Ghost Signals

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Before digging, was it a strong repeatable beep. In every direction?. Was it a loud or soft beep?
Thanks[quote randyalbin]Hello Joe..........I've had quite a few of those " ghost signals " in the 12 plus years I have been detecting. When I first started my detecting career, I chose a pretty complicated detector to learn, a XLT. Anyway, the first Ghost signal I figured out was with the XLT. Two buddys and I were detecting an old church lot next to a cemetery with headstones dating to the 1880's( we don't hunt the cemetery part), I dug a screwcap/penny signal that was deep. The signal was next to the old sidewalk that lead to a depression in the ground that used to be the old church, I dug down about 7 or 8 in. and lost the signal, it wasn't in the hole and wasn't in the dirt pile. It was a bright sunny spring day with sun directly overhead, I peered down in the hole, and caught a glimpse of the edge of a penny standing up on edge. I checked the signal again in discriminate mode, nothing! I called both of my buddys over to check this out, they used their Tesoro Toltec ll's and couldn't pick it up in discriminate either. The one bud with way more experience, put his detector in all metal and got a signal,but it wasn't as strong of a signal as expected ( very mineralized clay soil ), He said it was very iffy if he would have pursued the further digging if he was tired or less focussed at the end of a long day of hunting. I reached down in the hole and plucked out a nice green patined Indian head penny! The three of us learned something this particular day. HH Randy[/quote]

 

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Before digging, was it a strong repeatable beep. In every direction?. Was it a loud or soft beep?
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[quote randyalbin]Hello Joe..........I've had quite a few of those " ghost signals " in the 12 plus years I have been detecting. When I first started my detecting career, I chose a pretty complicated detector to learn, a XLT. Anyway, the first Ghost signal I figured out was with the XLT. Two buddys and I were detecting an old church lot next to a cemetery with headstones dating to the 1880's( we don't hunt the cemetery part), I dug a screwcap/penny signal that was deep. The signal was next to the old sidewalk that lead to a depression in the ground that used to be the old church, I dug down about 7 or 8 in. and lost the signal, it wasn't in the hole and wasn't in the dirt pile. It was a bright sunny spring day with sun directly overhead, I peered down in the hole, and caught a glimpse of the edge of a penny standing up on edge. I checked the signal again in discriminate mode, nothing! I called both of my buddys over to check this out, they used their Tesoro Toltec ll's and couldn't pick it up in discriminate either. The one bud with way more experience, put his detector in all metal and got a signal,but it wasn't as strong of a signal as expected ( very mineralized clay soil ), He said it was very iffy if he would have pursued the further digging if he was tired or less focussed at the end of a long day of hunting. I reached down in the hole and plucked out a nice green patined Indian head penny! The three of us learned something this particular day. HH Randy[/quote]

 

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