Hunting near reinforced concrete?

[bklein]

I'm wondering if the EQ is better hunting near reinforced concrete than the CTX. Saw someone with an EQ finding a pocket of targets today near concrete blocks and forgot to ask what he thought.

 

[PryorCreekJoe]

Barry,

Are you thinking of the EQ at the iron infested Aliso?

PCJ

 

[bklein]

Yes. I was watching Ralph - who later posted about him finding two rings in that concrete. He has a lot of CTX time. I got to thinking what the method is to finding rings in that environment and whether or not the CTX may be better at it. His targets were largely nails and aluminum nuggets along with the coins and rings. When you get close to some concrete with rebar the CTX will overload. I haven't really spent a lot of time trying to disc that out - does it even work? This area was special as it was a trap for the heavies - like a sluice. So a real good area to test the two detectors. Maybe the CTX target trace would prove its worth - or maybe it wouldn't work well enough to make sense of it all. If you don't know gold rings are there and the ID jumps around I often give up and move on. Dug enough tent stakes/iron at 2 feet down with sand caving in as I dig.