Lost Scout

I don't how many times I have been bit. A couple of years ago I was working in an area that has a couple quadrillion ticks in the spring. After work I hiked up the hill to an old river bench that had mining activity in the past. Didn't find any gold but came home with one of the five or so diseases ticks can carry. Not Limes or Rocky Mountain. They are all treated with the same antibiotic. I was down for a week. 

My coworker and I brought out all kinds of repellants to experiment with. Hiked up towards the old claim and collected ticks. We put circles of repellant on the table and a tick in each circle ⭕. None of the ticks would cross to get out. But the tick inside the circle of Permetherin crawled to the inside edge... And then died! This stuff is sprayed on your clothes and let dry and is good for many washings.

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I'm thinking the would overload the suspension! Nice find.

That's a cool find. I just found a button too. It's the fourth overall button to come out of my yard. Mountaineer and it matches one of the other. I think it's from the seventies like yours. Except maybe the 1970's. The others maybe from the forties. My wife found the woman's button. Love to be able hunt around a colonial. Idaho just doesn't have metal buttons from the 1770's.

I understand. I am trying. Still putting in time and learning more but not there yet. It's becoming one with the machine. I can achieve this state when I'm running an excavator. Haven't reached it with a detector yet. Something to aspire to.

Uugghh! Ok we went to Nevada to do some nugget shooting. We ignored some iffy targets because pumping the coil over them gave a negative 9. This was in prospecting modes. Great for pin pointing but...when we returned home l played with a piece of gold I had found previously from the same area. In prospecting mode when pumping the coil over it gave a... negative 9! Sweeping gave a 1. So good for pin pointing but in prospector when pumping the coil ignore the number. Must be part of that learning your machine thing. Now I know.

10 hours ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

At least you were able to get out, put a little time on your machine and clean up from some of the messy folks.  Sorry the genuine gold did not show its shiny face, but sometimes gold come in many forms and ways.  Thanks for sharing.

Hey Gerry, we had a great time. Improving on the 800's we bought from you last year. Doing good on coins etc. And we both were on bird shot and other small lead in prospecter mode so it's matter of getting the coil over the right spot. Had the 4500 running smooth too. Said hi to the guys at the burn barrel. They had some success. Plan on hitting some spots in Idaho this summer.

Well we had fun. Have to go home tomorrow. The photo shows our finds. The usual. The one rock has chevrons etched in it. I think this is how some of Rye Patches nuggets end up with the unique feature. Just my guess. One of the rocks has a print from a prehistoric cat. The shiny silver stuff is a rare element called aluminium and is only found where homosapiens have been. Unfortunately we did not find the allusive element AU.

Not sure we're we going to end up. We did make it into Nevada today but it took some doing. Six and half hour trip took ten hours. Out flow air pipe to the intercooler blew apart climbing over the Owehyes mtn. Wired it together and head back towards Nampa. No luck at Napa auto. All the way back to a Ford dealer. They had one. Now camped on a old side road. Gold tomorrow?

Yes I have been watching the weather forecasts. Better than where I live. Picture is right before I left this morning.

Got play a little more today. Because of my area I completely forgot to use a single frequency. Did this and then went back a forth with iron discrimination.  Rediscovered that it depends on the target. But pumping the coil tells all. Consistent, low consistent, or all over the place tells me iron or not. If it's close I will dig it because something's are made of various alloys. Thanks for the input . They all helped.

I've had the machine almost year. Really like it. But I've noticed that sometimes the outside, say the right of the coil will pick up a signal, the middle gets it and then nothing on the left. Other targets give the opposite. Some targets give a tone on each side. Slows me down when pin pointing. I do use several techniques if I seem to have multiple targets. I'm not a coil guru.

Also I've found if I'm running trying to eliminate iron and the signal is slightly different at a 90 degree angle pumping the coil will still give a positive number. Switching to all metal and pumping will now give a consistent negative. This always proves out to be iron.

Thoughts?

More trash. I'm digging a lot of wonky signals just for practice. I'm going to ask a question on the nox page as well

This year the snow came early enough that it insulated the ground pretty well. By noon you can dig without a frost layer. The square nut was down about five inches. The shell casing (32wcf) was about four.

Lots and lots of nails around the yard and some have a higher tone that's confusing. So I dig them because the broach I found was doing the same thing.

No need to pray for snow, October will be here soon enough!

Half an hour today yielded more trash.

19 minutes ago, Lost Scout said:

So I found a lot of trash for couple of days trying to figure it all out. But then I took Gerry in Idaho's course. Really flattened out my learning curve. I was finding lead shot before and after class and found a small picker late the second day of class. Kind of got me hooked.

Decided I needed to qualify and expand. The third day of class I found another small picker. And then I had a drought. Found a nice picker then had a really long drought. DOUNT NEVER GIVE UP!

So I found a lot of trash for couple of days trying to figure it all out. But then I took Gerry in Idaho's course. Really flattened out my learning curve. I was finding lead shot before and after class and found a small picker late the second day of class. Kind of got me hooked.

On 4/13/2023 at 5:00 PM, Bootscrape said:

Diverse country here in Oz.

 

Never leave home without this...proudly made in the USA.

 

Must be some sort of pin pointer. Just dig right under it and to find...

Yes... Hard to swing in anything that tall.

Hey! Your beach trash looks like the trash I dug out of my yard in Idaho! Connection?🤨

Wow! Someday I will gather the courage to to go to an an old populated area and search. I just don't like people much. But the idea of finding history may override my phobia. Great finds. Keep it going.!

I live the mountains of Idaho. While I have a few spots I can use the bigger coils the six inch is the way to go in rocks and brush especially on steep terrain. The slight depth difference is made up because the small coil can manouver down in closer around rocks etc. I've been using the 800 for almost a year and really like it. 

Love the box 800 but...the arm cuff is lacking. To big for both my wife and I. It allowed for to much side wobble while swinging. My fix on one is 3/8" felt with cloth glued on. Leather ties keep it in place and can be removed for other users if needed. I needed just a little more room so a 1/4" piece was used. MUCH better.

Because of her short arms I also drilled a new hole to move the cuff closer to the handle. Basic ergonomics. Now she is comfortable and will detect for hours.