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2 hour hunt this morning...

J

Jay Evans

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Couldn't get in to my OLD spot this morning, so I decided to hit the local soccer field close to home. Had my mind set on coin hunting for clad and maybe some deeper silver, I had an odd reading experimenting, in CL mode this target reads quarter @ 90-92 ,depth reading was 10" so I dug it........ and dug it! pinpointed for quite a while and finally got the target in the bottom of this hole (Over 10") it turned out to be a 1976 nickel!? I dropped it on the ground and swept it and got a nickel reading. Then dropped it in the hole and swept it again and it read quarter @ 90-92 again? Go Figure, can anyone guess what happened on this one? Got $1.17 in Clad and a nice .925 Silver Ring for the hunt though.
not a bad morning....
Hope everyone is able to get out and enjoy the weather and do some diggin.... :)
 
Probably iron around the target. Sometimes two pieces of iron will give a ghost signal inbetween the two pieces of iron, it will read good like a quarter many times. Usually there is nothing there though. May be something else but something in the ground there was messsing with it. However I think I have read Dankowski say that the F75/T2 will up average the VDI when targets get deep... I think he may have just been talking about the LTD models in BP.

I have a minnie I buried in my backyard at about 6". I can hit it with any machine but it never reads right, it reads with a really high VDI on all my machines. It has to be something in the ground because I have a quarter at 6" about a foot away and it reads correctly.

So, it could be the ground or it could be the LTD BP doing what it does on a deep target. Maybe you'll find some more deep targets and you can see if the same thing happens... next time switch over to DE and 1 tone and DE 2+, swing really fast (in DE) and compare all the numbers, try BP as well as CL. It will be interesting to see if you get different TIDs.

J
 
I turned the disc down to zero checked the hole without the nickel and no response from the unit at all on the screen or tone...... unless it could have been the halo from the nickel being buried making the target seem larger inside the hole. but I would think the halo would have been disturbed after I recovered the target. I was hoping it was a war nickel and the silver content of it could have been the reason .... but it was a 1976 nickel...... :shrug:
Oh well, The detector is working & working well enough for me lol best decision I ever made was getting the T2.
Happy Hunting to everyone!
 
cintitomcat said:
Nice looking ring. I sure wish those silver prices where up there with the gold. Keep posting those finds. :super: Tom
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I pile em up until I get a nice load of them and take them and sell them for scrap silver. It's not as much as Gold but it's something.
 
Nice silver ring. gold will come along. Almost every deep coin, 8/9",with the T 2, F 75 and F 75 LTD, read higher then what they should have. H**L, I've dug 7" and 8" ring and tail pull tabs with the LTD that read in the silver quarter range....and they sounded pretty good. Not great, but good enough to dig when dealing with depth. I have found the T and F detectors do seem to up average and if I remember correctly, it mentions this in the manual. HH jim tn
 
jim tn said:
Nice silver ring. gold will come along. Almost every deep coin, 8/9",with the T 2, F 75 and F 75 LTD, read higher then what they should have. H**L, I've dug 7" and 8" ring and tail pull tabs with the LTD that read in the silver quarter range....and they sounded pretty good. Not great, but good enough to dig when dealing with depth. I have found the T and F detectors do seem to up average and if I remember correctly, it mentions this in the manual. HH jim tn
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You're right Jim it is in the manual. Thanks ! I believe the halo of some coins or targets in general make the coin seem larger to the detector too. I'm impressed with the depth of the T2 on very small targets... I got a whisper of a tone but wouldn't pinpoint.... so I switched over to Dp mode and it came in clear enough to point it out without using pinpoint...... it turned out to be an old piece of birdshot..... lol
 
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