Deep Seekers. Wouldnt we just want these vs the standard 6/12" stuff?

[Rare_Hunter]

Deep Seekers. Wouldnt we just want these vs the standard 6/12" stuff?

So I’m reading about some deep seeker detectors. I don’t think I know much about them but wouldn’t it make sense to just go with those instead of everything else that gets 6 to 15 inches?.. These ones are saying they punch down 5 to 20 feet! What do these do exactly just pick up stuff like wheel barrels or bowling ball sized objects?

Chad.

 

[luvsdux]

Re: Deep Seekers. Wouldnt we just want these vs the standard 6/12" stuff?

I'd guess that depth is on fair sized targets. Personally, I don't want to dig anywhere near that deep.
Bill

 

[Fisher]

Re: Deep Seekers. Wouldnt we just want these vs the standard 6/12" stuff?

I agree with luvsdux...Sounds like too much work for me.

 

[Gary in Pennsylvania]

Re: Deep Seekers. Wouldnt we just want these vs the standard 6/12" stuff?

I'd imagine caches would be at about a foot (maybe more)?


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[Monty]

Re: Deep Seekers. Wouldnt we just want these vs the standard 6/12" stuff?

About 10 inches is my limit. Why so deep? Mainly because that's where you will likely find the missed silver or artifacts in a well hunted area. I much prefer qualitiy over quantity. But I do take out my less expensive detector and go shallow coin shooting just for the heck of it sometimes. Monty

 

[deepskyal]

Re: Deep Seekers. Wouldnt we just want these vs the standard 6/12" stuff?

If it's deeper than six inches I don't bother. These people who claim to find coins deeper than 10 inches are either full of it or fools of it. But even if they were digging good targets that deep I could dig three targets to their every one. And this is a numbers game, the more holes dug the more good finds.

I'm with Monty. If I get a good signal at 10...I'm gonna dig it.

My 2 oldest finds were 10 and I'm not full of it. One a barber, the other an IH. Those are exceptions for me...but by far my best. Both finds were areas on the base of slopes so they had more erosion...soil slowly adding to the depth of the coin.

Last year I found 2 brass miner tags. One was on the surface at a hilly location, the other was maybe 15 feet away and almost 6" deep...further down the hill.

I dont want to dig much more than that...but I will if it sounds good.

Al

 

[Rare_Hunter]

Re: Deep Seekers. Wouldnt we just want these vs the standard 6/12" stuff?

Thanks for the replies... Getting my first day of metal detecting in yesterday I understand the difference and reasons. Forgive my ignorance on the matter.

 

[michigan michael]

Re: Deep Seekers. Wouldnt we just want these vs the standard 6/12" stuff?

Thanks for the replies... Getting my first day of metal detecting in yesterday I understand the difference and reasons. Forgive my ignorance on the matter.

The only dumb question is the one you dont ask. Welcome to the hobby

 

[The Beep Goes On]

Re: Deep Seekers. Wouldnt we just want these vs the standard 6/12" stuff?

If you have a detector that can get a signal at 10" and it's a good signal it usually means that the target is probably old. The only thing that would stop me from digging the target is hard ground or not having the proper digging tool.

Beep

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Re: Deep Seekers. Wouldnt we just want these vs the standard 6/12" stuff?

If it's deeper than six inches I don't bother. These people who claim to find coins deeper than 10 inches are either full of it or fools of it. But even if they were digging good targets that deep I could dig three targets to their every one. And this is a numbers game, the more holes dug the more good finds.

Baloney.

I hunt a park that is on a river flood plain and I find CLAD coins at 8" to 10" regularly. The silt buries them deep in just a few seasons. Ice sometimes gouges deeper coins up in the spring. The top 18" of the soil hereabouts frosts and thaws and that causes upheavals and circulations that can move coins up and down. Silver can be 11" or 1" in these conditions.

I found a crotal bell at 12" and I'm glad I was fool enough to dig it.

I never hunt "in a hurry" because the good coins can be faint and deep. This area has been populated with coin-carryin folks since the French & Indian War and the armies of Generals Clinton & Sullivan marched through here during the Revolutionary War. You just never know what you may find if you work slow and careful.

You just don't know coin hunting or the capabilities of a proper detector if you think the world ends at six inches.

 

[John (Ma)]

Re: Deep Seekers. Wouldnt we just want these vs the standard 6/12" stuff?

To each their own. Some nice finds are deep and some are not. Also depends, where you hunt and what you are looking for. If I am by a cellar hole, deep is good. If I am looking for pocket change at the park, I do not need a deep seeker. That's why we have different detectors and we all have different ways that this hobby makes us happy. Who cares any way. Turn on what you got and lets get digging.

 

[Goodyguy]

Re: Deep Seekers. Wouldnt we just want these vs the standard 6/12" stuff?

I assume you are talking about a two box deep seeker detector.

They definitely are not designed for finding a single lost coin or ring at any depth.
A 2-Box Metal Detector is designed to detect large soup can size or larger and deeply buried targets, such as money caches, relics, treasure chests, safes, hoards, metal boxes, large metal objects and ore veins.
The 2-box detectors have been also used by public utility employees to find buried cables, pipes, voids/spaces, caverns, old wells and tunnels.

Typically the two box detectors go about 2 feet for a soda can. 5 feet for a gallon size target 7-11 feet for an object as big as one meter cube and 20 feet for an automobile size object. heavily mineralized soil might reduce their depth to Maximum 10 feet

 

[paratrooper]

Re: Deep Seekers. Wouldnt we just want these vs the standard 6/12" stuff?

Please allow me to interject something here . The guys around here in AZ (and other places) will work an area and find if it is a good producer . They go through several times from front to back , left to right , back again and over again as long as they are finding stuff . A lot of our finds are nuggets deposited by ancient rivers where the bedrock is not too far down . The bedrock tends to go from the surface down and perhaps comes back up in some other places along a line perpendicular to the first contact point . So if they find a real good area but the bedrock becomes too deep they must quit since there is no clear proof that digging deeper will produce more nuggets . BUT when the new and improved (did I mention pricier ?) machine comes out they hightail it to those areas so they can get just a bit deeper . If there are any more nuggets there they can now justify digging that extra distance because it is a proven producer . Tides , beach shapes and currents have a life of their own as well . In CA guys have been known to score big time after a storm that takes sand away , sometimes as much as several feet . Like they say "Gold is where you find it ."
My "big dog" machine is a SD2200d . It is a beast . If I'm in the desert and I get a good signal you better believe I'm digging . I hunted beaches in SO. CA. and guys would get a loud signal and say "It's probably a beer can." Then they smile and DIG!!! Mostly because they know that I WILL . There is no worse feeling than passing up a signal and the guy behind you digs up a total prize . I saw it happen in the desert with a Prince Albert can with several nugs in it . The second guy dug somebodys poke .Too bad , so sad .