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Trust those ears.....:minelab:

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Willy_MN

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Recently Dew has made a few comments about us needing to look for more reasons "to dig" -- instead of reasons "not to dig" -- and not relying on the Smart Screen or digital numbers so much. This got me thinking and I wondered if I was paying too much mind to the cursor position with my hunting. I decided to do a little experiment at a site I thought was starting to dry up for me. I had about an hour after work last night, so I headed to this particular site and hunted with the screen covered up -- basing my decision to dig solely on sound. In the 45 minutes that I hunted, I managed four Wheat cents (1914 -- no D :thumbdown:, 1919, and two 1945's) and a 1904 Indian Head cent -- all in the 5-7" range. I also picked up two 5" deep clad dimes that were on edge. :thumbup: When I double checked the Smart Screen, after deciding to dig the targets, all but one of them hit on the screen where it would have probably kept me from digging them had the screen not been covered. Most of the targets also had iron in the hole, or very close to them, and sounded a little "iffy" -- but the warble was there. Another interesting point was that I only dug one trash target -- a small, rusty, twisted up nail (I would have sworn it was a silver dime before I dug it...LOL!).

Thanks, Dew, for getting me thinking about this. These are great machines, once you start to learn -- and trust -- what they're telling you.
HH,
Jeff :minelab:
 
Most definitely! The audio has the best info in it, especially listening for those faint chirps. A faint, semi-repeatable chirp can sometimes be enhanced by temporarily boosting the sensitivity while over that target. The smart screen readings will be all over the map on deep targets, or mixed targets. Go with the sound, and how the target 'hits' from different angles, and how it poinpoints (does it 'shrink' down in size to a uniform 'coin' size).
 
Sound definitely rules. I have made my best finds when ignoring the screen as much as possible...and hunting strictly by sound alone.

Keep up the good work Jeff.:clapping:
 
I headed back over to the same place during my lunch break today and hunted for a half hour -- managed a '19 Wheat, '26 Merc and a couple clad dimes. :thumbup:
 
Are you using the Pro coil or the 8x6 SEF? If you haven't tried the 8x6 SEF there yet, I'd bet that will snoop out even more. And if that's not enough, I'll come up and help ya! :cool:

HH,
DirtFlipper
 
Great story thanks for sharing that.
 
DirtFlipper said:
Are you using the Pro coil or the 8x6 SEF? If you haven't tried the 8x6 SEF there yet, I'd bet that will snoop out even more. And if that's not enough, I'll come up and help ya! :cool:

HH,
DirtFlipper
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DF,
Been using the Pro coil as I'm still <patiently> waiting on the next shipment of 8x6 SEF's to come into Kellyco. They're supposed to be in this week -- but they've supposed to have been in every week since the end of May. Not sure what the delay is in getting them manufactured -- maybe it's just one Bulgarian dude building all of them......? :surrender:

Regardless, I can't wait to try that coil out at this particular spot and a few others that are iron infested.
HH,
Jeff

PS -- You've got mail.
 
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