I couldn't hunt this morning as it was too cold.The sun seemed to soften a few spots this afternoon so I took the SE out to get more acquainted.I dug a 1926 Mercury Dime that was 1 inch deeper in the hole than the length of my Lesche digger.I got a good 2 way signal and it pinpointed"soft" sounding.When I got the hole as deep as the digger was and no coin I ran the pinpointer down and got a good signal.I took out about a 1" plug and there was the Merc.In the bottom of the plug.My buddy was speechless.He couldn't get a signal at all on the Merc with his XLT cranked up.I had it in iron mask 16 and semi auto sens 22.Thanks to James(ND) recommendation.The wheatie was only 6 1/2 inches deep.I later dug a clad quarter that was on edge at 9 inches,measured.It came up 00 29 but one way the tone was "scratchy" the other way it was good.My buddy swings the detector and his brother digs the targets,once pinpointed, he uses a hand held pinpointer to find the coins in the hole.Their coin count is usually higher than mine.Not the last 2 trips with me using the SE.The 2 of them dug the same number of quarters as me today but a dug 5 times as many dimes and double the pennies,this includes wheaties as they did.The place we hunted is an old resort on a lake that burned down.The ground is white with alkali and it's carpeted with nails,screwcaps,pulltabs,bottlecaps,balls of foil,melted cans,pieces of copper,you name it for junk it's there.Now I got to work on learning nickel signals better.Bill