Where is the darn silver!?

[Ohio Digger]

Silver has been eluding me in my own yard. I've found at least 20 wheats, the oldest being 1909. I've only found 1 Merc ('39). And that was when I had my Bounty Hunter 4 years ago!! I just found two more wheats today but still no more silver. I'm sure it hasn't been hit before. Maybe I'm not digging the right iffy signals. What would be an example of an iffy signal on a silver dime or quarter? I have Andy's book on order so maybe that will help clear things up a little.

 

[sprchng]

It's NOT the number but the sound!
Essentially the same sound as a clad quarter but it will sound a little sweeter after you dig the silver.
Conductive/multi CO in the 40's and FE say 07 to 15 with depth is gonna be good

 

[RandyNorthridgeca]

LOL! Your E-Trac hasn't even got warm yet. You can't learn it in a week or two. Be patient, have fun, and dig a ton of targets including a lot of iffy ones. You still need a lot more hours to learn the E-Trac language. Hang in there. Your time will come.

 

[Ohio Digger]

Haha I know. Patience has never been my strength. What if you get a good conductive silver sound but the Fe is showing 25-35? Dig it or skip it? Depth maybe 6"+. I've had a lot of sweet sounding tones but when I switch to QuickMask the Fe number shows solid 35. I've pretty much skipped every one of those because I figured it was deep iron.

 

[robertj298]

Haha I know. Patience has never been my strength. What if you get a good conductive silver sound but the Fe is showing 25-35? Dig it or skip it? Depth maybe 6"+. I've had a lot of sweet sounding tones but when I switch to QuickMask the Fe number shows solid 35. I've pretty much skipped every one of those because I figured it was deep iron.

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If it's iron out will usually only give a high tone in one direction. Try using ttf.

 

[STL8]

In Quickmask, sweep from different angles & if you're still getting that high FE # it's a pretty good bet it's junk. Also, lift the coil higher & higher while sweeping and if you're still hearing it it's large and typically iron or in many cases a flattened can.

 

[spo307]

what is quick mask sorry i am a new jack

 

[CopyTech99]

what is quick mask sorry i am a new jack

It is a more wide open screen, with little discrimination used.

 

[cosmic]

Button to the right of pinpoint has squares on it.. Use your up. down, left and right buttons to add or lessen the discrimination.. Most leave the screen wide open so you can hear everything for checking iffy's.. Then hit the detect button and you are back to the program you started with..

 

[Ohio Digger]

Actually I think you hit the QuickMask button again to flip between the two screens. If you hit the detect button while in QuickMask you will be prompted to whether or not you want to load the QickMask screen into the SmartFind window. It's an extra step you can avoid by hitting QuickMask to switch back and forth.

 

[Johnnyanglo]

What if you get a good conductive silver sound but the Fe is showing 25-35?

Depends. If the audio is a High Tone (silver) in TTF then the Fe number isn't 25-35, everything higher than 17 is Low Tone. What it is likely doing is jumping from Fe 25-35 and flipping around to 01-03Fe in the High Tone area (upper right). But those High Tones are not going to be stable. They are Low Tones (iron) with an occasional awkward High Tone chirp. As soon as you try to isolate the location of the High Tone it is gone. Only to reappear nearby - caused by an adjacent piece of iron.

You want the repeatable signals.