MXT Sounds when swinging

[Whitetail]

I'm guessing that some of you may have experienced the same thing with your MXT. Your swinging away moving along....nothing...nothing..then a quick sweet chip is heard from the unit, but going back over that spot indicates a different tone....an infrequent tone that chirps only one way...or perhaps nothing at all. Do you guys usually dig that target....or just keep moving? I try to only dig repeatable targets that have a decent tone and + VDI readings. If I can get the target pinpointed and it is deep I usually dig. Have any of you found silver or gold on those occasional chirps....or are the silver and gold targets you've found just been the repeatable tones. I'm wondering if there may be some masking happening and that is why you get the loud chirp and then a different tone or nothing.
I realize there isn't one answer here, just wondering if you've ever enountered good finds on any of these MXT sounds when swinging?
HH guys.

 

[Aarong81]

I know the sound your talking about. The first chirp you hear is almost always the best! But then stopping there to focus on it gets a chirp when swinging only one way, say to the right, but not when swinging to the left.

First, make SURE you lock the ground balance so that the ground balance doesnt add to the masking. Find a clear spot to re-ground balance as close as possible to the area you get that chirp so the ground is made of the same minerals although it could be an isolated spot where someone always burnt their trash or dumped their coal ashes (hot rocks).

Stare at the spot where you get that chirp....step around it so you are facing it from the side....swing again. You will probably not get a high tone but an iron signal instead. Step around the target again so you are facing it from yet another angle and swing again. And again, probably iron signal. I have dug a few to find out what was giving the chirp and besides an obvious iron target I almost always find a nail in the same hole.

This seems to be a case of 2 wrongs sound like a right until seperated so I would agree about the masking with a twist. There are scenarios when a good target is near iron and it masks out the good target but iron can also make a piece of foil or can slaw give an INCONSISTANT high tone. Its not all bad news, Your detector is giving you valuable information even when it seems to be inconsistant, Thats a good bit of info right there.

When I have found good targets next to iron or hot rocks, The faint but CONSISTANT signals are what I dug. Hot rocks give loud high tones but are never consistantly in the same spot. They seem to wander around and its like chasing silver worms that wont sit still. But when one stays in the same spot and you can get consistant tones in the same spot, dig it.

 

[alienbogey]

Great answer