Reading of 24-48- cornfield- depth reading almost max

[Sonny(IN)]

While hunting in this cornfield that use to be a high school ball field. The last 2 days got 2 mercury dimes and one barber dime, and 8 wheaties. got a reading today of 24-48 and it did not lock on solid but kicked around those numbers. Depth reading was almost maxed out. Dug down and got a 1945 walking liberty half. After laying it on top of the ground the ferrous was about 7. The multi tone reading made the diff n this case as it was hi pitched. Have hunted this cornfield a lot lately as I hunted it years ago also. Larry of NWI found a silver quarter and I also got some silver plus a token. Also yesterday got a silver item about the size of a dime from umw. United mine workers..It was sterling. The field had standing water in over half of it due to the heavy rain last nite and while I was hunting it was raining. I am convinced that the WET ground makes a LOT of difference in getting good signals from the deeper coins..Any other thoughts on that????.About 3 days ago I also got a silver quarter and 2 mercuries from the field... Seems it keeps coming up with good coins...HH.... 1945 the year I was born!

 

[JohnnyI]

Wet ground does help. That reminded me though of something I heard (and tried) about 35 years ago to boost a buried coin's signal, and I'm wondering if anyone else ever heard of this. The idea was to run an electric current into the ground (I used a car battery) with the positive and negative copper stakes spaced far apart. Supposedly this would boost the halo a little on the deeper stuff that was there. I did manage to dig a fairly deep wheat penny I remember, but it was never clear to me if I would have found it anyway. Anybody else ever try this? (er..is this question in the same catagory of "did anyone ever smoke banana peels in the 60's?)

 

[McNickle]

While hunting in this cornfield that use to be a high school ball field. The last 2 days got 2 mercury dimes and one barber dime, and 8 wheaties. got a reading today of 24-48 and it did not lock on solid but kicked around those numbers. Depth reading was almost maxed out. Dug down and got a 1945 walking liberty half. After laying it on top of the ground the ferrous was about 7. The multi tone reading made the diff n this case as it was hi pitched. Have hunted this cornfield a lot lately as I hunted it years ago also. Larry of NWI found a silver quarter and I also got some silver plus a token. Also yesterday got a silver item about the size of a dime from umw. United mine workers..It was sterling. The field had standing water in over half of it due to the heavy rain last nite and while I was hunting it was raining. I am convinced that the WET ground makes a LOT of difference in getting good signals from the deeper coins..Any other thoughts on that????.About 3 days ago I also got a silver quarter and 2 mercuries from the field... Seems it keeps coming up with good coins...HH.... 1945 the year I was born!

[size=medium]Did you re-check the hole for trash and other targets ? There are alot of targets that bounce around the screen but are identifiable only by the tone givin.....You think it is only Iron Bleeding threw ,but it is not.[/size]

 

[D&P-OR]

Sonny---We've found that wet ground makes A LOT of difference in terms of finds at depth (as long as the ground isn't TOO soaked).--It can set the iron hits off more also but we've gotten many deep, difficult targets (coins) in that moist ground that I don't think we would have ever gotten otherwise.--I'm talking about ones where the depth guage was right at "maxed out".---You just have to pay really close attention to those tones on those deepies--(we always hunt in multi-tones).-------Del

 

[metalmiester]

I was born in 62 and have been hunting since I was 10. Your method sounds good in theory. I heard of doing this to get worms. lol I am willing to bet that ,that is the next generation of treasure locators to spring up. Scott

 

[Nick A]

I think moist "springtime" ground is by far the best for detecting. Not only do you do less damage to turf, but the digging is easier and the signals do see a bit better - but it could be because the weather is nice and the digging is easy - so psychologically it seems better/easier. But this is one of those conversations detectorists have been having for years back and forth.

As for the E-Trac, I ignore that FE number - the CO number is what I'm looking at, paired with a nice high tone. 45-46-47-48... music to my ears and often silver in my pocket.

Congrats on the half! Keep digging those high tones, sounds like you have a super site to detect with lots of potential.

 

[treasurefiend]

I seem to find a lot more targets when the ground is super saturated to the point of it being a mud bowl with standing water, on the opposite end I also do really well when the ground is bone dry. But if we had like a short rain I hardly find anything or just an insane amount of false signals, I don't know why but I think it has to do with the signal trying to punch itself through 2 types of soil (wet layer then into a dry layer) that gets a lot of false signals for me. Anybody else have this happen to them? Granted though I don't have an ETrac, I have an SE Pro.

 

[Larry--IndianaHVAC]

Hey, save a few for me for next time I come down and get over and see if that lake has gone down