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250 test question

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I need some help here, i dug a 3" wide by 5" deep hole and put a quarter in the bottom lying flat. I ran the 250 over the hole and got no beep no nothing. I didnt even fill the hole with dirt. So i take the quarter back out of the hole and lay it flat on the ground and can get the 250 to beep at about 7" above the quarter (what gives).
I've found several coins with the 250 so far, actually i went out today and found 4 wheats one dating back to 1911 so i know she works. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
Soooo can someone give their input as to why my test didnt work.
 
Like the last posting, are you hunting in clay like soil? Compair the ground you tested and the ground you found your wheatie. Also, high iron content ground will really crud copper coins. And how deep did you get your wheatie. Sometimes the ground conditions can change (get better) in just a few feet...
 
The test area i dug was in red dirt (red mud) is this clay?
Where i found the wheaties at were in rick black soil, they were rather shallow finds maybe 3" deep at best.
oh typo error the earliest wheatie was 1914, and pitted real bad compared to the others <img src="/metal/html/frown.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":(">
 
I'm big on test-plots, so I've buried alot of coins over the years.
I've noticed the same thing that you are describing and I'm digging/buying in clean ground, so I know that it's not trash that's masking the target.
I mostly see this in mineralized ground where I seem to get only limited depth on targets. In my opinion, it's the ground itself that's masking the target. I need to do some testing to see if a DD coil will give better results.
HH
Skillet
 
Yeah it falls into the category of " Metalurgicall Phenomenon" whereas even if you bury a fresh coin it will be difficult to impossible to detect.
Bill
 
Skillet id be interested in your results if and when you do them.
Is a DD coil better for mineralized ground in general?
and do they make one for the ace250?
 
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