2 days before Christmas last year I went out to one of the park areas where some of us local hunters have been searching. The large area used to be a 800+ acre ranch/farm owned by a family who settled in the area in the 1840's. The family was pretty well of and at least 4 complete families of the same name had similar acreage in this area of town.So the land has history and lost items from the 1840's on up. A church was built in 1848 and is still standing and being used.
The park area is about a mile from the church and was built on a small 7 acre pasture in 1958.
In our past searches we have dug wheats,IH's,Buffalo 5 centers,early Jefferson nickels,some Barber dimes, some Mercs, a couple of Washington quarters, a Barber quarter,and a Standing Liberty quarter.
This day I was trying to dig up a lot of the bottlecaps in a certain area hoping for a good target below the trash items.
I had dug so many caps I had to empty out my finds bag twice.
I was finding a few clad coins when I got a signal that jumped from bottlecap to half. Each pass of the coil the meter would jump and wouldn't lock on a icon or number ID. I decided to dig.
At 3 inches I dug up a rusty bottle cap. As I scanned the hole again it registered as a half dollar. about 3 inches deeper...I dug a Walking Liberty half--it had been directly under the bottlecap, masked by the cap.
I scanned the bottle cap on the ground--it read as a bottlecap---I scanned the half on the ground---it read as a half---I put the bottlecap on top of the half and scanned it on the ground. The meter wouldn't lock on , and it jumped back and forth.
If you get a jumpy signal....investigate it. It could be a very good target under a bad target.
The park area is about a mile from the church and was built on a small 7 acre pasture in 1958.
In our past searches we have dug wheats,IH's,Buffalo 5 centers,early Jefferson nickels,some Barber dimes, some Mercs, a couple of Washington quarters, a Barber quarter,and a Standing Liberty quarter.
This day I was trying to dig up a lot of the bottlecaps in a certain area hoping for a good target below the trash items.
I had dug so many caps I had to empty out my finds bag twice.
I was finding a few clad coins when I got a signal that jumped from bottlecap to half. Each pass of the coil the meter would jump and wouldn't lock on a icon or number ID. I decided to dig.
At 3 inches I dug up a rusty bottle cap. As I scanned the hole again it registered as a half dollar. about 3 inches deeper...I dug a Walking Liberty half--it had been directly under the bottlecap, masked by the cap.
I scanned the bottle cap on the ground--it read as a bottlecap---I scanned the half on the ground---it read as a half---I put the bottlecap on top of the half and scanned it on the ground. The meter wouldn't lock on , and it jumped back and forth.
If you get a jumpy signal....investigate it. It could be a very good target under a bad target.
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