Chirps?

[Lemonman]

Hi everyone, real newbie here. Got my new whites coinmaster gt bout 2 was ago.
Got permission to detect 100+ year old country church. Only notched out iron, found a bunch of rusty nails, and a few modern pennies. Real soft soil easy diggin.want to know when swinging parallel to ground sometimes get faint chirp,mostly non repeatable. Should I be diggin these ?
Going back this week to grid this time, any help would be appreciated.

John

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Dig a couple and see. I'm not familiar with a White's vocabulary but a pinched tone to me usually indicates a bottlecap. But if these are deep they could be old silver. Could be deep nickels on the "edge" of your notch as well.

Only way you'll ever know is to go after a few.

 

[StormSurge]

Yeah I agree with Charlie P., dig everything. That's the only way you're really going to get to know any instrument. Unless I'm hunting a really trashy area or I'm just short on time I almost always dig everything. I'm not familiar with Whites either. You might want to pose your questions on the "Brand" forum and see what the White guys can tell you. Good Luck!

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Back when I used a Whites Coinmaster, 30 years ago, chirping often (well maybe not often) indicated deep silver. Please note that a coin may lay in the ground in all sorts of positions, on end, tilted, etc. Each of the sounds you receive from your detector (any detector) is affected by the targets' positioning in the ground. The positioning can also dictate whether the signal is repeatable.

Moral of the story, dig a few and see for yourself. You may not dig a lot of coins, other factors involved. But you may very well find a real keeper that way. Time and experience, and your patience, will dictate whether you continue digging these signals.

 

[bigscoop]

"When in doubt, dig." It's the only way to learn.

 

[airscapes]

You can dig it but you will probably find nothing or iron. Make sure you are not tipping the coil at the end of your swing like a pendulum, this can cause those high pitched blips, assuming you are in tone id. The other cause of this is iron that has been in the ground a long time, try using tone ID with NOTHING discriminated. You will most likely hear a low iron tone just before or just after the high pitched blip. This is caused by a Halo of constructive that builds up around rusty iron that has been in the ground for a long time. Moving over the iron fast causes the blip more often then if you move slow.
It can also be a good target right next to iron and with iron notched out you may be missing the good target.
When you see VID +95 that is most likely a halo or what is refered to wrap around, where the ground balance is effecting the high end of the scale do to a lot of minerals in the ground.

So to recap, always start a new site with nothing discriminated and tone ID on and see what you got.. learn to listen to all the tones, iron is obvious and you mind will ignore it after a while listening for the good tones. This way will know if a blip is due to iron and decide if you want to try and dig it. Also if you think it could be a good target, repeats but only in one direction, move 90degresss to the spot and swing if it is better, dig it..
Good luck and keep listening to the machine, it is a fairly simple language to learn!

 

[CincinnatiKid]

Yup. Dig everything til you've become fully acclimated to yur detector.
Site sounds good.
GL
Peace ✌