Some People Think That PI's Can Not Find Many Coins......That Is A Myth.

[John-Edmonton]

A lot of people are under the impression that PI's only find lots of iron, bobby pins, other metallic junk and with some luck....a ring. That is simply a myth. Using the iron check, the audio tones (you have to learn them), the swing width, the 8 quiet blips on most bobby pins and straight nails and the roughness sound on many bottle caps vs. a coin, allows the user to actually leave a lot of junk in the ground. Between learning your PI detector well and choosing proper locations to use a PI, you should be able to get a nice batch of coins in the water or land. If you are looking for old silver and old copper coins, dig only the low-high signals instead of the high-low signals. The modulated audio also allows the user to just dig the deep targets.

These coins were found in during my learning curve, for the first 8 water hunts. I averaged about 50:50 ratio of junk vs. coins & jewelry. That really is pretty good, considering some water hunters dig it all, no matter which brand/type of metal detector they use.

 

[Fishers Ghost]

Have to agree with you there John.
My Sov XS has not seen the light of day on salt beaches since I purchased my Infinium several years ago.
If I am not using the Infinium then I am using the sand Shark, both do a great job on the local beaches for coin hunting.
The Infinium and SS do not hit on gold chains very well . I have a standard digital Gold Bug for those items. This detector Ground balances our salt beaches in or out of the water.
The LST does a good job in the dry sand as does my very old Gold Seeker 15000.

 

[fongu]

Nice bunch of coins, John. I am the type of water hunter who digs it all and I find a lot of junk with my At/Pro but some good stuff, also.
I hope to get a PI detector next year and learn it's tones, but anything over a 40 on the At/Pro I dig. Most of the louder targets are trash, most of the time with the exception of the nice chain I found several months ago. I had a target that showed 04 on the DVI window, but had the pip sound and dug a clad dime from about 6 inches. It never showed on the higher scale of dimes, but it was there and the pip sealed the deal. HH.

 

[Leslie(nova scotia)]

PI are great for water use due to the stability. What I'm perplexed about is why would one have to ground balance a pi machine.new technology i guess. Still lots out there to be found so I'm a going...................................take care!