Two Questions????

[jbr13]

First question is on pin pointing with my AT Gold with the 5X8 coil. Once you have used the pin point feature and have your detector in the position that gives the highest tone and scale, where should the target be under the coil. Should it be directly under where the coil mounts to the arm, or the first little opening in the coil in front of that? My Cibola was in that first hole ever time, and that was on a machine without pin pointer.

Second question is, how do you categorize the difference in tones from a tab and nickel. I was using All Metal mode last night on a test garden, and am having trouble telling the difference. I see people on her saying practice and you will be able to tell, but a little help what I am looking for would be much appreciated!

Thanks again all for your time and attention

Jason

 

[MikeLab]

Can't find my instruction manual but I am pretty sure there is a diagram that shows the pinpoint mark. This is why I say I like the tip and tail method for pinpointing, it is much more accurate on the surface targets.

Tab and nickle sound similar. The nickles have what I call an exclaimation point on them, very solid emphasis. Almost like my wife scolding me,"Right here!" LOL

 

[John-Edmonton]

The center should be in that little notch you describe. - put a coin on the ground, detune the detector and find out EXACTLY where the center is on your detector be using the pin point feature. Remember to take consideration for your angle of eye sight vs. the center of the coil. Also, because a coin might not be lying horizontal, practice centering the coil about 4-6 inches above the target, not with the coil touching the ground. With a little practice, you will figure out EXACTLY where the center is.

Because there are many different kinds of pulltabs, and some are damaged and some folded in half, they often times will read exactly like nickels. The difference will be in the roughness of the tone.....nickels will usually give a softer tone and pulltabs a much rougher tone. Also, the VDI numbers on nickels tend to be more stable, where as pulltabs tend to make the VDI's bounce around more with a greater variance with the numbers. You have to dig a lot of pulltabs to get the gold or nickels. No metal detector can tell the difference with 100% accuracy.

Below is the junk from a 5 hour hunt.

 

[jbr13]

John, Thanks for the great answers! Much appreciated!

 

[MikeLab]

You're welcome. I think I will quit posting here. I suppose that will make some people happy.

 

[GroundScanner]

You should not have to stop posting to make someone happy , they don't like thats there problem .

 

[jbr13]

Can't find my instruction manual but I am pretty sure there is a diagram that shows the pinpoint mark. This is why I say I like the tip and tail method for pinpointing, it is much more accurate on the surface targets.

Tab and nickle sound similar. The nickles have what I call an exclaimation point on them, very solid emphasis. Almost like my wife scolding me,"Right here!" LOL

Mike, Hey thanks for the info, I looked through the manual again and found it. Can't believe I missed it the last two times through there.

Jason

 

[senda]

I think your questions are answered impeccably.

all answers are important for "all people" and sometimes to "all of us" something we forget to thank ...
thank you all for being so nice! tan majos!
best regards

 

[WildOutdoorAddict]

That's pretty clean junk John! Was you lookin for gold by chance? All those tabs give it away Nice variety of tops too wow!

 

[Leslie(nova scotia)]

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