gunwolf
Elite Member
going into my third month after buying a new E-trac ... no I'm not new to the machine but took a few years off do to surgery.
past few months I have spent studying sounds, both good and bad. a good sound is a solid smooth tone left and right, turn 90 degrees and left and right again... DIG! I also started listening to the warbled tone (gravely) left and right turn 90deg. left and right....DIG!
Early spring it was wet here and it created a lot of halo effect falsing with the iron( rusty nails) in the ground... now that things have dried up conciderably (still able to dig easily) I have started to notice the better and cleaner the target sounds.. by this I mean I can tell if it's deep or shallow just by the tone.
this was all masked by the moisture in the soil, at least that's my observation.
I have also learned how to pull coins from a hole that has a rusty nail in it... this works for me, but you have to find your own groove...
I get a warbled tone left and right numbers jumping from good 12-44 to 35-45 back and forth.. I hit pinpoint and if the pinpoint isn't way off (if it is it's a nail) and it is over the warbled tone I pinpoint first then turn 90 deg... if I get the same warbled sound both ways ... DIG!!! no matter what the number... yes I have just pulled a few nails this way, but I also have pulled quite a few coins, rechecked the hole with the pinpointer and found the rusty nails in the same hole. slow swing and tight gridding in any program seem to help me greatly. I use goes4ever's settings, bothe the Bill S. trashy park program, and the Andy S. coin program (both opened up a little) and a very discriminated out program I call my cherry picking program... I opened up just the numbers that I find most of my nickels, IH's, Wheats, dimes, quarters and silver. funny how most of my buffalo nickels rang in at 16-13... and the V nickels were all around 09-10,11... most of my wheats here are 12-41, memorials are 12-44.. but I have pulled silver dimes at 12-38, to 12-45... the capped bust dime (very worn and thin) came in at 12-38.. hope all this helps someone.
Tim
past few months I have spent studying sounds, both good and bad. a good sound is a solid smooth tone left and right, turn 90 degrees and left and right again... DIG! I also started listening to the warbled tone (gravely) left and right turn 90deg. left and right....DIG!
Early spring it was wet here and it created a lot of halo effect falsing with the iron( rusty nails) in the ground... now that things have dried up conciderably (still able to dig easily) I have started to notice the better and cleaner the target sounds.. by this I mean I can tell if it's deep or shallow just by the tone.
this was all masked by the moisture in the soil, at least that's my observation.
I have also learned how to pull coins from a hole that has a rusty nail in it... this works for me, but you have to find your own groove...
I get a warbled tone left and right numbers jumping from good 12-44 to 35-45 back and forth.. I hit pinpoint and if the pinpoint isn't way off (if it is it's a nail) and it is over the warbled tone I pinpoint first then turn 90 deg... if I get the same warbled sound both ways ... DIG!!! no matter what the number... yes I have just pulled a few nails this way, but I also have pulled quite a few coins, rechecked the hole with the pinpointer and found the rusty nails in the same hole. slow swing and tight gridding in any program seem to help me greatly. I use goes4ever's settings, bothe the Bill S. trashy park program, and the Andy S. coin program (both opened up a little) and a very discriminated out program I call my cherry picking program... I opened up just the numbers that I find most of my nickels, IH's, Wheats, dimes, quarters and silver. funny how most of my buffalo nickels rang in at 16-13... and the V nickels were all around 09-10,11... most of my wheats here are 12-41, memorials are 12-44.. but I have pulled silver dimes at 12-38, to 12-45... the capped bust dime (very worn and thin) came in at 12-38.. hope all this helps someone.
Tim
