Lavishlogos
Junior Member
I have been detecting for 3 years, and I have found a decent amount of items. This detector hits right on a coin, and I feel it has reduced my trash to coin ratio from my first year hunting with an ATPRO.
I almost feel like it is hitting too good on a coin, and I am only getting the good clear real easy signals when I'm out hunting. Thus, my coin to trash ratio has increased. I feel like I am missing items.
I try to dig a signal if it is good and repeatable in both directions. If it is not, I assume is is a trash target. I do dig quite a few of the iffy signals that have a high signal, but are all over the place on the VDI, to see what it is out of curiosity. Most of the times it's a rusty nail. So, I start to assume these are rusty nails when it sounds good in one direction, or drops the signal from the other other direction. I do keep digging them, in hopes of a coin next to a nail....
So, I set up a test garden last summer. I picked a spot in my yard, and made three plugs roughly 2 foot a part along my fence line. I buried one mercury dime at 7" laying flat. I buried the next mercury dime at the same 7", standing straight up. I also buried a copper penny flat at about 8"
My thought was I was going to "tune" my machine to be able to know exactly when I had a silver dime signal at good depth. I tried every mode, and every frequency. I've switched my bias, recovery speed, sensitivity, tried other people's programs, anything I could.
The one plug with the penny laying flat. I went back over with my pin pointer, and I did pull nails from the ground. I hoped this would clear up the signal. I didn't want to use clean ground, because I don't detect in pure clean ground. It really didn't make a whole lot of difference, except it took the chatter down from the nearby objects. The penny still is choppy and a iffy signal.
Some modes/settings picked up better than others, but I really had to work the spot to fish a signal out of the ground. If I didn't know they were there, and I was doing my normal detecting, the signals wouldn't make me stop for a second look. I would pass right over them....
I left the coins buried since last summer, so it has been a year, and it is still the same when I try now.
It really has me second guessing myself while out detecting, and what I am walking over and missing. After using the test garden, and getting a mode that picked up the test coin decent, I would go detect my yard more and dig the signals that sounded good in that new setting. I ended up digging a pile of rusty nails every time.
I hear other people all the time claim while detecting if they hear that faint high pitch signal, even if it mixed inbetween a bunch of low signals they are "sniffing" out the silver, and dig it. Are the other items in the ground masking out any coins? Overpowering the signal? Shouldn't these items, like nails be descriminated with the settings?
Why does a rusty nail give off such a good high signal?
I almost feel like it is hitting too good on a coin, and I am only getting the good clear real easy signals when I'm out hunting. Thus, my coin to trash ratio has increased. I feel like I am missing items.
I try to dig a signal if it is good and repeatable in both directions. If it is not, I assume is is a trash target. I do dig quite a few of the iffy signals that have a high signal, but are all over the place on the VDI, to see what it is out of curiosity. Most of the times it's a rusty nail. So, I start to assume these are rusty nails when it sounds good in one direction, or drops the signal from the other other direction. I do keep digging them, in hopes of a coin next to a nail....
So, I set up a test garden last summer. I picked a spot in my yard, and made three plugs roughly 2 foot a part along my fence line. I buried one mercury dime at 7" laying flat. I buried the next mercury dime at the same 7", standing straight up. I also buried a copper penny flat at about 8"
My thought was I was going to "tune" my machine to be able to know exactly when I had a silver dime signal at good depth. I tried every mode, and every frequency. I've switched my bias, recovery speed, sensitivity, tried other people's programs, anything I could.
The one plug with the penny laying flat. I went back over with my pin pointer, and I did pull nails from the ground. I hoped this would clear up the signal. I didn't want to use clean ground, because I don't detect in pure clean ground. It really didn't make a whole lot of difference, except it took the chatter down from the nearby objects. The penny still is choppy and a iffy signal.
Some modes/settings picked up better than others, but I really had to work the spot to fish a signal out of the ground. If I didn't know they were there, and I was doing my normal detecting, the signals wouldn't make me stop for a second look. I would pass right over them....
I left the coins buried since last summer, so it has been a year, and it is still the same when I try now.
It really has me second guessing myself while out detecting, and what I am walking over and missing. After using the test garden, and getting a mode that picked up the test coin decent, I would go detect my yard more and dig the signals that sounded good in that new setting. I ended up digging a pile of rusty nails every time.
I hear other people all the time claim while detecting if they hear that faint high pitch signal, even if it mixed inbetween a bunch of low signals they are "sniffing" out the silver, and dig it. Are the other items in the ground masking out any coins? Overpowering the signal? Shouldn't these items, like nails be descriminated with the settings?
Why does a rusty nail give off such a good high signal?
, you'll never know for sure unless you dig it. Most of the time it's garbage but every once in awhile you'll get a surprise.
HH, good luck and stay well!
