LaenDrawoh
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Fair warning, incoming wall of text. :P
This is my second day metal detecting so I am still in the dig everything mode. I got a good solid iron hit with a low VDI number. I used pinpoint mode on my detector and got it down to a small area (same as I have done on my other finds). The depth meter shows it at max depth (which with the stock coil on my F2 should be around 8" or so). I start digging and 15" and twice the width of my original plug later I finally find 4 small pieces of wire. When I rescan the hole the detector still shows there is something in the middle at max depth. If I lower the coil into the hole it will stay mainly on iron though briefly ping on nickel or zinc, ad the depth varies between max depth and 4 to 6 inches now. My pinpointer hasn't arrived from HF yet so I can't check the sides of the hole very well but the detector still has the strongest signal in the middle of the hole not near the sides so I don't think I have missed the target in the edges of the hole. I also am checking each handful of dirt as it comes out of the hole with the detector, and scanned my dirt pile as well so I am confident I didn't just miss the target in my dug dirt.The ground is moist and near a pond. I have heard of the halo effect but surly these small pieces of wire shouldn't be setting my detector off at 15" deep even if that is a factor should they? I know what ever is in the hole is probably "junk" but after I have spent this long with it I really want to see what it is. I have included pictures of the retrieved wire as well as of the hole below in case that helps as well. For now I have placed a garbage bag in the hole and filled it with the dirt and placed the plugs over it. I will either hit it again tomorrow or wait for the pinpointer depending on what everyone here advises. This is on my grandfathers land (where I am currently living) so I am not leaving a park or someone elses yard torn up. I am looking for advise on the best way to proceed in recovering the target (the backhoe has a flat so I couldn't Randy Savage it even if I was willing to :P). Do I keep digging with the Leshe, or make the hole bigger and hit it with a full sized shovel? Why would my detector be able to detect something so far down (not that I am complaining about added depth but I don't understand how it could find something that deep)?
Thanks in advance for your advise and help.
This is my second day metal detecting so I am still in the dig everything mode. I got a good solid iron hit with a low VDI number. I used pinpoint mode on my detector and got it down to a small area (same as I have done on my other finds). The depth meter shows it at max depth (which with the stock coil on my F2 should be around 8" or so). I start digging and 15" and twice the width of my original plug later I finally find 4 small pieces of wire. When I rescan the hole the detector still shows there is something in the middle at max depth. If I lower the coil into the hole it will stay mainly on iron though briefly ping on nickel or zinc, ad the depth varies between max depth and 4 to 6 inches now. My pinpointer hasn't arrived from HF yet so I can't check the sides of the hole very well but the detector still has the strongest signal in the middle of the hole not near the sides so I don't think I have missed the target in the edges of the hole. I also am checking each handful of dirt as it comes out of the hole with the detector, and scanned my dirt pile as well so I am confident I didn't just miss the target in my dug dirt.The ground is moist and near a pond. I have heard of the halo effect but surly these small pieces of wire shouldn't be setting my detector off at 15" deep even if that is a factor should they? I know what ever is in the hole is probably "junk" but after I have spent this long with it I really want to see what it is. I have included pictures of the retrieved wire as well as of the hole below in case that helps as well. For now I have placed a garbage bag in the hole and filled it with the dirt and placed the plugs over it. I will either hit it again tomorrow or wait for the pinpointer depending on what everyone here advises. This is on my grandfathers land (where I am currently living) so I am not leaving a park or someone elses yard torn up. I am looking for advise on the best way to proceed in recovering the target (the backhoe has a flat so I couldn't Randy Savage it even if I was willing to :P). Do I keep digging with the Leshe, or make the hole bigger and hit it with a full sized shovel? Why would my detector be able to detect something so far down (not that I am complaining about added depth but I don't understand how it could find something that deep)?
Thanks in advance for your advise and help.
). The pipes for the oil wells are 20' plus away from this hole, its on a little peninsula that jets out into the pond. The piping from the water pump we use to water the garden doesn't come on this side of the pond either. My grandfather is the one that made the pond as well so it shouldn't be something like an old boat anchor (though whatever it is might be able to be used as one :P). Before the land was owned by my family it did used to be a county poor farm so it might be part of a plow or some such perhaps.
lol Sorry not trying to make fun.
