rod-pa

i think your "lid" is a horse bridle or equipment decorative rosette.  I have found quite a few.

called the Cabelas near me early this morning...they didnt have it :(

11 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said:

The Nokta/Makro wireless headphones are really good IMO.  Excellent audio quality, comfortable, they charge fast, and you can go for a few days of detecting (full days) on a full change.  They spoiled me on my R2 and Impact so much that I'll never consider another detector that doesn't have wireless headphone capabilities.  

Cal, I know it is a bit early for this...but any degradation of the battery life yet since you have been charging them?

1 hour ago, GB_Amateur said:

How many quarters (of all compositions) did you get in order to reap this size reward?  I'm guessing someone in the dark (nice way of putting it?) turned in grandma's stash.  Good for you to take advantage of that.

a bag of quarters is 500.00 here.  had 104 silver qtrs, this time.  It was actually the grandma that ran them through, this time.  I had a sad false alarm one trip.  The teller said, HEY, I been waitin for you.  I have 1100 silver dollars I have to get rid of.....then showed me.

They were Eisenhowers....oh well.

I know, this doesnt fit a topic here...find a bank near you that still has a coin counter...inquire as to when they empty their half dollar bags.  Some banks empty them each month.  Some empty them only when full, which is fairly rare.  The coin counters don't reject halves for weight, which means the 40% and 90% silvers will be mixed with regulars.  MOST banks will also not mind selling the full bag to a customer, since it costs the bank nothing to do so, and costs them to send the bags to a coin servicer.  If you get a bag of halves with silver, buy the other bags emptied at that time.

A few weeks back I got pretty lucky on the halves, so bought a quarters and a dimes bag...expensive, but this time worked out nicely.

Ground here is frozen solid...have to do something !!

HH

thanks guys for the words and help.  It does amaze me sometimes...the house these buttons were in burned down probably at least 140 years ago due to it disappearing from an 1875 or so map, but being present in an 1840s map.  That those things are still even identifiable is incredible, in an actively farmed field for that long.  I have a small box of multiple un-identified items from that field that are so intriguing...

thx again. I enjoy this site.

every Barber is a good one !!

Steelheader...welcome.

your "traditional archery" made me laugh just now.  Mom called me to say a rabbit is eating the last of her garden's veggies...and my father just shot it with a rubber tipped bird arrow from his something like 60 year old longbow...first shot...wonders never cease.

welcome BeachHunter.  Nice place to hang, here.

Was out in a regular field spot with the F75 again...this week, got a couple interesting buttons.  I am curious if anyone can identify the button I enlarged.  I do not have a good button book yet.  I blew up the center silver plated eagle button.  It is 19mm give or take, and says Armitage PHIL on it so should be pre-civil war.  I do not see any letter in the center of the shield, and really don't want to damage it to clean it up at the moment.  Sorry for the fuzzy pics...phone camera not impressing me so far.

Also, if anyone has an inkling as to the top right piece...

Thanks.

you could always just short out a 9v battery for a minute in your hand for a quick warm up....did that once by accident in my pant pocket...never again will make that mistake.

hothands...

one other thing you might consider is coil choice.  If you are using larger coils for better ground coverage, force yourself to use a smaller coil for a bit.  You may find that the faint or inconsistent tones are adjacent targets that arent even under your coil but are affecting it.  Lowering sensitivity helps sometimes, as mentioned, but other times...getting more of just one target at a time by using the smaller coil will help a LOT.

3 hours ago, MontAmmie said:

I'm not that curious, Rod.  It was an interesting find, but I'm after gold when I'm out there digging.  I learned something today that I'll share with ya'll.  When you encounter a tent stake graveyard.....like 10 of them all in one little area in shallow water... sloooow down and search every inch of it.  Sometimes it holds other goodies, like 14 K men's wedding bands.  

 

MontAmmie, you SOOOOO make me wish I lived near a beach...

The way to counter hock rocks (at least most of them in my area) is to run in all metal.  in all metal, you get a defined "boing" in the tone on a hotrock.  in disc mode, they sound great.

MontAmmie,

You could take it to a coin/jewelry shop that has an XRF analyzer, to see if it is 90%, sterling, etc.  That would narrow it down quite a bit for foreign or US, then a good diameter measurement would help further.  With that much metal gone, weight is obviously out the window for ID.  

4 hours ago, LipCa said:

Only 10 minutes from your old house and you didn't know they were there?

 

its not that I didnt know they were there....they are everywhere here.  Its just that now that I drive past them 2x a day, I am studying them...seeing which ones don't look landscaped, which might have original front porches, etc....a lot of potential, is all.

open concentric

So i moved about 10 minutes away from my last home this past month.  My new commute is along 10 miles of two of the oldest main highways in the area.  One going east/west, the other north/south.  They are just lined with 1700s homes, barns, and villages where my maps show the blacksmiths, churches, schools, etc, and looking at the buildings can easily see the converted schools.  So many projects with a new to me/not new house...its like torture driving past, and not stopping when I see people outside, knowing I don't have time to detect on a weekend for a couple months anyways...

just thought I would moan a bit and have you all feel sorry for me. :)

my two cents

I borrowed a 6x3 elliptical twice from a hunting buddy for extended periods of time.  I did not have the ability to check targets between the two coils.

In areas with higher grass or stubble, the lack of weight of the 6x3 but having a longer area to have to push through the stubble made it harder to have smooth sweeps for me.

When I would run the F75 in 1n process, the sweet spot of a consistent high enough number to give the monotone seemed to be narrower (front to back) with the elliptical.  I have been doing quite well in finding liberty and shield nickels this year, by focusing on numbers between the 15 and 25 range in the carpets of iron trash, once I get a consistent monotone.  Using the 5", my sweeps can be a bit off the dead center, and still give the monotone, whereas the front or back section of the 6x3 was more likely to not give the consistent tone and then numerical readings to make me dig.  Two sites in particular I hit pretty well with the 6x3 a year ago, and I have pulled 3 liberty nickels from one site and 1shield, a liberty and a couple buffalos as well, using the 5".  

Now that I am using AM almost exclusively when not in extreme trash, I might ask to borrow the coil again, but I have since purchased the 10x5 elliptical, and that in AM does a wonderful job for me.

On 9/27/2017 at 8:06 PM, Steve Herschbach said:

You and I have the same soil Mike as do most of the people on the west coast of the U.S. That's why I generally talk more about depth in relative terms as quoting actual inches is rather meaningless and can actually make people think they have defective detectors. By that measure all my detectors plus all I ever tested are defective because none will accurately identify a dime much past 6 inches. The ground also compresses the minor differences that you can get with some detectors in mild ground to nearly nothing. So a detector that gets an extra half inch over a different detector in mild ground has only a quarter inch extra (if that) in our ground. The only way I can hit a dime at 10" is to use a PI.

I have never dug a coin at 12" in my life with a VLF.

Steve,

Standing invitation.  If you want some nice ground to detect coins in I will take a couple days off and take you to as many of my best spots as you can handle.  If you do it soon, i will only ask that you bring your PI with you as there is a terribly mineralized spot an old mansion sits on that crushes my F75.

Steve,

I mostly like your list.

11. I would like the detector to show me the level EMI interference it is experiencing..INSTEAD of changing frequencies, hoping to hear a difference or first trying to find a weak target and fool around with finding the best channel.  I also don't want to trust an autofind feature...show it on the screen, and let me select.  Or show me a screen with the (in case of F75) 7 channels it just sampled, and the resulting emi level on each, showing why it just picked channel 3, for example.

Man, the pictures I saw of the New Jersey Wildwood beach on the news last night....sand removed about 6feet depth from the dunes, etc...I would be tempted to be rude there if I just had a wet beach detector right now....amazing how much sand is gone from there, and they havent even had one of these hurricanes go through yet.

Thanks Steve

4 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Or maybe a Blisstool. Or a Nautilus. VLF machines that push the limits tend to get unstable and hard to use.

I can't help it - I just do not associate single frequency VLF with depth. When I want depth I use a PI or GPZ. The only reason to use a VLF in my opinion is for discrimination, not depth. 

Steve,

If there is another discussion for this, please point me to it if you can...have you ever taken your gpz looking for coins like you have TDI or infinium, etc?