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Second Hunt With Quattro...And a COLD ONE!

Probably not to some of you, and 30 degrees isn't TOO bad, but that wind was blowing and the wind chill was brutal. But after the Christmas thing with the family, the new machine was calling my name, so I went back to an old house site that we nicknamed "The Barber House" because over the years more of those were found there than anything probably.

I've hunted the place so many times I can't count any more, as have a number of my friends. Items found there range from a late 1700's coin and Revolutionary War buttons to about maybe the early 1990's...and everything in between. The house was probably turn-of-the-century, but there's old red brick in parts of the yard that indicate earlier structures. It's been hunted so many times that there is very little left to find anymore. Oh, there are a few things there...but the place is also rich with old nails, roof tacks, etc. and if I hunt with my CZ with the Iron notched in it's getting iron signals everywhere, so you really have to work around the iron and it masks a lot of targets.

I hunted this house for the first times years ago, some detectors I've used here are GTAx-750, DFX, CZ-70, and Sovereign Elite. All did very well and found lots of stuff. As time went by, less and less was found. These days it's beg-borrow-or-steal...tough hunt site. This is what it looked like for years before they tore it down....boarded up.

This is what it has looked like for the last couple of years and you can hardly tell there was ever a house there now. So, enter the Quattro. For one, it was nulling a lot...testament to the aforementioned iron. I kept the sweep slow and tried to maintain my threshold and did for the most part. I wasn't there for 5 minutes and I got a nice 30-ish signal at about 8 to 10 inches. It was a button, Colonial looking, no apparent markings...shank intact.

It looks a lot like the Revolutionary War button I found there some years ago but that one is British and says "G1R" on it. I've also pulled a "Script I" button at this site. This one looks blank...no markings I can make out.

After that, I was pretty much too cold to take any more pictures, so I just hunted for a while until I couldn't stand it any more. I pulled an 1892 Barber dime, another flat button with no shank, a nice 1902 Indian penny, and a 1980 Corvette Hot Wheels car. All were deep and impressively strong signals for the conditions. I can say with near certainty that I passed all of my previous machines over most if not all of these targets and for whatever reason did not dig them. It's my intention to go back to this place with the Quattro until I can no longer find anything good. I'm pretty stoked about this machine.

Here's the final take for the couple of hours I could stand it. Oh, and I think that thing next to the Barber is a gun hammer, maybe from a cap pistol? Tomorrow I'm going bullet hunting at another pounded out site, this one with some heavy duty power lines that have given most of my machines fits in the past. It's been hunted for over 15 years by anybody with a detector. I once found 15 minnieballs there in one outing but the last few times, nothing. I think there may be a few more yet and I'm hoping that the FBS will come through for me around those power lines. Happy hunting and Merry Christmas!

Mike D.(Virginia Beach)

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