This... Is Tekkna In The USA

[F350Platinum]

This will probably be the last post from me about Tekkna for the Deus 2, I might mention it in passing but I want to show y'all a typical day out using it.

Brutal start today, when I got to this field I've named The Jewelry Box, one that Chase and I found a good amount of silver jewelry in. It was 38 degrees, it never got warmer than 50 and the wind was strong.

I've come back a couple of times, but today I really wanted to use Tekkna the whole day with both the 13" and the 9" coil, after seeing how well @NCtoad did with his 13".

Sadly it didn't really work out as well as I hoped, this field is so loaded with non-ferrous junk and iron it became apparent that I had to switch to the 9" coil for about half of it.

Tekkna really does a nice job of finding small stuff in iron, I can imagine if I had a spot with nothing but iron I'd be able to find a few more things there.

But that's about where it ends, I can use my heavily modified Relic program too with the same end result, just varying Reactivity where necessary.

I try to be very honest about the trash I end up with, here's a photo of everything I dug today that I will not be keeping:

Only one piece of iron fooled every program on my machine, everything else is Non-Ferrous. Clock and Pocket watch parts, flatware, pocket knife bits, knobs, shotgun shells and bullets, along with foil and other annoying aluminum are everywhere in a portion of this field. I rue the day the Concertina was invented, I think we have found just about every reed now. 🤬

Chase and I hit it really hard, almost all the silver stuff is gone, but I still managed to squeak a few more things out of it today:

Got a brooch that is really shot through with bronze disease but it's one of the more unique things I've ever found:

Even the back of it is interesting.

There are multiple ages of activity in this small field, probably from the 1700s to the 1890s, and then from about the 1920s to the 60s, there are things representing both eras. It was probably cherry picked long ago because no large coins have been found here and there should be some. Regardless, the Tekkna program is great for a spot like this, but I still think the 9" coil is preferable to use with it.

Bottom line is if there is a lot of non-ferrous junk, you are going to dig a lot of non-ferrous junk if there is the possibility of finding jewelry. That, it did quite well. I'll be keeping it on my machine, with the 9" coil handy.

There was another bright spot, a gentleman almost in his 90s approached me in this field today, and after an hour or so of talking with him he gave me permission to his 100 acre farm next door 🥳

[Lodge Scent]

Well F350, you definitely put that program to the test! It seems to fair better in very low trash environs. I have a lot of "iron only" sites so I'll see how it performs in those conditions. You note that it does well finding the small nonferrous targets in the iron. I would agree but on my last hunt I was surprised to find several large nonferrous targets like brass horse tack and lantern pieces in the iron. I think all that Disc finally made them sound good enough to dig. I do like that brooch!

Glad to see you were rewarded for your efforts with another 100 acres to hunt.

[F350Platinum]

20 hours ago, Lodge Scent said:

It seems to fair better in very low trash environs.

Well yes, but that would also make a better case for Relic.

I used it in a mostly iron situation and it did find great stuff. When the targets get thin I switch to relic, because I'm heavy trash relic is too loud.

I guess I didn't mind digging all that "trash" if there are precious metals and coins at stake, simply because any non ferrous stuff could be really good, and it's comfortable with iron volume at 8 or less.

Rarely is a signal diggable if it doesn't produce clear tones in all directions, that is the thing to force yourself to remember when using it.

[CPT_GhostLight]

Hey ,Bob, way to go! 😎

 

[F350Platinum]

25 minutes ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Hey ,Bob, way to go! 😎

 

Hey Cap! 👍

Glad to see ya back here, one of your pals put up a notice about your situation, I could not be more thrilled to hear from you. 🙂 🥳

I've had one hell of a year so far, and really missed ya.

Hope all is well. 🤞

[CPT_GhostLight]

Yup, as well as can be expected. 😏

 

[Rattlehead]

Nice finds Bob! I’ve been playing around with the Tekkna program for about a week with varying success. It was able to sniff out some small pieces of brass at one of my heavily hunted iron blanketed sites. Still need to spend more time with it.

[F350Platinum]

14 minutes ago, Rattlehead said:

Nice finds Bob! I’ve been playing around with the Tekkna program for about a week with varying success. It was able to sniff out some small pieces of brass at one of my heavily hunted iron blanketed sites. Still need to spend more time with it.

Thanks! I'm still really a fan of using Relic, and with Tekkna find my success varied as well. For sure I dig lots of NF trash with it, not so much with Relic.

Relic has improved a lot with V2, I wasn't on V1.1 for long enough to know whether it was improved then.

I can do just as well with my version of Relic, but it does tend to be trifling in heavy trash, so I'm glad to have a more subtle alternative. 🙂