Vez Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 I went to a farm that has given a good number of silver and wheat from one specific area in the yard that is about 60x80 feet. Not a very big area, but very productive. I have hunted it in grids from north to south, south to north, east to west, then west to east, and of course diagonally. I took the 800 out to this spot and used the settings from my last hunt: 3 Fe bias, 4 recovery, park 2, 50 tone, 18 volume, all metal, 6 threshold, and had the Fe volume up 2 notches from stock. In three hours I pulled 4 wheat and some really cool relics for your inspection. The large copper-brass looking thing was an orthotic from "The Arrowsmith Mfg. Co. Inc." found at 14". I had to take a picture of the wheat I recovered with a big nail about 1/2" directly below it, I pulled the wheat out and the pointer was still going. I thought it was going to be a spill not a big nail! I am still sad that the depth gauge is so wonky, I may try to reach out to minelab about it. Until the depth gauge works better on cents and dimes or they put adjustable volume gain I do not think it will replace my CTX for trashy park hunts as I discriminate by depth since there are so many screw tops in the best parks in North East Ohio. Thanks for looking! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
relicmeister Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 Nice finds do you feel you are digging less iron and trash? I think I am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vez Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 34 minutes ago, relicmeister said: Nice finds do you feel you are digging less iron and trash? I think I am From the 3030? Not really, but man i am hearing so many more targets! From the first time i started using it out of the box? Absolutely! Getting over my trust issues and setting it up better for my ground has made a huge difference. I had a blast today! Nothing silver or gold, but i learned and had fun. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeBoxer Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 17 hours ago, Vez said: Nothing silver or gold, but i learned and had fun. That ankh isn't silver? Great finds by the way! I can't wait to try one out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vez Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 There is no mark on it Duke. I do think it is a bit light weight if it is silver though. However the link that was on it was copper and pretty far gone and brittle. I would say since it was only 5" at that farm it was probably from the 60's or 70's. I have had a test kit in my cart on amazon for a while :) I should probably pull the trigger already! Thanks for looking Duke :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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