OK , Maybe a stupid question but.....

[nidan98]

[size=large]I have always thought that the only stupid question is the one you don't ask, so hear goes . I find that when I am hunting with the SE and hit a good , what I think is a silver signal and try to zero in on it , I will almost always get a few more signals around it, some stronger , some weaker. I just have a really hard time wrapping my head around the idea that there are that many targets in a spot a foot square. Some of them must be good but some must be trash. How do you decide which to dig.I know I should dig them all, but it is a lawn and if I dug them all,even using good digging practices, it would be like turning over the entire lawn. [/size]

 

[V-man]

Not a stupid question... Short of using a smaller coil and narrowing your discrimination field, I try to did out the biggest interferer first, sometimes that will clear the field out a bit and make it possible to narrow in on the good tone... Also, try sweeping as slow as you can without loosing detection, you'll find that you can zone in on tight targets. If all else fails and you don't have a smaller coil, you'll need to dig some of the bogus stuff out first. Good luck, V-man

 

[dewcon4414]

If i hit what i think is a SILVER target.... im not digging or even worrying about anything but that target FIRST. The slower you move the coil the less targets are filtered out so you tend to hear more surface trash. Raising the rear of the coil and using the tip when you are trying to zero in on a target helps in trashy areas. There is a LOT of trash and tiny high conductive targets, even deep iron and hot rocks give good signals. Its a learning process. Try concentrating on the deeper signals... you may have to adjust your gain to say 7 to help you learn what to listen to on deep targets. If you run too much sensitivity in an area you coil HALO will expand and you will pick up things close to the coil .... which means you need to center your targets to get a true reading or tone..

Dew

 

[TwoRivers]

Switching to pinpoint mode will show you how many targets are there and there position. The SE also IDs in pinpoint. Doing a 360 maneuver around the target will sometimes cause iron nail signals to disappear while in the normal search mode.

John in Va