Jeepfreak81
Senior Member
As many of you know, I'm a first season detectorist. I've been hammering my backyard for a week or so now and have probably 8 or 10 hours of hunting under my belt all together. Now, my yard is incredibly trashy. In fact, local legend has it that before the houses on my street were built, debris from a large downtown fire was dumped here and leveled out. This would have had to be mid 1800's as my house was built 1880ish, first one on my street. I'm pretty certain all the previous homeowners dumped in the yard for trash removal, pretty common in this area until 50 years ago or so.
Now, on to my question. I've found some neat things, and lots of junk. I run my AT Pro in Pro coin mode with Iron disc at 40 and the sensitivity down 3 or 4 notches depending on my mood. Sometimes I'll get a pretty good tone in the 80's or 90's only to dig and find nothing but nails and scrap iron. A recheck of the area doesn't reproduce the numbers after digging. Am I missing things in the hole or is the junk causing the detector to read "off"
Just wondering as I've had it happen quite a few times. I will say, that the sound is a bit choppy when this happens. Repeatable, but choppy.
Now, on to my question. I've found some neat things, and lots of junk. I run my AT Pro in Pro coin mode with Iron disc at 40 and the sensitivity down 3 or 4 notches depending on my mood. Sometimes I'll get a pretty good tone in the 80's or 90's only to dig and find nothing but nails and scrap iron. A recheck of the area doesn't reproduce the numbers after digging. Am I missing things in the hole or is the junk causing the detector to read "off"
Just wondering as I've had it happen quite a few times. I will say, that the sound is a bit choppy when this happens. Repeatable, but choppy.