Good targets-Iffy signals for 705

[goldseeker4000]

To everyone operating the x-terra 705, I would like to say dig iffy targets. I can't tel you how many coins I have dug in the past 3 weeks now, that have been iffy targets. I am getting old coins that sound good in all metal with an ocassional low tone and the tids are good but dip down in the neg numbers. It can dip to -2,-4,-6,-8 but I still dig these signals and out came old wheatie and a 1925 buffalo nickel as well as other old wheaties. One was 1920. Also a tiny gold plated cross today.

 

[Reddog777]

How deep was these targets?

 

[RickIowa2009]

Interesting

 

[kiwi-jim]

Yip,
I would agree totally,I now dig all targets that are indicated at over 5".Particularly in the sand
seems to me that the detector is saying "hey there is something down there but I am not to sure
what it is you had better dig it up".
It only appears to happen on smaller items or coins lying on their side,it only takes a minute
to find out

 

[7centsworth]

I have found lots of deeper coins and civil war relics that gave iffy signals that bounced it the negative numbers. It sometimes pays to dig.

 

[goldseeker4000]

some at 4-5 inches but most were 6-10 inches down. I have found that they don't have to be resting in the ground on edge. I have found many laying flat and incased in a little cocoon of really fine roots. I really think the soil has the most to do with it. If I didn't dig these targets I would have missed all of the wheaties I have gotten the past 3 weeks. I am not finding any silver though. I don't have the 3 khz coil, so the one I am using is the MF concentric. I am either not passing over any silver or this coil is crap on pulling out the silver. Only found one silver since yast summer.

 

[goldseeker4000]

found another wheatie today on an iffy signal 7" down. 1929

 

[Keith Southern]

My 705 does the same thing...I find lot's of goodie's that go below zero ....

it is usually like this in bad dirt....I just come in from a hunt and dug some .32 caliber pistol balls that would read +10 then -2 they were pretty deep like 6-7 inch's ....my theory on this is that some other machine's would just call it iron to start with??

I was using the 5x10 DD HF coil...

I think the HF coils do it more than the MF coil's....

good observation

Keith

 

[goldseeker4000]

Keith, there is no zero with the 705. It is -2,-4, -6, -8, +2, +4 and so on. Zero does not and cannot exist. but I understand what you are saying going from positive # to a neg #. I left a post on the neg numbers thread.