Dig or not to Dig?

[recout]

OK so do you guys dig when your excal nulls out and has a tone with the null? I went out tonight and the beach i went to was full of iron. sometimes it would just null out and other times it would have a quick tone and then null or null then tone, and if i went over it a few more times it would not always have the tone with the null.. Do you guys dig the tone and null or just pass over it?..... Not a very good hunt only a few clad, cheap earring, toy car and i dug up 4 4ft metal fence post they use for snow fences. They drove me crazy trying to pinpoint those things...

 

[Bling]

after 4 years of useing the Excla and GT i no longer dig any tone that has a null....for me its always been junk and most of the time a bottle cap.sometimes it will hit good right in the center of the coil but null on the outer edge...if there is any null at all i pass it up.those darn BL bottle caps can fool you.

 

[Rick(ND)]

I don't use a Excalibur, but do a Sovereign which should be the same. On any target you think maybe good it has to repeat in both directions in the same spot as iron will move when checking it from different directions. Also when you go to pinpoint you will see it is louder at the sides of the signal then where it actually showed in disc. There is a few cases where a good target close to iron will give a good signal and then a null, but these are signal you will learn as you get to know your Excalibur as when you go around it to see where it is with the tip of the coil it don't move off the spot, then will null the rest of the way around the target. In most cases a couple swings over the signal to see it is repeatable then go around the target from a different angle will tell you if it is good or bad. A good target will repeat in the same spot, iron will move or null out.

 

[goodmore]

Very wise words from a man who knows his Sovereign. The Excalibur and Sovereign are very similar in a lot of ways. They do not lie about the iron. Repeatable signals are always the quest. No matter where you hunt. A null or crackle in the tone says move on. Again I will mention the iron beaches of New Jersey. You have no choice but to believe the null or you will never leave where you started. There have also been places I hunted in the dirt where the iron is so prevalent that you trust in the null and move on.

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

The only other thing that I might add is if your a scooter that moves along at a good clip you should at least stop and investigate the nulls. You can also tune the excal not to null at a fast clip (sensitivity and threshold) When moving from low spot to the next low spot,
I get nulls that when I stop to check turn out to be deep coins. As stated above when you stop to check and it nulls from different sweeps move on. You can force a good signal from a rusted bottle cap!

 

[Critterhunter]

I have found deep coins may null from one direction and not pinpoint that way either so I don't rely on one way signals to tip me off to it being iron. I mainly go by high good the signal is the other way and can usually still tell if it's iron or not by the sound and how the ID acts. Practice on some deep coins to learn that and by digging marginal coin signals.