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Single disappeared after digging...weird?

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bisctboy

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I got my etrac around a week ago and I went out to a park today for the first time. I have been fairly successful with learning it in my yard. I've got alot of clad, a couple silver coins, and a ring from my yard. I absolutely love this thing!!! Although I didn't find anything old today, I found a bunch of clad. 4 quarters, 4 dimes, 3 nickles and a bunch of pennies. I am learning what the etrac is telling me which leads me to my question. I had a hit of 12-45 repeatedly from 4 different angles. The sound was sharp and clear. To me, this is a dime like every other dime I've found. The depth gauge showed 5 inches. I dug the plug and waived the coil over it. There was no signal so I ran the coil over the hole and I got the clear 12-45 signal again. I took my digging tool and dug down an inch or so and ran the coil over the soil I just pulled out. Nothing again so I ran the coil over the hole and there was no signal there either. I ran the coil over the plug, the soil I removed and the hole again...nothing. Really weird. After I put the soil back and put the plug back, I ran the coil over everything again and got no signal again. Given that the original signal was crisp, clear, and a definite 12-45 from multiple angles can anyone suggest what might have happened here? I am a newbie with the etrac and want to gain as much information as possible.

Thanks,
 
I've experienced this many times over the years. Most of the time, if it is a coin, it most likely went on edge after you started digging and the
detector couldn't pick it up. Having a hand held pinpointer will see you through this mess. If you can't acquire a pinpointer, put the detector in
the all metal mode (Smart Mask) or go back to the pinpoint function and listen for any sound. Sometimes it's a small bit of rusty iron that fools the
detector and once you disturb the soil around it by digging you lose the halo around the object and the target is discriminated by whatever
pattern your running. A friend of mine who showed me the ropes of detecting years ago said "Don't EVER give up on a good signal"
His advice has paid off for me more times than I can count. Hope that helps. Good luck and happy hunting.
 
What AJ said is probably the answer. I've had the same thing happen, too. First the target is there and then it's gone. I usually find it with my probe and it's tipped up on edge. One other possibility is that the target could have fallen into a crack. I don't know where you live but with the drought here in Central Texas often the ground is cracked. If you start to dig and the target is pushed off into a crack it can fall several inches deeper and beyond the detection range of your machine.

Storm
 
Had it happen to me today. Dime in a schoolyard field with clay. Never saw the dime until I found it stuck to the back of my lesche. If I had stuck my digger back in the pouch it most likely would've fallen of and I'd never be the wiser.
 
Sometimes that'll happen, and I've actually "flipped" the coin (dime most likel) out of bounds, so to speak. I've found them 3 feet away sometimes.

To confirm your bewilderment, a signal that hits that good all the way around, there is bound to be something there closeby for sure.

NebTrac
 
Check the dirt stuck on your digger! I've had that happen a few times, the object will get stuck on my shovel blade....nge
 
This happens to me all the time. You might need to dig some more dirt out of the bottom of the hole, or shave some off the sides, but the coin usually turns up with a little persistence.
 
If it were iron like a couple of you stated, what discrimination pattern could I have switched too to verify this? TTF?
 
Yep...Had one dime in the mud on the tip of my shoe one time...believe me that was the weirdest as it would sound only when I steped forward with the one shoe. Took a while but I finally figured it out what happend to that really good signal. I always dig deeper and wider when this happens to see if the coin is hiding on edge, then scan around to see if Ive somehow flipped it up and out somwheres.
 
Thanks I needed that laugh as I went through a medical procedure (Tuesday) that I call "Scrape and Burn" I got my former cancered bladder lining "scraped, chemo installed, and now I have a Foley for a few days, and everytiome I need to go, it burns like satan's home.......nge
 
It happened to me yesterday. Got a 12-12 signal @ 5 inches. Dug down to that depth and completely lost the signal. My pinpointer was dead silent everywhere
I put it. Then I looked at my digger and saw a Buffalo nickel stuck to the side in a clump of dirt......:crazy:
 
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