Best way to tell cans?

[brushrunabout]

Found my first dollar today but also 4 alum cans about 4 inches down.

Junk can targets sounded kinda large (wide) and I found even strong if I pull coil in air a little (due to so much metal?)

With other interference iron to break things up and the cross hairs in the north east corner I feel like I have to dig.

I almost felt like passing the dollar coin since it seemed to wide but sounded like the 4 cans I dug (but no pull tabs around).

My ears need training but any other suggestions. Like maybe ttell tale digital numbers or sound quality or sharpness.

 

[brushrunabout]

I have an SE and run all metal ferous with about 22 sens and 8 gain and have a x-1 probe.

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[tab-nabit]

I was out teaching a newbie once letting him use one of my loaner machines. I picked up a can loud and clear. Had him walk over and run the machine he was using to detect then pinpoint the can for size. Instead of just continuing on, he insisted he dig it, while I went ahead detecting. I told him to go ahead but fill in the hole and be sure to keep the can in his junk pouch. So I went on detecting, looked back once or twice and saw him digging. I got a hit under a tree and went to digging. Next thing I know, he walked up to me, handed me a small jewelery (sardine can size) box that looked copper and silver. :shocked He asked why I don't dig these cans. Shaking it let us know something was inside but the lid wouldn't open. We took it to a ground depression with some standing rainwater (rained most of the night), got it cleaned enough to get the lid to open almost half way. Inside was a key and some junk fashion jewelry. He said "The can is okay - but I see why you don't like digging cans, all that digging for nothing but junk".

 

[therick]

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[Doctorcoinz]

Shallow cans say down to 5 or 6 inches are easy to id because of the massive pinpoint signal , i can id cans about 90% of the time real easy no problem , they do sound sweet like coins but the big pinpoint signal gives them away every time , i can walk over these can targets with 90% certainty i have spent alot of time testing buried pop cans so i now dig few compete pop cans - very few. Like the guy in the other post said though other good types of good big targets could give similar sounding big pinpoint signals like buried jewelry boxes or similar and may sound like a can. Its easy to tell coins from a can but dicey because the buried can may be something else like a box of coins or something on older sites. The chewed up pop cans are the things i totally hate - on some sites i have worked the ground is totally littered in in the chewed aluminium which makes detecting frustrating and extremely annoying , i usually skip this type of site if chewed aluminium is all over the place its impossible to avoid digging it!. A lot of coins are impossible to get down to on alot of sites because of the surface aluminium.
The guys who cut the grass are idle and just slice the tins up without thinking. I went to a site today that was totally littered with chewed up pop tins - tons of the stuff both on the surface and an in under , few coins came up because of the masking effects of the aluminium. What a waste of time!..

 

[Wade Patton]

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[Doctorcoinz]

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