Always Iron?

[soddiver]

I have a ace 250 and most places that I search have 60 year old rusty nails in the ground so I got to the point where I don"t dig up anything that shows as iron on the far left of the screen. Am I on the right track or am I missing out on some items?

 

[NM5K]

Probably not unless some are iron relics you might be interested in. But mostly, I
doubt you are missing much.
One thing, very rusty nails will bounce around from coin range to iron.
The rust is highly conductive and will hit in the upper coin ranges.
But the un-rusted iron still hits low. So if you see targets that bounce
around where nails are usually found, could be rusty nails.
Sometimes some trash items, and relics that rust will do the same.
Coins will ID steady and not bounce around. Well, unless they are right next
to a nail maybe..

 

[lazyaussie]

i"d leave the iron signals in the ground ya won"t miss much

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

I notice that our newer dimes hit in that area now so I'm starting to dig more of theses signals especially on the beaches

 

[R-n-R Magnolia SpringsAla]

So the new dimes are iron?? That sucks, well get a big roller magnet and clean up!

 

[khouse]

Most models and makes of detectors has trouble with deep rusty iron. Big iron is easy to pass on because it will pinpoint larger than a coin. Or it will beep in one place and pinpoint in another. That's what I call an edge beep. Move on if that happens. But small iron can be tough. It's true that coins are pretty solid. But so is rusty iron when your directly centered on top of them.
Try this - When sweeping a suspected deep rusty pull your coil to you while you sweep. Iron can show it's ugly head when you get off center and toward the toe or heal of your coil. Then it can register iron. Or jump from coin to iron. To be sure do this from two directions.

 

[Uncle Willy]

One can always use John's "stomp and bust the rust " method to destroy the rust halo around big ( or small iron ) and change it's reading altogether and give one a better shot at identifying it. Detuning helps to shrink the target down and raising the coil up helps to determine if it is a small target or a hunk of junk.

Bill.