another first for me.....

[cassiekarimom]

my first mini jackpot, I was working on a sidewalk strip and got a beep, I dug out my plug and checked the hole and the plug and only the hole beeped so I dug and found a dime, then I put the dirt back in and put the plug back and in the grass under where I put the plug was a quarter and 4 nickels.

 

[wag-jr]

congrats on the coin spill

 

[dobbie]

always recheck a hole...great find though....

 

[cassiekarimom]

[quote dobbie]always recheck a hole...great find though....[/quote]

I do recheck my holes, the quarter and nickels must have been in the plug and my detector missed them when checked it.

 

[scubadetector]

Very nice. Each first is a thrill by itself. I still remember my first silver dime. Now find a spill from the 40's - 60's full of silver!!

 

[cassiekarimom]

I hope to find the good coins some day.

 

[Beale]

Congrats on the coin spill! They sure are fun, Beale.

 

[tabdog]

Hay Cassie,

The disappearing signal??????????????????

It's something that happens a lot and most people are not aware of.

When you disturb the dirt, it changes the way the metal detector

reacts to it.

A dug clod of dirt or sometimes a dug rock can mask a target completely.

That accounts for a lot of those ghost signals that people talk about when

they loose a signal and never find the target.

The target can be in the dug pile of dirt and not be detected. When you

put the dirt back in the hole. The fresh dug dirt can mask it again.

That makes people think that there was nothing ever there.

If you are not in manicured grass, kick or flatten the dug dirt and check again.

It may magically appear.

Happens all the time.

The same goes for a test garden. Freshly buried targets are usually harder

to detect than coins that are lost.

HH,

 

[cassiekarimom]

hey, thanks for that info, that has happened before where I get a signal, cut out the plug, then can't find the signal in the hole or the plug, now I know what is going on.