Nickels.

[CrazySlasher]

Anyone not pulling many nickels with the E-Trac? I think in the two months I've had it I've found like 3 I upgraded from an Ace 250 and I was always pulling them with that. Any ideas? Am I doing something wrong?

 

[LabradorBob]

Nickels to me on the e- trac don't always give a strong solid hit .
i don't have any trouble getting them,i just have to watch the numbers more.
there coming in 12-11,through 12-13 for me.
hope this helps.
LabradorBob

 

[Grumpyolddiver]

n/t

 

[DAN03USMC]

That is kinda weird...I think the opposite is true. I think I find more nickels with the E-Trac.

 

[filo]

I find a lot of nickels. They do vary a lot in the signal they give especially when deep where they can vary a lot. Shallower ones give a consistent sound/number readout. Deeper ones will hit anywhere from 09-13 to 20-13 but usually they like to stay lower on the FE number on repeated passes. Hope that helps. There's plenty of them out there to find.

 

[stevew]

nickels lower tone than most clad but is repeatable

 

[CrazySlasher]

Maybe I'm just not swinging over them. I dig everything so I know I'm not missing things. I'll chalk it up to bad luck.

 

[RandyNorthridgeca]

They come in spurts for me. I always dig shallow nickel numbers and they usually come in at 12-13, . Had a shallow 12-14 today and got 1942 war nickel? A few feet away got a deeper 12-37 reading and was surprised when I dug another war nickel (1943). Dug another 1942 war nickel this week that came in at at 12-29 (was caked with black gunk). Today ended up with 6 nickels. Some pulltabs come in at 12-13 too. If you're digging everything your just not passing over any.

 

[Goes4ever]

I could NEVER find em with my x-70 but with my etrac I find em almost every hunt, no necessarily buffalo's or older, but I find a lot of 1940-50's nickels
One thing that helped a lot was if your using the coin mode, edit it and open up the area around nickels, I'd say out of every 10 nickels I dig MAYBE one hits at 12-12, that it in a perfect world, old nickels rarely ever hit there for me. I bet your passing them up

 

[CT Todd]

I find more now then ever before with the Etrac

 

[NebTrac]

Like Randy said. Some pull tabs come right at that nickel range. Beavertails do too swinging one way, then at the 90 they usually read a 10. I've had shotgun shell butts read nickel and also the old (pre-1940) bottle caps read nickel (though the Fe is really high 20's). Sometimes the sound of a true nickel is just a little more solid. Also; let's say you're finding most coins in the 4-5" range and you get a nickel sound and reading that is like 8" - for me it's usually a beavertail at 3".

I think you have to anaylze where your at and how much time your going to devote to digging. If your in a park thats been used for a century or more and are finding lots of tabs and beavertails you'll do a lot of digging looking for nickels. If you at a homesite/farmsite you'll just have to dig.

NebTrac

 

[EZrider]

Ive found a few Buffs and V nickles. What i do is dig only the good 12-13 signals and leave the others "mostly pull tabs" behind. Nickles tend to bounce a bit due to corrosion.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

I don't usually get a lot of Nickel's either - but I usually get them when I'm watching the lower numbers more closely because I'm at a site that could have some gold jewelry.
If it's a ... solid - crossed from two directions - no bounce - FE - 12 ( or close to it ) CO 12 to 16 - just dig it. Most Nickels seem to come in either CO 13 or 14 .
Some times it's a Pop Top - but if it's a good solid signal - it's usually a Nickel.

I dug on these numbers yesterday at an old high school ( good site for lost gold class rings and other jewelry) and dug (31) coins total - (11) were Nickels.

HH --- Mark

 

[B-Ruce]

CS,

I've had exactly the opposite situation. I went from an Ace 250 to E-Trac last year. Since then, my nickel finds have gone from 2.2% of my coins with the Ace to 7.0% with the E-Trac. I still dig a lot of beaver tails, but I think it is a lot easier to tell a nickel with the E-Trac. I had never found a Buffalo or V-nickel before I got the E-Trac, now I find one for every 16 nickels I dig. Most hit right at 12-13 or 13-13, but the other day I dug a V nickel at 8" that was hitting around 12-18. That was a fun one to dig.

If there is a lot of trash in the ground, it can get tiresome digging everything in that range. But hang in there, I think with practice you will get a good handle on it.

HH,

Bruce

 

[akelley]

Here's a tip - before I leave the door to hunt, I always put a nickel in my shoe to help remind me of the tone. When I hit a suspected nickel, I'll often pass my coil over my shoe to double check.

Cheers,
-Alex

 

[NebTrac]

Here's a tip - before I leave the door to hunt, I always put a nickel in my shoe to help remind me of the tone. When I hit a suspected nickel, I'll often pass my coil over my shoe to double check.

Cheers,
-Alex

Good tip Alex! Good thing you don't want reminded what a Morgan sounds like!!!

NebTrac