So....I go into my yard with a couple of coins just for testing the other day....a 1964 silver kennedy and an indian head penny, just to see how they would read and I got some surprising results that I'm hope you guys can shed some light on. First I was using G4E's settings. I put the half at 6" and I wrote down 10 readings. They were all in the Quarter range 12-45/12-47(thereabouts)? I always thought Halves read differently?
Then I removed the plug and dug down 2 more inches and reburied the half at 8" now. My detector could not read the coin? Why is that? I've found coins a foot deep before? Is there something about a freshly buried coin that inhibits detection at greater depths? Have any of you noticed this?
I pretty much got the same thing with the indian. Obviously different readings. It read it ok at 5/6" but not 8"? These were not guestimates...I used a ruler to measure depth.
Thanks guys.
Then I removed the plug and dug down 2 more inches and reburied the half at 8" now. My detector could not read the coin? Why is that? I've found coins a foot deep before? Is there something about a freshly buried coin that inhibits detection at greater depths? Have any of you noticed this?
I pretty much got the same thing with the indian. Obviously different readings. It read it ok at 5/6" but not 8"? These were not guestimates...I used a ruler to measure depth.
Thanks guys.