Critterhunter
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Finally! Not like I've been hunting a ton but come on it's about time I popped one with all the deep and masked wheats I've been digging. Anyway, remember the other day where I said I left a signal in the ground due to huge root and the next day a friend dug it and it turned out to be a silver Washington? Welp, turn about is fair play I guess because my one Etrac friend wanted me to check a signal he gave up on because of another massive root. I swept around it from all directions and from like three spots I was getting a good coin signal but from the other directions it was warbly sounding and in the lower numbers bouncing around, but I could still hear the high coin tone here and there mixed in as it warbled. My friend said he was getting the same response on his Etrac.
My friend told me to go ahead and dig it because he gave up on it before with the roots in the way, so I pinpointed it and dug, but there was yet more big root in the way off to the side of his plug where I dug mine. So I dug yet another plug from the bottom side of his original plug and we both worked on trying to get at it. Sooner or later we finally got the ProPointer to respond to it and after a little more work out popped a silver Rosie! We then checked the hole again with both machines and didn't hear any iron or anything else, so we suspect it was standing on end. It was about 7 to maybe 8" deep.
Great! Offered him the coin but he said just like I didn't want that Washington my other friend found the other day it was mine to keep because he had given up on it.
Also another good example that the GT and 12x10 has thus far been able to see any coins in trash or deep that my Etrac friend and Pro Coil has found as we compare signals.
One thing I've noticed on iffy coin signals...If you get a decent coin signal from one direction but there is no signal from any other direction at all (not even a null) then every time I've dug those signals I find nothing or just some almost totally rotted/washed away iron. It seems that if it is indeed a coin in iron, or one on edge, or at least iron that is still solid such as an old nail or something then you should at least get a null or some kind of signal from the other directions. I also noticed those ghost coin signals due to a high concentration of iron in the soil where something long rotted away are hard to get a tight pinpoint on, where as if it is a coin in iron or at least a solid piece of iron your PP will be much easier to achieve.
My friend told me to go ahead and dig it because he gave up on it before with the roots in the way, so I pinpointed it and dug, but there was yet more big root in the way off to the side of his plug where I dug mine. So I dug yet another plug from the bottom side of his original plug and we both worked on trying to get at it. Sooner or later we finally got the ProPointer to respond to it and after a little more work out popped a silver Rosie! We then checked the hole again with both machines and didn't hear any iron or anything else, so we suspect it was standing on end. It was about 7 to maybe 8" deep.
Great! Offered him the coin but he said just like I didn't want that Washington my other friend found the other day it was mine to keep because he had given up on it.
Also another good example that the GT and 12x10 has thus far been able to see any coins in trash or deep that my Etrac friend and Pro Coil has found as we compare signals.
One thing I've noticed on iffy coin signals...If you get a decent coin signal from one direction but there is no signal from any other direction at all (not even a null) then every time I've dug those signals I find nothing or just some almost totally rotted/washed away iron. It seems that if it is indeed a coin in iron, or one on edge, or at least iron that is still solid such as an old nail or something then you should at least get a null or some kind of signal from the other directions. I also noticed those ghost coin signals due to a high concentration of iron in the soil where something long rotted away are hard to get a tight pinpoint on, where as if it is a coin in iron or at least a solid piece of iron your PP will be much easier to achieve.
