digging nickles

[digginLa]

I like to find nickles so I either run my machines with the disc set just above foil or with the Omega run the disc up if I don't have much time to hunt and notch the nickle in. My problem with the Omega is finding that magic number(s) that is just the nickle and not pull tabs or pencil erasers, with my DeLeon those magic numbers were 35-37(pull tabs were from38-39 and up depending on which kind they were, pencil erasers were from 29-34 mostly). I thought I had finally found it with the Omega today when I found 3 that came in at 56-57, bad thing is I kept digging pull tabs that would only register those numbers along with some that were down at 55 and up to 59, even the dang pencil erasers that at first were showing up as 52-55 started coming in at 56-58. It to the point today that I just quit trying to dig nickles as there seemed to be a pull tab there every time I swung the coil. So what are you other Omega users that can get out and hunt seeing? Do you pinpoint on a target and know its a nickle or are ya'll having the same kinds of issues. Thanks, Jimmie

 

[jim tn]

I love finding nickels, too, Jimmie and work hard at it. 57 on my Omega is the magic number for them. 56/57, 57/58, with 57 being the predominate showing number is usually a nickel with little to moderate depth. Deeper nickels will bounce a number or 2 more, but 57 is still the predominate number. Having said this, the newer square tabs will lock on 57 from time to time as will erasers. I can probably count on one hand out of all the nickels I've found that have locked on 56 or 58 and were a nickel. Those lock on readings sure sound good, though. I tot lot hunted today with the omega and recovered 7 nickels and 3 square tabs and 1 pencil eraser. I don't know how many others I may have missed that were bouncing from 55-59, but from my experience, not any that were shallow, anyway. I personally never use the notch feature. Good luck. HH jim tn

 

[pull tab mel]

I find very few nickels. There are tons of targets that come in at the nickel range but it is very seldom a nickel....(T2). The last nickel I found was a 1946 and it read at 53....could have been on edge.....I think the trick is to get the coil over a "nicklel" lol

 

[digginLa]

I've actually done pretty well finding nickles with the Omega when I've tried to look for them and didn't mind digging the pull tabs but there have been just so many these last couple of hunts that I just couldn't make myself dig them all. Oh well guess the next time I have 6-7 hrs to hunt I'll go back disc out the foil and just dig everything in the nickle range, will be interesting to see how well I end up doing, plus hopefully there will be a piece of gold in the mix too. HH Jimmie

 

[Ken in Georgia]

Which tones are you using ?


HH Ken

 

[Chip Cannon]

In the trashy city parks, where I run to when I need a detecting fix, my experience is that 58 and a strong tone is always a nickel. Also discriminate to just under nickel if limited on time. I always dig 57 and almost always find a pull tab.

 

[Markmac]

digginLa, I also own an Omega and have had good luck finding nickles at the park i hunt across the lake from me.Yes they can be a little more of a problem but with patience you will get to know that nickle sound especially if your using 4 tones that seems to hel pme when the coil passes over a nickle a little more of a higher mid tone then when using three tones.Most my nickles have always locked on 56 and 57, i have folound a few on 58 but very few it seems with mine if i get that 56 or 57 reading and that mid high tone its a good chance its a nickle, yes we all get fooled at times but the omega will find those nickles and i use mainly the 10 inch elliptical or the 5 inch dd coil most ofthe time at the parks.Are you doing a ground grab in all metal mode before switching to disc mode to start hunting to make sure your omega is ground balanced well, then you should be good to go.I think the Omega is probably one of the best coin hunting metal detectors on the market, its a huge bang for the buck....Have a great season this coming year with your omega...Markmac

 

[digginLa]

I've been using the 4 tone mode as for now I seem to like it the best, and yes I've been using the ground grab to set the gb not that I think I really need it as I never had a problem with either of my factory set gb Tesoros but since I've got it on the Omega I figured I might as well go ahead and use it I guess the next chance I get to hunt I'll really have to pay better attention to the sound I'm getting with targets in the 56-58 range and see if I can tell the difference between the nickles and pull tabs and might do like Chip suggested and set the disc to just under nickle like I did/do with the DeLeon and Cibola do a lot of digging and see what happens. Jimmie

 

[Monte]

I am not including all the silver and very old coins, just the modern coin counts from typical day-to-day hunting. This was easy-to-do math because I only made an effort to tally the coins. I didn't count, so can't give you a percentage of pull tabs and eraser tops, thank heavens, as I might still be counting them.

There are many good detectors I have used over the past many recent years, and in the last 15 or so I kept count for fun to compare percentages. It didn't matter if I was using a White's XLT, XL Pro IDX Pro, MXT or M6, a Fisher CZ-5, or the Teknetics T2, Omega or Gamma during the past year, I have learned that nothing has changed. The modern rectangular pry-tabs that fall in or very close to the 5