White's MXT scores silver

[steelheadfever]

armed with my Excelerator 4.5 X 7 coil I went to an old fairgrounds near my home. I had been hunting for a while when I noticed that coins I was recovering were pre-82 pennys, a 1965 quarter and a 1965 and 1966 dimes. I had been hunting kinda fast but when I saw the dates on these coins, I slowed down. I had just recoverd a couple of pre-82 pennys and before moving on I swept the hole and got another good signal. I dug down to about 4 inches and recovered 3 wheat pennys. Then again I swept the hole and got a very strong signal that nearly knocked my headphones off my head. I dug down to about 6 inches and recovered a beautiful 1964 Kennedy half. I was pretty excited as it has been a while since I have recovered a silver coin. I am happy that I double check my holes before I move on. If I had not gotten into this practice of double checking the holes, the Kennedy half and the wheat pennys would still be buried and waiting for someone else to find them. I am very happy with the performance of my MXT and Excelerator 4.5 X 7 coil because they get down to the treasure. HH Dennis in Idaho

 

[Monte]

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[TonyTX(MXT)]

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[steelheadfever]

Maybe someone can answer why the larger of the coins was not detected before the smaller coins. You would think that the detector display would have been bouncing around alittle showing 50 cent and penny. I have really been curious since I recoverd the coins. HH Dennis in Idaho

 

[Monte]

"Maybe someone can answer why the larger of the coins was not detected before the smaller coins.... Because, as you stated, you got the shallower memorial pennies, then re-scanned and got the deeper 'wheatback' pennies, then re-scanned and got the half dollar. Thus, you were removing the shallower metal targets that were masking any deeper target. In addition, the deeper target was just that, deeper, and even without the shallower pennies first located, it's possible that the depth of the half in undisturbed ground might not have produced an anticipated response. It could have been a bit too deep and might have registered a little lower in both audio strengths and/or visual Target ID.

"You would think that the detector display would have been bouncing around a little showing 50 cent and penny."... No I wouldn't. Oh, I might have HOPED that I would get some sort of audio or visual indication that there was a mix of targets , and I am sure that to some extent you might have, but the targets that are closer to the coil are in the stronger portion of the electromagnetic field and are therefore going to have the greatest influence on the circuitry's response.

It doesn't have to be an iron nail,. a bottle cap or a piece of foil or some other unwanted object to cause target masking. ALL metal targets will do this to some degree.

The good news is that you found something, and that you then did the right thing and checked the hole before filling it and walking away. That's what makes a big difference in success in this hobby.

Hope you find more soon.

Monte

 

[steelheadfever]

Thanks for the information, I will remember that for the future. HH Dennis in Idaho

 

[Tony N (Michigan)]

Hey Monte,
I have used the large hotshot coil on my DFX in a real trashy area before with ZDAM setting and could hear the pull tabs and hear the nails and hear the silver or copper all together as a cacophony of sound and almost always the penny or copper penny was quite a bit deeper than the higher trash. How do you accound for this? I would know there was a penny or dime down deep in the mix.

 

[Monte]

Reading your comment you said:

"I have used the large hotshot coil on my DFX in a real trashy area before with ZDAM setting and could hear the pull tabs and hear the nails and hear the silver or copper all together as a cacophony of sound and almost always the penny or copper penny was quite a bit deeper than the higher trash. How do you accound for this? I would know there was a penny or dime down deep in the mix."... One of the things that we do not all get to experience is uniform ground conditions. In some locations the ground is not much of a challenge and in others it is quite severe, and this alone can add to the problems.

Another term we use that is not always consistent from one hunter to the next is the descriptive term, "trashy." A week ago I hunted a renovation site with two friends. I was using my 4" coil and they were each using a 6