Was down at the elementary school today, bust of been every 12" I hit something at 1 - 34 on the meter. They were like every foot to every couple feet or so, only spent 15 minutes there before I had to go. What would be all over the place at about 4 - 6" down that rings in the range of 1 -34? My son just corrected me, he said it rang from 1 - 31 to 1 - 36
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What would ring as 1 - 32 (ish)?
- Thread starter In2Deep
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Erik in NJ
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Good question - I think I saw something similar with my SE at a local school in my town. I haven't been back to check it out, but it kind of made the field undetectable for me.
tmanfromtexas
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If it is repeatable in both directions, it could be a penny. If you are hunting an area that was used in the early 1900s they could be wheaties or even indians. TMAN...
tmanfromtexas
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Pro778, in some cases it is iron but I have dug many wheaties and recently 2 indians that rang up 1-31 to 1-35. They were very repeatable in two directions. If those numbers come up on my screen under those conditions, I dig it and usually am rewarded. Of course, soil conditions may affect the numbers also. TMAN...
Steve from Ohio
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Rusted bolts or nails mostly.
It is possible to be pretty old here, our town goes back to the early to mid 1800's. I talked to an old guy in his 80's.. Said that field has been there in between the baseball field and the elementary school as long has he has remembered it.
So its a field that the elemenatry kids play in every day. and that is kind of right smack in the middle of a block, then on the west side there is a public pool / water park / baseball field. Either way its going to take my hours to dig through it.
I am going back today and will dig a couple of those signals and then I will post exactly what they are. We have heavy mineralization around here, there is a lot of old gold mines, even 1 new gold mine over the hill. But the soil at the school field is pretty easy digging. So I dont know what they are, but I will know if a few hours and I will post back when I find out
So its a field that the elemenatry kids play in every day. and that is kind of right smack in the middle of a block, then on the west side there is a public pool / water park / baseball field. Either way its going to take my hours to dig through it.
I am going back today and will dig a couple of those signals and then I will post exactly what they are. We have heavy mineralization around here, there is a lot of old gold mines, even 1 new gold mine over the hill. But the soil at the school field is pretty easy digging. So I dont know what they are, but I will know if a few hours and I will post back when I find out
tmanfromtexas
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I pulled out an indian yesterday that was a repeatable signal two ways at 1-33. It was at 7 inches. I dug another 1-32 that was not repeatable consistantly that was a nail. I think the key is the repeatability of the signal and depth. TMAN...
dreamweaver43
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Check those signals in pinpoint mode to see how close they pinpoint to the sound. A couple weeks ago I was at a location that was clean as far as good deep high conductive hits, but had produced plenty in the past, so I started digging anything that was down on the deep meter hitting somewhat conductive. I got 2 indians that were hitting 32-1 in that spot. (But I found lots of iron and ghost signals of course too) I'm not sure what the machine is seeing, but good targets can definately hit in those ranges? And these targets did not bounce down into the good ranges? This weekend my partner will be hunting with his ExII and will see how that machine reacts to those type of hits. I think possibly this is the same situation as when the explorer bounces far left toward iron on good targets, but not sure.
Brad
Brad
In2deep
Most of the time that reading will co inside with a low right iron reading / a mid right then the 1-32 / 34 reading.. which is normally the nail iron target. that was what I was calling the nail dance. When I saw this I would leave it it alone but slow down and see if a good target was in around it. The good target would jump through and hold for a bet...ie 12-43 for a dime. If I play with it and get that 12-43 to hold more than 1 or 2 times then I would dig the dime. find a nail or other trash close by or in the hole with it.
tmanfromtexas
Thanks for the info on the repeatable in that range though..does it stay in that area and repeat for your good targets? will have to start diggin those for sure for those indians and whts.
thanks again
Most of the time that reading will co inside with a low right iron reading / a mid right then the 1-32 / 34 reading.. which is normally the nail iron target. that was what I was calling the nail dance. When I saw this I would leave it it alone but slow down and see if a good target was in around it. The good target would jump through and hold for a bet...ie 12-43 for a dime. If I play with it and get that 12-43 to hold more than 1 or 2 times then I would dig the dime. find a nail or other trash close by or in the hole with it.
tmanfromtexas
Thanks for the info on the repeatable in that range though..does it stay in that area and repeat for your good targets? will have to start diggin those for sure for those indians and whts.
thanks again
tmanfromtexas
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3 ringer, the tone has to be a good repeatable tone in both directions. If it breaks up or nulls it usually is a nail or trash but from 1-31 up to 1-38 have produced pennies and they are usually on edge, I mean straight up and down. The 1899 indian I found yesterday was at 1-33 I think but was repeatable and very clear. TMAN...
I found out this, if it is a good solid 1-34 to 1-36 it was a penny, Wheat pennies and just plain ole clad pennies. Keep in mind though that I am brand new to the hobby and just learning myself so dont go writing no books with what I have found.. not yet anyway
When it was in that 1-31 to 1-35 ish and not solid, it was just junk. No particular kind of junk.. just junk. I got a spring and some sort of other little tiny scrap of what I thought to be Iron. The difference was if it hit solid and gave the same tone in different directions.
Today my friend John dug up a huge gold ring, if it is real then I honestly think he paid for his next detector. We only looked at it for a minute and he put it in his pocket pretty quick. I hope its real but I dont know. It has quite the diamond on it to. I dont see how someone could of lost a ring that big and not rented a bulldozer to go find it. We had a really long day today detecting. I am tired of the guy with the "other" brand schooling me, but I been at it for a week now and he been at it for 19 years.
I am doing a 4 day detecting binge then I think its family time after that
We ended up in a tiny little place tonight called Marcus, its not to far from my house in NE Washington. There is a good sized park that must be 2x as big as the town itself. I have drove by it dozens of times on my way to go prospecting but never actually turned in to see it. There is this huge brick building that you see a when driving by. Turns out that building was an old school that must of burned up pretty good. There is concrete stairs left and what used to be like a "grand entrance" to the school that is just kind of sitting out in nothing because the rest of it burned down. It kind of looks like they might of been trying to rebuild the school building and gave up. I dont know.
I got the 1 - 31 to 1 - 33's all over the place there, but it was nothing that I could get a solid tone on in 2 different directions. John dug up a TON of aluminum because it kept ringing as quarters. The grass was all dead and that was strange to me, because in town the grass is still green (that is odd for this time of year, usually its been in the 100's by now atleast once). As we found out the hard way, Marcus is built on rocks.. a LOT of rocks about 2" down. It was miserable trying to dig. Heavily mineralized. have to say though, seemed like my etrac did really good in it.
I never lost my patience with the detector but I did loose my patience with all the darn rocks.
Anyway this post has turned into quite the long one
When it was in that 1-31 to 1-35 ish and not solid, it was just junk. No particular kind of junk.. just junk. I got a spring and some sort of other little tiny scrap of what I thought to be Iron. The difference was if it hit solid and gave the same tone in different directions.
Today my friend John dug up a huge gold ring, if it is real then I honestly think he paid for his next detector. We only looked at it for a minute and he put it in his pocket pretty quick. I hope its real but I dont know. It has quite the diamond on it to. I dont see how someone could of lost a ring that big and not rented a bulldozer to go find it. We had a really long day today detecting. I am tired of the guy with the "other" brand schooling me, but I been at it for a week now and he been at it for 19 years.
I am doing a 4 day detecting binge then I think its family time after that
We ended up in a tiny little place tonight called Marcus, its not to far from my house in NE Washington. There is a good sized park that must be 2x as big as the town itself. I have drove by it dozens of times on my way to go prospecting but never actually turned in to see it. There is this huge brick building that you see a when driving by. Turns out that building was an old school that must of burned up pretty good. There is concrete stairs left and what used to be like a "grand entrance" to the school that is just kind of sitting out in nothing because the rest of it burned down. It kind of looks like they might of been trying to rebuild the school building and gave up. I dont know.
I got the 1 - 31 to 1 - 33's all over the place there, but it was nothing that I could get a solid tone on in 2 different directions. John dug up a TON of aluminum because it kept ringing as quarters. The grass was all dead and that was strange to me, because in town the grass is still green (that is odd for this time of year, usually its been in the 100's by now atleast once). As we found out the hard way, Marcus is built on rocks.. a LOT of rocks about 2" down. It was miserable trying to dig. Heavily mineralized. have to say though, seemed like my etrac did really good in it.
I never lost my patience with the detector but I did loose my patience with all the darn rocks.
Anyway this post has turned into quite the long one