learned the hobby backwards, starting with the difficult first. But I realize that picking through multi-layered debris fields with pull tabs and bottle caps is just a different challenge than searching in areas without any signals. My obstacles have been nails and bullets mixed into miles of nothing. I have little experience picking through mixed sites. I can recognize cellar pits, farm field moat boundaries, and old ruts from logging and roads. I am reluctant to work salt beaches because of corrosion damage to metals. I realize I have to experiment with beaches since I live in an area surrounded by miles of coastline. Deer hunters may push me out of the woods to the waterline.
No matter what I am going out swinging. Just have to be smarter as the days get shorter and praise the decrease in biting insects with the cooler weather.
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