Bottle caps

[Dean (Whitby Canada)]

I went out yesterday for a couple of hours. I pulled several Beer Caps. They all sounded and read "good" I played around with the settings, but the caps still "looked" good...I found they were not as deep as the read out and they showed up on the high side of the scale. I was hunting in Desc. any ideas of how to cut these out a bit more?

Dean

 

[pineapple]

My first question would be, were they rusty? If rusty, you will see a spike in the Fe bar just about everytime. If not rusty, you'll usually see some bounce on your VDI and a spread in the VDI numerics greater than what is normally seen when it is a coin. Coins will normally have a spread of 2-4, though with caps it will spread 2-7. Just some observances I have picked up. Flip too between Disc and AM and you'll get a better feel for them.

 

[Mike Hillis]

Dean,

I can identify most of them if I stand around and analyze the response. Like Pineapple has said, most of the time they will have a slightly larger spread of numbers or will even jump between tones in the 4 tone mode. Unless they are flat, then it gets tougher. Pinpoint will also give a larger response than for a coin depending on ground moisture. The 3b mode is designed to give a more jumpy id response on those to make it easier to identify them.

Since I have another machine that has no problem with that particular trash target at most of the modern parks I hunt, I don't use the T2 at sites where they are a major trash item. For me, its just not fun to stand around analyzing repeatable high coin signals trying to determine if that dime or quarter signal is really a dime or quarter or a steel bottle cap.

Unfortuantly, in some places like the older parks where deep coins exist, no matter what machine you use you have to dig some.

HH