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I just picked up an explorer this weekend and took it out for the first time tonight. I did alot of testing in the test garden before today. I got the feel for what a nice 5-7" deep coin sounds like. I only got one of those sounds tonight. repeated both ways, crosshairs upper right, registered about 7" deep. Out comes an 1895 indian head cent. I had lots of signals register great in one direction, but sounded bad or not at all 90 degrees. I guess my question is, how many of these great coins everybody's digging, have that great sound in both directions, while hunting in a trashy park?
Thanks for any info! John
 
But if when you go to pinpoint it you can't get a good lock on where the target is then rotate around the target until you can find the right spot to lock on it. This usually only happens when there is junk in the close vicinity of the target and by walking around it you are angling the hot strip of the coil away from the junk and it makes pipointing much easier. HH, Greg.
 
over a silver coin and hit it from different angles. One way gives clean signal, few degrees off, iffy signal, turn 90 and nothing.
Just one of the characteristics of a DD coil. Trash does mask signals and that is why we keep finding stuff at pounded parks.
 
Oops, sorry about that! Still asleep I guess.
Anyways, I keep hearing how easy it is to pick the coins out of the trash, and I realize I don't have any experience yet, but man it seems like it's going to be pretty tough in the trash.
A couple other questions. Does anybody make a concentric coil for this machine? And if you had to give a percentage, what percent of targets that hit good one way, but not at 90 degrees, end up being coins? Thanks again for ANY info. John
 
If your hunting in factory presets or any disc pattern at all, I would suggest when you get a good signal that only comes in from one direction, that you switch to iron mask set at least as low as -13, then listen to it again.. anything nearby that is disced out may cause it to null using disc patterns... just set up your iron mask screen agead of time, and turn it off, then when you get a target like that you just need to turn it on or off to switch between modes.. or just hunt in iron mask.. if you were in iron mask, then its possible its iron falsing from one direction, but if it still sounds real good, even from one angle.. dig it
 
I had it set up with Moutray's tips sheet. IM-10. I did try to dig a couple of those good one way sounds, but usually had trouble pinpointing them. I could get a good pinpoint one direction, but when I tried 90 degrees i'd either get nothing, or the sound just continued alot further than it should have.
What are the chances these are rusty nails? I know with my other detector, that happens quite a bit. It'll sound great one way, so I dig, sometimes coin, most times nail or other rusted stuff.
 
very seldom does a coin hit from only one angle, but it does happen.. you gotta just get used to that high ping iron tone, and the softer coin hit.. circling the target while sweeping is a good idea, just to see if they do hit from more than one angle.. but if you hear that distinctive coin hit.. ya gotta dig even if you only get it from one angle
 
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