Goldseeker's wheat sounding like a quarter

[S505]

Hey Goldseeker, in Digger's post about audio tones you mention a 1947 wheat that sounded like a quarter. Did you get a good depth on this coin (more or less than 4 inches)? What was the soil like? (wet/dry, clay/sand/humus, woods dirt/farmers plowed field, rocks, etc). Thanks in advance. This sounds like the shift in ID that I see at depth.

S505

 

[goldseeker4000]

it was registering around 6-8 inches down. I would say it was realisticly at 6"when I dug it up and the ground was saturated with water.

 

[S505]

Thank you Goldseeker4000 for the response. My soil was also a bit on the wet side and I thought moisture might be something to look at but then I did some more reading today... The shift we are seeing is the nature of nearly all detectors. It seems to be normal in some conditions. On this forum, is it rarely acknowledged as even existing let alone confirmed as being expected. There are a few exceptions though. Here is one clip from a post in 2006 on this forum by Monte (very knowledgeable on detectors), a few months after the Xterra's were originally released where the effect was discussed.

" It is very possible for a known target, such as a coin, to "off-read" if it is located in some ground environments, even if it is relatively shallow and you would anticipate a 'proper' TID reading.

I have hunted sites with moderate mineralization but where the dirt was very dry and hardened and Buffalo nickels at 2

 

[SeniorSeeker]

Yeah! I've had many Indian Head Pennies, in deeper hard-packed soil sound like a silver dime and give me numbers to make me believe I indeed found a dime. When I experienced it most, the soil was made up of hard, wet, clay and buried down between 4-8". So I began to take notice of not only the type of soil I was hunting in but whether it was an old park people frequented many years ago.
You're right! It puts you light-years ago of the others when you get to know and understand what your x-terra is telling you. I started out hunting in AM and digging absolutely everything for the first summer. After that, I typically ran with a little bit of discrimination and ' Listened ' to the signal as well as watched the numbers, on the screen.