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bcoop

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Went out yesterday to a couple of small country church yards. Found several pennies, one wheat, a few dimes, a gold plated hoop ear ring and one Roosevelt silver dime.
I had not gave it much thought until yesterday but I had zinc pennies discriminated on my E-trac and was not finding any, however I did find several pennies and wondered why.
In mid 1982 pennies were converted to 99.2 % zinc/JUNK, so some 1982 pennies are more bronze and will not pick up as a 12-37-38 on the E-Trac, they will pick up as a 12-43,44 and that is what I was getting consistent 12-43,44 readings that were pennies. When I got home I looked at the pennies and noticed they were most all from the late 50's to early 60's. I don't mind digging wheat pennies or older dated pennies, but I sure hate digging up those pitted junk zinc ones.

BCOOP, Missouri.
 
Just an observation here. If you're looking in an area that might produce Indian pennies, eliminating modern zinc pennys will more than likely, also eliminate Indians. Their composition is different than the wheatie or copper memorial penny.
 
C&RHunter said:
Just an observation here. If you're looking in an area that might produce Indian pennies, eliminating modern zinc pennys will more than likely, also eliminate Indians. Their composition is different than the wheatie or copper memorial penny.
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I agree as well. I was hunting a private yard the other week and dug my 1st Indian with a Conductive number of 37. You may want to not block those out in the future. If you are hunting a park and you get a 37 reading, look at your depth meter. If it's deep dig, if shallow you can choose to dig or pass.

Your call on how you want to setup your disc, but you'll never know what you'll miss.

DJH
 
C&RHunter said:
Just an observation here. If you're looking in an area that might produce Indian pennies, eliminating modern zinc pennys will more than likely, also eliminate Indians. Their composition is different than the wheatie or copper memorial penny.
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diggin jimmy hoffa said:
I agree as well. I was hunting a private yard the other week and dug my 1st Indian with a Conductive number of 37. You may want to not block those out in the future. If you are hunting a park and you get a 37 reading, look at your depth meter. If it's deep dig, if shallow you can choose to dig or pass.
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[size=medium]Couldn't have said it better myself - so I wont try.[/size]
 
I agree, If in an area that may produce Indian heads it might be wise to dig it all. Those zinc pennies do produce a recognizeable tone, the E-trac seems to hammer them quite well.
Oh and by the way I did come in at second place. My 14 year old son has been using my GTI 2500 and he had 4 quarters for the day and I did not have any. I beat him on the amount of targets but not on dollar amount.

BCOOP
 
Like they are saying the IH read will read the same as the zinc penny, but also some of the early wheat pennies also read the same too. If the area is not old then disc out the zinc pennies is OK, but if it is old and still being used I will not dig surface targets that read like a zinc penny.
 
Alot of the wheaties I have been finding lately have been reading Fe 17. Probably because they are have a green gunky coating on them. I dug a corroded Buffalo Nickle last night that gave a 10 / 10 reading.
 
Last summer a buddy and I had been hunting all day with NO luck recovering anything old. Just modern change. That's not what we were hoping for, and hadn't really done that well in the "modern" category. On our way home we decided to hit a park that three of us had worked on a lot during the summer. We had been there 45-60 minutes and were really getting skunked, even on modern stuff. A real bad day!. He was ready to go, but I wanted A coin. I decided to go over near an old oak tree in the park, that we had found barbers near. I looked for a few minutes with no luck. He asked if I was ready to go, just as I got a hit. I looked at the digital and it was going to be a zinc penny. I told him "as soon as I dig this zinc penny, we'll go". I cut the plug and scanned it..Nothing. I dug another 2 or 3 inches of dirt out, and there in the bottom of the hole was a Barber half dollar. I, also recovered a buffalo nickel, and a rusty nail from the side of the hole. That was it... NO ZINC PENNY, no other targets. This happened with my now, backup machine, an Expl. XS, but it doesn't really matter which machine, if you don't dig zinc signals. I am pretty sure all of us had probably gotten that signal before, since we had not be digging zincs or very few, in this park. And I know, I had skipped digging zincs near this tree myself. So for me..now I dig way too many zinc pennies, but in my mind, if I think there is a chance of recovering something "good",I dig, trust that "gut feeling"...For all naysayers...I'm getting the zinc pennies out of your way..(mine too, for return trips)
 
I saw my friend dig a zinc target by the old tree except it was indian
He is also very lucky. He eyeballed a merc on top of the ground.
By the same old tree's. The next hunt he eyeballed silver quarter
at a homestead by the fence. some people are in the right place.:surprised:

HH
BIG JOHN
 
CoinShooter-Craig said:
Alot of the wheaties I have been finding lately have been reading Fe 17. Probably because they are have a green gunky coating on them. I dug a corroded Buffalo Nickle last night that gave a 10 / 10 reading.
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Not to sound rude, but the FE number doesn't really mean anything to me. It's the Conductive number that I go by. A conductive number of 40 and showing 5-6 inches deep in a old spot is usually a Wheatie for me where I hunt. 13 on CO and does not falter is a good nickel. My Nickle count has really gone up this year since I purchased the E-Trac. Once in awhile I get fooled with the CO 13 being a old style pull tab have the beaver tail still stuck to it, but that doesn't happen to often like that.

HH

DJH
 
Yes rings will pick up from a 12-04 thru a 12-38. I tested all my wife's rings (several) and noticed that hers picked up most often as 12-07,12-08, 12-09 from 10 to 14 kt. My gold wedding band shows up as a 12-22 it is 10kt.
I had the zinc discriminated from being at the middle school not far from my house, however when we went to that church I had forgotten about having the zinc discriminated but was getting several pennies, and wondered why and did not think about them being copper until I got home and started looking at them.
I have owned the E-trac less than a month but learn more everytime I use it. This is my first Minelab so it is a total learning experience and appreciate all the good information you all give out. It really helps. I read Andy's book and refer to it often. I may have 10 to 12 hours on it because work interferes with pleasure.

B.Cooper, Missouri
 
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