ttf clip

[brother steve]

I was working a site with ttf and as I passed over a spot I got a heavy grunt .I repassed it real slow and I heard a high clip. Thinking it was a coin in with the iron.I checked it in quick mask and sure enough there was a target in the bottom right corner. Slowly wiggling the coil I got a target up higher ,still on the right side, and was reading 42-44 .Dug the hole and there was a horeshoe and nothing else. So how do I tell if there is a coin mixed in with iron by the sounds in ttf. Do I get a really strong high sound. Any help with this would be appreciated.

 

[EtracTom-AdirondacksNY]

Well when I usually see that cursor in the bottom right corner and not up 1/3rd of the way or higher up or bouncing from close to the corner and going at least 1/3 rd of the way up and higher back and forth it's always been iron. You may have just got a hint of iron falsing off the tips of the corners of the horseshoe making you think coin but the cursor didn't lie staying in the bottom 1/3 lowest corner of the wide open quickmask screen. Look for bouncing up cursor or staying up cursor and maybe a FE number higher than 25 but usually I just watch the cursor's behavior it's a tell for you depending where it's at.

 

[brother steve]

Thanks etrac tom, so what happens when there is a coin in with the iron? Where does the curser go?

 

[EtracTom-AdirondacksNY]

It may tend to bounce around up and down towards the corner but not completely in the bottom corner usually stays up out of there and iron pretty much stays down there and may bounce a little. Also do a full 90 to 360 turn over the target and see if the cursor changes and hits better from one direction as you may be coming at the good target first then the iron.

 

[Goes4ever]

really big iron such as a horseshoe will give you a high tone, especially your first pass over it, if you pass your coil over it several times it should become scratchy sounding and not a clear high tone at all, and it you turn 90 degrees you should get the low grunt if your running TTF

 

[Ray-Mo.]

Hitting pin point would have been a dead give away on the horse shoe or similar size iron.Getting a high tone blip is actually a good thing if you are relic hunting in TTF as cannon balls, guns, swords and parts thereof are quite desirable targets.