king-ghidorah
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I never get nickels as I imagine I will have to start digging in the 10-6, 10-7 range. Any tips on what the sound is as opposed to a pull tab range. It would be nice to get a BN or just a regular nickel. 
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I never get nickels ... :unsure:
- Thread starter king-ghidorah
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Great Republic
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I've come to the point that I'm calling them 70% of the time before I dig.
dewcon4414
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I get the newer ones at 10-5.... 11-6 on V's. The tabs have a higher sound... id say the nickels sound more like foil. If i dig a good 10-6... its always a tab for me.
Dew
Dew
I would recommend taking a range of nickel... New ones and old one's as well as some of your common trash items and just keep sweeping over them... Listen real good,,, like the other's said,, the nickels have a more "solid" sound that you can really tell a difference between! On my detector i have dug nickels on 5 6 and 7.. For me the ones that read 5 have always been the older ones...Shield's or old v's... I do have to say that most of the v's and buffalo's and regular nickel's stay around the number 6 on my detector!!
Good luck,,, Just keep playing with the signal and you will be a nickel diggin fool!!!
Good luck,,, Just keep playing with the signal and you will be a nickel diggin fool!!!
johnnywilliamson
New member
Hey King -
Myself, I don't go by the sound as much on low conductors, because the sounds are so hard to differentiate. I would agree that nickels sound more "solid" and unbroken in their response than tabs/junk. I found four nickels yesterday, and all had one common theme - using the SmartFind screen, all hit near the bottom center of the screen, with just a tiny to small bit (approximately 1/8-inch) of white showing beneath the crosshair. As long as the target maintains this height above the bottom, iffier signals would be worth digging even if further to the right of center. But, much HIGHER on the screen, for me, 99% of the time, it's some type of pulltab. If the nickel's co-located with trash or another type of coin, then you may get the crosshair jumping in an arc toward the upper left as Chris(SoCenWI) has alluded to many times in past posts - you can use the "Search" feature above to find them in the forum archives. Good luck in your searching. Johnny
Myself, I don't go by the sound as much on low conductors, because the sounds are so hard to differentiate. I would agree that nickels sound more "solid" and unbroken in their response than tabs/junk. I found four nickels yesterday, and all had one common theme - using the SmartFind screen, all hit near the bottom center of the screen, with just a tiny to small bit (approximately 1/8-inch) of white showing beneath the crosshair. As long as the target maintains this height above the bottom, iffier signals would be worth digging even if further to the right of center. But, much HIGHER on the screen, for me, 99% of the time, it's some type of pulltab. If the nickel's co-located with trash or another type of coin, then you may get the crosshair jumping in an arc toward the upper left as Chris(SoCenWI) has alluded to many times in past posts - you can use the "Search" feature above to find them in the forum archives. Good luck in your searching. Johnny
I said the same for 17[?] years with my EXPLORERxs,on beaches it never found any nickles,until I switched to the small coil and then every day i got nickles[old and new] on beaches i cleaned out[supposedly] with the excal and fisher aquanaut[thats how long ago that was]. Larger coil = more masking? Still learning and loving it. Thanks all,sam in ms
Chris(SoCenWI)
Well-known member
n/t
dewcon4414
Well-known member
Ive also found DEEP V nickels have a tendancy to jump down to the lower right cornor where pull tabs hit. The key is the depth gauge and knowing generally pull tabs arent down 7 or 8 inches.
Dew
Dew
king-ghidorah
New member
dewcon4414 said:
Good point about the Deep V's not being down 7-8".
Hey King,
It might sound silly but when I was trying to learn nickels, I used to put one in my left shoe(opposite detector arm).
Then whenever I'd run across a possible target,I'd scan my left shoe and compare.I read that here awhile ago,works for me.
I find them alot more often now.
It might sound silly but when I was trying to learn nickels, I used to put one in my left shoe(opposite detector arm).
Then whenever I'd run across a possible target,I'd scan my left shoe and compare.I read that here awhile ago,works for me.
I find them alot more often now.
king-ghidorah
New member
Ron Y said:
That's a really good idea!