Mark in NC
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Hi folks... The C$ has amazing ability to sort through close targets, somehow avoiding the problem other detectors have of averaging the junk with the good (where you have a rusty nail and a coin under the coil at the same time, and the detector "combines" the TID into one number) In the same situation, a C$ seems to be able to see both the nail, and the coin separately as the center of the coil passes over each one, sort of disregarding the other target away from the center. My question is about the super deepies. The targets that lie at the very fringe of the detectors depth max in any given soil. In my central NC dirt, a deep silver coin will ID good, say 70% of the swings, and then go iron the other 30%. I have a 8 1/2 inch silver dime in my test garden that is there just for that purpose... to test a detectors response to the fringe coins. The C$ I have now will hit the dime, when maxed out, about like the above percentage of 70/30. This is with thresh. 0 or 5 and sens. 8 and groundbalanced. This C$ becomes one of only a very few detectors I've had that can even tell me the dime possibly something besides deep iron. Finally my question .... how do you long time C$ users decide when to dig the "iffy" deep signals? (say pinpoint in the single digits)? By iffy, I mean they bounce to iron 1/2 to 3/4 of swings... Sorry for the long post, but it's raining here, and I can't go swingin'!...
Thanks,
Mark in NC
Thanks,
Mark in NC
It rained for 3 solid days. Remember my post when you came back from "The dark side", and I said all we need now is 3 days of soaking rain and a jack hammer? I think we can call the drought OVER! To answer your long question with an even longer answer.....I tend to use the most scientific approach. If I get the negative number repeating from several angles and I see a coin signal flash in there (here's where it get's scientific) I just go with my gut feeling
If the digging is easy, what the heck...I dig it. That's the only way to know for sure. It also depends on the depth of the other finds I've been making. If I have iron discriminated, and it's jumping around, when I try to pinpoint, it won't "lock on" in PP if it's iron. If I feel like I get a decent reading on the PP, I dig it. Most of the time, there are MULTIPLE tagets in the hole. I got a silver dime out of a hole with and axe head up in VA one time. I kept getting iron on the display but about every 4 or 5 swings I saw a "30" flash at me. I pulled the axe head out first, rechecked the hole and got an early Mercury dime. 
Gotta go.....I gettin hungry!
Oh well... live and learn. On a more serious (and less gaseous) note, on the deep dime I tried it with tracking on and off, and it seemed to hit it best when I manually ground balanced and locked it. I've got a 10 inch coil coming, so I'm anxious to see how it'll respond. Diggin' should be good after this soaker we've been having. I'm gonna try and get tomorrow after church and find some goodies....