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Nail help??

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redclay

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I have been hunting around my house with my coin strike latly and have been finding a lot of very rusty nails of all sizes. They come in at 23 to 28 and give a good signal. I remove the nail and the signal is gone.I also have a cz70 and a exlorer II and they also pick up the nails with good signal. I realy love the fishers and do good at some places but having a hard time around the yard with them.
I've tried the 525 and factory preset but no luck. Does anyone else have this trouble. I have a xlt, it dosent pick up the nails but I can't get the depth I want. My yard is black dirt for about 8" then hits red clay.Like I say I love the fishers and any advice on this subject would be greatly appreciated very much.
Thanks, David
 
drop down into a negative #'s with some further investigation....IE. sweeping back over from several different angles & also playing with some different sweep speeds. Unless they are bent/curved nails....that's a different story as round shapes fool many ID units. Often the initial sweep over a nail lying lengthwize looks "good" to the ID at first, & you see a number in the 20's & begin digging. I made this mistake many times early on with the C$ & dug lots of iron, & I imagine many of the "1 hour experts" guys did the same & it went right to classifieds. But, once learned, after more practice you'll dig less & less nails/iron. The only ones I dig now are bent around into a circle. After several hours you'll notice a difference in sound as well. Hard to put into words, but it just does not have the same crisp tone or ID "lock" either.....
good luck,
Bill
 
Most of the time when you pinpoint, they will go negative or fall silent in the PP mode. Just be careful! Many times I have gotten a negative reading over and over and see a positive flash up just a time or two. When I dug, I got a piece of junk and a keeper out of the same hole. Once I got a silver dime out of a hole with an axe head. No machine will be perfect, but the C$ will give you plenty of clues that you are over a nail.
 
Yea I noticed that most would not pinpoint. We have had so much rain that the iron really sounds off. I will try checking at different sweep angles when I get a good signal. Most of the nails are bent.
Thanks for the good advice.One thing I can say is I have found some deep finds with the coinstrike. It is amazing.
Thanks Again, David
 
They say that iron becomes alot more conductive wet. I find this with the hot rocks we have here too....when they get wet I end up diggin' quite a few & then cursing & throwing them into the woods :rant:
I think you'll find easier sledding on those square nails in more normal dry conditions....
HH,
Bill
 
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