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How Deep IS Deep Enough On A Coin ?
- Thread starter dirtdog
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Ralph Bryant
New member
"Deep enough" is just a bare fraction of an inch deeper than the coin is located. 
We hear alot about folks who say there is nothing deeper than X inches because they have never found anything deeper than that. Is there really "nothing deeper" or are they just confusing cause and effect ? If the machine won't detect any deeper or punch through the local mineralization.
It's hard to quantify what you "don't" find.
How much did you miss today ? How do you know ? Anyway, you get my drift......
Ralph
We hear alot about folks who say there is nothing deeper than X inches because they have never found anything deeper than that. Is there really "nothing deeper" or are they just confusing cause and effect ? If the machine won't detect any deeper or punch through the local mineralization.
It's hard to quantify what you "don't" find.
How much did you miss today ? How do you know ? Anyway, you get my drift......Ralph
steve herschbach
New member
Hi,
Personally, I do not think plugging should be used in any groomed public turf, like a park or in front of a schoolyard. If you cannot stick a probe in and pry the target out, leave it.
Why? Because improper plugging is slowly but surely getting us outlawed. Before you get excited and tell me how proper plugging is no problem, I agree. But the few who do it wrong are killing us.
So for those kinds of areas I prefer small coils and target separation to get shallower, missed items over depth.
Where digging is OK, like my local freshwater sandy beach, I am digging coins over a foot deep with my Minelab GP 3500 and 14" coil. So where digging is allowable I'll take all the depth I can get.
But deep-seeking machines in the wrong hands in public areas worries me to no end.
Steve Herschbach
Personally, I do not think plugging should be used in any groomed public turf, like a park or in front of a schoolyard. If you cannot stick a probe in and pry the target out, leave it.
Why? Because improper plugging is slowly but surely getting us outlawed. Before you get excited and tell me how proper plugging is no problem, I agree. But the few who do it wrong are killing us.
So for those kinds of areas I prefer small coils and target separation to get shallower, missed items over depth.
Where digging is OK, like my local freshwater sandy beach, I am digging coins over a foot deep with my Minelab GP 3500 and 14" coil. So where digging is allowable I'll take all the depth I can get.
But deep-seeking machines in the wrong hands in public areas worries me to no end.
Steve Herschbach
means trouble. How many times have we gone behind someone and covered holes. I went into a school yard one day and someone had taken a shovel and dug about 20 holes (all about a foot deep). Did not cover any of them..... SO I had to go get my shovel (i would never take a shovel into a school yard) and cover all of their holes. AND to boot left every rusted soda can they dug sitting beside the hole. I eventually found out who had been digging the holes and this guy has been detecting for about 20 years. Geeesh...
So when I see someone detecting I try to stop and see what kinda job they are doing when they dig. If they are tearing up the sod or not covering holes or not taking the trash out, let's just say I educate them. Because this hobby is kinda like fishing...... if you don't take care of your hobby there's going to be nothing left for the grandkids. Laws and/or landowners will kill metal detecting as we know it.
later...... Pappy
So when I see someone detecting I try to stop and see what kinda job they are doing when they dig. If they are tearing up the sod or not covering holes or not taking the trash out, let's just say I educate them. Because this hobby is kinda like fishing...... if you don't take care of your hobby there's going to be nothing left for the grandkids. Laws and/or landowners will kill metal detecting as we know it.
later...... Pappy
Hear were I live. IF a cop see you caring shovel in to, let alone digging with a shovel in a school Yard, you are going to get stop ,searched and have your info ran and have a high probability of being arrested. Caring a shovel in to anywheres out of place hear (like the wood) is going to get you looked at.
THANK GOD FOR HOME LAND SECURITY KEEPING US SAFE FROM ARE SELF'S/ WE JUST CAN'T BE TO CAREFUL ABOUT THE OLD BOTTLE HUNTERS PLANTING BOMBS OUT IN THE WOOD THESE DAYS.
THANK GOD FOR HOME LAND SECURITY KEEPING US SAFE FROM ARE SELF'S/ WE JUST CAN'T BE TO CAREFUL ABOUT THE OLD BOTTLE HUNTERS PLANTING BOMBS OUT IN THE WOOD THESE DAYS.
Ralph Bryant
New member
I guess you know that there are now going to be a bunch of newbies swamping eBay looking for good used Metrotech machines !! 
Ralph
Ralph