High tone, high number signals

[BillF]

The last couple times out with the 705, I occasionally get a faint, high tone signal with a mid-40s TID. The depth gauge says its deep.When I switch to pinpoint I can't get the signal, switch back to search mode and the signals back.
Is this a false signal or should I try to narrow it down and dig it?

 

[mapper65]

Make sure that you are not switching to pinpoint mode with your detector right over the target. It's best to move it out of the way and then hit pinpoint and go back over the target. Pressing pinpoint over the target can cancel it out. See if that's what you are experiencing.

 

[7centsworth]

Every time that has happened to me I was civil war relic hunting and it turned out to be a really deep bullet. I would not even get a good signal after digging some dirt out. I am talking over a foot deep. But a bullet is pretty good size to. They are frustrating to dig when they are that deep but they are worth it.

 

[BillF]

No, I move it away from the target. I have my suspicions that its false, its just that it always comes back when back in regular search mode.
The best way to see will be to dig, I haven't done that yet.

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

Bill, that's why I NEVER use the pinpoint mode. It's happened to me way too many times so I stopped using it.

 

[BillF]

OK, but are you digging those signals? They seem deep(Display says they are), faint and have a small footprint. Since they are in the park I'm hesitant to dig a plug, But I will if I think it might be deep silver.
If others get them as well and are nothing, I'll ignore them.
Most of the time I can pinpoint my target without using the PP function. These have just been small and faint enough I thought it might help

Bill, that's why I NEVER use the pinpoint mode. It's happened to me way too many times so I stopped using it.

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

I pretty much only hunt for old coins and they can be down as deep as 8" to 10" and I have found them as deep as 12" before. when your getting down to 8" deep those are the real faint signals we can whispers. I dig ALL those faint repeating signals that I can get a PP on.

Cut a small plug and put a towel down to put your loose dirt on and when your digging those deep signals it does help if you have a hand held PP to help you locate the target after you cut your plug out and you may have to remove some more dirt before your PP can locate it.

If you want to find old coins, check out those faint deep and repeating signals.

good luck

 

[BillF]

I think I shall do the same. Thanks, Mark.

I pretty much only hunt for old coins and they can be down as deep as 8" to 10" and I have found them as deep as 12" before. when your getting down to 8" deep those are the real faint signals we can whispers. I dig ALL those faint repeating signals that I can get a PP on.

Cut a small plug and put a towel down to put your loose dirt on and when your digging those deep signals it does help if you have a hand held PP to help you locate the target after you cut your plug out and you may have to remove some more dirt before your PP can locate it.

If you want to find old coins, check out those faint deep and repeating signals.

good luck

 

[GTzer]

Bill, that's why I NEVER use the pinpoint mode. It's happened to me way too many times so I stopped using it.

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Mark in S.E. IA
I pretty much only hunt for old coins and they can be down as deep as 8" to 10" and I have found them as deep as 12" before. when your getting down to 8" deep those are the real faint signals we can whispers. I dig ALL those faint repeating signals that I can get a PP on.

Typo? If not please clarify. I'm still learning the 705.

Thanks

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

Bill, that's why I NEVER use the pinpoint mode. It's happened to me way too many times so I stopped using it.

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Mark in S.E. IA
I pretty much only hunt for old coins and they can be down as deep as 8" to 10" and I have found them as deep as 12" before. when your getting down to 8" deep those are the real faint signals we can whispers. I dig ALL those faint repeating signals that I can get a PP on.

Typo? If not please clarify. I'm still learning the 705.

Thanks

No, that was not a typo, when I was talking about PP in that last sentence I was referring to when I do a X or the wiggle to get a PP on the target. I do not use the PP mode on the MDer.

 

[GTzer]

Thanks- I'll definitely be looking/listening for those type signals.

I've had signals disappear in PP mode until I turned off tracking.

Analog training (29 yrs)- if it disappeared in PP it was a hot rock.

 

[cypearl]

If it is repeating on the same spot then worths to dig it. If it is just a high pitched tone and then disappearing from both pinpoint and normal mode its a false signal because you are going too fast. I dug a very iffy signal on 48 tid with Xt505 its the highest number can go and when I just started digging it dropped to 42 and jumping back to 48 -which supposed to be iron at 48- and it was a silver coin at the end at a foot deep.