Guess I'm gonna have to start digging everything...

[DiamondDan]

I was beginning to wonder why 9 times out of ten the coins I dig are 3-4 inches only. I have heard of tones dropping quite drastically with deeper targets, but after a bit of experimenting yesterday, let's just say I'm pretty shocked.

I buried several coins deeper than six inches, and while I could tell they were deep, I did not expect them to ring up in the iron range, and very iffy, at that. We have very hot soil here, and maybe that has something to do with it, but there's no doubt I have been missing a lot by digging solid mid and high tones most of the time. You learn something new every day I guess.

Crappy-sounding iron tones, here I come!

 

[Truth]

The more holes you dig the more stuff you will get.

At first, I only dug the "good" signals. Hit in both directions, and made a good number. You do really well, but miss the deeper (older) stuff. If it repeats, dig it up is the best rule. If you go to modern trashy places this can backfire, as you will only dig trash, but at older places, dig it all. Every once in a while, you will remove something from the hole, only to discover something good hiding behind it. My one and only SLQ was hidden behind a couple of nails, it DID NOT sound like a coin, just a squeak, until I removed the big rusty nails from the hole!
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I agree...I dug a ify single and it was actually a small intact lightbulb. Then I rechecked the hole with my pin pointer and 2 inches down I found my first gold ring by luck.

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[smokeythecat]

Dig everything. Let the iron halos get out of the ground (like with Civil War ration cans) and then go back over it. Pulled a bunch of CW bullets out the last couple days doing this.