graybeard
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The ID # 12 on the Equinox 800, is it a piece of a beaver tail pull tab,small a piece of a can, shotgun shell brass, 32 cal. brass or maybe a nickel? I have it ID # 12 on every one of them in a park.
+1Question was the sound of the tone different of those targets even though they had the same vdi number?
Dig them, I've found several old nickels that were a solid 12. You're right about the beaver tails though, they are plentiful around here.
Is there a detector out there that guarantees 100% it's a nickel on the TID? Every machine I own it's a roll the dice type thing. Sometimes your rewarded for digging. Sometimes not so much. I dig every #12-13 in yards. In trashy places I must admit I don't unless I happen to catch a 12-13 that is deeper. I got my best V nickel ever out of a yard Sunday with my Nox 800.
I see everyone here say their nickels read 12-13
Mine do "sometimes" but more often (like 90%) they read 11-12 and 12-13 (10%) ..could be my soil.. don't know..
but the tail of a beaver tail reads the same.. A full beaver tail reads 16 for me
same without the tail.
I have often wondered why others are getting different numbers.
I can usually tell it's a nickel if when switching frequency it will be a little bit scratchier when it is a nickel but back to multi and 11-12
Gold on the other hand in those ranges reads usually one solid number and not very jumpy.
I have found one 14k wedding band 7 (grams)at 18
1 14K (3.6 grams) at 11
1 gold tooth crown 3.6 grams at 16
2 Gold nuggets 5 grams each at 16
so who the heck knows..
If it sounds good DIG IT !!
The ID # 12 on the Equinox 800, is it a piece of a beaver tail pull tab,small a piece of a can, shotgun shell brass, 32 cal. brass or maybe a nickel? I have it ID # 12 on every one of them in a park.
I'm no expert by any means and I dig my fair share of trash in that zone, but to me nickels seem to have more of a solid "round sound" than can slaw, beaver tails, and a lot of other trash items that ring up in the same ID range. Like I said, I still get fooled fairly often.. but most of the time when I'm actually on a nickel, my pre-dig confidence level is pretty high. Also, nickels tend to give a solid signal even at depth while pull tabs and can slaw tend to break up and become choppy the further away they are from the coil.
From what I've seen, deeper nickels tend to ring in at 11 in multi. Even seen some of them as low as 10. So if you're only digging 12s and 13s you're probably missing a few older deeper ones!
Did u sell your Equinoc?Question was the sound of the tone different of those targets even though they had the same vdi number?