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Buttons, lead and a silver bucket lister
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Buttons, lead and a silver bucket lister June 18, 2019 02:11AM |
Yesterda my buddy stumbled onto another hot spot at the 1850's site we've been hunting since the beginning of the year and found a Dragoon and an R button along with a really nice rosette. He wasn't able to go out today, but he gave me his blessing to head over and hunt it today. I'm sure he's not to happy about that now 
I got there at 05:30 this morning and right away period items began to come to light, dropped musket ball, pistol ball, percussion cap and a trouser button on the first pass. That's always a good sign when you start to pull some keepers right from the get go. On the next pass, a percussion cap, 2 pulltabs, a pistol ball and then I get a 21-22 on the Nox 800. We seldom get very many items that hit in the 20's except aluminum slaw or deeply buried aluminum cans, most hits are in the 9 to 19 range. I fully expected to dig a piece of trash and was totally unprepared for what came out, when I saw what it was, I just threw it back onto the dirt pile, stood up and started walking around stunned. A major bucket lister that I always wanted to dig, but just never figured I'd ever see come outta the hole, my first Spanish Reale,
My goal for the day was to at least dig a Dragoon or maybe another R button. This was the last thing I thought would ever come from this site, I'm still in awe that I was privileged to find such an awesome coin.
Somehow I was able to compose myself and continue hunting for another 9 hours and ended up with some excellent relics to add to my display case once I finish hunting this site. I did dig a lead, 1 piece button, my 3rd from here, anyone have any idea if it's period and what it's from? Once again my settings on the Nox
11" coil
Sens 23
Recovery 4
Iron bias 0
No disc
GB at 3-6
Park 1
2-tones
Tone break -9 to +8
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/18/2019 04:01AM by Dan(NM).
I got there at 05:30 this morning and right away period items began to come to light, dropped musket ball, pistol ball, percussion cap and a trouser button on the first pass. That's always a good sign when you start to pull some keepers right from the get go. On the next pass, a percussion cap, 2 pulltabs, a pistol ball and then I get a 21-22 on the Nox 800. We seldom get very many items that hit in the 20's except aluminum slaw or deeply buried aluminum cans, most hits are in the 9 to 19 range. I fully expected to dig a piece of trash and was totally unprepared for what came out, when I saw what it was, I just threw it back onto the dirt pile, stood up and started walking around stunned. A major bucket lister that I always wanted to dig, but just never figured I'd ever see come outta the hole, my first Spanish Reale,
My goal for the day was to at least dig a Dragoon or maybe another R button. This was the last thing I thought would ever come from this site, I'm still in awe that I was privileged to find such an awesome coin.
Somehow I was able to compose myself and continue hunting for another 9 hours and ended up with some excellent relics to add to my display case once I finish hunting this site. I did dig a lead, 1 piece button, my 3rd from here, anyone have any idea if it's period and what it's from? Once again my settings on the Nox
11" coil
Sens 23
Recovery 4
Iron bias 0
No disc
GB at 3-6
Park 1
2-tones
Tone break -9 to +8
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/18/2019 04:01AM by Dan(NM).
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Re: Buttons, lead and a silver bucket lister June 18, 2019 11:55PM |
Abenson Wrote:
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> Awesome hunt love those D buttons. Congrats on the
> Reale, only found a few of those myself. Oldest wa
> s a 1786 half Reale, a nice 1814 2R and a few 1R's
> with date worn off. I'm surprised you do so well r
> unning Park 1 when most of what you are digging ar
> e low conductors. In my dirt here in Utah Park 2 o
> r Field 2 are what I use as Park 1 and Field 1 do
> not do well in the iron trash and high mineral gro
> und pulling low conductors. I've tested the 1's an
> d the signals (especially deep ones) are choppy an
> d have a lot of iron buzz. But I know you said you
> 've tested in your dirt and 1's are better, it jus
> t surprises me that's all. Maybe the fact that you
> 're running 2 tones helps, I run 50 tones and it g
> ives me a lot more info on the target, you can alm
> ost always tell junk running 50 tones as the tone
> is not solid and numbers are jumpy. Hope you find
> some more good stuff and continue to share your su
> ccess.
I'm quite surprised that Park 1 hits small brass as hard as it does. I'm getting a solid repeatable tone on the small leg of a percussion cap, maybe 1/8" x 1/8" in size. I'm getting good at ID'ing the iron hits, the numbers and the tone are off just enough to tell the difference. I'll still dig an iffy hit just to make sure though out the day, helps keeps me honest My plan next trip is to take a button and do the same test in all modes to see if my first test holds up.
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> Awesome hunt love those D buttons. Congrats on the
> Reale, only found a few of those myself. Oldest wa
> s a 1786 half Reale, a nice 1814 2R and a few 1R's
> with date worn off. I'm surprised you do so well r
> unning Park 1 when most of what you are digging ar
> e low conductors. In my dirt here in Utah Park 2 o
> r Field 2 are what I use as Park 1 and Field 1 do
> not do well in the iron trash and high mineral gro
> und pulling low conductors. I've tested the 1's an
> d the signals (especially deep ones) are choppy an
> d have a lot of iron buzz. But I know you said you
> 've tested in your dirt and 1's are better, it jus
> t surprises me that's all. Maybe the fact that you
> 're running 2 tones helps, I run 50 tones and it g
> ives me a lot more info on the target, you can alm
> ost always tell junk running 50 tones as the tone
> is not solid and numbers are jumpy. Hope you find
> some more good stuff and continue to share your su
> ccess.
I'm quite surprised that Park 1 hits small brass as hard as it does. I'm getting a solid repeatable tone on the small leg of a percussion cap, maybe 1/8" x 1/8" in size. I'm getting good at ID'ing the iron hits, the numbers and the tone are off just enough to tell the difference. I'll still dig an iffy hit just to make sure though out the day, helps keeps me honest
My plan next trip is to take a button and do the same test in all modes to see if my first test holds up.