Another example of target masking..

[Uncle Willy]

This evening I was hunting around a picnic table at a local park that was pulltab/bottlecap heaven. I got a pulltab signal and dug it in case it was a nickel but it was a pulltab. Scanning the spot again I got another signal - a quarter. Now the tab and quarter were an indh to two inches apart but both fell into the signal cone. The tab was obviously closer to the coil than the quarter so that's all the detector saw, leaving the quarter invisible. It always pays to re-scan your hole after digging any junk item and if you don't dig some junk you'll leave a lot of good targets behind, masked by the junk target

Bill

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

I seemed to have a lot of these lately. Put the ace on the snipper diet , that seems to help.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I have the Sniper and the big coil but I didn't have the Sniper on today. Not sure even it would have seperated these two targets unless I raised the coil to narrow the signal cone. Both targets were shallow so would have most likely fitted into the signal cone even on theSniper. I'm going to hit that area again with the Sniper on as I've found quite a few coins there before nestled amongst the tabs and bottlecaps. Found a Canadian silver quarter there one time right in the middle of a nest of pulltabs by raising the coil way up and scanning real slow.

Bill

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

n/t