To dig iron signals or not to dig iron signals, That is the Excal Question?:surrender:

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I've noticed that sometimes if a target is really deep that the Excal will sometimes give you the wrong signal. i.e. a high tone for Gold.
And the more sand you remove the more accurate the tone.

But I was thinking if it will sometimes give a high tone for gold, isn't it just as likely to give a low tone or null ( Iron ) for gold as well?

Normally I don't dig iron signals because everytime that I've dug an iron signal it was always iron.

Does anyone here dig every signal their Excal gives, even iron?
Or do you just keep walkin like me??
How reliable is the Excal on iron tones?

Thanks in Advance
Mark

 

[Gulf Hunter]

In most cases the iron will null. That is complete silence on my rig. However, there are times when the signal stays strong and it does not null, but begins to false when I get closer to the target. I have dug some of these and felt others down in the hole (I know that sounds nasty, but it is the hard facts-no pun intended). In most cases this is large iron and it will sound good, but the tone is large and long. In most cases we are not going to find a box of escudos, so we are looking for clean, short repeatable signals, high or low, but preferrably low. Max, Mike, chime in here anywhere, but that's my take.

 

[Foiled Again Jim in NC]

There is a tremendous amount of iron trash on the beach that you don't want to dig. Bobby pins, fish hooks, bottle caps, nails, screws and nuts and bolts, just to name a few. The tones are not perfect but if it is a tone you can be sure it is not iron. Sometimes, a piece of iron and this includes alot of bottlecaps, the Minelab will give you a harsh tone blip as it leaves the object. Over the iron or bottlecap it will null but as you move away you will get a hit, a short harsh tone. After a while you will be able to analyze these and not dig them. Gold rings will sometimes come in high depending upon how large and how much copper they have in them. The largest class ring I ever found, I could put a quarter thru the hole, sounded exactly like a penny. The tones aren't perfect but give you a good guess at what lies beneath the sand. Very High sounds are dimes or quarters or a can smashed and lying two feet beneath the surface. Pennies can be all over. I got a penny yesterday that hit in the lower half of the Explorer screen. Forget digging the iron sounds, there are too many good targets out there.

 

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[bdahunter]

I do dig some iron sounds but I am looking for relics as well as gold and silver loot. I will dig them if they have an overload tone combined with the null as these have come up as cannonballs and ships fastenings in previous hunts. If an iron target is heavily encrusted with beach sand or coral it will often give a sharper tone than just nulling, it is closer to a stainless steel signal, these I dig because I know that the iron will have been in the water a very long time so it may be a good relic.
The tone that Foiled describes for bottle caps I do not dig but heiniken beer tops sound much higher as do coronas so if I get a bottle cap in my scoop it is almost always one of those two brands, annoying tops but good beer.
Other than that I get very little iron in my scoop unless it is beside a better target and comes up by accident.
There is a huge iron target off of one of my favorite beaches which I have been unable to expose but I am hoping that it is an old cannon and not an engine block, time will tell.

HH,

BDA