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Nickel question with explorer...

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I'm still learnin' the explorer xs and was wondering where older nickels fall on the screen for most folks. I've been learning the machine in newer areas, but plan to hit some old ones pretty soon. I've pretty much got the newer, recently lost nickels down but I know the old grungy ones can be different...
Thanks
Mark in NC
 
Mark,
My Nickel numbers have been improving considerably since the first couple of years with the explorer. In many sites they are more nickels than silver and copper to be found because many times they were discriminated out by previous MDers.
Shallower ones hit pretty consistantly but once they get deeper, in mineralized soil, or mixed with trash they can hit in many places. Best advice I've seen came from Golddigger, look for it to bounce in the nickel area occasionally and then if it bounces left it should start moving slowly upwards. By the time it hits the left side of the screen it can be up to the nail areas. This is the way a Nickel co located with iron behaves.
Generally foil and trash will bounce around in a more random pattern and sound less substantial. Other than that I can only say that you will develop a gut feeling after digging a few hundred nickels.... and several thousand beaver tails and other trash.
Chris
 
Drop down to saturday around 5pm and you will see a post I made for a days finds. Almost all nickel signals. Probably left behind by a previous detector. I discovered at some point that my thought process was all wrong for nickels. I was looking at the LCD and saying to myself "it must be no good, it doesn't hit in where I think it should". As soon as I started asking instead "what is it? and if I don't know what it is then dig it", I started getting all kinds of stuff including nickels. And I don't dig everything or what I would consider an excessive number of holes. If a signal hits like the previous guys post describes(which is very common) you would have to say "I don't know what it is". It hits in a range I haven't seen so dig it. My most important advice is to never forget the word "repeatablility". If a signal jumps around and continues to hit in approximately the same places it's telling you that something is there. Do you know what it is? The major exception to this rule is depth. If it's jumping around and shallow I forget it. If the target is shallow the machine will peg it so it's probaqbly a nut, bolt, or small bit etc................Repeatability - depth. Hope this doesn't sound like common sense advice that everyone already knows. Sure took me some time to get in the habit.
 
If you look at the crosshairs they fall in the lower half of the right half of the screen. Then divide the lower right half in to 1/4 and they are in the left 1/4 with a ferrous reading of about 8 or so. The conductive reading can be very difference for nickels so look for them anywhere from 2 or 3 and higher. The nickel is one of the most variable US coins for relative conductivity. I think the last one I found had a digital reading of 6/3 almost down to where foil hits.
HH, Cody
 
Hi Mark,make it easy on your self,try this.I was having a hard time 'remembering' the sound of a nickel hit so I did this.Take two peices of velcro(male and female)with stickum on the back.Stick one the top of the detector and the other around a nickel and stick it to the other velcro.When you get a hit your not sure of the sound,pull the nickel off and wave it past the coil.Sound wise,you can tell right away if its a nickel.most of the time the sun obscures my screen so I mostly go by sound.Try it--you'll like it. HH Bob
 
I mainly hunt old school, church and home yards so I do have to be careful with my hole diggin'. Our soil here is generally red clay with some mineralization so I've seen ID's jump around quite a bit with depth. Good advice... thanks.
 
Mark,
Most of the parks and schools that I hunt are infested with pull tabs. Digging all those pull tabs causes a lot of wasted time, especially if there isn't much gold in the area you are hunting.
What I have done is
* Use the Edit function to discriminate out the bottom of the screen below about conductive reading of 26 or so.
* Reduce the Sensitivity to about 15. This produces just clean hits for the following steps.
* Use the Explorer "Learn" function using the small box to open an area on the screen with target samples.
* Use the X1 probe to sample a wide variety of nickels (including buffalo, war and modern nickels) and Indians.
Since doing this, the nickels finds have increased by more than a factor of 10. You will dig a few pull tabs that hit in exactly the same place as the nickels, but the amount has been tolerable.
It should be understood that this technique is a bit on the "unsophisticated" side and will cause you to miss some valuable targets, but if you just want to dig a bunch nickels (along with the other coins) you might give this a try.
HH,
Glenn
 
That method works well for Indian Heads in areas where there are a lot of screwcaps. Use the medium cursor in learn mode to reject a few sample screwcaps, then use the small cursor in learn mode to accept indian heads. You still dig a few screwcaps, but like the Captian said with Nickels, its an acceptable amount.
Jeremy
 
You mention Sunday in your nickel setup three kinds of nickels you "learn" . Could you give me the approximate dates of these samples and if you know the metalic content of them.
Thanks ahead
Fred D Upstate N.Y.
 
You mention Sunday in your nickel setup three kinds of nickels you "learn" . Could you give me the approximate dates of these samples and if you know the metalic content of them.
Thanks ahead
Fred D Upstate N.Y.
 
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