Detecting nickles

[ydnar6]

I've been using default setting and getting plenty quarters, dimes and pennies. Is it typical not to detect nickles? How are they detected?

 

[Clifford Powell]

I have my best luck hunting in digital. For me it helps get the nickles - in fact I get about the same number of nickles that I get quarters. On my ground if I get a digital of 10-05 and it bounces to 11-05 it's almost always a nickel. Sometimes 10-05 to 09-05. Why I haven't a clue. Sure, sometime it's a tab of some sort but it seems to work for me.

HH

 

[Steve(MS)]

I put a nickel in my right shoe as I forget the exact tone at times and rescan it and if the one in the ground has the same tone, I'll dig it. If you do this, be sure to use a dug nickel because the shiny ones have a higher cond. tone and sometimes number, Clifford is right, they come in at 5 on conduct.

 

[NealNoIN]

n/t

 

[Steve(MS)]

Yes, I agree with this statement, if one is in old stuff territory, dig everything above iron especially if there is no abundance of new nonferrous trash. I have had very deep nickels to give a broken tone so bad that it would make you think it was trash, so keep that in mind.