Cortes Users Question.

[MichiganJason]

Hey all, all day today I was getting solid deep 95 signals from multiple angles which turned out to be pulltabs. Also, I just dug a 6 inch deep solid 95 and it turned out to be a 1918 Buffalo nickel. This doesn't seem right to me, anyone else experience that?

 

[MichiganJason]

I should add, when I wave them over the coil after digging them they ring up where they should. I've heard of numbers dropping on deeper targets but never rising.

 

[Woodchuck]

If I remember correctly 95 rings up as coins on Deleon and Cortes,such as quarters, dimes, etc its a general coin catagory.

 

[BarryL]

Just a thought Try doing a airtest with the same buffalo coin you dug and see what it comes as not sure why it would come up on the high end scale but I did have a V nichol come up at 95 once on my cortes I think sometimes the halo around a coin will effect the reading. and I know someone on here says coins dont give halo effects but I believe they do being that i have had signals and once open the hole lost the signal and had to use a pinpointer to locate the target in the side of the hole

 

[MichiganJason]

I did do an airtest on it and it came up like a nickel but for some reason in the ground some pulltabs and that nickel lock on at 95. Not shallow ones, they were all 5+ inches.

 

[MichiganJason]

Yes they do, copper pennies, dimes, and quarters. Nickels should ring up much much lower.

 

[Mike Hillis]

What did the bargraph say?

HH
Mike

 

[MichiganJason]

I'm not really sure to be honest. I took it out again today and didn't eperience that problem again. One thing I did have happen a LOT was getting good signals that vanished the moment I cut a plug.

 

[SkiWhiz]

I'm not really sure to be honest. I took it out again today and didn't eperience that problem again. One thing I did have happen a LOT was getting good signals that vanished the moment I cut a plug.

This could be a sign of a too negative ground balance. Try the Cortes in all metal mode ground balanced to your ground and see if it helps.

 

[MichiganJason]

The places I hunt would be impossible to detect in all metal. We have fairly mild ground here and have never had problems detecting with fixed gb machines. It does good on coins, I found 5 wheaties today in a spot I've done a hundred times with probably 10 other detectors. The problem was the vanishing signals, I had one other detector that use to do that all the time and that was a Whites Eagle Spectrum. Now that I think about it, it was raining and the ground was soaked today from the rain and the snow that just melted...I wonder if that was the cause.

 

[Hombre]

The places I hunt would be impossible to detect in all metal. We have fairly mild ground here and have never had problems detecting with fixed gb machines. It does good on coins, I found 5 wheaties today in a spot I've done a hundred times with probably 10 other detectors. The problem was the vanishing signals, I had one other detector that use to do that all the time and that was a Whites Eagle Spectrum. Now that I think about it, it was raining and the ground was soaked today from the rain and the snow that just melted...I wonder if that was the cause.

Jason,

I think I know what SkiWhiz was hinting at, and that is to use all-metal mode to check the hole for the target that went silent. I've had the some so called 'ghost signal's and the target went silent after a plug was dug, a lot of times the target is in the loose soil at the bottom of the hole or coin was on edge at the bottom of the hole. I once chased a deep 2

 

[MichiganJason]

I searched all the holes with my pinpointer and detector after opening them up and there was no signal at all. I spent a lot of time trying to find the signal again but once the hole was open they were gone. I would check them again after reburying them and still wouldn't get a signal. It would be a problem if it only happened a few times but I bet it happened 15-20 times total. I love the Cortes otherwise....I'll keep at er' and see if I can figure out why it does that. If it keeps it up I think I'm going to trade it off for something else. It's nothing mechanical as it just came back from Tesoro last week. Like I said, I wonder if it was the saturated ground...it was in a baseball field and it was pretty much mud when you took a plug.