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IFFY CHALLENGE

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sugar

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i am wondering how many of us are passing over iffy signals this challenge is easy if on your normal hunt you get an iffy signal i want you to dig it so i am looking for two iffy targets and if you report them on this forum we will see what percentage are good and what percentage you were correct in ignoring this challenge is a direct result of the last challenge when working without the screen two people dug iffy targets which resulted in extremely good targets so lets see what we come up with so no cheating if its crud lets know about it it doesnt have to be good target we are not after just good stuff were after the knowledge logging in our brains on what the etrac is telling us if your going to have a go please just write i'm in and lets see what we get thanks for your help if when you write your targets you could explain why you thought it was iffy that would be a great help happy hunting you guys i hope you enjoy it
 
i'll do it... been passing up most iffy signals but actually need to start for my own sake to learn the E-trac better.... saw a couple of Russian videos (couldnt understand a damn thing they were saying) but totally understood the video, these guys doing the same type testing as here in the west with nails and coins, some of those signals were pretty iffy.... this will be fun like the last one Sugar suggested... good on ya Sugar!!! :clapping:
 
I've pretty well cleaned all the easy, well easy for the E-Trac and impossible for the others, coins out of our city park, and have started on the iffy's anyway. So far I have opened up a whole new world at that park as far as old coins. I'm now digging those lower CO's and broken sounds and finding most are good targets.
 
well yes lets hope all the lads start to realise i dug an apostle spoon on an iffy signal because it was deep and end on so bottom was about eighteen inches down in the challenge as i couldnt see its id number and i am made up as it is my best find yet so lets do this and see who gets a surprise and goes to the next level whooooopee
 
Hey Sug,
It would be really interesting if you could get the guys to do a little more documentation for numbers to generate some percentiles and averages. I know nobody wants to do alot of paperwork but yoiur idea of chosing just two iffy random targets is good if everyone does it and documents there set as well as some other information. See if you can get it in a standard type format that they can all just take with them and fill out while they are out...with the forum you could get lots of infromation but unless it is processed correctly its hard to formalize. I dont want to take the fun out of it but it could be very interesting if lots of E trac (or other ) guys do it.
 
utahshovelhead said:
Hey Sug,
It would be really interesting if you could get the guys to do a little more documentation for numbers to generate some percentiles and averages. I know nobody wants to do alot of paperwork but yoiur idea of chosing just two iffy random targets is good if everyone does it and documents there set as well as some other information. See if you can get it in a standard type format that they can all just take with them and fill out while they are out...with the forum you could get lots of infromation but unless it is processed correctly its hard to formalize. I dont want to take the fun out of it but it could be very interesting if lots of E trac (or other ) guys do it.
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thanks for your input and although i fully agree that more information would be an advantage alot of the guys are just doing it for fun and if they are like me struggle with the technical stuff dont get me wrong i love to read it and try and make sense but my practicle time in the field is my way of conquering the etrac i dont think the guys want to take bits of paper with them and that is why i have made it just two items i am pleased for any input and if anyone wants to do it ultrashovelheads way that would also be cool and ultrashovelhead if you want to put up your documentation then that is just fine and then the guys will have the choice this is all a bit of fun but we do hope to see some different results so anything goes we are easy we are all etrac freaks lol thankyou for your post
 
I call an "iffy" a signal I would not normally recover, and can not say what it could be. I.E. good or trash.
 
thank you southwind for that accurate answer these iffy signals have come up in many topics they are just not a clear dig me signal and so usually get ignored but we are trying to find out if we are right in ignoring them we are going to dig and report so that everyone can see the most interesting information other than what you have dug will be why you thought it was iffy and so by posting it on this forum it will help people especially the newbies decypher when an iffy signal is worth a look hope that helps
 
I dig more iffy bouncy signals than I ever dig solid signals. Almost all I ever hunt is old farms and with all that iron it is rare to get good solid signals.
 
1goldsniper said:
Hunted for about 2 1/2 hrs today and must have dug 30 iffy signals all junk mostly rusty tin or cans. TTF 8" minelab coil
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i am trying to clarify this iffy signal and if any of you can jump in and help here that would be great but i cant see cans giving off what i term as an iffy signal you all know i am not the technical person but all the cans i go over have given off good signals are you saying your signals were broken when you discovered it was a can thanks for your info
 
I am new to this forum and today was just my third trip out with my E-Trac. Not new to metal detecting though been doing this since 1964.

Used a coin program of my own; sensitivity auto +2 it ran at 22 most of the time. The rest of the setting were stock settings.

These were iffy signals to me.

1. FE jumped from 12 to 15; CO jumped from 21 to 22-------------a zipper pull at 5 inches
2. FE jumped from 1 to 15; Co a solid24---------------------------------bell sinker at 4 inches

Those were the first two.

3. A solid repeatable 12-10---------------------------------------------------a pewter poodle that was a broach with the pin broke off at 6 inches
4. FE 7 to 9; Co 40 to 44-----------------------------------------------------clad quarter with nickel on top at 2 inches

$1.49 in change, thought the dime signal at 7 inches would be silver but no, was a 1977 clad dime.
Hope this is what you want.
GO DIRT FISHING!!
 
The only inkling I had that it was a piece of rusty tin was the ferrous #'s were far to high 20^ but had to dig due to high pitch.
 
treasure sstate said:
I am new to this forum and today was just my third trip out with my E-Trac. Not new to metal detecting though been doing this since 1964.

Used a coin program of my own; sensitivity auto +2 it ran at 22 most of the time. The rest of the setting were stock settings.

These were iffy signals to me.

1. FE jumped from 12 to 15; CO jumped from 21 to 22-------------a zipper pull at 5 inches
2. FE jumped from 1 to 15; Co a solid24---------------------------------bell sinker at 4 inches

Those were the first two.

3. A solid repeatable 12-10---------------------------------------------------a pewter poodle that was a broach with the pin broke off at 6 inches
4. FE 7 to 9; Co 40 to 44-----------------------------------------------------clad quarter with nickel on top at 2 inches

$1.49 in change, thought the dime signal at 7 inches would be silver but no, was a 1977 clad dime.
Hope this is what you want.
GO DIRT FISHING!!
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thank you for these great results and for adding your reasons behind thinking they were iffy we are interested in the ids but also interested in the broken signals that the etrac is giving us instead of the normal clear two way signal and therefore we would normally walk by but what is lurking in those holes what does the etrac know that we dont
 
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