BarnacleBill
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Since it is raining, but doppler radar showed it let'n up a little, I decided to stick a shower cap on the Excel and hit a nearby beach. There are several areas under trees that I save for days such as this, but they are pretty trashy, so low and slow is the game, and I dig just about anything that is (+). Basically an hour or so stroll out in the air to get out of the house. With Sens @ 9 and Disc -8 it was off to the races.
There is a good deal of surface foil and deep iron, so you have to use Tony's scientific method(a Jalapeno Burrito just before hunting is spot on).
One technique I use when getting a mixed signal is to kick away about two inches of sand in case surface foil is mixing w/ a target below.
During my stroll I received a broken but strong +33 ID, the ID scaled down into the positive teens and back up. Aha! I says to me-self, foil masking, and I kicked the sand away. Swung coil, no target, PP, target is in kicked sand pile, swing coil is disc mode and get -19. Boy, the quarter must be over a huge piece of shallow iron. PP again and find a quarter standing on edge. Remove quarter, swing over sand pile, nothing, no iron indication. What the He!!? Look at the quarter and she is a 1980 Canadian with a moose on the cover. Ah, the old steel core trick. Re-checked w/ airtest and planted back in clean sand vertically , -18 to -20 depending on sweep angle.
HH
BarnacleBill
There is a good deal of surface foil and deep iron, so you have to use Tony's scientific method(a Jalapeno Burrito just before hunting is spot on).
One technique I use when getting a mixed signal is to kick away about two inches of sand in case surface foil is mixing w/ a target below. During my stroll I received a broken but strong +33 ID, the ID scaled down into the positive teens and back up. Aha! I says to me-self, foil masking, and I kicked the sand away. Swung coil, no target, PP, target is in kicked sand pile, swing coil is disc mode and get -19. Boy, the quarter must be over a huge piece of shallow iron. PP again and find a quarter standing on edge. Remove quarter, swing over sand pile, nothing, no iron indication. What the He!!? Look at the quarter and she is a 1980 Canadian with a moose on the cover. Ah, the old steel core trick. Re-checked w/ airtest and planted back in clean sand vertically , -18 to -20 depending on sweep angle.
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BarnacleBill
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because they were woodswise enough to know that hitting one w/ a pistol round is just going to make them really mad, kind of like shooting "Mongo". 
