Anyone ever tried this?

[markg]

Find a clean place where there's no metal.
GB if need to.
Place a large rusted nail (about 4" long)on the ground.
Lay a silver quarter on the nail.
Sweep your coil over the nail and quarter.
Gradually increase the disc as you sweep.
Surprised where it disc out.
Now move the quarter to the side of the head of the nail.
Now sweep the coil in different directions and see where it disc out. Surprised! Well I was totally shocked.
Now carefully move the coil in small sweeps around the quarter. This will give a very good signal some of the time.
Now what's the odds of iron and nails being beside coins at an old homestead? I think it's most likely.




So....
Now when I hunt around old houses I've got to run the disc just high enough to knock out the small iron and nails. Any more than that may cause me to disc out a silver coin.

 

[John - Maryland]

I will have to give that a try. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[ED-NH]

Thank you for confirming that too much disc can be a bad thing. I run Explorer @ IM -14-15 and ferrous sounds. I hear most everything and have made some great finds in iron areas. If it gets too noisy I only back IM off so that I don't get constant sound. Oh ya, a small coil is awesome in those types of conditions too.