Anyone ever done this?

[mag]

Find a clean place where there's no metal.
GB if need to.
Place a large rusted nail (about 4" long)on the ground.
Lay a silver quarter on the nail.
Sweep your coil over the nail and quarter.
Gradually increase the disc as you sweep.
Surprised where it disc out.
Now move the quarter to the side of the head of the nail.
Now sweep the coil in different directions and see where it disc out. Surprised! Well I was totally shocked.
Now carefully move the coil in small sweeps around the quarter. This will give a very good signal some of the time.
Now what's the odds of iron and nails being beside coins at an old homestead? I think it's most likely.




So....
Now when I hunt around old houses I've got to run the disc just high enough to knock out the small iron and nails. Any more than that may cause me to disc out a silver coin.

 

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[Sandman]

Now your catching on. This is why many aren't finding the old coins they want because they are believing what the ID meter tells them too no matter what brand they are using. It is a good idea to do this once in awhile with other targets too so you get an idea of how the detector operates.

Good Post Mag..............

 

[geckokid]

very interesting

 

[EasyMoney]

I have a 1980 Compass RM420 that will do that with a piece of plate steel 1/2"X6"X6" square.

I modified it to hunt stoneys. Reset the null way down into the negative and put a different value pot on it (5-5000 ohm), plus a shunt with a cap and a small coil to make it a bit more stable.. Sort of like a balon setup.