is my observation right? it is pretty rainy here, like rains everyday some and a couple days ago it poured pretty good for awhile.so my question would be "does it become harder to pinpoint after rain and the ground having some moisture in it after about a week or so of having rain every day"? it seems to me pinpointing has become a little more difficult lately ! just like some of you guys and gals EXPERT opinion because i only started recently. thanks all
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PINPOINTING
- Thread starter RICKinFLA
- Start date
Brokensignal
New member
Some old relic hunters say that the detector will go deeper in the wet ground.I hate the mud.The only thing i like is in a public area to me some times the dig, if you use a small point shovel like i do the plug will be in one big clump,but it is so messy that is why i started using a glove only on one hand,my left,i use the detector with the right,mess with the dirt in the left,it is so much cleaner.Then the detector does not get mudded up and i can turn the knobs also with no glove on the right hand.I have never had a id detector but some times like with the Vaquero i will switch to all metal or cut the disc back to pinpoint then go back to hunt settings this is were i can not have a glove or the detector will be mudded up! and i can not turn the knobs! oh or cut the sensitivity back some.When you first start out with a detector you could dig a two foot hole very easy,Ghost signals-or it could be a very deep large iron or other type of metal.Sometimes i do give up.A coin is going to be only so deep.Chuck
nwdetectorist
Active member
Hello RICKinFLA,
A few days after heavy rain is best...
...at least that has been my observation, and we do get just a little rain here in Oregon
What works for me the best is to get out and hit it hard at about the 24 hour mark after rain to about the 2nd day after rain.
The ground is easier to dig (because of all the rain our ground can be quite compacted here, especially dry in late summer too),
and smaller signals like older silver dimes and small rings are much easier to hear.
Yes, the wetter ground can be difficult to pinpoint in sometimes.
I just adjust my hearing/thoughts/conceptions about what a coin-sized target sounds like when the ground is really wet.
I used to just walk along merrily as if I really knew what was going on.
Then one day I dug up one of those wet/wide/scattered signals and voila!
TOO MUCH DIRT, NOT ENUFF TIME!
nwdetectorist
A few days after heavy rain is best...
...at least that has been my observation, and we do get just a little rain here in Oregon
What works for me the best is to get out and hit it hard at about the 24 hour mark after rain to about the 2nd day after rain.
The ground is easier to dig (because of all the rain our ground can be quite compacted here, especially dry in late summer too),
and smaller signals like older silver dimes and small rings are much easier to hear.
Yes, the wetter ground can be difficult to pinpoint in sometimes.
I just adjust my hearing/thoughts/conceptions about what a coin-sized target sounds like when the ground is really wet.
I used to just walk along merrily as if I really knew what was going on.
Then one day I dug up one of those wet/wide/scattered signals and voila!
TOO MUCH DIRT, NOT ENUFF TIME!
nwdetectorist