Nickel sounds with XL Pro

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I am finding more nickels as I get more time on the XL Pro; but I need to dig anything that makes a sound with an ID near the low 20's.

The sound on some nickels is fairly solid, but others, even shallow and laying flat, have a bounce to the beep or are pretty raspy. Very unlike the smooth round tone given on any of the other common coins I've dug so far (except the eaten up zinc pennies that get raspy sounding too).
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[dahut]

I am finding more nickels as I get more time on the XL Pro; but I need to dig anything that makes a sound with an ID near the low 20's.

The sound on some nickels is fairly solid, but others, even shallow and laying flat, have a bounce to the beep or are pretty raspy. Very unlike the smooth round tone given on any of the other common coins I've dug so far (except the eaten up zinc pennies that get raspy sounding too).
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Is it possible there is some other item within the loops sphere of induction?

I found a nickle today which read as a high signal, up in the zinc range. Being half Scottish, I can't leave a good zincer in the ground so I popped it loose - and found a nickle.
When I rechecked the spot, I discovered there was a large iron item in the vicinity, causing a very high - low bounce.

I have also heard that new nickles don't read like older ones. I don't know what the difference is, but I remember reading this somewhere here on the forum.

 

[goodmore]

You failed to mention where your discrimination is set. If it is set any where near nickels some of them will break up a bit.

 

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I pin point to size and separate targets and have noted the raspy nickels when I don't see a bigger pinpoint area that would indicate nearby iron.

Discrimination running between salt and iron ... takes out the real small nails. Hits fairly small foil and up.

Same raspy and sometimes broken sound on many nickels with all three coils I've run; 6 and 8 inch blue max and the 9.5 inch black max. This field is heavily fertilized but I've noted the raspy nickel hits most places I've found nickels with the XL Pro.

Yesterday running the 8 inch coil in the middle of a pretty clean soccer field with mild soil, I dug two nickles that sounded very raspy that were both still in the flap so I could verify they were flat to the surface. One about 2.5 inches down, the other about 3.5 inches down.

Funny thing is that yesterday I dug a couple of foil balls that showed right at nickel for the ID and were very smooth round sounding beeps. Have been hoping some of the raspy sounding low conductive range turn out to be jewelry ... so far I'm still working on the first gold with the XL Pro.

It sure does find dimes deep. Really locks onto them.
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[goodmore]

I have run into raspy nickels on a couple of my Whites machines. Mainly an Eagle Spectrum & Prizm V. Maybe the nature of the beast. As long as you know the sound you should still pull your share.

 

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Thanks! And yes, pulling a reasonable nickel count now; although I wasn't at first. They just don't sound as good or as consistent as the other coins.
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