It rained yesterday and this morning, by the afternoon it was all dried up so I went out again. To my surprise most all of the high pitched noises wer

[treasurefiend]

I had always thought that rain helps you find targets easier??? I hunted the exact same location as before, but the last 2 times I didn't get half as many deep high tones. I know I am brand new with the SE, but the 2 other times I went out I got just a few rusty nails. This time though it seemed the damp soil made all of the targets sound louder and higher pitched. Has anybody experienced this? Today I found all kinds of deep different sizes of nails and only 1 deep Wheatie (1920).

I am just hunting for iffy signals (I know you run the risk of finding junk when looking for iffy's), can the added water in the soil effect the "halo" around the nails and in-turn make it harder for the detector to tell what kind of metal it and therefore it just sends out a high pitch? Also all of the nails I dug were in the upper part of the screen on the "smartfind" display and bounced side to side like a iffy Silver or Wheatie. Some bounced side to side and also up and down like how I found my 3 IH's.

I am going to go back out on Sunday after the ground drys out a bit. As a matter of fact, I remember somebody telling me "if you want to find silver, the ground has to be bone dry" Anyone else ever hear of this?
Thanks for any help...

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

There are some that say dry ground helps with iron falsing, that has not been my experience. I feel the depth is greatly improved by moist ground. And if it is dry and you are digging lawns/parks you will leave a brown spot.

Rusty nails, especially square ones can fool the explorer. Generally they will bounce from extreme upper left to extreme right, but often a little lower. The will often only give a good clean signal from one angle, and an iron hit from 90 degrees away. Unfortunately coins co-mingled with iron and sometimes deep coins can behave the same way. Only way to tell for sure is to dig. Distinguishing iron falsing from good signals is the hardest skill to gain with the explorer. I still check out dozens of iron targets everytime I detect. I can usually be 90% sure but the 10% that turn out to be coins are usually good ones.

Chris

 

[Arturo de Zorro]

I use conduct 90% percent of the time but after a long hard rain I switch to ferrous with fast off, deep on. I myself wouldn't mind finding square nails instead of clad coins. My silver count seems to be better in very dry soil. Some years back 4 of us hunted an abandoned school and nothing was being found,we had multiple iffy high tones everywhere but no coins then two of us with explorers lowered the sensitivity manual to 10 then came the coins.