nickels and se pro

[swater]

Could sure use some advice and tips on how to find nickels. Ive dug a few, including a buffalo and a v, but have dug way more beaver tails and other trash than these old knees should be
subjected to. The numbers and tone and cursor location of the nickel seems to be right smack in the middle of almost every piece of aluminum trash out there. Has any one found a solution
to this? Ive tried "learning" the nickel with the smallest window, this knocks out a lot of trash, but the depth really suffers.The medium and large learn window helps but now im back to digging
a lot of tails. HELP.

 

[grumpyolman]

Swater...do you have really high quality knee pads? I can't kneel on the concrete in my shop but with my knee pads I Can kneel anywhere. Keeps me dry too. I can't remember the brand but I remember my son got them at a professional contractor supply outlet. If it's important I'll go look and get it posted.

 

[swater]

Hi grump, yep one for each.

 

[Magicman]

swater, the tone for me was a little different. I changed my TH tone and maxed it so I could get the biggest difference. (Silver has a really high pitch) When I hit that low solid thunk thunk I knew it was a nickle. I have pulled a lot of nickles. I recently changed over to E-Trac and I have done the same thing with th tone. Getting nickles and not the pull tabs.

 

[DanRoss]

I am finding more nickels than ever before using the Minelab SE Pro. I don't know what it is about the signal, but somehow every time I think it is a nickel,,. it IS a nickel..
I think it is the 'round sound'. The nickel gives a nice clean beep as opposed to the irregular signal of foil or pull tabs. I test the signal from multiple angles, and if it sounds consistently 'round', I dig. Rarely is it NOT a nickel. Try it with an air test!

 

[Bill_S]

When hunting real trashy areas where I do not want to listen to all the trash I setup my explorer like the picture below. The nickel notch is real narrow and it does a real good job of finding nickels with out all the trash. It is not 100% effective against trash but no detector is......

 

[Magicman]

I agree with DanRoss with that clean sound... Throw some nickles on the ground and throw some pull tabs also. Close your eyes and listen. Maybe, because I played instruments in school, I listen more than looking for visual indications on the screen. I was explaining to my hunting partner when I knew I had trash versus a coin (even a coin on edge) it was because of the sound. I learned from Thomas Danowski and my Bounty Hunter making 3 tones. I studied how the sound was coming off and I visual what could make that sound. Was the sound coming off Sharp, clean or did it linger a bit or change a bit as I moved past the object.

 

[Ron Y]

Hi swater,

What I've done is put a nickel in my left shoe.
Someone suggested this awhile back and it works.
A little help until you get the sound down pat.


Good Luck

Ron

 

[monindou]

Hi Bill,
Say, what's the "accepted" area along the very bottom of the screen for? I usually block that out because all I've ever dug on those signals is junk & oddball stuff but no nickels.

Swatter, guys,
The one thing I found is that while I was using the MLx2-1050 coil on a small yard that I'd hammered for over a year with DFX and them with my SE using Joey & Slimline I was really able to clean up the nickles and buttons. The first time through with the 1050 it netted 2 V-nickles, 1 Buffalo & 1 Silver Jefferson in one hole (talk about a weird signal, good nickelie one way and jumpy the other), and a post war Jefferson. For fun I jumped between smart screen and digital and found that where when it was a single nickel and I was "locating" always 10-05 or 10-06 and when pin-pointing the machine always locked in on 10-06. Rightly or wrongly besides that good nickel sound explained earlier I've kind of come to depend on "a couple of points either side" of 10-06 as my deciding factor no matter what coil I'm using and not to sound off but I jump between Pro, 1050, SEF 10x12, Sunray x12, Sunray 8, Joey, and Slimline.

Take care guys, good post,
Doug

 

[Jim upstate NY]

I haven't read the other responses, but After time you will just tell the difference in tone quality on a nickle, much more solid hit and much less wavering tone from other directions, pull tab tongues waver and just dont hit as solid, sometimes a wad of foil will sound pretty good though so they are tough.. one thing to really take note of is the deep nickels will very likely bounce to the right over to the crown cap area, but if a deep one bounces from nickel to crown cap bottom right always dig, its usually a good target even if not a nickel..
if it stays buried in bottom right keep walking

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

In the same hole yesterday. And also a very strange signal. Decent nickel hit at times and other times bouncing elsewhere. Once I dug one nickel, I then would get another decent hit slightly away from the last one. And even more amazing is after getting out all four nickels I had a real strong silver hit, turned out to be a roosie. I had absolutely no indication of silver until the I had dug all the nickels. Usually nickel and silver together will give higher than nickel hit. I guess things were buried in such a way that the nickels completely masked the dime. And I would never had called multiple nickels, almost didn't dig at all.

So to add to what the others say. If there ever was a time not to program in a little accept box it is for nickels. They tend to hit more randomly than silver/copper. And the deeper(hence older and more fun to find) will hit the worst. If you only open up a little window, you will only get the shallow nickels on a consistent basis.

One of the best clues about nickel hits comes from Golddigger. That nickels buried around iron will vary from the normal area at the bottom of the screen all the way to the upper left corner and in an arc between those two spots. Generally if you see the cursor hitting to the left and higher than normal give it a dig. Pulltabs tend to hit more randomly, they will often bounce straight up. I have seen folded over beaver tails do a pretty good nickel impression.

The site I hunted at yesterday gave up 6 nickels. 1 V, 2 Buff, 1 War, and two late 40's Jeffersons. Only one silver dime and one wheat. Very much indicative of a site that had been hunted by some one using discrimination. So your machine can find nickels no problem, but you will have to dig some other stuff to get them.

Chris

 

[Bill_S]

>>>>>Hi Bill,
Say, what's the "accepted" area along the very bottom of the screen for? I usually block that out because all I've ever dug on those signals is junk & oddball stuff but no nickels.>>>>>

I forgot that was in there. I was experimenting with a few small thin gold rings and that is where they were hitting so I opened that up. I do not get many hits in that area but any that sound real good I dig. Only foil in that area so far but you never know.....;o)