Fooled by the Crosshairs...

[Anonymous]

Do you guys ever get fooled by what you think your detector is trying to tell you?? I'm still very new with this machine but I was hoping that the combination of audio and smart screen would tell me more. There were a few times that I got signals that I could have swore it were big silver (quarter or half) and came up with a wheatie from the '40s. Guess its the nature of the beast when you're covering ground with varying conditions. Can anyone honestly tell the difference between silver and copper (wheats) in the ground? Its probably as subtile as the difference between nickels and pull tabs from what I can tell.
Thanks,
Tim

 

[Anonymous]

Sometimes the wheats will read like a dime, especially the 44's and 45's as they seem to read higher.. think because they used bullet brass to make them..shouldnt have any problem mistaking them with quarters or bigger though.. make sure your variability and limits are at max.. you should hear a slightly better audio quality and higher tone with silver, especially running ferrous audio

 

[Anonymous]

I have sometimes,not very often,had wheats read over where silver quarters and halves read.I get all excited and find a wheat,Then I think about it and even though it read there,it just didn't "sound" like silver.Same with deeper,older memorials.They will fool me more than most,alot of times they will read above the line like a silver dime and lock on hard.But here again,they just don't have that silver sound.I have got pretty good at telling those now.It just takes a little time.The only pulltabs that fool me for nickels are the tails off of them.But here again after time you can tell they are too small in pinpoint to be a nickel and do not have that coin type of feel.

 

[Anonymous]

Up here it seems I get fooled regulary by memorials masqurading as silver. The funny thing is sometimes dimes sound better than quarters and halfs. I hear guys saying "that sounds like a half" but I'd be hard pressed to split hairs that fine. I just don't find that many silver halfs and quarters to know what they sound like.