Detecting wet vs dry ground

[willynilly]

Does anyone know for sure if an E-Trac can find deeper coins after a rain in wet soil? Is this true?

 

[Ray-Mo.]

It has been well established that most modern detectors get a little more depth in very moist soils verses very dry soils on isolated targets.Mix in very heavy concentrations of trash/iron targets and it can change the outcome......

Also soils of very high mineral content may not be the same as light to moderate mineral laden soils.

 

[GimmieThe Loot]

I have not noticed a difference... but it is easier to dig in moist ground.

 

[ryanchappell]

It has been well established that most modern detectors get a little more depth in very moist soils verses very dry soils on isolated targets.Mix in very heavy concentrations of trash/iron targets and it can change the outcome......

Also soils of very high mineral content may not be the same as light to moderate mineral laden soils.

You are saying that rain might help more in mineralized and junky soil than at a terrific site? If so, it seems like it helps in a noticeable way in those conditions to me too.

 

[The_Machine]

I haven't my E-Trac that long. But I feel it does better in loose or moist soil. I hunted a campground that had dry Adobe soil. And took nothing deeper than 4 inches. But at the bay/beach, I was detecting at the cut where sand and bay mud meet and found targets deeper than 6 inches.

 

[ryanchappell]

I haven't my E-Trac that long. But I feel it does better in loose or moist soil. I hunted a campground that had dry Adobe soil. And took nothing deeper than 4 inches. But at the bay/beach, I was detecting at the cut where sand and bay mud meet and found targets deeper than 6 inches.

Adobe sounds similar to red clay, and probably has a lot of salts accumulated in it considering it is in the desert.

Most sands are basically glass which is made of silicon dioxide as is quartz, so that would probably be some of the least mineralized "soil" you will ever detect in, save maybe wood chips or air.

I found a quarter under 12 inches of playground pea gravel which is also composed of quartz, in that case quartz rounded into pebbles in a river or stream.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Also keep in mind, that very hard, dense soil is likely to have only shallow coins. Dense grounds are not likely to have a lot of accumulation or disturbance that will bury objects deeper.

 

[utahshovelhead]

Absolutely , wet Gounod does make a difference for deeper and cleaner signals...no doubt about it.