What would you change?

[tcp]

I have hunted the local parks and found several silver coins in the trashy areas. I think there may be a few more coins to find but I have not been successful in the last few outings. I usually hunt in coin mode with an open screen. The only program changes I make are using target trace, target trace pinpoint, ferrous coin, and auto+3 sensitivity.
The ground seems to be good mineral wise even though the sensitivity usually shows about 14. I have tried to use manual sensitivity in the twenty range but it did not seem to help. I did not use the noise cancel when I hunted in manual sensitivity and have since read on this forum that when changing to manual to make sure and do a noise cancel. I also have a bad habit of not looking at the screen until I hear a high tone. What else could I try if I went back over the trashy areas besides watching the screen? Thanks for your thoughts.

 

[chuckciao]

I had the same concern and tried many different settings, modes, etc., with no success so i decided to try to grid the search area into smaller, more managaable areas. I also worked the areas both ways. It really made a difference and i pulled some silvers and indians that i would never had found otherwise. Hope this helps.
Chuck

 

[sube]

Try creeping inch at a time in the heaviest trash . Also go to manual 26 + with seawater enabled to cut down on the jitters best of luck . sube

 

[JJ]

What else could I try if I went back over the trashy areas besides watching the screen? Thanks for your thoughts.

If you are recently finding silver amongst the trash, then there are even more silver being completely masked by trash that no machine will see. The next step, in my opinion, is to dig everything. Remove all larger masking items and see whats hiding under the trash, not just between. Sounds like a site I have been working...
Good luck, JJ

 

[mrwilburino]

tcp, if your sensitivity is running at 14 in auto +3 then your soil is fairly well mineralized. In trashy places with that kind of soil I usually run it in ground coin, fast on, manual sensitivity around the mid twenties, open screen, combined mode with the bins set for my target ranges, and 6" coil. Always noise cancel. I'm not much of a screen watcher either. I'm usually not looking at it unless I hear a signal that is potentially dig-able.

 

[glenn3-88]

Try creeping inch at a time in the heaviest trash . Also go to manual 26 + with seawater enabled to cut down on the jitters best of luck . sube

Follow what Sube is saying. If you hunted it East to West before, hunt it North to South now.
I hunted a closed school yard from years ago to death with an AT Pro and a Safari and also
with my CTX. There was nothing else there. I turned exactly cross ways and started digging
a lot more coins out of the ground. I believe that coins may be laying at an angle that any detector
would get too faint a signal to dig but when you change directions the signal hits them broadside.
////////////Most of the targets I dug when I changed directions were in the 5" range. I do remember one
of them being 9".......

 

[tcp]

I went back to one of the trashy parks today to try some of the suggestions. Going slow with a diagonal pattern, I tried fast on, ground coin, and the sensitivity at +3 with an open screen. I will try some of the other suggestions at a later date. Anyway, I found three Wheaties, eight clad dimes, and eight memorial pennies. I would have bet that I had already cleaned out all the clad dimes on this site so I was surprised at the results. I was also surprised how well the ground coin setting worked although the numbers seemed to be jumping more than I usually see with the ferrous coin setting. Some of the pennies hit as high as 45. Thanks for the help.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Yes, that is normal for there to be more fluctuation when not using FC. FC is more of a stabilizing setting. Pennies are weird. I have had them hit as a 45 and low 30s. I think it depends a lot on corrosion. all of my odd-response cents were highly corroded.