Posted by Tom B
on 7/6/2009, 11:32 am
72.222.186.137
I been doing some research over the past month and found a small community in the high desert, that back in the late 1800's and early 1900's had a lot of activity and was a main stop for the rail road.
I took my Compass (CSP)Coin Scanner Pro and the Walmart Pioneer 505, I was on site and ready to go at daylignt. Soon as the Sun came up, this place got real ugly, the depot has been gone for 40 years and what is left is an scrap iron grave yard. There is rusty iron wire, nuts, bolts, washers, and rusty iron things that I have no idea what they were, or what the were for.
I started out using the CSP and went to the outer edge and started working my way in. I found a place to ground balance and adjusted the knobs to the preset marks, power level at 8 and trash out at 4.5, as I worked my way to the center of the site the CSP started becoming unstable. I thought I would check out what was under the coil, so I wnet with zero trash out and switched to tri tone, man what a bunch of noise. I switched to All Metal and confirmed that under the surface was loaded with all kinds of rusty iron and pull tabs for desert.
I switched back to preset trash out and lowered Sens to 4.5, things got better, but still kinda unstable. I lowered Sens to 1 and the CSP started hitting targets up to 4 inches deep, with no problem. I evan dug the brass end of a shot gun shell at 6 inches. The find that blew my socks off, was a 1963 quarter, 3 inches deep, with a bent 20 penney rusty nail, covering about 25% of the quarter.
I did not find anything old or real valuable at the old depot site, but I did learn that you can run Sens low and still hit deep targets.
The 505 did good around the edges of the site, it did good on target id and the depth of the targets, but start toward the center of the site and it would have a melt down, and want to go back to the car.
Tom B
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