I just don't get it!

[mwaynebennett]

I find lots of coins but only two have been pre-1961. My guess is that here in the Pacific NW, it rains so much that the older coins are too deep to detect... well so deep that I pass them by.

I get "deep" signals but they are never consistent in all directions. The manual that came with the Elite 2200 says that inconsistent tones are most likely trash but lately I have been digging the shallow (<5") inconsistent targets and have found that many of them were indeed coins. I believe it is inaccurate to say that inconsistent tones are likely trash. That has not been the case with me.

I have some questions for those that do find silver and wheaties.
1) How deep typically are they?
2) In what type of soil are they found, that is, in grass where the grass grows up and dies and continues that cycle burying the coins deeper and deeper with each cycle?
3) Was there overhead vegetation dropping needles or leaves etc onto the targets again burying them?
4) Whey you get a indication of a 9" deep target, how large of a diameter hole do you dig to retrieve the target?

If I want to dig a hole 9" deep, I would need to dig a hole about 10" in diameter and that is a lot of dirt?

I'm going to build a test stand using plasticine modeling clay to hold various coins in different orientations and see if that makes for inconsistent signals. I'll let you folks know of the results when I am done with the experiment.

Mark
Elite 2200
Pioneer 505

 

[dave5710]

Inconsistent tones may mean broken tones or non-repetitive tones. I hope you are digging tones that are solid left to right and not just tones the are solid east to west AND north to south. You should dig some of those deep signals and see what they are. I'll bet a few of them surprise you. Most of my silver has been shallow. Dimes under 4", quarters 5" or less, some halves have been deeper, 7 - 8", some not so deep. The trick to finding silver is to boldly go where no one has gone before. Find some sites that haven't been hunted so hard.

 

[gargreen]

I use my daughters Elite 2200 and I dig freakin everything! I have noticed that if a coin is sitting sideways and I have the sensitivity down it won't pick it up in all directions. I live in Spokane and have yet to find an old coin. But I am a super newbie. I have found other awesome stuff though.

 

[TURNMASTER]

Mark,
If you do not spend time reading in some of the other forums you should. There are often discussions about those "one way" signals. I dig one way signals.

I mean E. to W. but not N to S or S to N or W to E. The thing for me is that it is repeatable in that one direction. You will dig more trash, but you will also find more older coins. Some times the oldies I am finding are on edge and will only hit one way. Part of that is because the last guy that MD'd that area passed on that one way or broken signal. I am learning that I can usually tell that I am going to dig trash, but I dig anyway. You never know. that might be a nail and a dime.

I read some research another member did a while back. He sugested that the evidence pointed to about 1/8" per year of buildup in the actual soil. Also he stated that a heavy canopy may add or detract from this number. That would depend on the undergrowth. But I think if you read some of the other forums you will get an idea for depth per year based on locality and enviroment. There are a lot of variables to consider that contribute to depth.

Last week I found an Injun at 6 to 7 inches it was 1895, and another at 4 to 6 inches that one was an 1904. They were in an unkept yard and appeared to have been held up to some degree by a gravel bed and tree roots. My first Indian, however, was at about 8 to 9 inches and in a well kept yard with good sod growth and was an 1898. That would be roughly .75 to .9 inches per decade for the deeper coin.

Non of this counts for hard winters freeze thaw cycles and frost heave we get over here on the East side. Which will move things around in the ground to a higher degree than you get on the West side.

On a 9" hole it depends on how well I was able to pinpoint. Adjacent targets move the signal around some and to dig a deeper hole it has to be bigger just to remove the dirt.

I hope some of this helps if not tell me to shut up. LOL

Jeff

 

[TURNMASTER]

coin sinking link

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?19,1114034