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Coin hunters - How deep do you dig?
GoldPandemic  
Posted : Wednesday, 14 October 2015 8:11:44 AM(UTC)
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Well tried a bit of coin hunting due to nugget difficulty (I can't seem to reach top of that waterfall after climbing 400m sheer bush slope).
Found many targets, only dug on the ones my pointer reacted to before I turned earth.
Rewarded with:
Aluminium pull tab & bottle cap, rough 5cent, spedable 20cent, beer cap.
Tried to dig deeper with my garden trowel & broke it :)

Did not expect to need my mattock.
And reluctant to go deeper than 20cm.

How deep (& wide) do you dig?
Also where do you get that solid looking trowel with the serrated side I've seen in many video's?
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Other artifacts: 1888 button
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sycotoad  
Posted : Wednesday, 14 October 2015 8:41:38 AM(UTC)
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Lesche = Rob The Fisher Guy

Great tool ;)
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AT PRO HUNTER  
Posted : Wednesday, 14 October 2015 7:25:17 PM(UTC)
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You should get a Garrett digger,been putting mine through some tough digs like my driveway took ages of digging through compacted gravel but pulled that stuped pull tab out and nailed to my garage wall as a trophy bloody pull tabs!!!!!!
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Posted : Wednesday, 14 October 2015 7:33:58 PM(UTC)
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Metal kiwi- Detectnz sells a very nice digging tool. It also is a handy bush knife too I was using mine last weekend to plant native seedlings and also to chop kindling for the campfire. Also dug a few coins too.
2016 Totals

Gold 0
Silver 3
Silver coins 25
Returns 2

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GoldPandemic  
Posted : Friday, 16 October 2015 10:15:59 AM(UTC)
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Well I've given up on coin hunting.
Other detectors have display numbers to distinguish foil from coins.
Unless my GPX makes different sounds for different metal types?
(I'll do some testing with my hoard of junk).

I was using iron reject, heck dug a 70x70cm hole to extract a pull tab.
You'd think the new (new being after 1990) pull tabs that do not completely tear away would stay on the can!
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Treasure/coins: $1
Other artifacts: 1888 button
Lead: 914g
Copper: 46
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Goldflinger  
Posted : Friday, 16 October 2015 4:00:06 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: GoldPandemic Go to Quoted Post
Well I've given up on coin hunting.
Other detectors have display numbers to distinguish foil from coins.
Unless my GPX makes different sounds for different metal types?
(I'll do some testing with my hoard of junk).

I was using iron reject, heck dug a 70x70cm hole to extract a pull tab.
You'd think the new (new being after 1990) pull tabs that do not completely tear away would stay on the can!


70x70! Man, gotta learn some pinpointing skills before you hit the grass!
If I make a hole bigger than 10x5 to pull a 10c from 15cm down, I'm having a bad day.

I don't know about the GPX, but coins will give a solid, repeatable tone as opposed to 'flakey' foil.
Although if this is the coil on your machine, I'd be chasing that guy in Christchurch for your money back - It ain't a Minelab.
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(The Chinese writing and "Miner Lab" is a clue)

And the tabs do stay on the cans, it's the idle fingers fiddling away that remove them - I'm one of them.



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GoldPandemic  
Posted : Friday, 16 October 2015 8:24:37 PM(UTC)
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I made that sticker, so dodgy people wouldn't know it is an expensive piece of equipment ;)

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Treasure/coins: $1
Other artifacts: 1888 button
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Goldflinger  
Posted : Friday, 16 October 2015 9:14:34 PM(UTC)
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I made that sticker, so dodgy people wouldn't know it is an expensive piece of equipment ;)


HAhaha! Classic!

Might have to put a BWM sticker on my clapped out Datsun :)

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GoldPandemic  
Posted : Monday, 19 October 2015 4:43:34 PM(UTC)
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Google translated the chinese too, it means something a long the lines of High Quality Electronics. :D

Had some people seem very interested, then they see the chinese writing and give me a funny look (as if they are thinking: "uh, oh. looks like a piece of chinese crap, no wonder he's only finding junk!"
Treasure/coins: $1
Other artifacts: 1888 button
Lead: 914g
Copper: 46
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LittleKiwiDetecting  
Posted : Sunday, 22 November 2015 10:42:10 PM(UTC)
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