Was in Disc mode walking the wet sand just above the waterline last night, got a null but couldn't raise a tone, switched to PP and got a very faint threshold break - the threshold returned to it's original smooth pitch so I took some sand off over the target to get the coil closer, started raising a tone in both Disc & PP. Glad I took the time to check! As TH says, most of the time nulls are junk/iron but sometimes the target can be just on the edge of the machine's capabilities. Good "hard nulls" can usually be trusted, but be very careful of trusting those weak/tiny/faint nulls.