Signals that weren't what you expected?

[BryanM362]

Just for fun, and learning, have you ever dug a signal that you thought was one thing, but were pleasantly surprised that it was something better?

Like a zinc penny signal that ended up being a silver dime?

Or, a ferrous signal that ended up being a coin?

 

[bertman]

I'm still new to the E-Trac (7 hunts) but watched many of the videos folks have made. Checked an empty lot and got a 12-35 signal that turned out to be two rusty nails and a 1945P war nickel. Sure made my day.

 

[Surfinsafari]

One time I had a signal that I played around with because I was just too tired and lazy to dig it. I passed it up but it gnawed at me so I went back and checked it from all angles and I kept seeing 12 45 in there along with a bunch of weird numbers. I dug it up and it was a beautiful Merc in the hole with a copper and turquoise ring and a small silver earring. As it turns out, I had stumbled upon an area where an old set of bleachers used to be( looked it up on old aerial photos) and I had one of my best days ever. Almost all my goodies were in a perfect line where they had fallen under the bleachers. After that day I learned the value of Quick Mask and dig any target that doesn't show up with iron.

 

[kansas_roger]

I've had a couple of hunts on very wet days where I would get solid, repeatable 12-45/12-46 tones on multiple targets that turned out to be wheat pennies. Normally those numbers would be silver dimes for certain.

 

[Dale(Ia)]

Yeah, I dug up a 12-34 signal @ 2".............wasn't finding much so was expecting a badly eaten zincoln............Imagine my surprise when out came a paper thin, badly worn Seated dime!!!

 

[ironsight]

Happens all the time for deepest of the deepest targets.
Last year i dug up more than a dozen mercs, a few Indians and a cool early 1900s auto key fob medallion all at one particular 'hunted out' site.
They were all 11 to 13 inches deep with jumpy 'n goofy non-coin IDs. The larger brass key fob was around 14 inches. And this area is heavily and i mean heavily infested with just as deep corroded nails. Dug a lot of them up too.

From experience, my eTRAC starts having problems resolving accurate target IDs somewhere in the 10 to 11 inch area and beyond.
Once the eTRAC approaches the threshold of detection, it'll spew out those weird jumpy IDs but yet still trying to say 'there's something down there'.
Don't ignore those indications, dig all those deep goofy IDs. But you ain't gonna see 'em with a tight discrimination pattern.
These days, nothing that 'ol eTRAC work horse says surprises me anymore!

 

[Tenspeed]

This past weekend I was hunting with a friend and finding tons of bottle caps at 12-41, but kept digging them in hopes one would be good. Down by an old swimming hole got a repeatalbe 12-41 and it turned out to be a beautiful Balfour Sterling silver FFA (Future Farmers of America) ring that was the size of a class ring.

I have dug wheat pennies as low as 35 before in a really old yard.