se contradiction

[Bell]

So I was thinking about some of the more common advice Ive gotten with my SE and one is hit a sight from multiple angles and another is check a target from diff angles to ensure it repeats b4 digging?

 

[dewcon4414]

Whats contradicting about that advice? Griding an area is a smart move since some deep targets may be missed because of your swing angle, iron, angle of the coil, or other targets near them. So coming from different angles help. Checking targets to see if they repeat.... especially from different angles helps on the deep iron or coin targets. Sometimes you may not notice you have picked up a target on both ends of the coil. So you could get different signals.

Dew

 

[DirtFlipper]

Two different actions. Searching an area from different directions ("angles") is for helping to find that initial 'beep' to take time to investigate. When you swing your coil from side to side, whatever it encounters before encountering a desirable target may influence (or mask) whether you hear the desirable target. Sweeping an area from different directions lets you hear different targets. It also helps just saturate coverage, since most desirable targets are very small, and really easily missed (even with good overlapping swings).

Once found, checking a target from different angles is more related to pinpointing than searching, but is really about isolating the target and applying some additional discrimination (either from the detector or from your ears). Good targets will generally repeat when swept at a 90 degree angle (but not always). Bad targets that produced a good initial sound will often null or change tone when swept at a 90 degree angle. Or there may be more than one target in close proximity, and changing angles helps separate and isolate.

HH,
DirtFlipper