rentasquid
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Took the 50 out yesterday to try to get a better feel for what the numbers and sounds are telling me. The area that I was hunting is a wide open field that has a few wheat pennies sprinkled about. It is the site of an old school building, and does have a little iron scattered about too. The detector was properly GBed too.
So, here is what I found...I got a broken hit that was reading 39,42 and 45. It was a little more solid than most of the iron hits, but it was definately choppy. So, I switched from disc,in which I had masked the iron segments, to all metal. When I switched, I would get -9 and -6 that would fill in those choppy sounds. So I was getting -9, 42,-6,39,-9,45 and so on. Whenever I got a positive number, the depth would be around 6", but whenever the negative number come up, the depth of target would increase to >10". Despite the numbers that were showing and the choppyness of the signal(which I assumed was iron), I dug the target. It was really hard dirt(this time of year)and when I got down about 6", lo and behold I find a dime. Not really old mind you('73). So I got wondering if the iron signal was still there. I scanned the hole, and nothing. I filled the hole and nothing. I know that on my Tesoros that I had used, that had tones or display, it wasnt unusual for the target to identify a little lower if you were on the fringes of detectability. But this seems a little extreme...bouncing between an iron/foil reading and a semi-silver target!
Has anyone else seen this, and what could be causing it(please dont tell me that it is ferrite induced either
)? Any help and/or suggestions would be appreciated.
J.
So, here is what I found...I got a broken hit that was reading 39,42 and 45. It was a little more solid than most of the iron hits, but it was definately choppy. So, I switched from disc,in which I had masked the iron segments, to all metal. When I switched, I would get -9 and -6 that would fill in those choppy sounds. So I was getting -9, 42,-6,39,-9,45 and so on. Whenever I got a positive number, the depth would be around 6", but whenever the negative number come up, the depth of target would increase to >10". Despite the numbers that were showing and the choppyness of the signal(which I assumed was iron), I dug the target. It was really hard dirt(this time of year)and when I got down about 6", lo and behold I find a dime. Not really old mind you('73). So I got wondering if the iron signal was still there. I scanned the hole, and nothing. I filled the hole and nothing. I know that on my Tesoros that I had used, that had tones or display, it wasnt unusual for the target to identify a little lower if you were on the fringes of detectability. But this seems a little extreme...bouncing between an iron/foil reading and a semi-silver target!
Has anyone else seen this, and what could be causing it(please dont tell me that it is ferrite induced either
)? Any help and/or suggestions would be appreciated.J.