What could this signal be?: Vaquero

[hatpin]

A few weeks ago I hit a real sweet signal in the woods at a local parl. It sounded great and maxed out the disc of the vaq. I did not have a shovel just a hand digger. I spent thirty minutes trying to recover this target. The hole was well over a foot deep and a foot wide. The audio signal never changed and remained in the center of the hole. The audio was short and loud, like you'd expect from a coin. The pinpointer never made a peep. I may go back this weekend with a shovel and try it again.

I dont recall ever having a siganl like this, that I couldnt recover. Have any of you ever had a signal like this and what did it turn out to be?

I have dug some old coins dating back to 1850 in this area.

 

[BillF]

I had the same thing once with my Vaquero. Nice coin sized signal. Dug over 15" and still couldn't get to it. Decided it can't possibly be a coin at that depth and give that kind of signal, besides now I was down into gravel, well past topsoil.
My guess, its a large chunk of pipe.
Oh, BTW, if you see pagodas, bamboo and pandas. Stop digging!
Haha, good luck. Let us know if you find it.

 

[wheatymike]

Big piece of iron. Hold down the pinpoint button and run over it. If it's big iron you can tell.

 

[WV62]

Well it is not a coin, maybe a old lunch box full of coins.

 

[Topo]

I agree WV62, better to dig it today than to say sorry tomorrow. It could be a pipe, but we never know... good luck

 

[MarkCZ]

Well it is not a coin, maybe a old lunch box full of coins.

I also would say its not a coin, or even three or four coins.
Yes, and I would even doubt it being a lunch box full of coins.

If you have the Vaquero super tuned, them I'm going to say that's its a large piece of Iron of some sort. The Vaquero super tuned will hit pretty hard on larger iron if its deep! (like a horseshoe, plow blade, or manhole cover.)


Mark

 

[ken ward]

I think it is a 1916D merc dime. You better dig it up. Could be worth $18,000.00. Well maybe not.... KEN

 

[hatpin]

Well this sucks. After posting this I felt motivated to go dig it up.Took a shovel this time. Got there and the dirt looked freshly disturbed. I swept the coil and nothing. Someone else got it.

 

[JoeL0]

I've had it happen to me not only with the Vaq. but my BH platinum too. Dig, dig, dig, then the signal goes away. Chack it up to some spirit screwing with me. LOL.

 

[Topo]

Well this sucks. After posting this I felt motivated to go dig it up.Took a shovel this time. Got there and the dirt looked freshly disturbed. I swept the coil and nothing. Someone else got it.

that's bad. Don't think too much about it, it could just have been junk anyway