I set out to dig more nickels with my Omega today :shrug:

[bugg]

We had close to 4 inches of rain the last few days, time to get out in the soup and see If I can dig more nickels with the O-8. I headed back to the park close to home where I have dug over 850 clad with the omega this spring. I decided to put on the 5" coil. and go over the heavy aluminum trash areas, where I used the5" & 10" coil. I started digging various signals from 40 to 70. I also dug the high tones of course. I dug the bouncy signals, and also the very tight numbers, to see if I could pick up more nickels. My ground reading was about 52, I usually ran the sensitivity at 90 or higher. I ended the day digging 40 al. pull tabs, mostly the square type.If I had just dug the tighter numbers, I would have dug alot less tabs. I also picked up 26 foil wads, those read just below 56. Some of the square tabs read 56-57, same where a nickel should read, a fair amount read in the low 60's. I found ONE lousy grungy nickel at 3-4 inches.It read in the low 60's. I then reburied it, and it read 42-44, and some times it would jump to 80. There was a fair amount of foil in the area. At this rate, In the heavy trash, I think I'll just crank up the disc, and forget about every thing below zincs. I did pull out another 70 clad coins with the 5" coil. How is your nickel count been? Im a bit disappointed with my nickel finds, I realize there are less nickels out there than most coins, but Im open to your thoughts. I pulled over 900 coins out of this park, and about 20 nickels.

 

[rick (nova scotia)]

2.2% nickels to other coins sounds like it is in the ball park. I think we can all agree that on most days though we are not digging every pull tab, and therefore do leave some nickels behind.

 

[RLOH]

Bugg, I don't dig too many nickles with the O8 and when I do it will be a shallow 56 -57 that locks hard. Deeper tabs and foil hit in the same exact range. I will dig trash for an hour or so before I get tired. One of these times I am going to get lucky and dig some gold while chasing these nickle signals. The 08 does shine on copper and silver and I do like that.

 

[rick (nova scotia)]

Of the 1327 modern coins I dug this year 44 are nickels or 3.3%. Here in Canada though nickels more than 28 years old do ring as a good coin, far above the pull tab range.

 

[Markmac]

hey Bugg iactually found three nickles last night at the park that I hunt which is unusal for me since before that i maybe have found three nickles in the past few weeks with my Omega.Not sure if its that im finally getting to learn it better NOT lol probably just my luck last night but it was fun finding three they were all washington nickles still waiting for that buffalo with the Omega.All three seemed to be in the 56-57 range maybe a little bouncy at 58.Tonight i thought i had a few more with nice 56- 57 readings but they were square pull tops which hit in that same area.I dug 10 coins tonight one being a quarter and nine pennies of the nine pennies one was a wheat at about 8 to 9 inches i was using two tones 11 inch dd coil sensitivity at 75 and it gave a faint but got my attention signal i swithed over to three tones and just barely got that high tone not sure i would have been alert enough to have found it if i had not been in the two tone mode for that seems to hit a little harder and then switch to 3 tones to see if higher pitch comes in.That penny was deep lol but was fun finding a wheatie anyway.best of luck to you ...Markmac

 

[Mark in NC]

Nickels can be a big ol' pain in the butt anyway. They tend to wander around the conductivity scale based on soil type, how corroded they are and age (metal composition). The O-8 is a fairly low freq. machine, so tends to have the best resolution upscale (SILVER!)...however, she will still ferret out the low conductors like nickels and gold, just not with as much accurate ID as its kinfolk the T-2 and Fisher F70 and 75, which are Nickel busters. (In my neck of the woods)

 

[bobbydadario]

I have a Delta and have not dug 1 nickel. I basically just gave up. For me, the range where nickels should show up consistently gives me a wonderful pull tabs. If I can't tell the difference between the two then I will just pass over it all. Jeez, I spent hours digging those tabs.. all tight nickel numbers. Dug the bouncer too.... didn't help either. Any tips would be appreciated. Why do you guys say that there are less nickels to find? I would think that there would be more nickels than quarters. Maybe it's just easier finding the other coins