This weekend

[Hockeydad]

Well this was an interesting weekend. Woke up to a snow storm Saturday morning! Snow? In late April in western Washington? Global warming I guess. I did get out a little. Frustrating when I get a strong signal, with my Ace 250, then go over it again and again and get nothing. So I move on. I did find a few things in the couple hours I was out. A quarter some pennies some bobby pins and a dance charm from a school playground. A quarter and a chewed up penny in my back yard. I went and bought a better shovel for digging, stronger sharper fancy edges to it. I want to hit the school again, the dirt at the baseball field was too tough to dig with the shovel I had before, I think the new one will help a lot. My issue is the strong signals I get then nothing. Should I dig anyways? If I pinpoint sometimes I get something sometimes not....... I guess just keep trying dig 'em and eventually I will know when to dig 'em and when to hold 'em?
Dana

 

[Uncle Willy]

Do you twitch over these types of signals?

Bill

 

[Hockeydad]

Twitch? me personally. I don't get that excited yet...... jk.... What do you mean?

 

[Uncle Willy]

Well the Minelab boys call it "wiggling". When you get a questionable target center the coil over it and whip it side to side rapidly about 2-3 inches each way. This will often turn that bad target into a good one. Motion detectors ( yours is one ) discriminate better and go deeper the faster they are swung.

Bill

 

[silvernail]

n/t

 

[Hockeydad]

I'll try it out and let ya know what I find.....
Thanks

 

[Hockeydad]

OK, not a shovel, those are my sons words coming out of my mouth. Spade? Better?