Dan(NM)

7 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Now that is a great hunt with those type of silvers, and the rest of the coins are nice also.

Keep up the hunt and bring home some more of them, don't let the old ones be lost forever.

Good luck on your next outing.

Thank you, most of what I'm finding is between 6-9" it appears that I am finding the leftovers, for me that's the most rewarding part.

7 minutes ago, NCtoad said:

Wow! An eight silver day is awesome!   Congrats on surpassing 100 for the year. 

Thank you very much. We moved to a different part of Texas this year, and it was a struggle for the first two or three months to figure out where to hunt.

9 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

Just another day on the time machine you've been riding....    And more silvers than Wheaties; 8 to 5 -- it wasn't close.  That happens, like, never?  I look forward to your next report, but not as much as you are looking forward to tomorrow's hunt.

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

1 hour ago, Valens Legacy said:

My grandfather said the same thing until grandmother gave him her list of things she wanted done.

It seemed that the list just kept going until he died.

Good luck and happy retirement.

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

11 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

Welcome to the retirement club Dan !

😎😎😎😎😎😎 

LOL it didn't take me long to figure out it's the best club to belong to :-)

 

 

 

 

 

7 minutes ago, FloridaSon said:

THIS IS GREAT! 

I have been fighting that damn cord the same as you. 

Did you attach the WM08 with 3M double faced tape?

Going to do this tomorrow.

Thanks!

I used 2 strips of velcro.

22 minutes ago, Chase Goldman said:

It's $1599 US 

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 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.

9 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Nice hunting and great info, Dan. I'm intrigued by the choice of settings, it may help me find silver at a couple of farmhouses where I've found only clad (well one of them, even Chase got silver at the other) 🙄. 

I have a 600, your recovery speed setting on the 800 seems kinda low. I've been using RS3 (max) on my 600 forever, think I should slow it down? 

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.

4 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Are you sure that you haven't just re-arraigned the coins in the pictures from the other day for this hunting trip?

I know that you are killing it, but give me a break because I haven't been able to hunt more than 6 hours all year.         Lol, It wouldn't be hard to think that :) I actually was feeling a little guilty about how much stuff I was finding, but I quickly got over on the next hit lol. I'm retiring next month, so, if you live in Texas, be on the lookout for  blue 4 door Toyata Yaris at your local haunts;)  

7 hours ago, Raphis said:

That’s true because Park/Field 1 modes on the Nox are internally lower frequency weighted, which is better suited to higher conductive targets (pennies, dimes, etc).  Park/Field 2 modes are internally higher frequency weighted, and are better suited for fine jewelry and other low conductors, such as nickels. I still find deep nickels in Park/Field 1, but I’ve always wondered how much deeper I could hit a nickel in Park/Field 2. 
 

Congrats on another great day of hunting!! 👍🏼

 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

8 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

Glad you tried that -- something I've wondered about myself but never took the time to experiment.  Thanks!

So 21 and below are low tone and 22 and above are high tone?  Is that so you can ignore Zincolns?

Multi as in five!  That 1938 Merc is a beaut.  Keep up the great hunting and associated postings for us to salivate over.  Is that rusty coin a 1943 zinc plated steel cent?  (Or maybe a 1944?  )

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.  

7 minutes ago, GaryC/Oregon Coast said:

I thought Texas was a no hunt state?  What are or are there any special rules in Texas.  Thanks, GaryC/Oregon Coast

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 🙂

27 minutes ago, rvpopeye said:

It's like listening to Kasey Kasem ,,,the hits just keep on coming...

You're in the groove.

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.

22 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Every silver coin gets the adrenaline up. Haven't had many hunts like that. Wow! 👍

How much clad did you pull?

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

19 minutes ago, Raphis said:

Fantastic hot spot!  👍🏼👍🏼
Those road trips of yours are ultra productive!!

Congrats!

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

2 hours ago, lowtone said:

I would like to try a chest mount mod for the Explorer, I have started a couple times ,But chicken out.

I need to do more research.

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.

3 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

My main thought on your posts are “man, that’s just like the good old days!” Certainly makes me want to go try out of the way locations, as there are still some relatively unhunted locations out there. I’ve gotten lazy in that regard, just hitting places close and convenient, but they also have been pounded for decades. Thanks for the inspiration!

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 🙂