My Etrac thinks its a Fisher

[Bugalooob]

It seems to like old corroded nails...I went out for a couple hours today at a local park, only thing I found was a thumb tack (ided at 12-44) and 2 corroded nails(these jumped around from like 14-44 ,13-44 to 1-44..The nails had a high tone and a small pinpoint radius so I though they were coins, I cut a 1 inch plug to see what they were reading again and they hit solid on 12-44 so I though I must have a coin...anyway I dug down 5 more inches (6 inches for the other one in another hole)and their they were...When I took them out and swung the coil over them , they read like they should have (solid ferrous junk)...I did recheck the holes to make sure nothing else was in there...On a side note, my radioshack wireless headphones worked great

 

[JohnTN]

Turn 90 degrees and recheck those high iffy tones and I promise you nails and thumb tacks will disappear.
Etrac will sometimes give you #'s that look like a coin on iron but the tone is real mono-tone flat sounding. The coins will sound will flutey and will repeat when you turn 90 degrees and scan again.

 

[dreamweaver43]

Other ways to id nails would be how the target's pinpoint. Sometimes where you getting the high tone in discrimate mode will not pinpoint right on. Also, especially with the etrac, coin hits will sound "clean and pure" with little variation in tone, iron falses will be pitchy.

Also, try circling the target when you get a iffy hit. Often times you will get the solid null when you hit the target from different direction, and you probably have a nail. When you keep getting the high tones from different directions, even if they still sound odd, you probably should take a look and get your probe closer to the target to see. And sometimes, you get over the target just right and you will get a solid hit if you get over the target just right......and it will be a good target hiding close to the iron. The etrac is as good as any machine hunting masked targets!!

If your new with the etrac or explorer, for a while you should concentrate on digging stable 2-way repeatable deep hits by sound/tone first, then by the TID #s second. And with confidence and experience you will then be able to decide the more iffy digs. And eventually you will be able to ID the iffy good hits from the falsing. Listen just for high tones with the etrac or explorer is not how it works, or everytime the target ID bounces into the coin range............you will drive yourself nuts.

When your hunting parks, let's face it.......there aren't going to be many easies left! And the locations in the parks where the deep iron lives, is probably #1 the oldest ground and #2 where some old targets are still hiding.

Brad

 

[Shambler]

Why would he post that his Fisher was ringing up rusty nails as good targets...? This is an arena where FBS has an issue not single freq units - and certainly not the 70/75. There are tricks to figuring out either one though.

 

[go-rebels]

Sorry to say, but the F75 (single frequency unit) has issues with deep rusty nails, especailly square nail, like other high-end units. All high-end Fishers have a similar problem but I believe that the F75 is much improved over previous Fisher units. The sharp edges and both ends of the square nails can cause problems for many good machines.

However, the abrupt audio and circling technique can often give them away and I usually don't get fooled any longer.

 

[Shambler]

I haven't had near the problem with rusty nails using my F75 as with my Explorer. The F75 grunts on the tail end of the coil but I can't seem to find a way to avoid them with the Explorer.

 

[go-rebels]

Yes, the grunt off the end of the coil is a dead giveaway, just like bottlecaps.