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Might Have Found a Nice Target....Please Help?

S

SpencerHughes

New member
I would appreciate any help and tips here...Thanks in advance!

Went out to an old foundation from the late 1800s, early 1900s...

Near RR depot...former location of old saloons, a telegraph office, etc. This town was a booming town in the old days.

So I am canvassing an area with my Garrett 1350 and I hit the sounds and readings for silver coins. The farthest arrow on the far right on the 1350...

It says depth is 5 inches. So I take my digger and stick my hand down there...pulling up dirt, etc. Nothing. Another few inches. Nothing.

So I ended up digging a hole that is a good two feet deep...hitting mud so I must have reached the water table for that spot. Still no coin.

But the 1350 insists there is a coin 5 inches or so below. The depth isn't changing...and it consistently points to the far right (silver coins).

The irony is that my Pro Pointer came in TODAY'S mail...AFTER I got home from this dig.

My plan is to go back in the morning and this time with a SHOVEL and just dig a bigger hole if the PP isn't a help...

So my question is...and I AM NEW so bear with me...would YOU keep digging?? What the HECK is down there?? Would a 1350 keep pinging as silver if it isn't?? And if I am two feet down and see nothing yet...but the thing keeps pinging when I pinpoint over this DEEP hole I've dug.

Would you come back with a shovel? Dig until you find it? I will try my Pro Pointer which I didn't have today when I go back tomorrow. See if that helps.

Again, I am new and eager and I know this area is an old mining town so I am licking my chops hoping it's something more than a 2005 quarter way down in that abyss. HAHA.

Thanks, everyone!

Cheers,

Spencer
 
Could be any thing can large piece of iron jar full of coins. Only one way to know for sure. Get a bigger shovel.

Jason
 
I agree with Jason, could be anything. If an old house set there and burned it could be a melted wad of copper in the ground or other melted metal in a wad. Maybe a mason jar full of silver quarters.


GOOD LUCK

BCOOP
 
Could be anything, But in most cases it will not be one coin that deep, unless it's in the side of the hole somewhere, I dig many holes like that only to find junk cans but you never know what it might be till you dig it :detecting:
 
side of the hole I think. Pro pointer will sniff it out winthin3 or 4 inches. I tend to think 1/5 dollar or Aluminum piece (larger). Good Luck and prove me wrong.
 
Last summer that happened to me a few times, until I figured out what was going on. No matter how deep I dug, nothing there, but when I pinpointed it told me something was there. Try digging about 6 inches in front of where the edge of your hole is. In this situation I found an aluminum can 6 or 8 inches away from where the pinpointer said a target should be. Very strange, but it did happen to me a few times. Hope this helps
 
Often there will be one or more coins laying at the base of the grass several inches out past the edge of the hole. The edge of the coil picks them up and signals as if they are under the coil. Have had this happen more than once.

Bill
 
You can usually tell if it's a can or big target by raising the coil up eight inches or so. If it's still picking it up at that distance it ain't no coin or ring.

Bill
 
Steel toed boots??
If not then I am thinking trash or your target is off to the side. The Propointer is going to be the best investment you will ever add to your tool pouch so let us know what you find please.
 
I had something similar happen to me several years back. I had a signal reading 25 cent coin size. Using a spade I dug to the length of the spade, even made the hole wider. After having a hole that looked like bomb went of and the target still centered in the middle of the hole I filled it in and went home. I told my son and back to bomb site we went with a shovel. We dug about a foot or so and found a rusty old nail that looked it was the 1800. Maybe a pin pointer would have helped to begin with but the spade was still to short.
 
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