Aluminum cans?? HELP!!

[88junior]

Has anyone got any pointers on how to tell Aluminum from a coin without having to dig to findout?

 

[banditicey]

Bring your coil high over the target
If you are still getting a signal it is large and likely not a coin

Good Luck and HH

 

[khouse]

We all get fooled especially if it's a crushed aluminum can. Other than it pinpointing larger than a coin and raising your coil a foot in the air and it still beeping I can't tell you. I thought for sure I was digging a can 2 weeks ago when at 8 inches was a 1973 Half Dollar.

 

[hydrodog]

Dig em up, that way you will not go away from it wondering what was beneath it.

 

[88junior]

Yep I have been digging every thing that way I know I am not passing up a good find but I believe I am going to have to definetly get a bigger trash apron!! I love my Etrac, I was using a CZ before this and cans would give you a bell tone. But I know for a fact that isn't the best answer cause there was one time I passed on a target and my son came behind me and found a Kennedy half dollar laying barely under the grass line that my CZ rang out on bell tone.

 

[khouse]

One can is worth at least 1 cent. Up to 3 cents if your lucky. Might as well get it out of the ground.....

 

[BrownBear]

When I hunt a trashy area I switch to 4 tones, and the Aluminum give a dif tone than a coin.If the target is deep I cannot tell,But If you pinpoint in long(mode) the can will give a longer signature than the coin.

 

[Raven69]

One site I hunt has a lot of can, from complete cruched ones down to big chunks after they have been hit with a mower. I just dig them all so I don't find them next time and I figure they could be masking a coin so I get rid of the big loud stuff so I can hear the small silver .



HH

 

[Jeff in Pa]

Raising the coil is the first idea but the PP is the killer of crushed cans. Cans and can slaw will PP with sporatic numbers and the PP just sounds different, actually much different than a coin. Each time you think you have a can work it in discriminate and then PP all the while remembering what you are seeing and hearing. The PP on can slaw and crushed cans is a higher pitch. After you are sure you remember all of what just happened go ahead and dig it. Now you are prepared for the next similar target.

Hope this helps,

Jeff

 

[88junior]

Thanks for the advice folks I will try them and see how it goes!!

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Raising the coil is the first idea but the PP is the killer of crushed cans. Cans and can slaw will PP with sporatic numbers and the PP just sounds different, actually much different than a coin. Each time you think you have a can work it in discriminate and then PP all the while remembering what you are seeing and hearing. The PP on can slaw and crushed cans is a higher pitch. After you are sure you remember all of what just happened go ahead and dig it. Now you are prepared for the next similar target.

Hope this helps,

Jeff

Good post!

 

[OkDiggerMark]

Which pinpoint mode is best? Sizing?

 

[Cutaplug]

Bring your coil high over the target
If you are still getting a signal it is large and likely not a coin

Good Luck and HH

Ditto... I once dug in hard clay and rocks 15 inches for a mountain dew can. Took me 20 minutes and my arms were worn out but it's just part of the game.

 

[scott (wi)]

On cans I've found if you lift up the coil the signal seems to find a way to get "better". Meaning it will chirp higher tones as you lift the coil as much as a foot. On deep coins however as you lift up the coil the signal gets "worse" ... the deep coin signal will fade out very quickly usually in a few inches.

 

[Tenspeed]

Sometimes you can wiggle off the can and if you don't get a "clean" break in the tone, but a change, it shows it is aluminum. Usually a coin will break clean when you wiggle off the edge.