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I got a mixed signal in IM-10(my usual)digital 28-31 reading. Switched over to smartfind...top left on edge of black. Switch IM to -14 and...!!!!

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Thought it was one of those silvers that everybody talks about hitting on the clear left of screen. I run digital and go by sound so I'm guessing they would be similar to what I hear as a coin that you have to circle to get the best angle and signal from.
It hit from every angle, repeated everytime, and sounded real good after going to IM-14.
IT WAS A ROOFING NAIL AND NOT BENT AT ALL!!! <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
If I was to run IM-14 I'd have to completely re-train my ears CC!! How do you do it? <img src="/metal/html/shocked.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":shock">
HH,
Greg
 
I hunt with mine set at IM -15 and in smart screen. The way to do it is to go back to the places that have no good signals left (no signals is more like it). The lack of signals makes it easier to train your ears. Go real slow and listen for the small signals to get your attention. As an example, doing this Sunday morning, I pulled up an 1876cc seated dime and an 1868 shield nickel from a very, very hunted out spot at a popular park in Peoria. IM -15 rocks!!! When you go to more trashy areas your ears will be trained to ignore the barrage of signals and just listen for the tell-tale sounds of coins (even nickels). By the way, I use conductive sounds, fast and deep on, manual sensitivity at about 20 (plus or minus 4) and my variability set to 10. I have NEVER used digital and never will. And for the sceptics out there I have witnesses of coin recoveries at 10" to 14" (comparing signals and their machines didn't make a peep <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">)
marty-il
 
For those iffy one that hit over to the left side you can double check in ferrous and have it set up on the back button mode, here is example 1.. deep rusted out crown caps will give a low tone in Conduct but a high tone in Ferrous/ 2.. deep bent nails (and roof nails) will give a low tone in Ferrous but a high tone in Conduct. We are talking about coin hunting not button hunting (CC), so if you get a high tone in both we dig. I will never say I don't get fool by iron junk but it only happens when I don't double check in ferrous.
 
read out has too high of a ferrous number (2:geek: to be a coin and I don't dig a conduct number over 30 but I have read that others have found coins at 31 and I believe some units might do that. So next time you get a 31 double check in ferrous.
 
How many coins have you found at 14"? How do you tell one target from another if they have the same phase angle and generate the same tone from all directions?
Cody
 
Dug some wheats and indianheads at 10 inches and a SLQ at 9 inches but never a coin deeper than that and I dig some real tiny peepsiffys while chasing the oldies.
HH,
Greg
 
14" three times - All the coins were multi-coin drops - first was four indian heads (2 late 1800's, 2 early 1900's) and the second time was a '17 merc, nd buffalo nickel, Jefferson nickel from the thirties and two wheats from the teens and then the third time was a '19 Merc with three wheats from the early teens.
Cody, I don't get into the whats and hows of a signal - if they sound like a "coin" to me and show up somewhere on my smart screen where I'm used to seeing "coins", I dig. I have NO idea what you just said about "the same phase angle and generate the same tone from all directions" - my Explorer doesn't have just one tone and the cursor moves around on the screen based on ferrous and conductive content of the metal item it detects.
When I'm comparing signals with my buds and they get no sound from a signal I've just detected I pull my 1/8" jack out and let them listen to the sound I'm getting from my Explorer. They then watch me dig the signal. More times than I can count have I dug coins in the 9 to 11 inch range - with witnesses. I can tell by the depth indicator on the left side if it is deep. I go by the sound of the signal - it is just a little lower in volume than I think it should be and then I look at where the cursor is and then I look at the depth indicator. I then "do the dance" - walk around the signal to hear what it sounds like from all directions. If it sounds good (or even ok) I dig it.
My depth indicator is pretty accurate until it shows just a little black left - then its not so accurate. I use my X-1 probe and white tape lines on the cord to measure after I've recovered the target.
marty-il
"a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument" <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
 
And of course I dig coin signals too. I have a ten pound bag of the crusty things so I do know a coin signal in iron.
 
since you continue to try and make your point by using me in your posts calling me a button hunter. Yes, I hunt buttons only because coin hunters miss buttons a heck of alot easier than a button hunter will miss a coin. I like coins every bit as much as the next guy. If experience counts for anything at all I doubt there are too many posters on the explorer forum that have spent as many hours as I have in the last three to four years sorting through iron to dig their finds. As a matter of fact I'll be doing just that in about 5 hours and plan to come home with a goodie. <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D"> and maybe if you're nice from now on I might even show you. <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
C.C. The Button hunter!
 
<img src="/metal/html/yo.gif" border=0 width=31 height=15 alt=":yo">
 
in something like IM-14, watch and see if the crosshairs want to move right along the top, and maybe settle towards the middle-top, off that top left corner. if they do, dig it man.
that's what i do, and just picked up some nice deep silver.
going by sound only is difficult, there is deep junk iron stuff out there that sounds exactly like a deep silver coin.
if you're going for iffies with an opened screen, you're going to dig some iron junk sometimes, no way around it.
good luck.
 
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