Iron fortified wheaties.........

[Anonymous]

This was not an easy one........
Inital hit was a great deal like the iron gremlins that frequent the location.
Working around slowly thru 90 degrees, and using a lazy 10 inch sweep, this combo gave an iron type response MOST of the time.
From one particular position when sweeping left to right persistently left a 550 reading on the meter. This is a little too consistent for iron.
Dug out a 5-6 inch plug, but did not get the coin. Another inch or two turned up the wheatie.
At this point the hole turned into a null. Digging a few inches deeper turned up the iron. It was positioned with the longer holed side straight down and the narrower solid side flat and on top.
Hope some will find this useful.
HH

 

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[Anonymous]

Your post looks a little familiar to something I also found out .
With my new gt sov and 10 inch coil I was swinging it and got a blip of a signal. I kept stepping around the spot and had a very hard time getting the blip to reapear again but finally after going into all metal mode and getting a better pinpoint spot getting a signal off the iron,( I was mostly only getting a null and no other signal only that momentary blip at first) I flipped back into discriminate mode and continued stepping around the target and got the blip again. I had been getting an iron null but sometimes the threshold would change to a different tone and sometimes it would not. ( I am still learning the sov and its particulars) I am at the dig every thing stage yet. I dug up a rusted nail and a clad dime very close to it. At least what happend is I dug up a dime and nail from the same hole. they came out together in a handfull of dirt and from around 6 or 7 inches deep. Almost forgot I went from no iron mask to iron mask and would get the blip more often and a little stronger signal other then just a null.
HH
Dan R.

 

[Anonymous]

When hunting around iron, you will want to run iron mask "on".
There are tricks with nails and other oblong iron junk.
In disc mode, smaller nails are nearly invisible when the nail is oriented in line with the coil spoke and nulls good when at right angles.
When at right angles to the coil spoke a fairly long nail will "double ping" in all metal. Sounds like two objects a few inches apart.
Best way to hit a nail/coin combo is when the nail is less visible (in line with the coil spoke).
Working around in a circle will give you anything from a ratty low response or a null to a fairly clean coin hit depending on your position.
You will also find that iron junk (by itself) has a loose, slippery, unstable response.
It does not usually pinpoint at the same location in both disc and all metal.
HH

 

[Anonymous]

I picked this managerie out of wet sand at the beach a few weeks back. Yes, the Sov really did see that ring from at least one direction. Sounded very much like you described. Turned out to be a cheap old copper ring with yellow stones but next time it might be gold. <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">

 

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