Instruction manual

With “old” being a relative term, I hunt for old coins at old sites. The part
of the world that I live in wasn’t settled until the mid 1850’s. So nding
coins older than 1900 is considered to be a good hunt.
Many of my favorite spots to detect are old homesteads and farm sites.
With the houses and out buildings long gone, to the passerby, most of
these places look like any other corn eld in this part of the country.
Pieces of brick, stone, glass and pottery are some of the things that
I look for when wandering across these corn elds. And when I start
hearing the low tones produced by nails and other “farm trash”, I know
I’m getting close to where I want to be. Unfortunately, even though
these pieces of deeply buried iron are a good indicator of where the
buildings once stood, their occasional “wrap around” high tones can
cause a lot frustration. I’d venture to say that there isn’t one among
us who hasn’t dug a piece of deeply buried iron or an old rusty nail,
expecting it to be a coin.
Now, I’m not going to tell you that the method I use to help eliminate
these targets will keep you from digging all of them. But I will tell
you that the X-TERRA has the ability to identify most of these “trashy”
targets, even when providing an initial “keeper” tone. It’s just a matter
of properly setting up your X-TERRA, knowing how to work the coil and
listening to what the detector is telling you. And it is for those “wrap
around” targets that I have written this short article.
Treasure Talk 
Hunting by ear...
Audio tones on the X-TERRA
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