Out 'n' About With The CTX3030

[Sandta]

Thanks GP
Ive just fitted the smaller coil
If the weather holds off, im gonna have another go after work tomorrow night

 

[ktmman]

:Y: Just one more coin 8.(

 

[Goldpick]

Some of those smaller silvers on my local Victorian sites are nothing more than an iron grunt when located very deep beyond effective detection range. End up cleaning out lots of small copper relics, musket balls and shotgun shell ends to sterilise the ground, then go back over it again to dig all faint but repeatable iron tone grunts. I find the difference between iron targets and those sorts of responses is the repeatability of them - iron targets at similar depths tends to offer more erratic one way repsonse . Cross referencing with pinpoint mode seems to also help define a coin sized target at depth vs small iron targets. Don't know whether it is the same on your sites, just thought I would put it out there.

 

[Wally69]

That is one evil looking dolphin Sandta

 

[silver]

Crrrracked it mate. $103
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[Sandta]

Some of those smaller silvers on my local Victorian sites are nothing more than an iron grunt when located very deep beyond effective detection range. End up cleaning out lots of small copper relics, musket balls and shotgun shell ends to sterilise the ground, then go back over it again to dig all faint but repeatable iron tone grunts. I find the difference between iron targets and those sorts of responses is the repeatability of them - iron targets at similar depths tends to offer more erratic one way repsonse . Cross referencing with pinpoint mode seems to also help define a coin sized target at depth vs small iron targets. Don't know whether it is the same on your sites, just thought I would put it out there.

Cheers GP
Yes i have similar experiences here too
These early sites are never straight forward and require a fair bit of effort to unlock all the goodies
I have patience and will sift through it all ... in time

 

[Ship of fools]

Nearly cracked it Sandta. Great haul. :Y:

I reckon with the sixpence and and a silver ring thats gotta count for a hundred?
Really well done!
Matt T

 

[Sandta]

The first pic is the result of a 2 hour hunt back at the 1800's site ( minus all the nails )

This next lot is from a new permission farm site i started hunting yesterday (i was told this it also dates back to 1800's)

Still plenty of ground to cover yet, so im not too discouraged
I just hate these bloody things

 

[silver]

Nice old house site.... always gotta be something as common as pull tabs ,... and just as valuable at every site under the sun hey !
Lookin on the ball with it all young fella !
ya old mate
Silver
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[rocketaroo]

no Silvers! he's loosing his touch lol Those lead washer things, I dig a few every hunt....why isnt just one of those our first full, or half sov!

 

[Sandta]

One day mate ... one day

 

[Eldorado]

2nd photo Sandta,top right,the disc with 2 holes could be one of those things that the kids used to put a loop of string through and use it as a toy,I think they were called a wizzer or a whirligig or something like that.

 

[ctxkid]

nice finds awesome to get early permissions :Y: arty:
what year is your vicky please ?
....an yeah lead is a dollar a kilo

 

[cabwoody]

A great thread full of amazing finds and stories...like a kids treasure hunt book. Congrats.

 

[Sandta]

nice finds awesome to get early permissions :Y: arty:
what year is your vicky please ?
....an yeah lead is a dollar a kilo

Sorry kid ... i cant tell :N:
I did try for you though

 

[Sandta]

Good onya woody
Thanks

 

[ctxkid]

nice finds awesome to get early permissions :Y: arty:
what year is your vicky please ?
....an yeah lead is a dollar a kilo

Sorry kid ... i cant tell :N:
I did try for you though
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/3188/1525684976_img_8458.jpg
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/3188/1525684999_img_8460.jpg

18?7 bugga

 

[Goldpick]

One of those crayons from Clegy would clean that up nicely, I never get sick of Victorian era coins. Lead washers = possible gold, so got to dig it all. A guy on Kimbucktwo got sick of digging shotgun shells and spent cartridges, only to find one of them turned out to be an 1800's gold sovereign.

 

[ctxkid]

One of those crayons from Clegy would clean that up nicely, I never get sick of Victorian era coins. Lead washers = possible gold, so got to dig it all. A guy on Kimbucktwo got sick of digging shotgun shells and spent cartridges, only to find one of them turned out to be an 1800's gold sovereign.

in cleaner areas i dig every sig that appears

 

[Goldpick]

One of those crayons from Clegy would clean that up nicely, I never get sick of Victorian era coins. Lead washers = possible gold, so got to dig it all. A guy on Kimbucktwo got sick of digging shotgun shells and spent cartridges, only to find one of them turned out to be an 1800's gold sovereign.

in cleaner areas i dig every sig that appears

In junky areas I dig all non-ferrous, in the past I've had predecimals ring up at extraordinarily low numbers due to the influence of iron, not to mention heavily masked coins and relics. That's probably more down to the types of sites I detect where most good stuff is long gone due to other detectorists working the cleaner areas, and only the harder targets left in the ground. Truth is most older sites will still offer good targets even after a multitude of visits, just need to grid with more precision on each subsequent visit and take note of the lesser obvious targets (ie: on edge or partially masked coins/relics).