Find's Treasure Forums
Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!
You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.
Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.
Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.
Click here to register!
Need Support Help?
Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you
Digging the deep, iffy.
- Thread starter markinga
- Start date
MetalMiner
Member
I've dug Indian Head pennies at 9 inches with iffy signal. bouncing all over, but every once in a while it will give me that IH number. I always look for these kind of deep signals.
You can't rely on ID when it's a deep target. if it's deep & doesn't have that iron sound I dig it every time
You can't rely on ID when it's a deep target. if it's deep & doesn't have that iron sound I dig it every time
You and the other folks here are good teachers.MetalMiner
Member
glad I could help. I'm always trying to learn something new about the Safari. It's a great machine. Don't think I could ever part with it. Also if you ever get that -10 iron reading & it does not sound like iron dig it. I found a couple IH's that were with iron in the hole. that gave me that crazy signal. Another thing I learned from Chicago Ron about the ML with FBS is if you ever digging a target & you recheck the hole & the target is no longer there, dig another handful of dirt. He said the ML's don't like air between the coil & the target. & you lose the signal. this has happened to me many times. since I heard this tip from Chicago Ron I have found those targets that mysteriously disappear. they are in the next shovel of dirt.
Goldstrike
Well-known member
Interesting info; being shared here! The other day, I was getting an interesting signal 34 thru 39. Did not know what to make of it other than figuring it had to be coins, so in digging down, I found a coin spill with several newer coins all together in the same hole. We don't get too many older coins here like I.H.'s but I always dig if it's in the 35-39 range thinking that it's another coin spill. Also, a reading like that could be a piece of jewellery and possibly silver).
M.M. I would agree about the air between the coil 'killing' a signal. I don't know why that is but that's been my experience as well. If your detector gives you a signal one time, there has to be a trash or treasure target in the dirt. I spent a good amount of time the other day wondering where a target went and eventually found a teeny-tiny metal 'wheel' about 1/8th of an inch in dia;. It was smaller than a wheel off an old lighter but my Safari told me something was underground at that spot!!!
M.M. I would agree about the air between the coil 'killing' a signal. I don't know why that is but that's been my experience as well. If your detector gives you a signal one time, there has to be a trash or treasure target in the dirt. I spent a good amount of time the other day wondering where a target went and eventually found a teeny-tiny metal 'wheel' about 1/8th of an inch in dia;. It was smaller than a wheel off an old lighter but my Safari told me something was underground at that spot!!!
