Pin Pointing Error

[Morpheus404]

Went out the other day to a big school field . Kids playing soccer swinging on the swings,being told how a metal detector works ,one little girl fell off the swing set and bit the dirt (hard)...Her friend or sister said she was alright just frighten by her own blood.Anyway,was enjoying digging .Got a good signal showing eight to ten inches deep ,cut out a nice plug ,no target in sight .rescanned still in the hole dug a little more felt My digger hit what i thought was a stone ,turns out it was the only Wheatie i dug that day And I put a nice gouge in it
1944 Wheatie

 

[1859large]

Same thing, a deep coin. Using a pinpointer in the hole keeps me from doing that. But there are occasions I forget something and it is often the pinpointer. (Whites) The trick I use to avoid hitting a deep target is to use a small garden trowel and cut into the sides as I deepen the hole, my shovel will always scrape the middle of the hole. I also use a big plastic kitchen spoon to dig out the material that the trowel loosens up.

I carry a lot of junk with me but it might just save that really nice coin/relic one day.


HH
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[ThirdDay_2]

If you have, or have access to, an electric grind wheel and don't want to buy a specialty tool for probing the ground....I suggest taking either a phillip's head screwdriver and grinding the tip off and rounding it up, or if you have a socket screw driver you don't need to do anything to it (unless you want to round up the head a little to help penetrate hard ground easier. Either way is cheaper than paying 15 bucks for basically the same thing in a mining supply or detector supply store.

Just a thought....