How many agree w/this statement?

[scotto]

I've heard it is easier to find coins after a rain, when the ground is still wet. Is this really true? Can you find coins deeper, or just easier?
Thanks!

 

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[FinderFrank]

Could be true, hard to tell for me I usually hunt in trashy parks & it seems like the old rusty nails & iron give me alot more falsing when the ground is really wet.

Frank

 

[Mainedigger]

I've heard it is easier to find coins after a rain, when the ground is still wet. Is this really true? Can you find coins deeper, or just easier?
Thanks!

White's Electronics publishes a book "25 Treasure Hunting Tips" and they state the ground after rain, when it is wet will yield more deeper coins than dry soil. I seem to find deeper coins under these conditions as well so I would say there is some validity to the statement.

 

[TreasureTales]

The halo of a buried metallic object is bigger when the soil is moist. So yes, detecting after a rain is usually more productive. It's not that your detector works any differently, but the strength and size of the target is enhanced by the rain as the molecules of the target spread out around it. That's the halo effect.

 

[Sandman]

The halo of a buried metallic object is bigger when the soil is moist. So yes, detecting after a rain is usually more productive. It's not that your detector works any differently, but the strength and size of the target is enhanced by the rain as the molecules of the target spread out around it. That's the halo effect.

This is true whether coins are deeper or we just receive the signal better. The detectors operation stays the same. This could also be why Minelab GP machines are so productive in dry conditions where nuggets are.

HH,
Sandman

 

[TonyinCT]

With wet ground the matrix of the soil is changed significantly enough from the target so as to be able to find it better. When the ground is dry the target is more similar to the surrounding matrix and thus harder to find it.

 

[swingman]

With 5 years experience, using a Minelab Sovereign on all types of soils, I estimate I get ~ 20% greater depth between dry-to-wet soil.
I hear, but can't confirm, that other technologies (without multiple frequencies) don't give quite as much increase.

 

[DFX-SE Gregg]

For once I agree with everybody! 8) 8) 8) Also the rain/moist ground makes it easier to dig.

 

[wildrider]

I'm not a big coin hunter but here is what I'vefound to be true for me and relics.

I've been detecting since 1992 and in my honest opinion, the only thing I seem to find more of in wet soil is...IRON. The iron signals that I don't hear so well in avg to dry soil sound "good" in the wet soil.

I haven't particularly noticed deeper signals in wet ground, just more of them.

Avg moist ground is where I get the greatest depth, but dry-dry, hard as a brick soil seems to boost shallow targets, just harder to diggum.

Having been a dealer, I have used some of most brand machines. I currently use a Nautilus DMC-2b and have a White's Blue & Gray and a Fisher 1266xb as backups.

Had a lot of success finding frags with a DFX & Tejon and my only cannonball (CS 6#bormann) with the Tejon.


Go figure.

Burt

 

[Rich]

im more of a relic hunter,coins pop up now and again....id perfer to hunt in the rain "but not a down pour".....

but also i think it does pick up metals/coins more easy when its wet out due to the electromagnetics of the coin and the mineralization of the ground,as for going deeper i think that deepth would be abit less due to the compact/soil/mud/clay etc,freq's and also other freq's that have not made it to the detector world yet but are in the world of musical insrtuments/electroic gear like Crossovers,Sweepable EQ's "which is pretty much like the minlabs 28freq,which it sweeps 28 freq's constantly "milli sec's".....

BUt really who knows>?,were all in differtn places in the world and all have differtn gear and the land and minerals are differnt so i would say this question is still up in the air!....
cool question though~