From the Webmaster's Desk...

Finally, a decent day to go out.  We've been having quite a winter here in the northeast.  It would either snow on the weekend or the ground would be frozen hard as a rock.  Well, there was no snow today and the ground wasn't frozen so me and Roy decided to go out and give it a try.  The high today was only in the 30's and the wind was really blowing hard...enough to chill you right to the bone!

We stopped and searched an old vacant brick house next to a corn field but came up empty.  We could see evidence of others before us (as only a detectorist could see).  Next stop was an old school, it too was vacant with a For Sale sign in the front yard.  Here, we managed to pull up only new coins, clad quarters, dimes and new pennies.  Someone had thoroughly searched this ground also.

Next stop was an old building we hunted the previous summer.  After a hard winter we were hoping that maybe a few more silver coins would pop up.  We hunted this area hard as it was a silver mine for two weekends.  The first coin I hit was 3" deep and it was a 1958 Roosevelt dime.  Next, a few wheat's made their appearance.  Roy yelled over that he just got a Mercury dime.  Minutes later when I caught up with him he had popped up another Mercury.  I was getting behind!  I decided to hunt out back where we lightly touched the area last year.  After 5 minutes, a reading of only 2 1/2" deep revealed a Mercury dime, 1942.  Well, at least I had caught up.  The coin was right next to a piece of junk and there was actually two readings side by side.  This as you know can throw off the detector or make it hard to pin point.

Today, I hunted with a new XLT program that I downloaded off of a metal detecting web site.  I wish I could remember where so I could give you a link to it.  The program worked very well.  In the all metals mode the detector would sound off like the old BFO's when it was near a piece of metal.  On deeper coins it was actually easier to pin point.  Anyhow, here is the coin program: