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What do 12-21 and 12-22 numbers give some of you fellers'?....
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utahshovelhead
Active member
Hey there Bryce,
Glad to see ya pop up on the E forum every once in a while. I do see some war nickles in the higher range but not sure in the ground that I have got up to 22. I cant honestly remember and an air test will not be accurate like the coin buried in dirt. I do notice that if I have pumped up the manual sens that I will not notice ( or miss) some regular nickles that I find when going over the same ground with the more stable auto sens. I have been surprised at the number on nickles I have found with the E. In fact in one hunt last month I dug 18 nickles...all newer but after three it became a challenge to see just how many were in that area and I dug anything that was even close to the nickle range. That was fun to bad they weren't older.
Now you got me wondering how many war nickles I have dug with the E and I am going to strain my brain counting back.
Good luck to you bro.
utahshovelhead
Glad to see ya pop up on the E forum every once in a while. I do see some war nickles in the higher range but not sure in the ground that I have got up to 22. I cant honestly remember and an air test will not be accurate like the coin buried in dirt. I do notice that if I have pumped up the manual sens that I will not notice ( or miss) some regular nickles that I find when going over the same ground with the more stable auto sens. I have been surprised at the number on nickles I have found with the E. In fact in one hunt last month I dug 18 nickles...all newer but after three it became a challenge to see just how many were in that area and I dug anything that was even close to the nickle range. That was fun to bad they weren't older.
Now you got me wondering how many war nickles I have dug with the E and I am going to strain my brain counting back.
Good luck to you bro.
utahshovelhead
Hey Bryce. I've dug 5 of them nickels this year, and believe it or not, every one of them sounded like a wheat penny/dime signal. Even after recovering them and swinging them over my coil, they still give the same penny/dime signal. I have dug a few "nickel sounding" war nickels by accident, because there was a wheatie or silver in the same hole with the nickel. It must be my soil/ground conditions in my area causing the war nickels to expose more of their silver content to raise the conductivity of the coin....I have found many war nickels over the past three years with that distinctive penny/dime tone.
HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan
niterider_58
New member
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montanagold
New member
All of my war nickels sounded just like a nick. But I have dug a couple of 12-22's that ended up being a nick and a dime in the same hole. Both times it was a buff and a merc.
Cladiator (OR)
Member
Hi Bryce,
In my soil, the last silver War Nickel I dug a couple of weeks ago was a good, solid sounding 12-21 (to my suprise). Usually, 12-21/22 ends up being one particular style pull-tab or can slaw. I have done a test on a medium sized gold ring that showed 12-22 (laying on the surface of the ground). I pay particular attention to those numbers when the tone seems to be solid and full sounding. Also, since I don't see 12-21/22 too often, I tend to let my imagination get the best of me and end up digging it anyway (especially if it has any depth associated with it).
p.s.- I did double-checked the War nickel when I got home and it read 12-21 laying on the ground also.
---D.
In my soil, the last silver War Nickel I dug a couple of weeks ago was a good, solid sounding 12-21 (to my suprise). Usually, 12-21/22 ends up being one particular style pull-tab or can slaw. I have done a test on a medium sized gold ring that showed 12-22 (laying on the surface of the ground). I pay particular attention to those numbers when the tone seems to be solid and full sounding. Also, since I don't see 12-21/22 too often, I tend to let my imagination get the best of me and end up digging it anyway (especially if it has any depth associated with it).
p.s.- I did double-checked the War nickel when I got home and it read 12-21 laying on the ground also.
---D.
E-Trac-Ohio
Well-known member
Hi Bryce, I dug five War Nickels last few months - found mine in the standard Nickel range - FE - 9 to 12 and CO -11 to 15.
A lot of the 12 --- 21 & 22's that I've dug in the past were pop tops or small scrap pieces of aluminum siding .
Terry - ( Goes4ever ) digs a lot more Nickels then most of us - I'd pay attention to the target ID numbers he has posted above.
Good Luck ! --- Mark
A lot of the 12 --- 21 & 22's that I've dug in the past were pop tops or small scrap pieces of aluminum siding .
Terry - ( Goes4ever ) digs a lot more Nickels then most of us - I'd pay attention to the target ID numbers he has posted above.
Good Luck ! --- Mark
98 times out of 100 they are ring pulltabs. My war nickels have been lower CO 14-17 and fairly jumpy in many cases. Tabs seem to be at a certain depth, so signals below that average depth always get dug. I have a gold band that air tests a perfect 12-22 so I know what I'm missing. (I'm missing an achy digging hand and a park full of shallow plugs of dead grass!) Beavertails can be foolers for nickels, but 11-14 is generally a giveaway for them.
I had a hard time learning nickels on the Explorer and E-Trac. The low nickel sound was similar to the iron tone on my Fisher CZ that my brain had learned to ignore. I set up a program at the end of last year that was only FE12-14 and CO12-14 on my E-Trac and hunted exclusively for nickels for a few hunts. This set the tone in my brain, and I've been doing great with them ever since.
Aluminum generally sounds louder than a nickel, and if you pinpoint over a nickel signal and then sweep back over it, you can generally get a CO 13 to pop up. This is a good sign for me. 7 times out of 10 when I see that 13 pop up (even a flaky 13) I've got a nickel under the coil.
I had a hard time learning nickels on the Explorer and E-Trac. The low nickel sound was similar to the iron tone on my Fisher CZ that my brain had learned to ignore. I set up a program at the end of last year that was only FE12-14 and CO12-14 on my E-Trac and hunted exclusively for nickels for a few hunts. This set the tone in my brain, and I've been doing great with them ever since.
Aluminum generally sounds louder than a nickel, and if you pinpoint over a nickel signal and then sweep back over it, you can generally get a CO 13 to pop up. This is a good sign for me. 7 times out of 10 when I see that 13 pop up (even a flaky 13) I've got a nickel under the coil.
Hawkeye Jim
New member
I have found several war nickels with the E-trac and like Goes stated, they are all over the place...........I've had some in the 12-13 to 12-15 range, and one came in at 12-26.......................also got a fatty Indian Cent at 12-23.
Hawkeye Jim.
Hawkeye Jim.
Jack Flynn
New member
I don't dig at all in that FE Co range although the pulltabs do sound good some of the time. What I have noticed since you brought this subject up is that a lot of targets or so called targets sound VERY tempting to dig in manual sensitivity of 28 or 29. In auto I can hear every wrinkle and crease it seems like to avoid digging junk (some times). After all that's what Igot the E Trac for the discrimination.