Nicle at 9"

[Goodrat]

Burried a nicle at 8" (East Florida, back yard), so I guess call it 9" with grass/coil height.
I can get it clear with my Shadow X3, but with my SE just an occasional hint of a nickle.
Got the sense turned up etc. What can I do to detect that nickle with the SE?

 

[bgscofield6]

The explorer generally won't detect a freshly buried target very deep. Give it a year or two, then detect it.

Of course I'm not sure about Florida soil/sand either as far as detecting depth goes.

 

[BlackX]

Good question. I've seen other folks mention the SE isn't as hot on nickels but at that point I'd not noticed yet since I was still digging mostly surface stuff. But I haven't dug a solo nickel yet with any depth compared to hits I got with my previous machine, a Sov. Now silver and copper, on the other hand, I'm getting good depth on most of the time. Be interesting to see again what the more experienced users have to say.

 

[dreamweaver43]

I agree with bgsco. I made a test garden this spring along the side of my house, and at first I couldn't hit any of the coins measured out 8 inches or deeper. The shallower stuff, no problem.

A couple weeks ago, after a thunderstorm, I tried again with the new pro coil. I have a silver dime between 8-9 inches, that would barely hit and bounced all around the smartfind. And I have a buffalo nickle at 8-9 inches that rides up/down the the right side of the smartfind? Both targets didn't sound that good either.

And the sickest one....I have a corroded indian head slug at around 10inches, that hits almost solid iron. I couldn't get it to pull to the right. (But it didn't hit totally tight top left corner, and bounced around)

I was running 23 manual sensitivity with the screen wide open, bumping it up didn't seem to make the signals improve, just made the machine more jumpy. I was at park later that day and was hitting wheats at 8-9 inches w/solid coin ID, no problem at all.

I tried the test garden a few days later with my tesoro tigershark, which also couldn't hit the deep stuff. Then tried the SE, and I guess since the moisture was gone, all was quiet again.

Dream

 

[Goodrat]

I am waiving 14K gold chains in front on my coil. I mean, very close, right against it. Also medium 14K ear ring set.
Should't I detect those? I'm in all metal, sense way up.
Detecting the nickle now. After a few days.
Either it established itself in the dirt, or I learned the machine better.