No coins here.
Here's Willow again, taken about 20 minutes after my previous photo. I had my metal detector discriminator circuit set to ignore all but the largest pieces of ferrous metal, allowing any coins to be more easily picked out of the area close to my house... which is loaded with old nails, bits of rusty metal and other material. About a dozen shallow holes produced several pennies, not old, and all seriously dinged by the blade of a power mower. This particular hole seemed promising... a target having been located that produced a distinct "boink" sound when sweeping the disc across the spot, usually a very good sign. I had already gently pushed Willow away from a half dozen holes while working to unearth what the machine detected. Here she's hovering over yet another hole, her head in an inconvenient position, probably waiting for me to continue digging. This was a "dry hole", yielding only a small balled up aluminum foil gum wrapper. About fifteen feet to my left a small fallow spike buck was investigating a small hole (unproductive) I had dug and filled in.
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No coins here.
Here's Willow again, taken about 20 minutes after my previous photo. I had my metal detector discriminator circuit set to ignore all but the largest pieces of ferrous metal, allowing any coins to be more easily picked out of the area close to my house... which is loaded with old nails, bits of rusty metal and other material. About a dozen shallow holes produced several pennies, not old, and all seriously dinged by the blade of a power mower. This particular hole seemed promising... a target having been located that produced a distinct "boink" sound when sweeping the disc across the spot, usually a very good sign. I had already gently pushed Willow away from a half dozen holes while working to unearth what the machine detected. Here she's hovering over yet another hole, her head in an inconvenient position, probably waiting for me to continue digging. This was a "dry hole", yielding only a small balled up aluminum foil gum wrapper. About fifteen feet to my left a small fallow spike buck was investigating a small hole (unproductive) I had dug and filled in.
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