Added Prep57's 6-8 range for gold this weekend

[KinTN]

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What you say is true but I have limited time,I am taking the cream of crop off or should I say I am looking for Diamonds.Most of the ladies rings fall between 0 and 12 but after testing 100s of rings you will be surprised that 85% of the ones I have tested come in at 6,7,8 and I have done very good just using those 3 open.doing a pre- hunt before the hunt. [size=large]-Prep57[/size]

Well, we had gorgeous hunting weather this weekend so as planned, I opened up 6,7,8 in addition to my normal discrimination ranges and hunted a new area saturday and a known coin mecca on sunday to see what would come up in the new range.

Wow, was I suprised. No gold (but i dont blame 6,7,8- there may simply be no gold in these spots that i swung over), but what I did find was a Total suprise. Out of about 25 hits in the 6 to 8 range, only about 5 were foil of some kind. The rest were pennies(50% of them copper in an area that yields 80+% copper), dimes(all clad) and nickels. Say What?!? The sounds/tones were consistant with the coins I dug but SOLIDLY read 6,7,or 8.(usually 6 for all the above targets). After recovering the target, I rescanned of course and in all cases confirmed that what I was reading was indeed what I had just dug. There was never a second target in the hole (common in these areas).

I am at a loss to explain this. But it certainly confirms that you must dig by the Safari's sound and not the TID.
fwiw, I intend to continue leaving 6,7,8 open in my trashy area hunts. Thanks for the tip, Prep57!

 

[Prep1957]

Crazy I know,struck me the same way ,the only thing I can think of is that low of disc the safari is picking a different set of numbers to hunt with,or the halo effect has changed the target composition.The Etrac does the same thing.I think it improves your your target to junk closeness capabilities buy softening the Null effect so now you are hearing a good tone but your target ID is giving you a junk/coin combination ID reading.I have found nice Indian Heads as low as 8,Nickels and costume jewelry will almost leap out of ground at you they are just not that deep coming in at around 9 and most are buffalo nickels,Washington nickels are between 11 and 13.If it sound good dig it.