Getting started...looking for suggestions

[donroar]

Greetings,
I have a Garrett AT Pro and the Garrett ProPointer that I am learning to use at an old County Fair grounds. So far i have found only clad coins (which I am grateful for) and NO silver. The At Pro is a dime finding fool. It does real well on quarters and pennies. I even found a 1972 Kennedy half diollar. I haven't found a single nickel or any jewelry either. I have my AT Pro set at 30 for Iron discrimination and I dig all signals. Lots of pulltabs and bottle caps but that's all. The dimes, quarters and halves it picks up great. I LOVE the hobby and my new AT Pro. Am I doing something wrong or is it just a matter of time till I connect with other targets? I have over five dollars in clad coingae and I can't wait to go out tomorrow. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
Don

 

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[Lafitte Deux]

Sounds like you're doing good so far. And you're right, it just takes time and getting used to the machine.
If the Fair ground has been closed for a long time, it has probably been hunted before. That might account for the lack of silver.
Keep at it tho. No place is ever hunted out of silver.

 

[Frankn]

Don't use any discrimination. That's why you find no nickles. CT, old fair ground, go for the DEEP signals. That's where the high value old coins will be. Good luck!

 

[ivan salis]

on settting for discrimation - the old saying is if you are hitting nickles then if the golds there you will hit it too -- so check you discrimation level * using a nickle --if your machine does not pick up the nickle you got your discrimation level set to high , lower it a bit until the nickle comes into "range' but only until it does --if pulltabs are coming in as well they should not sound as "clear" as the nickle & gold rings do * listen carefully for "tonal" sound differances from your detector between the the items -- it should be easily noticible to your ear if you listem closely -- you say your getting lots of pulltabs and lots of copper based clad but "zero" gold and silver -- a highly skilled detectorist in the past might have "cherry picked the easy to sort out "high tone" silver and then went back and ear sorted out a fair bit of the gold from the pull tabs -- a old fair ground would be a natural place to start off looking for any detectorist --so its highlly likely its been hit before * however the old saying is "no one gets it all' ( no one is the "perfect" detectorist , we all miss a bit now and then-- so no place is totally hunted out -- hard to hunt maybe but if its there it can be found --your machine is a good one --look in out of the way spots at the old fair ground look in less easy to get at areas , that other folks might "pass up"--detectorist are like most folks --they tend to be lazy and seek the easist and shortest path from A to B -- and they tend to hunt the "easy ground" and pick the "low hanging fruit"

 

[Metal Detecting Stuff]

If you are digging everything above 30, your nickels will come. They tend be in the 50-53 range, silver ranges from 40-90, gold from 40-80. Nickels sometimes bounce between 51-52.

Wayne