High Ringers and Iron Mask Question

[lloyd0161]

Question,

Today I had a deep high ringer signal that was very intermittent. I am not that proficient with all of the explorer features yet. I did scan the signal with the iron mask on and set to almost all metal. The signal was still ringing very high and was more consistent. Using the Smartfind screen the target was pegged in the upper most almost left corner of the screen but sounded like silver. The high tone area was very narrow and the pinpoint was too and it sounded deep in pinpoint. There was some nulling iron near the target. I did not dig this target. The depth gauge read around 11". Could this have been a good target, just wondering? I do remember where it was in case I should go back and dig it.

 

[Old Longhair]

Most likely it was iron. And what you heard saw on your screen indicates the "wrap around" effect.

Randy Horton wrote about his theory on "circular discrimination", in which he describes disc level not being a scale with two ends, but rather a circle in which top and bottom of the scale that we use are actually next to each other.

 

[teleman2525]

but then ive found near surface finds ring high in the left corner and ive also found good finds at far left corner enough times that if it sounds good i,ll dig it

 

[MNCoinhunter]

Yes, I agree. I find myself digging upper-left targets if the tone is just right. Most often it ends up being junk, but I do not have the willpower to walk away from a good-sounding target.

 

[dewcon4414]

Switch to Ferr and see what you get on those targets. If it grunts and it aint deeper than say 6 inches then the Exp knows what its seeing. Check the target from a couple of directions. Occassional there are targets close enough to iron that you still get a good tone..... after awhile you can tell the difference.

Dew