Trying to understand

[mwaynebennett]

I have read that when a person "Xs" the target and only gets a good indication going one way but not the other that the target is "junk." Why is it that "junk" demonstrates the phenomena of different sounds in different directions but that is not the case with coins and jewelry?

Mark

 

[Dano505]

Thats not always true with my machine.On the silver half I found last week I had iron-50 cent tones one way,nickle -1.00 tones the other.But had a nail to one side of the half silver,And nails most of the time give a good reading so I,m really not sure what went on there except that it was deep and I'm glad I dug it.
With my 505 it seems like when the targets get deeper than 6 inchs you can forget about consistancy with the tones or ID,so I just dig almost all the deepies.
My oldest Wheat was 7 inchs deep but the tone and ID was iron. I just dug it because the depth read out said 8 inchs,glad I did!!

 

[drummerman]

mwaynebennett

When a hit registers one way and not the other (or differently) there is a couple of things that may be going on.

First. Depending of the size and shape of an object and or how it is sitting in the ground, you can get different readings. A large coin that was say buried so that it edge is at an angle will give you a broader sound when you scan more of the flat part of the coin. Scanning more of edge will give you a thinner tone, even a reading that's telling you its a different kind of metal. Also, depending how long the object was in the ground, it could corrode to a point that you may not get the correct readings off the object.
Other things, like more that one kind of metal is buried in the same few inches of the target hit, high mineral content in the ground and so on.
My advice to you is, if you get more hits in the silver and gold scale than that of iron, dig it up anyway. I have found things that I though was junk that were worth keeping.

Keep hunting and good luck, if you DIG what I mean.

 

[mwaynebennett]

I often get "hits" that ping silver going one way and honk iron going the other. That is way too confusing. Sometimes it is silver one way and PT the other.

What's a poor fellow to do? Dig everything? I'm starting to wish I had dug many past signals that I left for "junk" as per the BH instructions.

Maybe I could have retired by now.

Mark

 

[drummerman]

It can get frustrating at time I know. I have dug up plenty of junk since I been MT-ing.

When I hunt. When I get hits, if I feel without a doubt that it's junk, I won't dig it up. but if I have a 50/50 idea it may be something worth digging, I dig.
I just metal detect for fun, so I don't really care if it's really worth bucks. I just have fun seeing what's in the ground.
One thing that may help you like it helped me was to jot down readings when you hunt on what your MT tells you on a hit. Both display and sounds. Be sure when you "X" the spot, that you move yourself around in a little circle to "X" it from every angle. Then what ever you dig up, jot down next to your readings you recorded on what the object was you got. Over time you get much better at figuring out if it's worth digging up or not.
I been metal detecting for maybe 4 years, and found that if you play around allot in your back yard or a field with all kinds of different metals of your own, burying them at different angles, depths, and with different types of metals, then "X-ing " what you know is in the ground, it really helps to ID the stuff when you don't know what's in the ground somewhere.
So if you can. Take a bunch of objects of all kinds of metals and go put them in the ground and play, and play, and play. I bet in a month or so, you will be able to distinguish your hits a hole lot better. (pun intended)