Crazy Signals....

[Tony_ia]

After reading a post here on a cache find, I remember a location I hunted with my dad a couple years ago.

First I need to ask...will a steel box give a wicked silver signal on a Minelab Explorer XS ? I have found steel before but usualy it was knocked out after switching to my silver program, so I dont know what to think.

We were hunting an old house site when I got a silver signal that about blew my ears out, figuring it might of been a shallow coin I started to dig and found a good sized steel box about 8 inches deep, it was in pretty bad shape after some tree roots grew around it. But anyway I decided to switch over to my silver hunting program that was set to only hit on silver, everything else was rejected...after swinging the coil again the machine was still going nuts with the silver reading through the roof. The only tool I had with me was my little digging knife, after fighting a tangle of small tree roots and a beat up metal box I gave up and figured the shape of the box was messing up the signal, as it was pretty twisted up.
So I am wondering what other people think...could it of been the box or should I get my butt back out there with a bigger shovel ?

Still waiting on a sale so I can get another Minelab, but I kinda want to get back out there and have another look...just incase. Hope to at least get an SE and hit it again.

 

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[Tom_in_CA]

Keep in mind that a "silver program" (knocking out iron, and perhaps low conductors too ...) will get "over-ridden" by a large enough iron target. Size comes into play. So while individual nails, bolts, pliars, etc... might get a null, an iron desk or lunch box can over-ride that.

An example: you can knock out individual pulltabs made of aluminum, right? But what happens if you wave an entire aluminum can now? You will get the can, and it will probably read up around quarter or whatever, right? But you notice: the MATERIAL (aluminum in this case) remains the same composition of each item. So really then, you weren't "tuning out aluminum", as size plays into it. The same is true for iron: large enough pieces will come in (albeit with tell-tale audio though, and not "clean" TID's, etc...)

 

[Tony_ia]

Thanks, thats kinda what I figured...but was hoping for the "other" answer, haha. Oh well, my day will come

Sorry it took so long to reply..I couldnt find my post again, lol.

 

[Oldhunter67]

Tony if I found a metal box buried near a tree I'm afraid I couldnt run quick enuff to get a shovel..Sorry..but thats how people find caches..and near a homesite yet..Cmon..go dig it!

 

[NGE]

WELL WHAT ARE YE WAITING FOR, GO DIG IT!!!!!

 

[luvsdux]

Regardless of the signal, I'd have to dig a find like that just to be sure the box was empty or hopefully contained money. I got a strong signal one time and quickly uncovered a large flat rock. Having read that often treasure was covered by rock or something else to diguise its location, I dug and pried until I was able to move the stone. Unfortuately, all I recoverd was a rusty ring gear from an old car differential. At least the anticipation was fun.
HH
Bill

 

[Kentucky Kache]

If you don't dig it, you deserve what you don't get.

 

[scrubber]

I wouldn't sleep at night until I'd dug it up.

Please report back what you find.

scrubber