Having a hard time pinpointing certain Canadian clad

[beachdude]

I have noticed a particular behavior with the CTX and Canadian clad that is really frustrating. And I know, there are other detectors better suited for clad, but the CTX is all I have at the moment

Anyway, while hunting dry sand on a popular beach with the CTX using wide open screens and Two Tone Ferrous or my own Combined modes, I get random iron numbers and low tones so I dig them. I am digging everything here. I am using the standard coil and a large stavr scoop. So while digging the iron numbers and hits at the lower right of the screen, if it is a bottlecap I will get it out of the sand no problem on the first scoop.

However if it is a Canadian 1 Dollar Coin or a Canadian 2 Dollar Coin (Loonie or a Toonie), the coin will often be outside of the radius of where the signal is coming from.... I find it is hard to pinpoint them using either mode of pinpoint on the CTX. While not in pinpoint mode, Xing the coil over the suspected target will show it in most directions, but as soon as I try to dig it out of the sand, the coin might appear in the wall of the hole and sometimes even outside the hole in an adjacent area.

Why is that?

Is the composition of the new Canadian clad reflecting the signal from the coil somehow? The location of the target seems to move a lot with this clad.

 

[upfishcreek]

Dude from the beach.. I know where you are coming from.
Our coins are weird.
All I can think of is the target seperation setting you are using will effect our clad. Especially as I have learned, if there is any trash. ( Thanks Digger ).
I wonder if the target you hear could be a trash signal and the coin in the side is just luck ?
I am still a little confused about these setting but I know if it is set to low trash, the strongest signal will sound if there are multiple targets under the coil. In high trash with some discrimination, the accepted target will sound even if there is a stronger signal from junk. I asked about this a week or so ago and got lots of great responses from people smater than I
Also just throwing it out there I assume if you are in salt water areas you have checked of the salt setting/

It seems the best settings for us who own these mahines and hunt the ground is the ferrous coin seperation with a combined tone. I wish the ferrous bin could be split as I know lots of our stuff hits in the lower right. That would be good for us I think. Then we could do a far right conductive bin and right hand ferrous bin at the same tone.

Anyway, find my old post and I hope the answers I got can help out.

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Take one on the bottom of a cardboard piece. Flip it over in some clean ground and practice!

 

[Andrew Kalinowski]

Loonies and toonies on edge do that - they respond more like a nail than a coin and often produce almost a double hit in one axes. When pinpointing in sizing mode, I find that the tone does not drop completely out between the hits. Just gets lower in volume. In such cases, I dig the scoop in along the axes centering the start at one end and aiming for the target depth at the place between the hits. Does not work every time but often does even that my sand scoop is only 5".
Why is that? Because our coins are now made out of @$%* Still, in ferrous coin loonies and toonies respond reasonably well. Newer nickels and dimes are a total mess!

 

[beachdude]

I took an Excal out yesterday, running in pinpoint mode, to the exact same area on this beach and pulled about $30 in coins out of the sand that I had missed with the CTX. I will practice more with the CTX on Canadian clad. I pulled some Euros, English, and US coins out of there and they never seem to give any of the signal bounce that the Canadian ones do...

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

Beachdude its not just Canadian coins it happens this way here too. Its not before the dig its after the dig that becomes the problem. Its really easy for dirt hunters to say use the PP trigger but with 300 coin days with 200 trash pieces mixed in,you would loose hours of hunting just by the extra step!
I have pushed a quarter around the beach for 10 different scoops with any other machine that NEVER happens! Here is what I have found works. Once out of the hole kick the sand with you foot in a sweep type motion, not just a bit but for a good distant like 20 inches then if you can't se it already relocate and it can be had it one scoop! I have done the same thing find loads of targets and can't dig them fast enough. Go get the Excalibur and you can dig 15 bucks an hour! Wet sand not an issue?
BCNJ

 

[lafatlife]

I was in Canada last month dectecting with my CTX and had a horrible time with the clad. All I was finding were pennies. I was not going to dig all the signals because I was in an old trailer park and the bottle tops stopped me after I dug about 10 of them. I finally gave up and just dug the pennies.

 

[Rich3030]

When you want to find Canadian clad...make sure you raise the coil 6 inches before pinpointing and gradually get closer with each successive sweet in "normal" pinpointing mode so the narrowing band will stay on the good target. It should be good from 90 degrees also. I'm using ferrous coin and combined audio, deep off, fast on, auto +3, no discrimination. Can't for the life of me figure out nickels though.