BarnacleBill
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Un-beereevable baby! Out for quik hunt after wrk w/ X70+HF.
- Thread starter BarnacleBill
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Jackpine Savage
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That coil seems to be working very well for you on the fresh water beaches. Couple of questions, what kind of signal did you get on the penny and are using using AM or a pattern with some iron notched out?
Tom
Tom
BarnacleBill
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Hi Tom,
I had limited sunlight, so I used an acceptance window from (-)2 up to (+)28 that I have set up in Pattern 2. I was very tempted to use prospecting mode but needed to be time efficient.
When I hit the target area I switched to AM and saw that -8's and 48's had some mid 30's mixed in. Made me suspicious enough to begin digging. The back of the penny is encrusted in green, so both pieces have been down there a good while.
One thing I did notice(kinda confirmed) is that nickels if a poor sounding signal, are ID'g at 14 to 16 when first located. I found one last night that acted this way and three the other day, at another beach with the MF coil that acted this way. They may be laying at angles, but I cannot confirm this. But 14 & 16 for what I am hunting for, is bread & butter, I'm gonna dig it.
HH
BarnacleBill
I had limited sunlight, so I used an acceptance window from (-)2 up to (+)28 that I have set up in Pattern 2. I was very tempted to use prospecting mode but needed to be time efficient.
When I hit the target area I switched to AM and saw that -8's and 48's had some mid 30's mixed in. Made me suspicious enough to begin digging. The back of the penny is encrusted in green, so both pieces have been down there a good while.
One thing I did notice(kinda confirmed) is that nickels if a poor sounding signal, are ID'g at 14 to 16 when first located. I found one last night that acted this way and three the other day, at another beach with the MF coil that acted this way. They may be laying at angles, but I cannot confirm this. But 14 & 16 for what I am hunting for, is bread & butter, I'm gonna dig it.
HH
BarnacleBill
Jackpine Savage
Active member
Bill what made you investigate the signal if you were running -2 to +28? Did you get an intermittant tone reading or was the reading in the pattern a litttle different than the all metal reading you mentioned? If you are a greedy AU hunter like me I'm sure something got your interst in the inital hit.
As a side note, the other day I was digging some very deep small aluminum caps of some kind that were coming in at 40-42 instead of the normal 24 they read at shallow and mid depths. When I switched the stability on some of them dropped down somewhat in reading but still not close to what they should read. Anyway, just a thought that on the fresh water beaches on those deeper targets the stability feature may be worth checking out.
Tom
As a side note, the other day I was digging some very deep small aluminum caps of some kind that were coming in at 40-42 instead of the normal 24 they read at shallow and mid depths. When I switched the stability on some of them dropped down somewhat in reading but still not close to what they should read. Anyway, just a thought that on the fresh water beaches on those deeper targets the stability feature may be worth checking out.
Tom
BarnacleBill
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Tom I have used the stability about 70% of the time, but I toggle back and forth just to investigate any effects. What got my attention was that the target slewed through the acceptance window which stopped me right there. Anything that enters that window I stop on and go to AM to investigate more. The plated copper earring backs many times spend ID time in iron and then zoom high into the 30's as a tug of war ensues between a low conductivity(small item)response, and decent read on the copper mass(high conductivity). Depending on depth and angle they're interesting, not recommended fare if you have a bad back or little patience.
The only thing that really makes me crazy are stinky zincs, they're liable to read anywhere, on any detector.
By the way, on your beaches do lead slugs have a black corrosion/leaching halo around them if they are in stable strata?
HH
BarnacleBill
The only thing that really makes me crazy are stinky zincs, they're liable to read anywhere, on any detector.
By the way, on your beaches do lead slugs have a black corrosion/leaching halo around them if they are in stable strata?
HH
BarnacleBill
Jackpine Savage
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Bill I have only seen that on the beaches a time or two. Usually its not in the good clean sand where that happens. Now in the water I have one area I hunt that anything other than gold bulds up a thick black crust, making old silver quarters the size of a half.
Tom
Tom