Operations question... Whites Treasure Master

[mikebourgeois]

I'm a bit confused and hopefully someone can help me figure out my issue. When I'm using my detector and I'm using the normal search function I'll find something in let's say the 90's... perhaps a quarter lets say. When I move over to the pinpoint function to nail down the exact'ish location I get an iron reading. Why is that? Most of the time the 90's reading turns out to be a screw or some sort of carpentry fastener and not a coin... but it does this regardless of whether both the normal search function and the pinpointer show iron or if one has a coin reading and the other iron. The only coins I hit are when the tone and view are both steady with no warbling or flipflops.

Hope that makes sense... I enjoy doing this but I really don't get why it acts like it does.

thanks all

 

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[Loco-Digger]

try to double check the signal by swinging over the target in an X-pattern to see if it's ringing in as the same target ID in both directions. If yes, then you might be picking up an iron object that is close to the original target when pin pointing.

 

[cudamark]

Your sensitivity may be set too high.

 

[mikebourgeois]

I've tried the 'x' motion with the detector and sometimes I'm getting a multitude of different readings... but upon digging my latest I found all sorts of stuff nested together in the same little dirt clod so there ya go.

I also dropped my sensitivity from 7 down to 5. I'll see if it makes a diff... today is a rain day though and unlike some of you heartier members... I might melt in the downpour so I'm just talking about it rather than doing it.