ID Edge help needed

[riverguy]

Hi gang,

Hunted the old home site on the farm and found this copper spoon or scoop. Came up a solid 21 on the ID Edge.

My question is that when hunting with ear phones I get lots of +20, +25, +36 readings with audio signals that are faint and tend to be out on the edges of each swing. But they are not repeatable and completely disappear when I try to focus in on them. What are these? I call them ghosts.

Now when I found a clad penny or that spoon in the picture, those were much louder and repeatable no matter which way I swung the coil. I am wondering if these ghost sounds/readings are coins buried deeper?

I still get lots of bouncy +36/-36 readings but others on the forum have indicated that on the ID edge this is almost always rusty iron.

I posted the picture of the spoon on the whatzit forum to try and find out the age of the item. But I am excited that this may be a good indicator of a good site to hunt carefully.

Thanks for any ideas.

 

[Keith Southern]

The higher the sensitivity you have set will cause erratic readings that sound deep but wont repeat.when you get a hit like that and try to relocate it and its not there check the spot with all metal and usually its just a false hit occasionally it might be a nail falsing when you see the 36 flash.

when the edge locks on a target its usually a good target maybe trash but still a target.remember the target when deep will sound soft but have a more pronounced sound than a false hit and the numbers will usually be close on repeated swings. I hunt here around the metro Atlanta area west side so I know the Ground conditions you are encountering.

I hunted a house last week with the edge I had the sens. [8]. 10 was a little to noisy for me. and every solid repeatable hit was something .I had hunted this place off and on and thought I had everything but the edge snuck a few deepies out of there with the 8 inch coil. Got 4 Minnie balls .54 caliber that my modified cibola had left they were deep 13-14 inches but they were staying around 18-21 on the I.d. so the deep items will lock. also got some odds and end brass parts I had missed in the thick iron. even the t-2 had missed.

Also I run my disc on -36 so I can hear all targets that will help alot when you get those +/- 36 bounces it will be easier for you to forget about them in the audio.If you get a 36 hit that's deep and don't go negative dig her up to check her out. here's a +36 on the edge from a few years back.Its a Morgan Dollar locked 36 and never moved no negative bounce.

On the spoon they will be in all house sites so they are hard to date i would say that it looks about 1900 to me maybe 1890 but thats just a guess. the older houses around here have pewter spoons in them for the most part or Iron spoons brass ones usually are turn of the century and on.

Good Luck

Keith Southern