Nothing deep?

[corky569]

Took my etrac to a 1917 park yesterday. Dug 48 coins, but nothing over 3-4 inches. I doubt that it is empty. Any thoughts? I feel like I could dig 80% coins at this point. Am I missing something? Should I be digging the ones I think are junk too? I would dig most any signal over 6 inches, but I don't seem to be getting any?

 

[E-TREC-Virginia]

Do not know what your settings were, but you can try running your sens higher in manual and open up your pattern to accept everything from FE 27 on up and dig every good repeatable signal. I run my sens as high as possible without causing it to become unstable and run the FE 27 on up pattern to catch the bouncy deep signals. You can turn "deep" on if you find that you are getting some iffy deep signals. If you could post your settings you were using at the time, that would help.

 

[LandOLincoln]

I have a local park that is from the 1800s and rarely do I dig anything past 6 inches. The deepest coind I've dug there was a 1917 Walker at about 10-11 inches that I think was burried. Most of my much older indians and barbers were barely 5 or 6 inches deep.

 

[earthmansurfer]

I killed a spot with my Omega and didn't get anything past 7". Thing is, the spot is 500+ years old and have found coins that old! I took the E-Trac there and so far the only coin I have found was 8" and was a 1922! Sometimes it just don't make sense. I run the sensitivity as hot as I can, almost always on manual 30 and always at 25 or more, that is a KEY point - seems like there is a "boost mode" that happens there. You can test it for yourself.

 

[corky569]

I was on the stock coin mode with stock settings, I had reset it before hunting. Last night I found the master reset, and did that ill try it with those settings now and see.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Get the Andy Sabich book. It does an excellent job on describing the controls and gives you some great setting to try as well as WHY he chose those settings.

I would guess you are very new to the E-Trac. You have to spend time with it to learn it, just like any other detector.

 

[corky569]

That book is on its way. This was my 4 th hunt.

 

[NebTrac]

Corky, just hunt with it like you are. If the coins are 8, 10, or 2 inches the machine will tell you. Even with Sensitivity around 17 or so I've dug 8"+ coins. I look at it as this. Are you finding "settler era" coins. If so, then the majority will be about that deep.

You can change spots and all of a sudden 40's and 50's are showing up at 8". In other words it depends on the spots (moisture, fill, clay, sand, etc). Enjoy your machine and your hunts.

NebTrac

 

[Rolladex]

Neb Trac is right.You run your machine the way you want. Those guys running hot will miss coins especialy in a trashy park, to much false-ing. In those older parks you need to move like a turtle and lesson for those faint signels and they are there.

 

[earthmansurfer]

Neb Trac is right.You run your machine the way you want. Those guys running hot will miss coins especialy in a trashy park, to much false-ing. In those older parks you need to move like a turtle and lesson for those faint signels and they are there.

Well, I'm a guy who runs sensitivity hot and I know enough (and most of us should) to turn down the sensitivity in higher trash. You can create a form of masking. But falsing is a trade off. I can get more depth and handle the falsing, depending on the conditions, as I need that extra depth to hit coins at 9" or so.

So just cause some guys run sensitivity hot, doesn't mean they do it where they shouldn't. And on the flip side, running it too low will miss deeper coins and I have proven that time and time again on video doing signal checks.

 

[E-TREC-Virginia]

Neb Trac is right.You run your machine the way you want. Those guys running hot will miss coins especially in a trashy park, to much false-ing. In those older parks you need to move like a turtle and lesson for those faint signals and they are there.

Well, I'm a guy who runs sensitivity hot and I know enough (and most of us should) to turn down the sensitivity in higher trash. You can create a form of masking. But falsing is a trade off. I can get more depth and handle the falsing, depending on the conditions, as I need that extra depth to hit coins at 9" or so.

So just cause some guys run sensitivity hot, doesn't mean they do it where they shouldn't. And on the flip side, running it too low will miss deeper coins and I have proven that time and time again on video doing signal checks.

That's just basic 101 detecting. Why would you just assume that we would continue to run hot when confronted with those types of conditions? Also, my statement was

 

[nge]

Then there are the other people who believe that coins of different sizes sink at a slower rate than others because of their physical size (not the weight of the coin), There is a forum in the U.K. that swears by this and they also sell a machine that does not go much deeper than that! I don't know if I can mention the machine or not, so I'll just give the initials....C.S. My friend is testing this theory. Out back on his property he laid a silver dollar, a silver half, a nickel, a penny, and a dime on top of the ground, and 4 years later they are only about 1/2 inch deep. Only covered by decaying leaves. His soil is sand on top and clay about 18 inches deep. The physical diameter smaller coins will often be found deeper than most halves and dollars in my area, only because the parks I hunt are flood plain parks! The inside curve of the land coins will be really deep ( when the water goes down, the river deposits a sand bar over any lost coins) On the other side of the river, the fast moving water (SCRUBS) the grass and removes soil, still leaving the grass. And I can find coins from the 1800's there only 4 or 5 inches deep! Go figure. Kids stepping on coins and other lost items, a drunk leaning against a nice shade tree (slash type pockets), kids rolling down hills, reel type lawn mowers cutting the grass (and coins), earthworms tunneling under, ground hogs tunneling under the ground all MAKE coins and stuff go deeper. Except when ground hogs dig their holes, check their dirt piles, quite often they dig coins for you and deposit them in their piles! These are just some of the variables in "why was that coin only 4 inches deep" It should've been deeper for that age! I personally have dug I.H.'s at only 2 inches deep on the outside curve in a park, and 1973 pennies at 13 inches on the inside curve of the same park, when this little creek goes over its banks, the water in the park gets 10 feet deep in a hurry. And I have gone to the park after the water retreats, only to see new sandbars on the inside curve of the park where the water has gone down...........NGE

 

[banditicey]

When we were in Boston we ended up detecting in an Old park with "Sandy Soil"

We met a fellow with our Old Detector and he had found amazing coins in less than 4 inches

They included Barber Dimes and a very impressive 1720's Copper

We went over his location and also found impressive coins(you can see our Post) but at depths of up to 8 inches, still sandy but denser

I recently found a 1700 Connecticut Copper at 3 inches at a local H.S.

Go Figure