I dug a 1916 wheat yesterday in an extremely trashy area

[Rick N. MI]

Was only out for 1/2 hour with a friend. My friend dug a 1919 wheat he had a solid hit on and when he lifted the sod the signal was gone. A couple more scoops and he had the coin. It might have fallen in on edge.

I was using the 6x10dd in relic mode with trigger forward on my MXT. Sensitivity was at 1 1/2+. This coin was 6-7" deep. The signal was bouncing all over the place with an occasional 72 and was hitting like this all the way around. So I think you need to dig those signals that bounce all over and can't lock on anything especially when you see an occasional high number.

Rick N. MI

 

[Aarong81]

You cant always ID the target before digging so dig stuff that you are unsure about and eventually you will get a pleasant surprise! I've dug solid bottlecap signals that turned out to be copper pennies. Increased depth will decrease ID ability so if you come across an IH penny at 9 inches, don't expect really solid or accurate VDI's. Thats a figure of speach I guess because of the HUGE range of coils, some may be able to give solid ID's in that case but my coils are not one of them unless I'm detecting 9 inches of potting soil with one target in it. I dig high tone chirps and if its a deep target(faint pinpoint) that spells a decent chance at a great find. Sometimes its a really deep pull-tab somehow giving a high-tone. Once out of the ground I cannot duplicate that high-tone, so something in the ground must cause the falsing. You have to dig to know what it is.

 

[BarberBill]

A week ago I found a 1914 Wheatie mixed in with several pieces of trash. It wasn't all that deep, but if I hadn't been persistent with the pinpointer
I might have missed it after finding the trash pieces. As to bouncing signals, I've found that when they mostly indicate various coin values with a trash indication mixed in, it always pays to dig as quite often it will turn out to be a coins spill.
BB
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[widebody]

[size=large]i've come across wierd signals. they bounce around the twentys and even a thirty but if they hit an 18 at least twice i dig. most times i get the nickel. every now and then it's a pull tab. the more time in the field the more you become one with your machine.

HH [/size]

 

[Walkingadam]

Congrats, always fun finding older Wheats.


18-22 vdi, seem for me it's 95% rect. soda pull tab or corroded bottle cap and if it bounces a little 18-20 (mostly 20) it's a Nickle. The wheats I've dug have always been 72 vdi seems like no matter if it's 1" on a root or 9" down.

Working this one park over and have more nickles than dimes and quarters combined. Maybe I'm just cheap, but, some of them Nickles are in the 1940's and 50's. I know someone else is searching this park at the same time as I will get a signal and right there on top of it is a probe hole or 3 but no dig and there are other spots I see what appears to be digs and no signal.

Pleasant surprise yesterday evening, 1 diamond ring, ring #5 from this same park. They have all showed up as "1,10 cent" signals or 8-10vdi x 8-10vdi (junker rings) and 4 about the same depth 5-7" with one being a silver ladies ring in the play bark chips. So far 2 good rings and 3 junkers. I must be missing some stuff as I have yet to find a chain or earring here or maybe the other detectorist is scoopin them all up. I have found a few pendents without chains, 2 silver, 1 huge copper, and 1 small copper.

I tried Relic mode and found no real diff. in depth. Yesterday I got a 1 cent solid hit @ 5" Jewelry mode and dug down 6", then rescan showed up as 1,10 cent and dug down another 5 inches and found a 1967 Rose. dime. This being the deepest dime I've ever found. All my Mercs have been @ 3-8".

Since my batts are down to lower 10v, seems like I'm getting fewer and fewer "Zincoln" and more "1 cent" signals and more 40x40 vdi "Screwcap" signals that turn out to be cents from 1990-2007 @ only 1-2". And more "1,10cent" signals that turn out to be chipped/corroded Zincolns at all depths.

 

[Aarong81]

I notice when my batteries are sub 10 V that the VDI is a bit less accurate as well. Like you, screw caps seem like pennies and zincolns are more like copper, ect. The good thing is that it takes ALOT of hours for a new set of Alkalines to drop to 10 volts and I'm confident with them to 9v.