What Would You Do?

[relicminer]

OK my home was built in 1903 and was a coal companies Superintendent Home, and later even a boarding house for many miners who hot bunked the day and night shift... So many people with money has passed this way... Oh yea, my in-laws family has owned and lived here since 1946, so there has been no major landscaping, with exception of a few sidewalks.. Now, I have searched the yard with my Garrett Ace 250 with the two stock coils that came with it... But I was just learning... I would say I learned my detector in Tenn. while working out of town with the railroad... So I have not searched my yard with the EXcellerator EQ2 DD coil.. and I have only dug targets at 4-6 IN. range... I have only dug clad... I have not dug any silver, although I did get a silver target when the ground was frozen and was not able to locate it at the time and have since to find it again.... Does this yard not have any silver? Or was I just way to green to find it? I made my mind up to dig what ever I hit this time, yard be darned... so what would you do to find silver here?

 

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[Sandman]

Silver is very conductive and anyone else that might have detected the yard could have found it even at higher disc levels. Also maybe there wasn't enough activity out in the yard by working people. You need to over lap your sweeps as the coils field is about 2" round at the bottom so you could have missed the silver. Good luck.

 

[relicminer]

Yeap, I've been thinking about all those "hunted Out" spots and I think a small target like a coin could be missed very easily, I am the only one who has ever detected this property, my father in law has lived here since 1946, and he was very interested in what I found... So far just clad...

 

[kayden]

Hit it again...You have nothing to lose

 

[Terry Soloman]

OK my home was built in 1903 and was a coal companies Superintendent Home, and later even a boarding house for many miners who hot bunked the day and night shift... So many people with money has passed this way... Oh yea, my in-laws family has owned and lived here since 1946, so there has been no major landscaping, with exception of a few sidewalks.. Now, I have searched the yard with my Garrett Ace 250 with the two stock coils that came with it... But I was just learning... I would say I learned my detector in Tenn. while working out of town with the railroad... So I have not searched my yard with the EXcellerator EQ2 DD coil.. and I have only dug targets at 4-6 IN. range... I have only dug clad... I have not dug any silver, although I did get a silver target when the ground was frozen and was not able to locate it at the time and have since to find it again.... Does this yard not have any silver? Or was I just way to green to find it? I made my mind up to dig what ever I hit this time, yard be darned... so what would you do to find silver here?

Go to the northwest corner of the most open part of your yard, and grid that 10'x10' area. there is a Merc dime there waiting for you!

 

[dale68]

If you know where the outhouse was, hunt in front of it and a straight line to the nearest door. Under a clothes line. each side of sidewalks. to start- then general search. Only disc out iron or run zero disc. This may sound odd but I believe(from expierience) when the ground heaves(freezes) and thaws it seems to push deeper objects up shallower. It seems that I find most my older stuff in the spring after the ground thaws and is damp.

 

[relicminer]

On my way out to the Northwest corner, as soon as the ground thaws!! Thanks, guys!!!!

 

[Whitesmxt66]

All awesome advise