CZconnoisseur
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Last night I walked about 55 feet to the recently vacated rental property next door and spent about 2.5 hours in the front yard only. Highlights were 4 Wheats and $3.26 in shallow clad plus a few pieces of brass whatzits! Nothing was over 4" deep and many of the zincolns and nickels happened to be in a small 2' x 2' area - probably where someone had lawnchairs a few years ago. Dug a lot of bottlecaps which were masking a couple of nearby coins near the driveway. I wish there were a faster way to ID bottlecaps but most of them are very shallow and I like to get them out of the way for the potential deeper stuff - only a minor gripe!
The second picture with the Merc and Rosie is highlights from the last hunt at the fairgrounds. Got a repeatble but scratchy signal near the first turn of the roller coaster and almost immediately started finding these long nails in the hole. Dug down to about 4" to find the lovely 1919 D example and didn't gouge the #^$#( out of it this time!
The ProPointer still indicated metal in the hole after pulling out the Merc, and around 6-7" deep a couple more bent nails AND a sheared carriage bolt head came out of the hole. So while using 8 kHz, Reactivity = 3, silencer = 1, and iron volume = 0; it's entirely possible to pull goodies from copious amounts of iron trash - it's hard to believe that dime was detectable with nails over and under it...this detector continues to exceed expectations in the trash!
The 1964 Rosie, on the other hand, was undetectable until I moved the large piece of aluminum out of the way - it was less than a half inch deep. Initially I got a strong "74" which is usually a zincoln, but I dig those anyway at the fairgrounds since Indian cents can sometimes "ring in" in the low and mid 70s in 8 kHz. Resweeping the area I got a high-pitched "86" at only 3" deep directly below the aluminum chunk - just barely squeaked a silver one by one year!
So from this I've gathered that the more conductive the metal is - the better ability it has to mask out a higher conducting target that's nearby. I know this is no surprise to a lot of people, but this is especially true around the roller coaster area where large iron items can sometimes mask coins - but a whole soda can will 100% mask ANY coin below it, while shallow can slaw is also good at covering up keepers. Some things are best explained through field time...the hunt goes on tonight NEXT DOOR!
The second picture with the Merc and Rosie is highlights from the last hunt at the fairgrounds. Got a repeatble but scratchy signal near the first turn of the roller coaster and almost immediately started finding these long nails in the hole. Dug down to about 4" to find the lovely 1919 D example and didn't gouge the #^$#( out of it this time!
The ProPointer still indicated metal in the hole after pulling out the Merc, and around 6-7" deep a couple more bent nails AND a sheared carriage bolt head came out of the hole. So while using 8 kHz, Reactivity = 3, silencer = 1, and iron volume = 0; it's entirely possible to pull goodies from copious amounts of iron trash - it's hard to believe that dime was detectable with nails over and under it...this detector continues to exceed expectations in the trash! The 1964 Rosie, on the other hand, was undetectable until I moved the large piece of aluminum out of the way - it was less than a half inch deep. Initially I got a strong "74" which is usually a zincoln, but I dig those anyway at the fairgrounds since Indian cents can sometimes "ring in" in the low and mid 70s in 8 kHz. Resweeping the area I got a high-pitched "86" at only 3" deep directly below the aluminum chunk - just barely squeaked a silver one by one year!
So from this I've gathered that the more conductive the metal is - the better ability it has to mask out a higher conducting target that's nearby. I know this is no surprise to a lot of people, but this is especially true around the roller coaster area where large iron items can sometimes mask coins - but a whole soda can will 100% mask ANY coin below it, while shallow can slaw is also good at covering up keepers. Some things are best explained through field time...the hunt goes on tonight NEXT DOOR!