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Hot rock hell

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Arron(upstateNY)

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A friend showed me 5 virgin cellar holes last summer (he is a bottle hunter and he doesn't detect)and found another while snowmobiling in the same area this winter. I have been waiting for winter to end so we can get in there while the understory is leafless and the ticks and skeeters are dormant. I found one small buckle at the first hole and an 1810 LC and flat button at the second. Both finds were 15+ feet from the rock foundations. When I get near the rocks (I mean every rock in the area) they sound off. Hot rock hell is what this place is, in some places a compass won't work right. I have never seen anything like it. I would love to detect inside these places and I know that by notching out the rocks and lowering the sensitivity I will be able to deal with them eventually. I am just curious to see if anyone else has ran into this and if they could give me some tips so I can spend less time programing my EX II and more time hunting. I am waiting impatiently for the snow to melt. I won't be able to get in there for at least a month. Thanks in advance for any help.
 
and that works for me in other areas but not here. The cellar holes and stone fences for about a one mile radius are all stinkin hot! hot! hot! rocks. My compass will not give an accurate reading either. Every swing of the coil produces sounds across the entire scale. I tried all the basic stuff and was hoping someone may have experienced some thing simular. There are no houses with in a mile or more and no powerlines or radio/cell towers in the area. It a true back woods site. Mineralization in the soil doesn't seem bad, only upon approaching the fences or foundations then my machine goes nuts. Thanks for the tip, any other ideas?:shrug:
 
Arron. Try this desperate experiment.

load a clear screen (no disc).
Then go to the LEARN mode. Choose reject, and swing over any bad area to get a mask of the bad stuff.
Save it for reference.
Try detecting with this screen, in Smart mode.

Let's see a picture of the saved screen......Matt.
 
I won't be able to get in there for another month, but I will try that for sure and let you know how it works. Thanks
 
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