Short Hunt

I had time for a short hunt at the local park. I found a handful of clad coins. Funny thing was, I found seven of the pennies in the same spot, all with in a few inches of each other. Remember to re check your hole as there can be more then one target in there! I do recommend a pin-pointer to help you local targets in the dirt. I will post info on pin-pointers in a separate post.

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Picnic Point Beach Finds

I hit the county park Picnic Point, a saltwater beach, a few days ago. Not a whole lot there to my surprise. I did join the sinker club with my first fishing sinker found oddly enough far away from the shore in the grass. And the butter knife found near the water and not by the picnic tables! One interesting note is the saltwater changed the MXT readings of the corroded zinc pennies to "screw top bottle cap" instead of zinc cent. As usual the MXT preformed admirably on the beach with out a lot of chatter noise.

Play Ball!

Baseball Season opens in a week so I guess it was fitting I found a ball today. It seems to belong to Jake, but Jake was no where in sight.

I went to a new local park, I dug the usual clad coins and found my second ring of the year.


















The ring signaled as a dime on the MXT, so I suspect it has a little silver in it. Its pretty small so its either a toe ring or a child's ring. I was happy to see it though as I pulled the ring out of the hole.
It was about 60 degrees out so rings and baseballs aside, it was great to be out after a long rainy week!

School days

With the temps pushing 60 degrees, I thought I had better swing the coil for a few hours today. I headed to a local elementary school, where I saw the usual moms and dads with the kids by the swings and people enjoying a day with their dogs. At the ball field I found an interesting token, it read as a quarter signal and as I dug it out, I could see the word "Freedom" across the front. I have no idea where this came from, but it made an interesting find. The rest was clad and a few copper pennies on a sunny warm day in the Northwest.

Bit of Clad

I went to "Horizon View" park today, a new spot I found on a drive yesterday. It was a very nice park, but as I found out from the park workers the "tot lot" section was only four years old. I did find a bit of clad and a older 1964 penny. Pennies were copper until 1982, then they became copper clad zinc from 82 onwards. You can really tell a "zinc" from the older pennies as they seem to dissolve and corrode a lot faster in the ground.

First Half Dollar

After a soaking weekend, it cleared enough for me to spend an hour at the park hunting for goodies.
Today I found my first 50 cent piece at about 6 inches deep at the end of the baseball field. I dug that up along with some clad in various spots. I did find 4 nickels laying right on the top of the wood chips near the swing, all within a few feet of each other. That made for easy hunting, no digging involved!

Hunt Today

Today was a little less rainy and I hit a few parks with the MXT. I made my first trip to the Edmonds city park, spent an hour there and dug a lot of pull tabs! The little coil did a pretty good job with the trash, but as every metal detectorist knows pull tabs, rings, and nickels all ring the same. Most of the time the pull tabs were right on the surface so one could identify them right away. I also dug quite a few dimes, one dime was at 8 inches deep and sure enough there was the coin, as I dug to that level. The small coil has very good depth as that's the deepest coin I have dug so far. I also found a old lighter that was giving me a really strong signal.
Not too bad for an afternoon.
















Edmonds park above.

Between Spring Showers

I went back to the park today. It was a cloudy, rainy day here in WA. There was a little break in the showers so I figured I could try out the new 5" coil. Nobody around, brisk wind and dark clouds on the horizon.

The new belt and carrying pouch for the knife, coin probe, etc really was the ticket for easy searching. All I carried was the MXT and my little garden pad to kneel on in wet soil. The new coil seemed to work great, in the 15 minutes I searched the park, I found a quarter, nickel, two zinc cents and two copper cents dated 1964 and 1968. I had to run to the car as the wind picked up and the rain came back. At least I had a little time to hunt today as the whole week looks cool and showery, and yesterday was 69 and sunny and I couldn't get out!

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New Coil

This is my MD set up with the new 5 inch EXcelerator coil on the MXT. Smaller coils are supposed to give you better separation between targets in high trash areas. It is so small and feels like nothing at the end of the fiberglass rod. Other goodies that came today, my Beach master sand scoop, a treasure pouch and belt and coin probe!

Now I just have to take it out for a test run!

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March Park Finds

Today was so nice and warm (52) that I headed back to Brier Park in hopes of finding some silver. I ended up working the baseball field and found some quarters and change. As I came within 10 feet of the wood chips near the slides, I received a strong reading with a high VDI number. Digging about three inches down I found my first silver ring! It looked to be a pinky ring or child's ring with a tiny emerald gem set the silver 925 band. I think this is a little silver birthstone ring and someone lost it in the grass.















The ring is small but it is silver, my first and has a tiny emerald to boot! Woo hoo!