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Minelab Beach Question ?
- Thread starter larryk56
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Buried Crap NJ
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One of the guys from here in NJ use one last week. Well first off NJ is loaded with iron so he was targeting every swing. The coins he was finding were three scoops deep. That's a good thing being deep but the time spent digging trash was not worth the effort. He never gave us a good report but the one he gave sounded like it wasn't going to be used again on the beach.
GraveDiggerMax-VaBch-Va
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Guy posted on here a few years back
Most beaches have too much junk for a normal beach PI. Yes beaches are a heck of a lot easier to dig in than the dirt. But dig 16 inches after zinc pennies a few times, and you start wondering how you can separate them out. At least with the excal you have high tone. With my Sovereign 175-177 I walk away.
What about the Copper pennies that still hit upwards of 180 ? .......This is my issue with the numbering system on the Sovereign ....Too many coins and silver and such pushed into the 180 zone ....... I never dug so many pennies at the beach as I did running the Sovereign in the dry ......Jim
You have a good point there. All I can say is when I dig a copper penny it still looks like a penny. Well I do try to follow Surfdiiggers advice and look for coin pockets. Theory being that heavy stuff got moved together. Those pennies might point the way to gold even if you don't dig them.
GraveDiggerMax-VaBch-Va
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i was lucky enough to find 2 of those pennies this summer.
i hatem, but part of the job
i hatem, but part of the job
It's similar to digging Pull Tabs .....They are evil , but a nessesary evil in the Gold game .....
Otlew,
The Zinc pennies are not an issue ....They come in lower ....It's the Copper pennies that will come in like quarters ...... I had a day one time at the beach where I must have dug 30 Copper Pennies .....Every Penny I dug was Copper ..... I think I may have dug 2 Quarters that day ..... I thought what the heck , if I was not finding any Gold , or any jewelry, I might as well dig up some toll and gas money ...... All the clad I dug that day , would have left me stranded on the side of the road !!!.... Jim
Otlew,
The Zinc pennies are not an issue ....They come in lower ....It's the Copper pennies that will come in like quarters ...... I had a day one time at the beach where I must have dug 30 Copper Pennies .....Every Penny I dug was Copper ..... I think I may have dug 2 Quarters that day ..... I thought what the heck , if I was not finding any Gold , or any jewelry, I might as well dig up some toll and gas money ...... All the clad I dug that day , would have left me stranded on the side of the road !!!.... Jim
Critterhunter
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I scoop every signal above iron on the beach even if it sounds real bad and even though I use my meter when on dry sand. Still, it's easy enough to avoid most pennies. Zincs of course are like 173 or 176. Copper pennies on my DigiSearch 180 meter tend to linger in the 177 to 179 range. Even if they do hit 180 they take their time walking up to that number and will often drift down to like 178 or 179 from there. Dimes tend to walk up to 180 a bit faster and then stay there. Quarters will walk up to 180 even faster, in fact most of the time going 180 right off that bat and of course are solid at that number as you continue to sweep.
Like I've said, I can tweak my meter to -507 instead of -506 when it "resets" and is at rest, and now silver dimes or clad quarters will go 181. Best to calibrate with a silver dime or clad quarter so that it just goes 181 like every other sweep or so.
Just the same, on the beach I'm digging every signal, and on land if it's deep or mixed in trash I don't care what kind of coin it might be. I don't trust that kind of resolution on a machine so I dig all coin signals looking for the old stuff.
Yes, plenty of gold rings will go penny or even coin on a machine and they don't have to be big huge honkers, either.
Like I've said, I can tweak my meter to -507 instead of -506 when it "resets" and is at rest, and now silver dimes or clad quarters will go 181. Best to calibrate with a silver dime or clad quarter so that it just goes 181 like every other sweep or so.
Just the same, on the beach I'm digging every signal, and on land if it's deep or mixed in trash I don't care what kind of coin it might be. I don't trust that kind of resolution on a machine so I dig all coin signals looking for the old stuff.
Yes, plenty of gold rings will go penny or even coin on a machine and they don't have to be big huge honkers, either.
The Sunray meters keep Copper pennies up in the 180 range and they rarely drop ...I've even tried calibrating Quarters to the 179 range to see if Pennies would drop lower and no cigar ....Whatever I have my Quarters set to , my Copper Pennies are right there .....Dimes will drop to 178-179 but Copper Pennies sound solid like a Quarter .... Zincs I can walk by all day long, but when you get a good high tone and you see180 on your meter , your heart starts to pump ....Jim