old ax head

[jftd]

i am new to using metal detectors.....any suggestions on places to visit in Wisconsin?

 

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[Old Dog]

After you dug the axe head out,
did you check the hole again with your detector?

I got a heck of a silver hit once and dug up a nice combine blade....
rechecked the hole and got an 1846 seated half another inch down.

OD

 

[Montana Jim]

Because... depending on your detector... your "silver" scale may coincide with your "large objects" scale... maybe?

What detector are you using? That information will help others better help you!

 

[joey]

use a bench grinder with a wire wheel on it!

 

[allsmith]

i get that too...seems that objects that have a round hole in them,like iron rings and buckles do read silver tone... axe heads and hammer heads have the hole in them... also horse shoes will do it... and round nail heads too :P :P :P... but i think that stuff is cool so i keep them... not into round nails though!! try electralisys on the iron... works great.... turns it a nice black color....let it dry good and clearcoat with spray can

 

[Oroblanco]

So many of these high tech detectors have indicator gauges and/or digital displays that are supposed to tell you what is in the ground before you dig it up. What the sales brochures DON'T tell you is that in field tests the best of these were only accurate around 50% of the time! So don't make it a practice to put all your faith in those indicator gauges or digital displays, they are all too frequently WRONG. The state of that science (identifying what is buried without digging it up) is just not up to what the manufacturers claim. Think about that, you might have passed up on digging up a $20 gold piece, simply because your indicator said it was iron! This could occur even if the accuracy rate was up to 90%, which none of the currently available detectors has proven able to do.

Oroblanco