davemill
Junior Member
Was hunting in a back yard for a lost Platinum wedding ring and encountered something new (to me): Gopher Wire! This is chicken wire laid on the ground beneath sod. If you've never encountered it, imagine how your detector would react if you scanned a 50x50 foot piece of chain link fence laying on the ground!
My DFX was useless with a Bigfoot or factory coil. Our ProPointer failed too. My daughter's AT Pro with the factory double-D coil did a bit better. I discriminated out all iron, and notched out everything else that wasn't Platinum, and turned sensitivity down pretty far. This game me a pretty reliable signal on a matching ring laid on top of the grass. But when I scanned, I still got a lot of noise. I could find and pinpoint real targets with the AT-PRO, but most of the signals were false. This made hunting the lawn very hard.
ANyone have tips for more successful searching if we ever encounter gopher wire again?
My DFX was useless with a Bigfoot or factory coil. Our ProPointer failed too. My daughter's AT Pro with the factory double-D coil did a bit better. I discriminated out all iron, and notched out everything else that wasn't Platinum, and turned sensitivity down pretty far. This game me a pretty reliable signal on a matching ring laid on top of the grass. But when I scanned, I still got a lot of noise. I could find and pinpoint real targets with the AT-PRO, but most of the signals were false. This made hunting the lawn very hard.
ANyone have tips for more successful searching if we ever encounter gopher wire again?
