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Help with Test Garden

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I "planted" my test garden today with a silver half, quarter, and dime, a war nickel, a gold band, a silver band, a screw cap, a crown cap, and a pull-tab.
I used my "plugger" and put them all down at about 5 inches, then watered for about 35 minutes to help settle the dirt a bit.
I had marked all of the spots with colored plastic mini-stakes so I knew what I was supposed to be detecting.
Anyway, after the soil dried up a bit, I used 'Charles Rock Solid Setup' (link below) and couldn't detect the silver dime or the gold band. I wouldn't have detected the silver quarter either if I didn't know exactly where it was.
So, what's going on here? Do they have to sit in the ground for a while to get a "halo" effect with the surrounding soil? I'd say the moist soil was a factor, but I wasn't getting signals on the above mentioned items before I watered either.
I was working in Iron Mask -16 and with Manual Sensitivity at 28 and nothing. I was ready to wrap the EXP/XS around a nearby tree (if it was a golf club, I might have). <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. If my dog steals the plastic marker over my gold band that I can't detect, I'm going to lose it. <img src="/metal/html/cry.gif" border=0 width=40 height=15 alt=":cry">
I don't want to catch any of you EXP/II users out in my yard tonight after I go to bed either! <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
 
Beats me Jason. I have a merc dime buried at 8" in my test garden and can detect it with EASE (sensitivity 24 and a lot of discrimination) with my Exp2 and stock coil. That's more than I can say with my DFX, which has to STRUGGLE to detect it at ANY settings. Matter of fact, I dug a Barber dime at 7" just last Friday (my first silver dime, btw). The Exp2 is amazing. I'm sure someone can help you here!
 
Seems odd you cant see them at 5 inches, either you got some really bad ground or something wrong with your detector.. you didnt put them on edge did you?
 
When I planted my first test garden in my unfriendly clay soil, I failed to take into account the power lines that are in the woods about 15 feet away. I can still hit a 7 inch dime but not from every direction.
And another thing I didn't do was to clean the area out first. The spot where I planted an 8 inch quarter must have had a piece of iron nearby, since I can hear it and the Explorer hits weakly on the quarter.
 
I tried to make sure of that. It is, however, a clay-type soil, and there is a lot of iron in the ground (too much to clean it out, really).
 
I suppose this could be my problem too, I just wish I knew for sure.
 
Had the same problem Jason. Found that I had inadvertently selected a very trashy area of the yard for the test garden...that does not work well with the stock coil unless you are burying the trash yourself for study purposes. All that trash is masking your valuable targets. Suggest you dig em up and find a clean area for your test garden (nice steady threshold only)
 
Jack, that makes good sense to me and I truly think/hope that is my problem.
I must've buried my coins at the site of an 19th century blacksmith's shed or something, becuase it's bad. <img src="/metal/html/shocked.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":shock">
The thing is, it's like that everywhere around my house; it's really bad.
 
you can get a steady threshold or find a spot in your yard, did you try semi auto? and after you rebury cut a 4" PVC pipe two and a half inches long and knock them flush with the ground to mark your targets.
 
That's a great idea. I never would have thought of that. I'll work on finding a clean area.
 
my coin garden is 8 years old and the PVC is still there for each coin. I only bury silver coins on edge from 3" to 8" because I hunt mostly old lots. I feel that every coin that is dropped, sooner or later will turn on edge and sink deeper.
 
I do a similar thing but I drive a 2" PVC cap into the ground just above the target. It makes the target really easy to spot and you can mark what the target is on top of the cap.
 
when the coins are on edge. I start at 3" then 4 and so on till I get to 8" on the silver dimes then I have the same role with silver quarters. I dont do pennies because of the large halo, even a Radio Sack unit can detect pennies that have been in the ground a long time but silver has a very same halo if any.
 
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