pioeer 505 can count change!

[Ed Steinhoff]

Weather was in the mid 30's and no wind this weekend so I went to a local park that has lots of clad targets and most of them shallow enough to pop out with a probe. Did a 2 hr hunt on sat pm, found 35 coins, a large brass mans ring, 1 earring (junk) and a small babys ring marked .925 on the inside. Today (Sun) got 3.5 hours in, didn't find any jewelry but came home with 69 coins. On one target the ID said 50 cents at 4". I found 2 quarters, one stacked on top of the other, proof that the 505 can count the change in the ground! ED in co.

 

[capt.]

Just one more reason to like my 505. Sounds like you had a blast in that park. Keep it and happy hunting.

capt.

 

[Aces High 333]

Sounds like a good weekend "dirt fishing". Thanks for the report.

 

[GoGoGopher]

Your not the first to get 2 quarters reading 50 cents...I do nto think it is a coincidence...I think it is the amount of metal that makes the machine read 50 cents.

 

[silvereagle]

wow,lol my wife kicks butt with the 505.

 

[salmonriverhotrock]

With the cold temperatures and Ice forming again on the Salmon River here, Steelhead fishing is mostly at a stand still so maybe I should fire up my Pioneer 505. I guess because I cut my teeth on detecting by sound and it's relationship to coil distance traveled, I look very little at the 505 readings.

Thats quiet interesting about the two quarters reading out as .50 cents. Have never run into that before but maybe I should bury a couple to see if I can replicate this. I would guess you had the standard coil on but wonder what the 4" would have done?

After years with my Garretts, for an inexpensive machine and it's simplicity, the Pioneer 505 has for just over a year impressed me and would put it's performance up with some of the more expensive. I'm in a rough and rugged highly mineralized hot rock area and to include the trashed out locations, that 4" coil is great. I mostly run in All Metal and with Ground Ballance. Like I said, I'm one of them who works by sound, an old habit hard to kick. If I get something sounding odd to me, I switch to Discriminate to try and figure it out. Sometimes even then, the metal content is so odd it fools the reading and can do that on most any machine. The areas along the river here get worked over often but I have managed to find my share of coins that obviously have been buried for lengths of time and were missed by the high dollar machine others. And my standard coil took a direct hit by a rattle snake this last summer and is still working. Can't say that much for the snake.

 

[capt.]

I suppose it is a good thing to be able to detect the snake before it detects you. Our 505's are very versatile machines indeed!

capt.

 

[mwaynebennett]

Try putting 25 pre-1983 US pennies in a hole and see if the 505 will indicate a quarter.

Mark
Elite 2200
WA St.

 

[salmonriverhotrock]

Yes Sir, the poor rascal picked on the best and died like the rest.

 

[salmonriverhotrock]

You may be on to something there. Now if we could just find a way to go to the Bank with that.