Finding nickels....

[booker]

With MXT they run around 18 to 20 and I find them all the time.

 

[MadTownScoop]

How about who has dug the most twist off bottle caps from beer bottles etc..?? LOL

 

[sonoman06]

I have dug very few nickels myself, however I now set my Disc. to just where it will accept a nickel ( MXT Pro) and I'm glad I dig most all trash siglals, because I just found my first nice class ring (VDI=16) with a trash tone! I also dug my first three nickels of the whole year. One Buffalo-one war and one 58. I used to just run at 4 disc.never really fine tuning it....makes a huge difference! Found the nickels the same day...the ring 2 days earlier

 

[sonoman06]

I have dug very few nickels myself, however I now set my Disc. to just where it will accept a nickel ( MXT Pro) and I'm glad I dig most all trash siglals, because I just found my first nice class ring (VDI=16) with a trash tone! I also dug my first three nickels of the whole year. One Buffalo-one war and one 58. I used to just run at 4 disc.never really fine tuning it....makes a huge difference! Found the nickels the same day...the ring 2 days earlier

No nickel would equal 0 ring!!

 

[AIRFORCEMIKE]

ATP is a 53 all day long!!!

 

[RDW]

ATP is a 53 all day long!!!

Exactly, 53 dead on as long as no trash to interfere.

 

[spinnerbait825]

I dug alot of nickles with my DFX, but since I have a Delion now U find I am digging alot less. HH

 

[bullseye]

I agree with the people who have said this before. The reason we don't find as many nickels is primarily because nickles are the least used coin (if you count out dollar coins and half dollars which are hardly ever used). When you get change, you never get more than one nickle and you only get nickels at all less than half the time.

If my math I just did in my head is right, you only get a nickel in your change 20% of the time and it's always 1 nickel.

 

[DirtyRob]

Yepper, "53" 98% of the time. The other 2% would be the "52" or "54". But very very solid numbers. No bouncing. I scored a 3.2 gram 14K ring yesterday at "54"! Thought I had one of those goofy nickels. I did get my share of pull-tabs. Lots were in the "51" to "55" range but bouncy.

 

[ronfin]

The main reason nickels show up a lot less is because they show up in the pull tab range, and because most people don't want to dig up a lot of pull tabs they miss nickels.

On the ETRAC they sound very similar to pull tabs, but what I've noticed is that the Fe-Co numbers will fall around the 10-11, 11-12 range. If the Fe stays under the Co consistently I'll dig the target, and have had a very high success rate at find nickels. Although, the Buffalo nickels that have been in the ground for a long time come out like junk. Most of them are so bad you can barely make-out the detail.