JimmyCT
Well-known member
So tonight (before I got home and realized my poor rubber boot broke on my meter) I was at my local around-the-corner park. In the past I have hunted a hill that leads to where I went hunting tonight but never hit way up towards the middle of this lot. So I start out with a constant threshold and then all of a sudden it disappeared (completely) so I slowed down to extreme snail slow and still nothing. I raised the coil and my threshold returns. I starting scanning again and instant solid null. hmmm If I went any slower my coil wouldn't be moving lol. I eventually make this path towards the road ( found a penny through all the null) I am now wondering if there is something wrong with my machine. I walk across the road and start scanning along the roadside. Everything is fine over on this side with a light steady threshold humming away. So now that I know nothing is wrong, I cross back over and start swinging again. Right off the bat I (right through the null and all) I hit a nice high pitch / 180. I dig down and pull out a wheat. I get up and rescan the area and it is still sounding off a high pitch. So now I start thinking to myself, " please let it be silver" lol. Sure enough I dig again and out pops a 1943 mercury dime. "nice" I am thinking. I the find one more wheat in the area with some clad on my way out towards the wood path. ( the two wheats were 1940 & 1945)
See in the picture (on the newspaper), the big piece of iron? The ground was plastered with it. I can't even imagine how other conventional detectors were able to pull coins out of this area with this amount of iron. I am baffled and stumped for an answer. The GT did come up for air (threshold) but 95% of the time it was a quiet solid null throughout. Never have I experienced such a thing. I did learn one thing: The GT can be in a complete solid null with no threshold (even though there should be one )while scanning and still sound off on coins. I am really, really impressed.
Thanks for reading.
See in the picture (on the newspaper), the big piece of iron? The ground was plastered with it. I can't even imagine how other conventional detectors were able to pull coins out of this area with this amount of iron. I am baffled and stumped for an answer. The GT did come up for air (threshold) but 95% of the time it was a quiet solid null throughout. Never have I experienced such a thing. I did learn one thing: The GT can be in a complete solid null with no threshold (even though there should be one )while scanning and still sound off on coins. I am really, really impressed.
Thanks for reading.