Took my ETrac to a local park and found my first silver with it, a 1942 mercury dime. Found some clad as well as a few rusty nails and bolts. Had something happen that confused me though. I was swinging along and got that nice high tone. Couldn't get it to repeat swinging slow but it was there with a fast swing. Thing is, I couldn't pinpoint where it was. Even tried switching to TTF and hot nothing. Was this a ghost signal or was the machine telling me something dig worthy was there? It was ringing in at 50 on the conductive when I got it to hit. Any similar experiences or input?
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Intermittent tones?
- Thread starter matterny4
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50 Co is most likely deep rusty iron. While your learning you should dig some of these. Anyway there are times when you cannot pinpoint a target in PP mode. Most of the time it's because of trash all around it. In these times you must just wiggle the coil and in "your minds eye" try to zero in on the target - then dig like the wind!
Welcome to the world of "Falsing". As Kenny said, the best learning is by digging some of those. The more you hunt, the more you'll brain will remember and tell you when its good and when its not. Consistency in signal is the key. Iron will do just as you mentioned, it will move around and you have a hard time PP'ing it.
NebTrac
NebTrac
Yep falsing is a norm where I hunt most of the time. Ground loaded with square nails to round in various rates of decay. Turning 90* is my first step then pinpoint over the spot with best sound and TID. If I get a small pinpoint in same spot and it reads the same as when swinging it increases my confidence in a good target. If it pinpoints off to the side with an iron signal then probably falsing. At least at my location with small coil.
Ahh yeah, the falsing thing!
You don't mention the pattern or other settings specifically the sensitivity setting.
I normally detect open mask but those times when i do use a heavy discrim. pattern and get a suspected iffy false here's what works for me as to dig or not.
Switch to open mask (if not there), could be the target especially if deep and near junk is on the edge of discrimination and the eTRAC is having problems resolving the target ID
If that fails, sweep numerous times in all directions over the area
If that fails, try locating nearby junk targets adjacent to the area with short sweeps. If you pp a junk target nearby the false area, dig it then sweep again.
If that fails and in hi man sens., try reducing the sensitivity
If that fails and it appears the target is relatively shallow try using Auto sens.(if not there) to settle down the eTRAC
If that fails, first try pinpointing the way the manual suggests and if that fails use the wiggle pp method.
Which ultimately brings us to this, if you can't pinpoint a target where'n the h_ll are you going to dig? Forget it, move on, its a false.
I've had a some 12+ inch deep targets hit a bouncy conductive 50 with a bouncy ferrous 1, iffy at best. Most were deep corroded nails, some were hot rocks and a few were deep silver coins and other keepers. You just never know til you dig.
You don't mention the pattern or other settings specifically the sensitivity setting.
I normally detect open mask but those times when i do use a heavy discrim. pattern and get a suspected iffy false here's what works for me as to dig or not.
Switch to open mask (if not there), could be the target especially if deep and near junk is on the edge of discrimination and the eTRAC is having problems resolving the target ID
If that fails, sweep numerous times in all directions over the area
If that fails, try locating nearby junk targets adjacent to the area with short sweeps. If you pp a junk target nearby the false area, dig it then sweep again.
If that fails and in hi man sens., try reducing the sensitivity
If that fails and it appears the target is relatively shallow try using Auto sens.(if not there) to settle down the eTRAC
If that fails, first try pinpointing the way the manual suggests and if that fails use the wiggle pp method.
Which ultimately brings us to this, if you can't pinpoint a target where'n the h_ll are you going to dig? Forget it, move on, its a false.
I've had a some 12+ inch deep targets hit a bouncy conductive 50 with a bouncy ferrous 1, iffy at best. Most were deep corroded nails, some were hot rocks and a few were deep silver coins and other keepers. You just never know til you dig.