What would you do?

[HotTexas]

When detecting a old football field yesterday, I hit a hole that reads bell tone - ID dime, good single both ways, Pinpointing as a nice dime in the center of the coil, I start digging, I get to 4 inches and nothing, recheck the target and it's still there, reads the same, I pick the coil up off the ground and couldn't get a single, after digging to ten inches target still in the center of the hole, still reads dime, still reads coin size when pinpointing, Now I have 14 inch hole and almost as big as the DD coil, I know it's not a coin and have wasted about 30 min digging that time could have been spent on finding more coins, so thats what I did, filled the hole and went back to detecting.

My question is Would you have keep digging? Keep in mind it's on a football field that they use for P.E. sometimes.

My Curiosity gets the best of me sometimes, most of the time when I did these holes it's a old rusted can or some kind of old farm equipment, But one day 4 or 5 years ago under a tree in a park I found a quart jar that had something in it that I don't know what it was, It had torn up newspaper and something that looks like tan looking baking soda, I did not open it, my first thought was it's drugs, but I didn't think so. I just put it in the trash can.

My Curiosity is going to find me a jar full of money some day

 

[prodrigsr]

did you have one?? Might have been a perpendicular coin throwing you off.

 

[John-Edmonton]

I would have raised my coil above the ground to see how high the coil goes before the signal disappears. ( I think you did this?) Too high means it's larger then a coil. I would also use my PRO Pointer and search the sides of the hole. A coin laying in the ground an an extreme angle will give a deferred reading and pinpointing. Then, I would grab a cold beverage to satisfy a well deserved thirst from digging a 14" hole.

 

[INCH]

Yeah, i dug one of those yesterday only to find an aluminum pie plate down at about 10 inchs plus. The propointer wouldnt pick up anything on the sides of the hole but it woul sound off at the bottom.. Boy about july 22 in summer in texas, U B looking for a shade tree after that episode

 

[HotTexas]

n/t

 

[INCH]

Maybe I have gave up on a few and just said the hell with in the past , but now with the propointer I havnt experieced that . being on the football field, i would stop

 

[surfman]

That's a tough one. I've run into the same thing only to find the target in the side of the hole. Using my Garrett Pro-Pointer helps me make the decision to keep digging or not. I dug a deep silver quarter last summer at like 8 or 9 inches. Thats like the deepest i've ever dug a coin. The Pro-Pointer kept telling me to keep digging. Glad I did. I dont think i could walk away from a good, solid, repeatable signal as long as I was sure it was coin sized. As far as time goes, there's always tommorrow.

 

[HotTexas]

n/t

 

[Jason in TN]

We have to know get back out there and find out. I have a feeling you already know though.

Jason

 

[Uncle Willy]

Garrett coils have a quirk you might check into. They will pick up and ID coins laying off to the side in the grass as if they are right under the coil. One time I dug till I was blue in the face and couldn't find a thing. Then I scanned several inches out from the hole and found three quarters laying at the base of the grass.

Bill

 

[Canine]

Assuming the signal is coming from the bottom of the hole, I would keep digging, but that is getting a bit OCD.

 

[Orion42]

On a playing field I'd give up. In the woods at an old homestead, break out the big shovel!

John

 

[Teddybear]

Don't feel bad my friend.....Unless it's on or very near the top I can't find ****!!!!

 

[HotTexas]

yes you can, just give it time

 

[crackbadger1]

do it till ya satisified,,, go on and do it, do it. do it till ya satisfied.. whatever it is..

 

[jackintexas]

A very deep can or something that size at a great depth will read and pinpoint like a coin....Jack