Wet Ground

[twalton]

Did a little coin shooting over lunch the hour today with my Pioneer 202. The ground is extremely saturated, over 6" of rain since Monday. Set the sens at 12 and the disc at 11. Every step I take squished water to the top. Had several strong repeating signals for nickels, all turned out to be squashed aluminum beer cans. Then had a strong signal for clad quarter, turned out to be piece of aluminum can slaw. Two more signals for screw caps were right on the money. Then I hit an area about two feet in diameter and it registered zinc penny, then dime, then quarter back and forth. Digging down about 6" found a camp fire site with much charcoal and burned wood. Down about 2-3 more inches I started finding pull tabs and beer cans, no coins. This area was a riding stables with a playground and picnic tables that closed about 5 years ago. Haunted hayrack rides were held in late October for about ten years, so it has had a lot of foot traffic over the years. Over the last 6 months I have had no problem finding zinc pennies and clad change. Would excessive water mess with a detector this way? Any thoughts?

HH, twalton

Tracker IV
Pioneer 202

 

[Golden Silver]

I've hunted in similar situations where the water was visible but it never interfered with my detector. Actually, the water gave the coil a nice wash! Allegedly, wet or moist soil is supposed to aid the detector 's effectiveness.

 

[BH-LandStar]

Moist soil will aid in the conductivity of your targets...Water is conductive...too much water is too conductive...Your detector works on receiving a signal sent from the coil, bounced off metal objects, and returned to the coil and processed by the machine...The machine determines the "conductivity" of the target...hence, when the target is wet...the machine can read a little funny sometimes....large aluminum cans read differently depending on their status (squished or not), and their size....beer cans tend to be thicker than soda cans...older cans and newer cans read differently on the scale....Wet zinc has showed up as a quarter on my Land Star from time to time...Very disappointing to think your digging a quarter and then "Another Bleepin' Zinc!!!"...lol


HH,

BH-LandStar

 

[Goldburn]

Strange... When the ground is wet and a little of the moisture is on either of my coils, my BH Lonestar beeps like mad unless I turn the discriminator all the way up to the point where it no longer detects a nickel.
Even then, I will get intermittent erratic signals.

Could there be something wrong with my detector or is that the nature of the beast?

 

[nugget]

My T4's also false in the wet, it's frustrating trying to concentrate on the job at hand. Not much you can do except grit ya teeth and dig the repeatable signals./ HH regards Nugget.

 

[BH-LandStar]

I have not hunted much in the soggy wet, but when I have, I also get a lot of false signals...I do not think the BH machines were really designed to handle super saturated ground...some folks have success, while others get only frustration....I have just learned to deal with it, and turn my SENS way down in the wet...Might lose a little depth, but it is better than not hunting at all.


HH,

BH-LandStar