For the ppl that likes to notch out #48

[cypearl]

I also opened 6 and I'm finding that every 6 that I dug is crap. Guys are saying that they get rings at 6, I'm wondering if those rings are made of foil?

This one wasn't foil, and it was a solid 6.

I do not notch out 48 with xt505 but I never dig solid six's with it so I just have to get back in the fields again!

 

[IA]

TY good to know.........

 

[goldseeker4000]

Glad to hear you scored on your quarter with the # 48 notch. I always go back and forth digging 48's and not digging them as it always becomes trash. hahaha. But in regards to others that always want to know what ground balance number people are set on when they found a good target puzzles me. Knowing what ever number gb someone is on in one place is not going to help someone else in another place find better targets or more depth or hit better on difficult targets. You cant take someone elses gb # and use that thinking it with help your chances as the ground mineralization changes from as much as 1 square foot to another. Granted in urban areas it isn't as bad with the wide range of change but still, it is silly too want to know what a given persons gb # is. Especially if someone asking is half a state away or worse half the country away. Lol. Also don't ever dismiss digging a target if you are getting one or two good tids(consistant) mixed with a negative tid. Several times i have dug coins that were sitting right beside a piece of trash such as a nail. A friend of mine did not believe me that my 705 could find a good target next to say a nail, until one day he was detecting close by, told him about the mixed tid reading and he watched me pull out a nail about 6 in deep, rechecked the hole and still a target was in the hole and out came a 1929 wheat penny.

 

[lerafe]

Not to side step the discussion, but I quit digging 6's because it has always been those large (quarter or bigger) sized silver foil juice seals.

I have never found anything but these seals at 6. Do this read as 6's to you as well?

 

[tjhoosier]

Interesting that this was a 6. Was the tone high pitched?

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

no no no, at the start of the post I was showing a Barber that I found that come in as a # 48 and I was telling ppl why it is not always a good idea to notch out #48 and then later in the post we got talking about if it was a good idea or not to notch out #6

Interesting that this was a 6. Was the tone high pitched?

 

[goldseeker4000]

I was out today detecting and a buddy of mine found a walking liberty 1oz. silver. it was big and he didn't even have to use his detector. it was just laying on top of the grass. It was a 2007. I passed my detector over it and to my surprise it was hitting a solid consistant 48. Never going into the 46 tid. I will never again notch out 48 again. It was such a beautiful coin. Some must have lost it within the last 24 hrs. of him finding it. What a find.

 

[tjhoosier]

I don't notch either, but I was wondering what the tone was like on the 6?. Was it the lower pitched sound of foil or nails or was it higher pitched?

 

[EOS]

I got a two way ID 48 on my Xterra 705 with 5x10" searching a field. Thought it first was big iron,but the signal was sharp and clean.
It was a gigantic copper coin,real thick shilling that gave such a good signal. Its the first time I actually had a 48 that was a good conductive target.
I always run my Xterra all metal - always. I stoped notching out for a long time ago. After a while you get used to the tones, and can separate by audio.

/Mike