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Ok: How many have not dug a target,and wondered on the way home if they should have.

LabradorBob

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Me,i'm guilty,in one park i was digging a lot of pop cans about 10 inches.
a few i passed up,but what if they werent pop cans!
 
there was absolutely nothing I could do. I found a roosey wedged just between the edge of a concrete base of a park pavillion...and the ground. It actually had a little concrete on it from where it had been dropped when they poured the concrete and it had fallen just off the edge and settled into the dirt.
When I covered the hole and REswept it to make sure there was nothing else in the hole as I always do...the SE screamed silver again. I uncovered the hole again and ran the probe. It screamed right at the edge of the concrete again...but this time the dime was actually IN the concrete somewhere. It was very frustrating but there was NO way I was going to get out my trusty new Lesche pic axe and start whackin':smoke:...so I just moved on. It STILL bugs the snot out of me too:bouncy:.
 
Patience is the key. Most good "bad" targets have been passed over before. Good question is: how many times have you been HAPPY that you decided to dig an iffy target that you almost passed on? If an area has produced for me I'll dig almost any target if it's deep. Sometimes the depth distorts the signal; especially if there is trash near it (as Bryce has proven).
Last Sunday I dug a deep iffy signal that tuned out to be a nickle 3 cent. The signal was crappy but the area had produced a number of military buttons, seated coins, barbers, mercs
and indians.
Getting to know your machine and developing a "gut" instinct really pays off. (but you also have to be willing to dig alot of trash too - It's also a law of numbers).
Great thing about a forum like this is that we can all learn from each other - no matter how long some of us have been at it.
Bruce in Ct
 
There is no point in racking your brain over "what if's". You are worried about the one that sounded good that you walked on by. What about the rest of that noise or those junk tones that may very well also be something valuable. I guess the question to ask yourself is am I going to dig everything or not? If that one good sounding target is bothering you then keep it on your list of places to hunt again and check it out next time you are there. JJ
 
Very good point,and i have gotten to where i dig almost everything,and i have been surprised of some of them.
Just makes you want to dig all signals even more!
 
Yep, mine also seem to be under those @&#%!! roots! One silver hit I gave up on, site of an 1860's farm yard. I think back to that one on occasion, and what might have been!

amc
 
I can't wait for the day when I can become one of those of you who have dug an iffy signal and was rewarded with a gem of a relic or coin. I dig just about everything that signals and haven't gotten anything but iron, trash, etc. Someday...
 
...not to make you feel bad, but once I was digging smashed cans and can tops mixed in with some 1920's - 30's - 40's coins. After digging 3 in a row, I got another of the same signal. OK, flipped that clump up and OMG - my one and only Silver Dollar- a 1922-D Peace dollar - is staring up at me!

I also have dug three of the copper-nickel 3-cent pieces. When real deep, they sound like junk/foil/smashed shirt button. But when targets are at the right depth, the shovel goes down.

Read what Bruce in CT said again - he's got it figured out.
 
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