How small of an object can your detector find?

[BIG61AL]

I found this tiny remnant of what I believe to be a child's toy ring. The edges have punch press marks. It is not magnetic. I had trouble finding this after I acquired the target. Got a solid penny signal. It is about the third the thickness of a penny. I am pleased that my detector can latch onto such a small target. How small of a target have you found?

 

[rgecy]

Garrett Sea Hunter Mk II with 10x14 coil, sandy wet conditions, found a very small needle size object at around 6" deep.

 

[GrayCloud]

Explorer II, found a silver piece about 1/5th. the size of a dime at about four inches.

 

[CoinShooter-Craig]

I found a pellet from a pellet gun a couple of inches deep with my vaquero.

 

[jpitt1970]

I've found cw percussion caps & bird shot several inches down & below tall grass with my old Whites 4900d... I haven't used it in like 14 years since I've moved to Florida.. tried to use it on the beach and couldn't seem to get it balanced in the sand. I just put it away. I look at it every now and then..alot more now, especially since I found this website..I've just been waaaay more into Indian artifacts lately

 

[Eu_citzen]

tiny shallow foil.. Need I say more?? Around 1-4 mm in size, w/ Explorer II at 10 Gain, less then a inch deep and 10" coil.

 

[R-bass]

found metal shaving from a file

 

[SusanMN]

My Tiger Shark can find tiny stud earrings. The problem is getting them into a scoop because they're small enough to fall between the holes.

 

[homer007]

BB

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Using one of my Sovereign GTs I found the tiny eyelet that goes on the back of pierced earrings. Only reason I was able to get it was I added tiny mesh screen to the bottom cornor of my scoop to catch stud earrings. I know that was what the signal was because the signal disappeared when I recovered the eyelet.....

 

[sniffer]

using my DFX I found a gold stud earing about 4 inches down at a tot lot

 

[brokenarrow]

birdshot BB's, foil shards and some ear-ring backs

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I was going nuts at a fairground and could not pinpoint a target. Dug and turned and passed handfulls of soil . . . turns out I was hitting a nichrome lightbulb filiment wire. Almost invisible in the dirt. Maybe 1/2" x a thread width. When I started to find glass and bulb bases I ignored those targets. There were dozens of smashed lightbulbs from where they must have trashed the burned-out bulbs for the carnival rides. If you want to mask a buried cache seed the soil above it with nichrome lightbulb filiments. You'll drive the coin-shooters nuts.

At our radio-controlled airplane field I find the washers to glow plugs. 1/16" thick copper rings that are 1/4" in diameter. These read good to many inches deep. The field tractor-towed plug-cutter/aireator pushes them to 4", darn it.

And yes, bird shot. Lots of that hereabouts. Old farmland and bushlots.

 

[greydigger]

When you folks start finding birdshot. do you stop and try another area?
Gosh you could dig a bunch of them until there was no noise.
But , just maybe, there is good stuff there too.
I found my first gold under a pulltab.
Had a cheap machine and when it beeped, I would dig.
If I found a bunch of birdshot, I would move.
Randy

 

[rjw4law]

Depends....With my Whites DFX in the all metal mode.....I have dug an piece of iron the size of a BB at 3 inches....I was thoroughly amazed....I have done this numerous times.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

When you folks start finding birdshot. do you stop and try another area?

Nope. I just ignore the targets that read 40 to 45 on the VDI and keep plugging away. Usually where birdshot is found I have no discrimination set (thar be relics) and it's easier to just ignore it than try and notch it out. My property is swimming in birdshot and old shotgun shell bases. If I didn't hunt where those were I wouldn't be able to hunt my property.

.22LR cases - there must be thousands upon thousands of them planted here. I find rifled slugs in some surprising places, too.

Just behind our barn amid a bunch of birdshot I found this dog tag. I guess that dog didn't hunt.

 

[RPG]

I have a lot of ghost targets that are probably bird shot but this is my smallest keeper for the year.

 

[michiganbutcher]

My Ace 250 hit hard yesterday...on what said was a dime....turned out to be a pushpin.....Oh well....At least I know how sensitive it really is.

 

[godisnum1]

I hit little tiny split shots (the size of BB's) alot at the beach.
And I found this little tiny earring that had to be for an infant.
It's hard to see, but there's a little pink gem in it.

Bran <><

 

[Socalal]

BB's, bird shot, earring studs, etc.

 

[tmdavis3]

Birdshot at 10 inches in a firmly packed sandy coastal driveway. Detector said it was a penny, and it took me forever to finally find the teeny little thing!