What to do?

[Mike T]

I really appreciate you guys sharing your combined knowledge with me as this has me perplexed? I went out earlier to the same park where I've been getting familiar w/sovereign,I was using my new 5"Sunray coil, after a couple hours and nothing special I got a not to faint repeatable signal with a small narrow pinpoint. I dug a small plug then proceeded to excavate down and down. At about 10 inches I hit a mass of thick roots, night was falling and I could still hear a clear coinsized target. I only had a small digger so I covered up the hole as nothing else could be done. This was very deep and I was using a 5" coil what to do?It read right on the money even a little higher,.
but it would have to be a foot or more.
I've noticed a narrow metal pipe standing upright below in the ground could give a narrow target response, but this seemed more coinlike.
Should I forget it, I would have to make a huge hole in a city park to get at it.
I really must sound green, Mike

 

[Dang]

If it were me I'd come back to it later after I got to know my Sovereign better.
Could be a dime at a 45 degree angle. Or a old rusty nail next to your hole. I don't know. Those kind of signal drove me nuts till I picked up a Bullseye! If you can still get a signal well above the ground surface it might just be a large hunk of metal really deep. Or someones stashed cache box there years ago.

 

[Marc(NB)]

try sizing out your target by moving your coil around .If your getting a high pitch tone in a larger area,more than likely it can be a buried pipe.If not I would dig it just to satisfy my own curiosity.You should also be using a good pinpointer.If its a coin it can be on the wall of that hole you just dug.

 

[adam in cal]

Did you click into all metal over the target ?? was it a loud screamer ?? iron and some big junk can give a coin-like response if you hit it just right .Do you have a probe or some kind of pinpointer?? it6 is quite possible that the target was in fact6 right6 there somewhere but without a probe they canbe hard to find ......I have seen them where i cant6 find the target and it turns out not to be deeper but really off t6he side of the hole , of course all t6he while i am digging deeper and therefore making it harder t6o find the coin, I have to say if you heard the target and were acctualy ten inches deep, it is either off the side of the hole or it is a deep pipe or some undisreable metal,

 

[Dirt NC]

here's some things that you might want to try. 1. switch to all metal and sweep real slow. look at your meter, and if it's reading positve thats a good sign.2. also turn your sensitivity to the auto position. if it"s a deep iron hit sometimes auto setting will give it away by nulling the treshold in discriminate mode, where too much sensitivity may cause repeatable falsing on a deep iron target. 3. listen for a repeatable pitch in varible tone. deep iron will usally start out a little low in pitch and then suddenly rise in pitch and meter readings as you sweep off the edge of it. i hit a 1906-0 barber half at 12" one time with my sov. xs-2 pro in the woods. i almost passed it up thinking it was a very deep can or iron plate. i was digging off to the side of it .boy, am i glad that i kept diggin'. good luck.

 

[Troop]

I wished I had a nickle for every hole I said I would come back to because I was afraid to dig too big a hole. Then my memory failed.. I liked all the advice from the other folks. They were all practicle suggestions. Obviously well experienced as well with there machines. I'm still learning my Ex II with the same frustrations. Thinking about getting a 5" coil to eliminate some of my hard to pinpoint/identify objects. Keep us posted as to what you did.