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Can someone explain the concept of "Wiggle"? Why and how? Thanks
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Ahhh the Minelab Wiggle. Well its used to get a good pinpoint on a target. Locate your target and "X" it out. The wiggle the coil left to right and you pull back. Right as the signal begins to disappear it means the target is right in front of your coil <img src="/metal/html/wink.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="
"> The wiggle is great for helping you center a target you want to dig, and get the best signal.
"> The wiggle is great for helping you center a target you want to dig, and get the best signal.
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It seems some real deep coins just have to have the meter number sucked out of the ground..For instance if a signal sounds solid but fails to reach say 180 but may be lower. Basically if you do the wiggle and the number starts to want to climb its a digger. Also can be used to stabilize a meter number that may be partially masked , partially turned etc..
Simple procedure once you have it pinpointed..basically just lay your coil on the ground and wiggle it in a straight line over the target. 12 inches to 18 inches back and forth should do it..Ken Herre explains it fully on his page.......http://sovereignmods.da.ru/..
Simple procedure once you have it pinpointed..basically just lay your coil on the ground and wiggle it in a straight line over the target. 12 inches to 18 inches back and forth should do it..Ken Herre explains it fully on his page.......http://sovereignmods.da.ru/..
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This is used to get a good signal on a target to see if it is a good one and lock in the signal by trying to get the tones and meter reading to read as high as you can for the right ID. We try to wiggle it to get the signal to stay a steady tone after we get it as high as we can. How we do this is swing the coil back and forth over just the target as this is where we get the signal we want and try to get it a high and steady tone as we can. Now this is done by just going over just the target wich will be less than a inch in most cases, so by going back and forth fast to get the tones to climb and be steady it looks like more of a wiggle of the coil, this is called the Sovereign wiggle. Just remember to try to just go over just the target itself to get the tones to try to get as high as you can and as steady as you can. Once you have heard the first tone change with expereince you will know which one to do this with and which ones are trash items.
Rick
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I guess different strokes for different folks Rick say an inch and I say 12 inches or so.Whatever works I guess and I find out spreading the wiggle a bit from several angles works best for me so in reallity do some experimenting as the WIGGLE does work for bringing up the deepie or for stabilizing the meter.In reallity I feel Rick estimated a bit low and I perhaps estimated a bit high, but try it on several targets and you will get the feel for what works for you..By the way nice post Rick....keep them coming...
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Hi Dan,
While I say a inch or so is because of any other metal item close to it so it dont change the tone of the target you are trying to ID. On deep ones is where this is used more than anytime and being deep the area is smaller as you want to just ID the one item and maybe your hunting conditons are diferent where there is not trash or other metal items around, the going over a target by itself the 6 inches or so may be good. I just like to keep the tone as steady as possible to ID my target.
Rick
While I say a inch or so is because of any other metal item close to it so it dont change the tone of the target you are trying to ID. On deep ones is where this is used more than anytime and being deep the area is smaller as you want to just ID the one item and maybe your hunting conditons are diferent where there is not trash or other metal items around, the going over a target by itself the 6 inches or so may be good. I just like to keep the tone as steady as possible to ID my target.
Rick
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I have found coin's in junk so close that you could not move the coil 90 deg. or slide the coil to the front or back. What other unit can move this slow and still work in trash ? HH..BJ
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I was able to detect at 10 inches and recover a 1903 IH ,1917 Merc and two 1918 wheaties all from the same iron infested hole. The junk around the hole was even worse as it was nothing but nails, bolts, axe heads and wire. I have read all the posts about the great separation the Sov gets with the original Coinsearch coil and finally had the opportunity to find out that those posts were correct. The hole I dug was a large plug because shovels were allowed at this club hunt. I was less than a foot away from a hole that earlier produced an 1892 Barber Half in great condition. After five or six other club members had their turn at this very small area next to an old driveway, I came along and slowly worked this 10ft x 10ft area and recovered the above mentioned coins and three additions coins: all nickels of which one was a 1915 buffalo!
So thanks to all the great folks on this forum...your experiences have sure helped me get better at this great hobby these last three years.
Roger
So thanks to all the great folks on this forum...your experiences have sure helped me get better at this great hobby these last three years.
Roger
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Rick,
I actually like to almost stay "within" the target response when moving the coil centerline back and forth so 1/2" to 1" works for me.
Ralph (Sun Ray)
I actually like to almost stay "within" the target response when moving the coil centerline back and forth so 1/2" to 1" works for me.
Ralph (Sun Ray)
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We all know Rick is a true GURU of the Sov and I surely respect his posts..Having said that only posting what works for me and gosh I took a beating on that one...Sure nice to discuss as we all learn. You bet next time will try Rick's method as after all these years still learning..
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I'm a new sov user and been practicing the sov wiggle I have been reading about.
got it down to around a half to one inch wiggle over targets that show various tones until I get a tone isolated. I can get some real good targets out of a patch of junk doing that real small narrow wiggle.
from what I am finding the sov is real surpising what it will do.
Three iron nails and a liberty silver dime at 7 inches with the tornado 8 coil. doing the tight 1 inch wiggle. Meter was going from some minus reads to those high silver reads then slowly steadying out on high steady read and high tone with the around 1 inch wiggle. Almost past up the target but got a high tone blip off it at first then slowed way down and that wiggle did it. could only get that high tone from one angle of approach.( and hold it that is) Had the unit set for silent search. So for me the smallest width wiggle seems to work ok as I could not get a consistent high tone and read with any other kind of wiggle. As stepped around the target and doing the wiggle it was only one small area and angle of approach I could actually get that steady high tone and number that said must be a coin.
I then went to all metal pinpoint and also got a nice coin sounding signal.( target size) Starting to get use to some of the sounds now. Have isolated quite a few clads from near pulltabs with the wiggle also.
HH
Dan R.
got it down to around a half to one inch wiggle over targets that show various tones until I get a tone isolated. I can get some real good targets out of a patch of junk doing that real small narrow wiggle.
from what I am finding the sov is real surpising what it will do.
Three iron nails and a liberty silver dime at 7 inches with the tornado 8 coil. doing the tight 1 inch wiggle. Meter was going from some minus reads to those high silver reads then slowly steadying out on high steady read and high tone with the around 1 inch wiggle. Almost past up the target but got a high tone blip off it at first then slowed way down and that wiggle did it. could only get that high tone from one angle of approach.( and hold it that is) Had the unit set for silent search. So for me the smallest width wiggle seems to work ok as I could not get a consistent high tone and read with any other kind of wiggle. As stepped around the target and doing the wiggle it was only one small area and angle of approach I could actually get that steady high tone and number that said must be a coin.
I then went to all metal pinpoint and also got a nice coin sounding signal.( target size) Starting to get use to some of the sounds now. Have isolated quite a few clads from near pulltabs with the wiggle also.
HH
Dan R.
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