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Just Curious.

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Just watched a few videos about detecting in a wet soil environment and the extra depth you get when doing this. Just curious if anybody noticed any difference when doing this after a good rain storm.
 
They always say you get extra depth but I lost depth on a quarter (buried at 9” for a few months) a day after a heavy rain. Maybe the minerals in the ground got stronger too, not buried long enough??
 
Yup. Always deeper in moist ground.
Have an area that produced good targets.
Though seems to be petering out.
Go back there after a good rain.
I would usually go the next day.
Letting the ground soak up the water.
Usually I'd find more deeper targets where there were none before.
 
From my experience of 51 years ( 1973) I find that if the ground is somewhat wet it seems to do better, but if it is slopping wet I seem to get less depth as I hear more erratic signals and hard to hear the deep weaker signals. If I wait a day or so and go back over the area I seem to find more I missed before. Too dry also is not too good, but a moist ground is the best for me.
I had a big surprise one time at a old school ballfield I had and others detected the year before and close to home . it was spring and the ground was wet as the spring thaw and the area I was at was nice and wet and some was water standing. Where is was nice and wet I did well and the one and only time I got 3 halfs, a barber, a walker and a Franklin that blew me away. Move to the area that was real wet with the water standing and had no luck at all as I it just too wet. When I went back when no water standing and notice I was doing better, so I feel with too much water is not good, but if it is wet and not real muddy it works better for me anyway. I am sure other may have seen this too as one area is good and then go back a week later when it is dry and you don't well.
Some things are hard to explain in detecting and notice if you have a positive attitude you seem to do better.

Rick
 
Rick(ND) said:
From my experience of 51 years ( 1973) I find that if the ground is somewhat wet it seems to do better, but if it is slopping wet I seem to get less depth as I hear more erratic signals and hard to hear the deep weaker signals. If I wait a day or so and go back over the area I seem to find more I missed before. Too dry also is not too good, but a moist ground is the best for me.
I had a big surprise one time at a old school ballfield I had and others detected the year before and close to home . it was spring and the ground was wet as the spring thaw and the area I was at was nice and wet and some was water standing. Where is was nice and wet I did well and the one and only time I got 3 halfs, a barber, a walker and a Franklin that blew me away. Move to the area that was real wet with the water standing and had no luck at all as I it just too wet. When I went back when no water standing and notice I was doing better, so I feel with too much water is not good, but if it is wet and not real muddy it works better for me anyway. I am sure other may have seen this too as one area is good and then go back a week later when it is dry and you don't well.
Some things are hard to explain in detecting and notice if you have a positive attitude you seem to do better.

Rick
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Hi, It’s funny you said that, I found 5 rings on a soccer field after it rained for a few days and the ground was still pretty wet.Thanx for that reply, just curious if it’s the same on the beach as well.
 
Odanscoils said:
Yup. Always deeper in moist ground.
Have an area that produced good targets.
Though seems to be petering out.
Go back there after a good rain.
I would usually go the next day.
Letting the ground soak up the water.
Usually I'd find more deeper targets where there were none before.
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Thanx, good point!
 
When a magnetic field travels through moisture it can actually cause what is called the diamagnetic effect which is a weak opposing magnetic field.Although this is so weak as not to cause any significant impact on the magnetic field a detector puts into the ground,it doesn't add up that it is the moisture in the soil that gives greater depth.
There are a couple of things that may play a part.......magnetic fields and electronics that produce them can be more efficient in cooler conditions........generally weather systems that produce rain also produce cooler conditions which may help the field a detector produces operate at more of a peak efficiency.Also,when soil is very dry it becomes less compact and it seperates......as can be seen from surface cracking.......it is generally accepted that detectors work better when the soil is uniformly compact so If it is very dry,air pockets can form in the soil which could make the magnetic field less efficient,moist soil expands and creates a tighter structure??These points would explain why people attain better depths when the soil is moist.
Disclaimer........I could be talking out of my arse.😁
 
The flux capacitors in metal detectors penetrate deeper in wet soil but less in soaked soils and will eat up all the garbage you swing over 😂😂 ,but seriously wet is deeper and soaked is shallower in my soil,I get way less depth in the dry summer months
 
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