Night detecting with the Explorer SE Pro

[Goldpick]

Had a pretty ordinary night to start off with, first location ticked every box regarding age and setting, but after a couple trips here, still no luck.

Second spot was a regular haunt, but tried to concentrate on all those iffy targets that gave a hint of high conductivity. Turns out it worked, working over areas which I was reasonably sure of not having too many more goodies, I managed to score a 1946 Florin, a worn 1912 Shilling, 1943 sixpence, a cool 1906 british sixpence, and one toasted roo half penny (can't read the date).

I ended up gridding up the particular spot producing the silvers in both directions, to hopefully help unmask anything hidden coins amongst the junk and iron targets, didn't get much more other than a few BB's.

Not sure what the pictured chunk of lead is from, but the surface is textured and may have been part of something else - a toy maybe.??

 

[treasureman]

congratulations on the silver finds. A shame the 1912 florin is warn but still you hit the sweet spot

 

[treasureman]

i have a chun k of lead similar to that, with a similar hole too...

 

[silver]

well done on the iffys GP,....10 out of ten for you today.

 

[Goldpick]

congratulations on the silver finds. A shame the 1912 florin is warn but still you hit the sweet spot

The Florin is fine, its the shilling that's worn.

 

[Ramjet]

Great to see your change of tactics has paid off. Lesson there for all of us.

 

[Guest]

just shows to go ya , dig all targets , i dont know how you haul so many coins 8.( luv ya work

 

[Goldpick]

just shows to go ya , dig all targets , i dont know how you haul so many coins 8.( luv ya work

I am a very slow detectorist when looking for coins, so I tend to take my time running over any given area to try and not leave good targets in the ground. In some respects the Explorer dictates this, as you really need to slow your swing speed down to accurately identify all targets. I run a fully open screen (no discrimination) so I tend to hear everything in the ground.

 

[Goldpick]

Went for another rare daytime detect with the missus, back down to the beach where I found a couple of silvers last week. We wandered up and down the top end of the beach trying to find the same spot, and eventually picked up a high conductor being a 1943 penny. I followed that up with a crusty 1952 penny, a few 1c 5c and 10c coins, before the missus picked up her first ever pre-decimal with the G2 - a 1922 English penny.

Being pretty sure we had picked up everything to be found, we headed back to the car, only to find that some idiot had smashed in the panel on my back door - must have opened their door awefully hard as the whole door was dented in.

 

[silver]

What sort of idiot does something like that(the door) and either doesn't realise it, or, just doesn't care,... on a much nicer note,... Congratulations Mrs GP on your first PD(MrsGPsNo.1PD) That'd have to get framed ?, yes?

 

[Goldpick]

Thanks Silver, they would have known about what they did to the door, just scummy enough not to leave a note or number - they probably weren't insured nor registered.

On a lighter side, Mrs GP really enjoyed herself, usually her beach hunts consist of cigarette packets, tent pegs and bottle caps, so this was a real highlight for her.

 

[Goldpick]

After a week of suffering the damned flu, and very little detecting, I just had to get out for a quick swing, complete with dripping nose and an annoying tickling cough. Headed down to a small riverside park for an hour or two to scour for some spendables, didn't do too bad, a few bent coins including a Thai 5 Baht, and an old watch rounded off the hunt.

 

[silver]

Nothing like a flu to slow you down,...we never got sick until the kids started school, then it was just one after another sometimes,...there always seemed to be a release(flu) just before the school holidays(that way people get over it without too much community down time) that's my take on it all.
The old watches are good, some of them are gold, it usually says so on the inside of the back cover plate,... the watch was obviously an omen to watch the time GP and head home(maybe).

 

[Goldpick]

When I first saw the watch, I thought it might have been an older one, turned it over and it's a good old Pulsar watch - so not exactly a relic. Cough, cough, splutter, splutter! 8.(

 

[treasureman]

Shame about the ding that happened to me last year after going up the coast. Came back to my car to realise some dickgead had scraped it and left. No claim of responsibility at all. Very annoying

 

[silver]

Happened to me years ago, silly me parked my you beaut outside a pub while I went up town, came back to find the whole door caved in,..young and silly like, I sold it instead of getting another door(ha).

 

[Goldpick]

Getting a new door sounds like a good idea, might chase that up.

 

[silver]

Sometimes they can be pretty cheap, especially if someone private is wrecking a car.
I had to do that for two doors on an old ford once when Mrs Silver was learning to drive and took her first left hand turn(ever) into our country driveway(at the time) and caught both doors against the fence strainer post, and caved them both in(real deep too),.was an easy fix,..was only $10 each back then.

 

[Goldpick]

White Foresters are pretty common, so shouldn't have trouble locating one at a reasonable price.

 

[Goldpick]

It has been a while since my last detect since being sick as a dog with summertime flu. Only had a short detect of a local park to get back on the saddle, lots of bb's, a 1951 & 1955 half penny, and what looks to be a section off a silver plated bracelet. Not sure what the big disc is, will have to clean it up for a closer look.