4/28 Nokta impact next 4 hunts.

I have owned the Impact for one week and after finding the pair of silver rings on the first hunt, which was Friday, 4/21. I was stoked to see what the next few hunts would be.

4/22- This site was a site were I found 100's of silver coins. It used to be an old fair ground. The place was a swamp, and after a few hours, I was soaked and only had four wheat pennys. I didn't dig many targets at all.I ran di3 and di2. In some areas, the chattiness was unbearable(yea running high gain). After a few adjustments, I got it under control.

4/23- I wanted to hit all the spots I have hit with all my detectors. Most of these spots were drained of finds. The first spot, known as "The Cannons", is a war memorial from the late 1700's. Over the years, we have picked it clean, so there isn't much left in the way of conductive targets. I experimented with settings and dug about 7 targets, only one was a "good" target which was a .32 shell casing. Most were conductive trash and I dug only two iron nails.Again a bout with chattiness, but it settled down after a while.

The next spot was a heavily hunted out park. I found quite a bit of clad, and then there was a nice sounding target. It turned out to be a dime-sized silver cross(3rd silver with impact). How the hell did we miss that after all these years?

4/27- I went solo to a church field I hit a hundred times. I had video but, the sound was so low you cant hear me(dont worry, I will try again). Clad is hard to find here, but I managed to pull out 2 zincs, 2 copper memorial, 2 dimes and a nickel, I had a small bout with EMI again, but manged to control it. The ratio of trash to good finds was about 2-1.

4/28- My father and I hit an army base we got permission for. However, it was next to an area with a few private homes and we were under scrutiny(I will leave it at that). The good news is, there were good sounding targets, that I could easily identify as trash. We didn't stay too long, and I ended up with a quarter, a dime and a 1948 wheatie.

Next spot was a library we have permission at. This place was hit severely as the grounds keeper once told us that, people have been coming here since the 1970's detecting. Although my father has done really well here, I could never find any real keepers but wheats. As we approached this site, my father said to me, "You never give this place a chance, today, I want you to give it a chance". That seemed to motivate me. I dug 20 coins.7 zincs, 7 copper pennies, and 5 dimes(I know im short one coin ). I was in an area I hit with the CTX dozens of times and got a 7 inch high tone with a 84-87 TID. I dug down and saw a glint of silver. It was a 1964 silver dime(Silver number four with the Impact)! First silver there in all these years! It may have been instinct, my experience, and/or the Impact that gave me the feeling it was silver.

TID's of note

One TID was a solid 78 and it was three zincs in one hole

Most good condition(full circular shape) zincs came in at 70-71 at 0-4 inches

Rotted zincs 64-69 same depth

Copper pennys were 80-86

Quarters 89-91

Dimes were 84-89

Wheats 75-78

Other notes:

One week four silvers in hunted out spots. I will take it!

I hardly dig any iron. I seem to be able to tell if it is iron or not. I only got fooled about 4 times.

Di3 is a great all around program especially if it is a new site.

The EMI that I get for the standard coil really concerns me as it is SO in-frequent and seems to only happen after a while. I hope its just a case of the site and/or the high gain.

Love the separation I am seeing. In high target areas, it finds good targets.

Be careful with, what I call, "catching the partial". Catch the edge of a target and it sounds good, so you dig and can't find it, only to re-sweep and see you were only catching the edge of the target.

The last half hour I ran the Impact with the battery indicator "empty" and it still didnt shut off.

The batteries lasted about one week or 12-16 hours. The funny thing though, I used these batteries in my f75 for a year(about 12 hours).

When I switched to 5khz the battery indicator dipped 1-2 bars. I hope they can fix the large drain of the 5khz frequency. It would be nice if it was just a program glitch

When I switched it from 5khz to the other frequencies, the indicator went back up.

In 5khz, surface foil hits strong(not broken sounding).

Mosquitoes are bad already!

Pollen is bad too as my coil has a nice shade of light green dust on it.

Well, as I am typing this at 2:19 AM, the rain is coming down heavy. I will try to get out Saturday and Sunday with a few more reports.

Thanks for reading stay tuned!

thanks for your report!

Good info, Beyonder, lots of detail. Thanks.
Glad to hear the Impact is working well for you.
Look forward to your future finds...

Wayne

Pleasant Garden, NC
AT Max, Nokta Impact, MX Sport, Nokta FORS Relic, GPX 4800, Infinium, Racer, Deus, F75SE, Nautilus DMC II (order of acquisition, last to first)

Does an archeologist argue with a plow? A bureaucrat with a bulldozer?

5-Khz is a powerhouse ........ with the trade-off being: extra 'battery-drain'. In time......... you will deeply appreciate the heavy battery drain. The unit is not 'broke'..... nor is it in error. You might even quest for additional/heavier battery-drain.

Great report, Beyonder.
I've seen the same range with the TID #s especially the copper. I took the Impact to an old rail road spur that serviced a copper mine and there are small and large chunks of smelted but unrefined copper everywhere. There is also other good stuff but to get to it you have to ignore the small bits of copper which ring in at at 69-71. The large chunks come in higher and are must dig targets. It's good to see the are #s fairly consistent.
Good luck this weekend!

Dean

Very nice report. Seeing some of the same TID's as well. I like that pull tab rings, with and without tails, bounce a much wider range than coins. Also noticed what you called catching the edge of the target. After X'ing the target to pinpoint the location I will sometimes go over the spot with the toe of the coil for more info. It can help sometimes as the back two thirds of the coil may see seeing less masking iron that way.

Tom

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Great write up,, It Sounds like the Impact is unlocking old sites, Thanks for taking the time to let us know, Great job,

thanks again,

John.

Good Info!!

Very Exacting report!!

Keith

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-Nikola Tesla

Great report Beyonder -

Good to see the Impact is making one

Cheers

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Bill first and foremost nice post..One wonders what would have been found had these areas have not been beat to death....How did your dad do as we know he is an excellent
hunter and does come up lucky at times..

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> t would have been found had these areas have not b
> een beat to death....How did your dad do as we kno
> w he is an excellent
> hunter and does come up lucky at times..

if you ever heard the phrase "luck of the Irish", you should know my father wrote that even though he doesn't know it even existed. You are talking about a guy who has two silver dollars and about a dozen halves and was metal detecting less than a year.. He is lucky and i am good that is why he has 2 silver dollars and I have 4 or 5 times as many silver dimes as he has. LOL

Point taken...lucky perhaps.....good mentor priceless.....

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> Point taken...lucky perhaps.....good mentor pricel
> ess.....

Thanks!