CPT_GhostLight

5 hours ago, Doc Bach said:

Excellent site and hunt there CPT! Great photos as usual and thanks for showing all of the iron and the shards of glass and porcelain.That provides a level of authenticity as to what is generally found at such digs and how much work that is involved.As for the souvenir heart pendant from the Crystal Palace that was in business for less than six months? Yeah I would have to agree that it would qualify as super rare and is a killer piece.

Thanks, Doc! The Ice Palace was built in December 1895, but was only open from January 1st to March 28th, 1896 and had to be closed because of an unusually warm winter and it melted sooner than expected.

6 hours ago, schoolofhardNox said:

Lots of nice relics and pottery sherds. Wonder if it was a camp or was there a house nearby, or was it a dumping ground? Even the iron stays fairly clean there.

 

It may well have been a dump, but from the quality of the china and some of the other pieces, there may have been a saloon, hotel, or gaming house nearby.

Way to jump on that opportunity, sohN, and congrats on the coppers, well done!

Great finds again, F350, well done! I envy your beach time. I can't wait to try the Hoover program in a couple of weeks, the parks are drying up here. ? 

1 hour ago, ecoast said:

how deep was the nickel ?

The nickel was about 5 inches down in iron and modern trash infested ground. We have very mineralized ground here in Middle Earth and it is rare to be able to get signals more than 8-9 inches down, specially in heavily fertilized parks.

22 hours ago, midalake said:

That is good to know. Before I left my machine for the season, XP had not come out with the update.
I only hunted 4 days, so I did not want to update. When I get back on my machine for the season, I do plan on going to 1.1. 

I look forward to your reviews of V1.1 for your beach and water hunting.

It seems odd to me that there are no reviews anywhere on the new ProFind 40 pinpointer, just the initial box openings and repeating the features. Surely someone has used one in the field and has an opinion they would like to share. Asking for a friend. ?

Excellent find, Compass, congrats on your night gold! ?

Well congrats on your early season silver, well done! That's a good sign! ?

Here's some useful ideas for modding or making your own antenna cable:

23 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Hey Rattlehead,

Been tweaking this program with help from the forum, particularly Midalake. ?

I've used it with the 13" and the 9", and if it's there it shows up down to about 12" give or take black sand. ?

I call it The Hoover.

Option menu:

Audio 9
Audio filter 5
Audio type high square
Display profile xy
Fe tid on

Menu
Disc 10
Full tones
offset ft 0
Bottle Caps 5
Notch off
Silencer 0
Sensitivity 95
Salt Sense 5
Freq Max 40
Iron volume 5
Reactivity 0.5
Audio response 6

Tracking GB on
Magnetic accept

Most aluminum but not all, particularly War of 1812 round pull tabs will have a brassy "trumpet" like tone. This is especially good for larger bits of can slaw. Smaller bits are in the 50s so they may fool ya.

Just another tool in the box, but it's really only for V1.1 if you didn't upgrade.

Best of luck man! ?
 

Is this based on Beach or Beach Sens?

Wow, that's a gorgeous find, congrats, and well done!

Awesome finds, Glenn, and that Bucktown token is a one in a million find! Well done!

2 hours ago, midalake said:

I personally do not like Beach P. and never use it.

As far as I can tell Beach Sens and Beach P have identical settings except for Beach Sens has 0 Reactivity and 3 Tones and Beach P has 1.5 Reactivity and Pitch Tones.

I usually hunt in Full Tones, and check with Pitch Tones, but I figured I'd reverse that and hunt in Pitch with 0 Reactivity, because targets are usually sparse, and check with Full Tones. Is it better to go with 2 or 3 Tones?

3 minutes ago, Rattlehead said:

Thanks for the tips! I only have the 9" coil, but my hunting partner has both the 11" and 13X11" that I could borrow. The 13"er is a little nose heavy for me, so I may just borrow the 11" from him.

I love my 9" coil but haven't got to the the beaches with it yet. I got the the 11" a few months ago and really like it as well, so If I get to go beach hunting soon, I'm taking both with me. ?

I'm no beach expert by any means and I'm sure those guys will chime in soon, but gold rings can fall almost anywhere on the VDI scale. Many say the sweet spot is between 35-80, but I found a 10K class ring recently that rang in at a solid 82 and a friend of mine dug a honking heavy 14K gold band square in the zinc penny range (85-86), so I agree with Skullgolddiver that notching is not really advised, but if you must, I'd just notch the low end at about 30-40 and leave the high end open. You'll probably miss small and thin gold rings, but it cuts out foil pretty well.

I set up a Beach program based on Beach P (Factory Program 13) with no notch in High Sqr Pitch tones and an identical program saved next to it in High Sqr Full tones to check targets. Pitch tends to make everything sound good, but if it sounds good in Full tones it probably is good. ? 

2 hours ago, Luis said:

original or copy?

It says Made in Russia at the bottom of the description. Also if you click on the Shop name at the top left of the listing, it shows the following info:

22 hours ago, schoolofhardNox said:

I wonder how many other people were digging pull tab readings all day long looking for that gold ring? ? You plucked it out right off the side of the road.  Nice hit!

Thanks, sohN! I think a lot of people notched out bottle caps and pennies looking for silver dimes and quarters. ?

22 hours ago, JCR said:

This is a good info site for old padlocks;   www.antique-padlocks.com.

Great resource, JCR, thanks! I used it to figure out which lock a brass keyhole cover came from that I recently found. ? 

I see the Spinx 03 is on Ali Express but does not ship to the US.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805182979188.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2usa4itemAdapt

Wow, Compass, great haul and way to sniff out that hot spot, well done! It look like some silver in there too. Epic hunt!

12 hours ago, JCR said:

That was a great hunt. We used to have quite a few Horned Toads here when I was a kid. The Fire Ant put them out of business. Same with quail. Hogs haven’t helped either.

The Colorado hornytoads are smaller than the ones we had in Central Texas when I was a kid, which were the size of Volkswagens. ?

Ride that hot streak, Dave, when you're hot, you're hot, when you're not, you're not! ?

Great finds and a testament to your skill and persistance, well done!

3 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Cap'n gets the gold! ?

Nice going, I want to try that fast program when relic season rolls around. ?

The infinity symbol and hoop earring aren't silver? Look for tiny hallmarks. 

Thanks F350!

No marks on the hoop earring or infinity necklace. The earring was attracted by a magnet but the infinty was not.