Dan(NM)

Thank you. Finding more silver than wheats is very unusual, but I'll take that every day of the week :-)

Lol... My to do list is growing by the day thanks to my new boss :-)

My sister-in-law was coming into town today so my wife gave me the green light to go do some metal detecting for a couple of days. I decided to go try a couple of new spots. First one was about 45 minutes from the house the second one was about an hour and a half. Neither one panned out so I decided to drive another hour and a half to a place that had produced some silver last month. It was 1:00 when I finally got to do some serious hunting. I kept having a gut feeling to hunt a certain area so that's where I began. Within 3 hours I had five silvers and a couple of Wheaties. I hit a nice spill that had four coins in the same hole, a merk, a silver Washington quarter, a 1940 nickel and a 1936 Buffalo nickel. My little honey hole played out so I decided to do a little roaming around. I went to another section of the park, started off with a couple of Wheaties ended up scoring three more silver dimes. My goal for the year was to hit 100 silver coins today put me over the top at 103. I'm going back tomorrow to spend about 5 or 6 hours and see if I can find a couple of more hot spots.

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Thanks for the update.

I just saw on the Facebook page that it was $1,600 euro. Looks like about $1,850. I cannot confirm that that is a reliable source that quoted that price.

I had some spare time today and was messing around in the man-cave. I've had a pair of Audio Technica ATH-M50X that I had used with the WM08 last year. I've been plugging wired earbuds into the WM08 and running the cord down the back of my shirt to keep the cord out of my way. I have a couple of APTX Low Latency transmitters I used on the CTX, Etrac etc and was going to use that on the Audio's. I was having a hard time getting them to pair up, when I glanced at my WM08 and had a flash of inspiration The Techica's have a special twist in, removable plug, so I decided to make a short patch cord and mount the WM08 on the side of the headphones. These phones have some excellent sound quality with more than enough volume and they feel great. I retire this Saturday, so I plan on giving the setup a good work out next week.

I hunt really trashy parks and hardly ever go after nickels because my time is limited. I'm going to notch in 12-13 on my next hunt due to amount of wheats and silver I've been taking out of 2 places I've hit this past month. Have you found the Nox the hit nickels in this range at depth, I'm talking 7-9" depth, that's where most of the keepers are being found, thanks.

We finally got a couple of days of decent rain here in Central Texas. It's been dry as a bone for the last few weeks and the ground was getting pretty hard to dig in. The wife gave me her blessings to go hunt all day long, so I headed to one of the parks that has been producing very well. When I arrived I could tell that this place had received a fair share of rain. With hopes riding high I began my hunt. This was my first hunt in some damp soil, I was in for a rude awakening! This dirt is the stickiest gooiest mess I think I've ever dug in. After almost 2 hours all I had to show for my efforts was three or four pieces of clad. My spirits were sinking faster than the Titanic. My plan was the grid off areas until I got into something good. After about an hour and a half of that and only four Wheaties to show for it, I decided to do some freelance and just wander around aimlessly and head to my car and call it a day. I got into an area that I haven't spent much time in and the first signal I got was a big old aluminum token from a chamber of commerce. About 30 ft from there I get another signal hitting in the mid 30s dropping down to 30 but jumping back up to 33-34 on the Equinox. Usually that means sprinkler head or a large piece of aluminum. Cut a plug, took out about six inches of dirt, stuck my pinpointer in the hole expecting to hit the target. I started scanning the dirt that I had dug out and almost fell over backwards when I saw some big shiny in the dirt ball :-) This was the very last thing that I expected to find today. Good thing nobody was around cuz all I could do is just sit there and laugh like a madman as I was taking pictures of it. I spent about another hour wandering around the park and decided to call it a day.

I ran it at 3 because it wasn't a trash infested site and I was trying to squeeze every bit of depth at this place. Running the recovery speed at 6 still allowed me to get solid hits on the deep stuff.

Thank you . I also ran thru all the single frequencies as well. 4-5 khz smacked the targets, 10,15 did ok, 20, 40 sucked lol

This was the perfect place to do a comparison between modes. I've done this in New Mexico and had the same results. Park 1, for how and what I hunt for, performa the best. I also played around with the recovery speed, sensitivity and iron bias setting. 6 recovery speed with sens@20 still gave a "dig me" signal. The iron bias setting did nothing one way or another on the tonal quality. Tone break of 21 eliminates zincs, pitch set at 1 from-9 to 21(low tone grunts) volume set to 3. 22 and up, pitch set at 25, volume at 25 as well. Im rather certain that rusty thing is a wartime steel cent, it's buddy in the hole was a 44 wheat.

It seems to be a free for all, even in Georgetown Texas, if you can believe that. State parks are out also certain places on the Gulf coast. All the police and park workers just wave and keep on going 🙂

Haha, I was saying that to myself today, too funny!!

The dust had barely settled from yesterday's hunt. Originally I had planned to do a little water hunting, then I changed my mind and decided to go back to the park I hunted yesterday. On the road, I scrapped that plan and drove an extra an hour to another park. I'm glad I did because it paid off with another multi-silver day. When I wheeled in, I saw 2 other guys already hunting. I went across the road to stay out of their territory. The third hole of the day was a mini wheat spill consisting of three Wheaties at the 8-9" range. I asked the 2 guys that were taking a break from hunting if they wanted to see how deep the coins were. I had left one in at 8" that was sticking out of the side of the hole to show them. They both explained to me that they don't want to see or dig a deep coin 🙂 If they can't pick up the coin with their pinpointer, they leave it, volume clad hunters only is what they told me. To each their own I guess, which explains why I'm not hitting many coins in these parks, which is fine with me, it just slows me down. After digging 8 or 9 deep wheats, I'm using a Nox 800, I decided to set Park 1-2 and Field 1-2 up with all the same exact settings to see which mode hit the best, Park 1 and Field 1 did the best, although Field 1 wasn't as crisp and sharp tone wise. Park 2 and Field 2 degraded the signal to a point I wouldn't have stopped to investigate the hit. I ran the Nox in my cherry piking mode: Park 1 Recovery speed 3 Iron Bias 0 Sens 23 2 tones No disc-wide open Tone bin set at 21 Very slow sweep These small town parks are producing in a way I didn't expect. I don't do much research, I google the town or ask someone where the oldest park in town is and go from there. So far, so good, 42 silver coins, 4 silver rings and over a 100 wheats in the last 2 weeks doing this.

I dug 5 penny's, all from the early 60's , must be my lowest clad count ever 🙂

It helps when the guys ahead of me leave a lot of the good stuff behind 🙂

I took a day trip today, drove about an hour to go hunt a park that I've been to before. Took me a little while to finally hit a nice hot spot. The area was about 15 ft wide and 30 ft long. Every signal was either a deep wheat or a silver. As you can see my ratio of keepers to clad was extremely high today. I'm running the Equinox 800 in my cherry-picking mode, only digging anything from zinc's up. The barber quarter was an oddball, this park wasn't founded until 1925. I hunted for about six and a half hours.

This is where I started and revised as I went, I've done 4 so far. First one was a little rough 🙂 The problem your going to have is finding the 3' extension cable. Coiltek quit making them and I'm not sure of any other company making the extension cables.

Good idea, I took mine one step further and did a chest mount setup. I disabled the speaker and added a quarter inch headphone jack. The battery pack is a 3000mah lithium ion setup. I can swing this bad boy for hours at a time.

I know the feeling Steve, I usually went to the same spots simply as well for the same reasons. Just before I left New Mexico, I started traveling to towns and spots a couple of hours from my house and it started paying off. Since moving to Texas, I'm doing "cold calls" on parks and such and it has been paying off. You just never know 🙂

Thank all for the positive comments and for taking a look.

Thanks Tom, it's a great combo for coin shooting, they compliment each other quite nicely.