Question to all coin shooters?

[gcollins]

I would like to ask the opinions of you coin shooters. Expect for nails, how many of you guys and gals, dig most all IFFY targets. Since I havn't been doing this hobby long, I have been doing my best to read as much as possible, and have made some very good friends in the hunting community, no matter if you use a ID metered machine or a tone machine, from what I have read, your gold coins will most likely ID as a pull tab, so how do you coin shooters KNOW whether or not to dig that iffy signal?
All comments will deeply be appreciated
Thanks Greg Collins

 

[OkieDigger]

Well Greg, for me, gold tends to be more solid on the VDI. It doesn't jump around very much. Aluminum in various forms will do the same, but pull tabs just seem to jump around more. There are so many factors involved too. Depth is one of them. I'll dig any iffy signal deeper than 4". I'll dig any solid signal at just about any depth at old places and some new ones too. At old home sites, schools and churches I dig anything with a positive VDI unless it's a really really trashy site.

 

[rcasi44]

I've had iffy ( jumping around) signals turn out to be several coins or coins mixed with juck in the same hole. Today I dug a 5 peso coin and 5 pennies out of the same hole. Once the peso was out the signal changed to a solid penny reading. The deepest was 4". Rob

 

[KENPA]

Greg,
I dig all positive signals but I've noticed that my XLT seems to give a double beep if it is a nail or a piece of rusted iron. Of course i stiil dig almost all targets. I am not an expert so I'm always affraid if i don't dig it I'll wonder what it was forever. Also foil seems to be a scratchy signal on mine.
Good luck

 

[ernied]

i cherry pick an area first with a target id then use a regular detector and dig iffy signals. a short story.when i bought a garrett fredom 1cdc in the ninties the manual said not to dig oneway signals that they were junk.well i decied to check one after getting many.it turned out to be a mercury dime and so were most of the others i dont know why but just mercs. i still have that detector and its brothers the 11 and111 plus.althought i dont use them much anymore.newer machines are a little lighter. so dig iffy you never know.hh

 

[hoser]

If it is an area that I want to hunt on a regular basis, I dig all signals. That way I remove all the trash, and when I return I have less to contend with. Otherwise I pay real close attention to the sounds I get through the phones. Yes, I do dig the iffy signals as well. You just never know what it may be that you have located.

 

[grinsebring]

Greg, Iffy signals can be anything, including a mini-cashe, 4 or 5 coins in one spot. A older penny, 2 nikles and a quarter with another zinc penny for instance might sound like a rusted out tomato can....A crusted penny with iron stuck to it, again mixed sounds, meter bouncing.....You get the pic, Until you recognise all those nuances, dig it all...............Gil

 

[gcollins]

Thanks to all that replied to my question. As I stated earlier I am a newbie and need all the help I can get. I have been blessed to have become a member of this forum, and also have met some veteran hunters, I so far have only got to hunt one day with a person that has 30 years of metal detecting under his belt, and he has told me a lot. As some of you stated, the more you learn your machine the better you will be with it!I started of with a non metered machine, as soon as I got some money saved up I bought a metered machine, I am still forming my thoughts on that, I wished that I could hunt 365 days a year (only in my dreams), maybe after 10 years I might know a little more than I do, Again I want to thank all of you for your help.
Thanks Greg

 

[HobBob]

Thanks from me for everyone's insight, also... My tendency to dig iffy signals depends in no small part on how much junk I have already dug and how tired I am getting. Deep down, I know I should be digging it all but there are just times when the body has had enough but the brain isn't ready to quit yet
Happy Hunting!!
Bob

 

[bugguy]

i use an ace 250 and have gotten many IFFY signals and have dug them. for me all these signals i have dug have been junk thus far but that dosent mean i will stop digging them. just think of it as when you were younger and the prize in the crackerjack box you never new what was at the bottom. some times it was junk and some times, wow you got the mother load. the junk never stopped me from eatting all that popcorn. so dig and enjoy the hobby and if worse comes to worse and its junk then hey your on your way to makeing the world a cleaner place.