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Yesterday I got these beautiful solid 00 - 28, 00 - 29 signals within a foot of each other

DukeOBass

DukeOBass

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They read about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way down the deep indicator on my SE so I figured around 8 to 10 inches deep. I dug my hole and stuck the probe in ... nothing. Check all of the dirt I had removed... nothing. I dug the second hole right next to the first, stuck the probe in and nothing. Same deal. Is it possible it's a couple of small surface targets? The grass was about 4 inches deep there. I'm going to go back to the spot very soon and try again. It was getting late when I left it.
 
hot rocks, I hit an old homestead the other day that had several ..... sounded almost like silver, very high pitched and very deep according to the depth guage, but they weren't that deep.
 
Hot rocks for me hit at 00 31. Did you raise you coil to see if it was a larger target like a can or large piece of brass? If it was a surface target reading 00 28/29 at say 4" or less then the display is VERY accurate and id say you still have a target there.
 
Well I'm not sure what the numbers are as I don't use digital mode - hunt strictly by sound and use the Smart screen as a reference - but it's still too slow even on the SE. When I hit the hot rocks - yes it was very higpitched and the cursor was pegged in the upper right corner of the screen. The depth meter was bottomed out - even though I don't believe that the rocks were that deep. I think iron falsing will also give the same signal - a super sweet high pitch that is often repeatable. Any idea what makes a hot rock hot? Is it iron that is causing falsing?

In the rare occaisions that I get a signal and no target I attribute it to falsing due to the soil or maybe some sort of iron junk down there.
 
In many cases its hemitite or magnatite making up hot rocks... its causes a wrap around effect. To be getting hot rocks im normally hunting in AM otherwise i have nails disc out or IM set at 29 and that seems to take care of the 00 31 reading. You really get them in AZ when hunting AM, but after awhile the minerals are easy to distinguish from targets.
 
Hi guys,

I have never encountered hot rocks here in Central Pennsylvania. When you have dug these targets, does the signal disappear when using the probe in an open hole or do you still read them?

The signal is disappearing for me. It was frustrating. I was thinking "Wow! It's got to be a silver half or dollar!"
 
I have found if I bump the coil against something it'll false a silver reading. Then if I go over the spot again and there's nothing there I know what's happened. Up in here ( ont ) there is a few newer clad pennies that give the same reading as your describing. They really seem hard to pinpoint once they have been moved around for some eason.
 
These are real signals. I haven't made it back there yet, trying to conserve on gas.
 
When you remove the rock, the signal will disappear. The rocks usually read as a target that's deeper than the actual rock is I'm assuming because the rock is laced with metal ore and there is no actual metal mass. If you wave your coil (or X-1) over the rock it will repeat the signal. I have had signals disappear too - it may be an iron object that has essentially disintegrated in the ground that is causing falsing - when you dig the ground is disturbed and the object is scattered and disappears - I have no proof of this, just a theory. Regards, Erik
 
You could be right Duke, next time before digging check the surface with the probe for small trouble makers....It has happened to me many times...if you read deep on detector and you get a hit with probe on surface then yes thqat is what it is....I find myself checking the surface all the time now with probe cause they can appear deep on explorer if real tiny. Good thinking and good luck on next hunt! :thumbup:
 
When I refilled the hole, I got the signal again so I've got to go back and give it a more careful look.
 
n/t
 
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