Magnets in the bottom of scoop?

[rockin tees]

I have read articles on the forum about magnets in the bottom of scoops. My question is WHY you would need a magnet in the scoop. My Whites DFX does not pick up steel on the beach.

Thanks

Rockin Tees

 

[Gulf Hunter]

They are mainly for the PI bunch, but every now and again, a bottle cap or nail will stick to mine using the Excal. Usually in the midst of recovering a non-ferrous target.

 

[tvr]

If you ever run all-metal, a magnet will keep you from digging hair pins multiple times. Hair pins love to slide through the scoop holes and run for cover under the next coil swing.

 

[deerman]

i use a fisher I.D.Edge and found out by a friend who also used an edge that if you have a signal next to iron thats good the iron might null it out ,BUT if you set it to pick up some iron it will let you know that theres a good target
in the field the coil has as it will read as a positive/neg on the meter so becouse of the positive number you dig it (most of the time if it reads a low number say +3 or 4 its gold) and when you dig it you will get the junk in the same scoop so with the magnet in the scoop the junk iron/steel sticks to it so its easy to find so you might want to lower the dis.numbers to get some more gold in the scoop

 

[vernt]

For a long time I thought it a silly idea. Recently I tried it and am now I'm a believer.