Here's one to think about....

[Anonymous]

it hits on digital 22-22 and bounces to 22-06, back and forth.
on the smartscreen, mid upper left corner near iron to mid upper right corner, back and forth.
notice how the conduct number stays at 22. ok, i'm in conduct sound...how does it sound?
it sounds solid, consistant, and repeatable, it sounds good, because along the ferrous axis it's stuck on conduct 22.
if i was in ferrous, how would it sound?
i've found that coins bounce more from right to left...back and forth on the screen, than up and down. in other words, bounce more along the ferrous axis than the conduct axis.
is that why the manual recommends conduct sounds?
did you ever notice how a deep silver dime or some other deep coin does a special jump sometimes along the ferrous axis from right to left and back?
anyway, with it hitting in the mid top left corner near iron like it did, would you have dug it?
would you have dug it in ferrous with the tone jumping around?
would you have dug it at all?
something to think about.
it was in with a rusted bolt, about 6-7 inches deep.

 

[Anonymous]

I would have dug it if it was solid and repeatable especially if it kept bouncing in and out of the silver area of smartscreen. You've seen all the posts that talk about how that type of movement & sounds combination "could" be co-located silver and iron.
Here's a lesson that I learned this weekend as I'm still new the explorer this one seems to confirm something that others on this forum have told me in the past about digging certain sound/smartscreen combinations.
Just this past weekend I hunted the beach as that is all I can hunt in this cold frozen weather. I used Andy's ring and jewellery program with one alteration.
He notches out the high silver & penny area of the top right smartscreen in an attempt to keep us from digging all the pennys and clad which is a great idea if you don't want to waste time digging shiny clad when looking for jewellery.
I chose to keep that area open as I was not in a hurry. To my surprise I found two heavy wedding bands of silver about 20 feet apart both about 4-6" deep.
Both of them hit in top right smartscreen in the non-zinc penny area but not totally upper right like silver. They were solid repeatable but not real solid like a clad quarter. I almost did not dig the first one up. Glad I did. The next hit a minute later was the exact same sound and a little lower on smartscreen spot and it was the smaller ring and was not as pure silver (.325) vs (.925) on the larger one. Man the explorer is some accurate on the smartscreen to tell the difference between .325 and .925!
These silver rings did not hit in the HIGH SILVER area like a silver quarter does but rather low silver area like a clad dime would do. I never expected silver rings.....
This was a great lesson for me, IF YOU ARE NOT SURE, DIG IT UP.......
Thanks for the long read.
HH-Ed

 

[Anonymous]

WTG D with the Barber,
These type of signals are passed up by many Explorer users, Most seasoned Explorer hunters will respond to this type of signal. More iron will be dug digging these type of signals but once in a while a goodie pops out like yours did.
Several of us hunt with ferrous mode 16 negative, You used conductive mode. You asked "would you have dug it in ferrous with the tone jumping around?" Of course we will still dig this signal, Even though the screen shows iron we respond to this type of signal because the pitch is there even when a tiny piece of good signal is present and ferrous audio will be mixed in with the good signal. Sometimes in extreme trashy iron sites the iron will blanket "Mask" out the good target but we can still hear a piece of good signal underneath the ferrous sound.
What you're seeing when the curser and number bounce around is the machine taking in an average because it can't lock in well enough but the audio will still be the better choice to ID your target, Don't follow the meter in older sites or extremely trashy iron sites.
Seasoned hunters will not watch the meter and hunt with audio, I rarely watch the meter when hunting demos, older sites when digging everything.
HH, Paul (Ca)

 

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if i would have been using a disc pattern instead of IM-14, i don't think i would have detected it.
i thought it might have been an IH before i dug it up.
i sure was surprised to see a barber dime pop out, and then the bolt.

 

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