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Yeah, sounds like that site was nasty CPT. I used it again Sunday. I managed to sniff out a few mid tone finds but the falsing in the heavy iron was not only unpleasant but not conducive to finding high conductors unless their VDIs get dragged down to the mid tone range.

Thanks everybody! Yeah I am quite stoked with that one. It looked good covered in dirt so it went right into my coin find container in between 2 cotton balls. But I was amazed to see that detail when I got home and gave it a soapy soak and a good rinse. It's both my best AND earliest US silver. GB_Amateur, thanks for the research! And you are right, I am keeping it for the memories. Though, if it was one of those curl base 2 varieties, it might be hard to say no to 6 figures. 😉 CPT, I do believe the "Bird Dog" settings helped flush that iron masked dime out. I have no doubt that there have been many coils over that target before, including mine many times. I also think the low Reactivity helped. I plan to hunt in the Bird Dog mode for a while. It shouldn't take too long to see if this unmasking was just a fluke. Lodge

I've been playing with TN Sharpshooter's Bird Dog settings (0 Disc, Notch 2-7) and think he might be on to something. I was at one of my old pounded colonial homesteads this morning. I hadn't found a coin at this homestead site in several years. I had dug a couple of small broken pewter buttons and a couple of .22 leads and was about to call it quits when I got a choppy mid conductor tone with a VDI bouncing in the 60s. I am thinking it's a button masked by a nail as that is really all I find at that site these days. Any easy targets are long gone. I pinpointed and dug the expected nail. Swept the coil over the hole again and got the expected nonferrous signal, but it sounded higher in tone this time. Was very happy to see this sweet bit of silver in the hole ! Sharpshooter's settings performed as he said they would. I was able to get the midtone audio signal from this target from every angle. When I tried several conventional programs, I only got the midtone from a small angle. I was using Sensitive FT with a Reactivity of 0.5. Lodge

Nice work CPT! Some interesting finds. I love the Yellowstone badge. The iron-covered wooded plank is definitely Templar and I am ready to invest $1,000,000 for you to go back there and dig a big a$$ pit.

Well done CPT! Views aren't too shabby either. Those Hawaiian monk seals are about as common as gold rings.

I like how you think out side of the box F350. Clearly you have it dialed in to be deadly at your sites with modern trash. Have you had a chance to run it in the older iron choked sites? I am itching to give a shot at one of my cellar hole sites.

After chatting with F350 and hearing his experience with it, I went and got one. Not disappointed. The coverage is excellent of course, I had some concern about the weight after mostly swinging the 9" coil for several years but it really hasn't been a problem. Mostly impressed with how well it still separates in iron, even at the lower Reactivity settings.

Ah! I get it now. Yeah, every setting in detector is a compromise in one way or another. And sometimes our sanity gets compromised in order to make some finds. 😉

Another great write up Jeff. I've toyed with Gold Field and Relic in my very mild soils here in the northeast so I really don't understand the challenges or methods of hunting in the conditions you describe. But I do know that I can't get away with running IAR at 0 even at sites with light iron. That hot rock mineralization and magnetite that you were swinging in didn't need any IAR in order to keep your sanity ??

I chuckled when I saw that F350. He was close too. I would have asked him if he had permission to be there. Also, I thought it might be a friend of Gary's and he was just joking around.

Looks like it has some nice features CPT, but I hope it also has a topo map option. Unless the satellite view was taken when all the leaves are off the trees, it won't do me much good in the woods. 😉 I use an app called Backcountry Navigator. It records my tracks in real time so I can see where I am on the topo. It makes it easy to follow the same route back out if I wish. Also handy to see if there is part of a site I haven't detected yet. But some of those bells and whistles on the Go Terrain app seem pretty useful. I'll check it out when it is available.

Nice hunt there CPT! Egyptian revival jewelry was very popular during the Victorian era. Is that a clay pipe stem?

That one is a beauty!

Wildlife visitation is always a bonus CPT! No horned lizards here in New England. I did have a big leggy coyote visit me a couple of hunts ago. I think it heard the high pitched iron falsing bleeding from my WSA IIs. It was expecting an easy rodent meal and was disappointed to see me. LIke just about every other coyote I've crossed paths with over the years, it left in a hurry when it figured out I wasn't breakfast. That honker ring must have got your heart beating.

Very cool CPT! Tough place to swing a coil but your efforts were well rewarded. That extra effort to swing a coil where others might not is a great strategy.

Looks like you are having fun Palzynski. The trees along the edge of the field, are they trimmed like that or do they grow that way naturally?

Thanks for sharing that CPT. That dude had a few too many espressos that morning but his vid was informative none the less. I was getting dizzy watching him whip that coil around. Next time in the heavy iron I will try an AR of "0" just out of curiosity.

For the type of detecting I do, I'd say the 280 Backpack, MI6 pinpointer and the controller armband are 3 things that make my hunting more enjoyable. Though I do wish they would make an armband specifically for the D2 controller. It's a tight squeeze getting it into the D1 armband. The more I think about it, I do like the WSAII a lot also. Allows me to use the WS6 on another rig if I so choose. And as same as F350, I also like to hear what's going on around me.

Definitely version 1.1. The new audio related features really are powerful.

Very interesting CPT. I have not tried that with AR. Usually keep mine at 4 or 5. But I will try what you did.

Very nice! Hard to find the big ones in one piece!

Nice! Hard to tell but that pocket watch looks like it might be one of those famous $1.00 watches put out by Ingersoll in the very late 1800s and early 1900s. I am also fond of that car. Pretty cool highschool medallion too!

Good idea to check that spot CPT! I've dug a few Merry Widows but never even heard of the Gold Circle ? That has got to be the gnarliest wheatie I've seen dug in a long time 😉. Nice hunt!

Nice work there Cpt! That extra 33% more coverage with the 11" coil can make a difference.

Colonel I am certainly am not qualified to weigh in on this issue as I don't beach hunt (though I am only 30 minutes from the ocean!), but I will ask a question because I like learning. Could there be enough of a difference in the ground balance approach between the beach and land program platforms as to where it could contribute to iron masking in a salty environment?