MXT and Nickles ?

[bula]

Does anyone out there have a sure fire way to find a nickle rather that digging 10,000 pull tabs. I find everything else but have only found ten or so nickles, I know there out there.

Went out today & used your advise. My mxt locks in at 20 & will not move when there is a nickle under it, found 9 today & they all locked in the same. All total I found 105 coins today my best total for one day. Thanks for the advise.

[Steve G.]

Hi Bula,
On my MXT 300, +20 is the magic number. If it holds at 20 it is always a nickel. I may miss some on the other numbers, but if it is 20 it is good!
Steve

[Tin Nugget]

Nickles hit at 18 or 20 up to about 6 inches then they go to 16. If you have an 18 or 20 at 0 to 6 inches it will most of the time be a nickle. If you have any other number like 16 or 22 at that depth it will not be a nickle. Do not use the visual ID to determine weather to dig or not. Learn the VDI numbers and what each coin reads. This is only if you are solely coin hunting as ignoring the other numbers means who knows what you are missing. Modern parks, that's OK. Older spots, dig it all.

[bula]

Thanks for the input, I'll give it a try today.

[sniper19612003]

If I hit a solid target that will read nickle, I flip my toggle switch forward. If I still have a solid tone ,I dig it.

Sniper

[minton7]

most White's users dont dig alot of nickel tones cause they dont wanna dig tabs....... thusly.... even in "hunted to death areas" you can still usually pull out nickels... the DFX is a nickel finding machine.. if it says it is a nickel.. it is .....congrats on all your nickels man!

Randy

[Sarge]

I wouldn't ignore signals close to the VDI 20 range. I've found gold rings with similar VDIs. Rule of thumb- If you don't have an apron full of tabs you won't have many rings. For some perverse reason most gold reads the same as lots of junk targets, foil, tabs, aluminum, confetti, etc.

I found a 14K gold ring that I sold for $290 to a metals dealer that I almost passed up. It read between VDI +39 & +41 almost exactly the same as pieces of aluminum I was digging in the same general area. If in doubt, dig.

[twistidd]

Not all nickels ring up at 18-20, though most do...war nickels have rung as high as 34 on my M6.

Joe

[arizonaames]

If I hit a solid target that will read nickle, I flip my toggle switch forward. If I still have a solid tone ,I dig it.

Sniper

Good point! If you adjust the disc to just barely hear the nickle in normal search (trigger sw in the middle) first then when you push the trigger switch forward you will not hear a pull tab only a nickle. The DVD explains that came with the MXT explains this.

[R-bass]

My M6 is 20 for nickles

[mighty_mace]

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[Dale Simmons]

On my other machines nickles are an issue. With my MXT nickles are easy. If the VDI number is 18, or if it jumps between 18 to 20, it's a nickle.

[Yellowhouse]

Glad ya'll have it down but I don't. The modern tab without the tail rings up nickel, 20 VDI everytime on my MXT with full confidence. Beaver tails a little higher at 24. This with the 4x6 dd Whites coil

With factory settings I cannot notch out either type of tab by pushing the trigger forward. Wondering if its me or maybe the machine. Its a relatively new MXT tracker that I bought used off Ebay.

[ivan salis]

the reason for high wprld war II "war nickles" is the 35% silver content --- if it has a large letter over the dome on the rear its a "silver" content war nickle --they needed the nickle for the war effort --so they switched out silver for it.

[top pop top]

18 -20 is the magic numbers. I've found more nickels with my MXT then a did with my XLT.