Same signal, different items

[bugbitingme]

The penny showed penny or dime at 2", the foil showed penny or dime at 8".

 

[Jeep]

Your doing great and the Landstar is a great detector.

It's my current favorite. Don't worry about negative comments.

Some folks have mental and self worth issues that need professional help

Just keep getting out and learning the machine, that stadium sounds like a great place.

When you can, get a set of headphones. They make all the difference in the world and will increase
battery life.

Any set will work, just get an jack adapter at radio shack.

 

[bugbitingme]

Your doing great and the Landstar is a great detector.

It's my current favorite. Don't worry about negative comments.

Some folks have mental and self worth issues that need professional help

Just keep getting out and learning the machine, that stadium sounds like a great place.

When you can, get a set of headphones. They make all the difference in the world and will increase
battery life.

Any set will work, just get an jack adapter at radio shack.

Encouraging words. Thank you for that. I will look into the headphones soon.

 

[jasper62]

You must be a young fellow with a good back.Too dig a hole like that in our Red clay is a real challenge and a hard work out.Remember the deeper you're target is the less reliable you're ID is going to be.If you're machine is telling you you're target is 8 to 10" deep theres no telling what you're going to dig up.I gave up on the Red Clay.To much work for me.
These days it's Bark chips & Sand, good luck to ya

 

[ivan salis]

red clay has iron in it --which is why its "red" or rust colored * this can cause you machine to act up a bit if its heavy enough minerals wize ( your machine will "see" the mineralized areas as a wall of "metal" and "freak out"-- so if your BH machine falses or acts up a lot --try backing of a bit on the power /sen level just a bit very slowly until it "smooths" out .-- powerlines do the same thing but for a differant reason * the excess power leaking out of the powerlines disrupts the machines electronic search "feild" it makes under the coil.

 

[bugbitingme]

You must be a young fellow with a good back.Too dig a hole like that in our Red clay is a real challenge and a hard work out.Remember the deeper you're target is the less reliable you're ID is going to be.If you're machine is telling you you're target is 8 to 10" deep theres no telling what you're going to dig up.I gave up on the Red Clay.To much work for me.
These days it's Bark chips & Sand, good luck to ya

red clay has iron in it --which is why its "red" or rust colored * this can cause you machine to act up a bit if its heavy enough minerals wize ( your machine will "see" the mineralized areas as a wall of "metal" and "freak out"-- so if your BH machine falses or acts up a lot --try backing of a bit on the power /sen level just a bit very slowly until it "smooths" out .-- powerlines do the same thing but for a differant reason * the excess power leaking out of the powerlines disrupts the machines electronic search "feild" it makes under the coil.

I will be 69 in August. I have been blessed with good health. The settings "JEEP" gave me are working out great and the machine seems to be stable now, since I quit turning it off, or switching to all metal for pin pointing, then back to disc. The clay can be a tough dig when it is dry and packed down. I broke the handle on my digger, so I turned one on the lathe out of metal and JB welded it into the shovel part. It won't be breaking soon. That is the main reason I have only dug a couple of deep signals. I appreciate all of the tips you guys give me. Sorting through them, I will eventually come up with a technique that will produce the most success. I know I am getting close to silver the deeper I dig and I am looking forward to the first one dug. A great opportunity to make a little money for the booster club activities.

 

[ivan salis]

well if you are a older gent --which it seems you are at 68 * stop and think where you hung out in that area when you was 22 and younger (1964* - 46 years ago) because that was the age of silver coins *** when they were common as "pocket change"-- looking where folks commonly hung out back then will most likely greatly improve your chamces of finding silver. --- because just like modern folks in parks today lose "clad" dimes and quarters coins while at play --folk of that era lost silver ones.

also remember how metal detectors "find and sort" items --by their electrical conductivity --a big amount of foil is just as "conductive" as a small copper cent is --thus they have a similar "conductive rating" to the machine and will ring up the same ---- gold and pulltabs are close on the "conductivity scale /amount" and tend to read the "same" --also zinc cents and indian head cents are too.

to properly set your machines disc level to find gold -- use a 10 kt gold item (a nickle will do if you do not have one) and a pulltab -- set you disc level / knob at 0 put the items on the ground about 3 feet apart -- wave the coil over em --beep / beep now slowly up the disc level until the pulltab stops being detected but the nickle / gold item is still detected --if you can not fully "seperate" the two say both fade out at the "same time" very slowly lower it till they both come in again --the coin should "sound" solid and clear --the tab broken and scratchy sounding -- congrats your now "set up " properly for max gold finding with min tabs to dig.

my current delta 4000 (teknetics) $279 ---being a 0 -99 number type display machine can sort many tabs as a "60" while 10 kt gold and nickles come in at 58 and 14kt reads as 67 --thus helping me avoid many of the pulltabs and make my hunting time more productive overall

silver and copper being at the upper end of the metal scale are not normally a issue except for aluminum cans and bigger aluminum type items often at "silver coin type" depth ringing up as silver -- to see if its a coin or a can --lift the coil upward --if its a can or much larger than coin sized item --it will still ring up --but a coin sized item will "drop" out of detection rapidly

 

[bugbitingme]

well if you are a older gent --which it seems you are at 68 * stop and think where you hung out in that area when you was 22 and younger (1964* - 46 years ago) because that was the age of silver coins *** when they were common as "pocket change"-- looking where folks commonly hung out back then will most likely greatly improve your chamces of finding silver. --- because just like modern folks in parks today lose "clad" dimes and quarters coins while at play --folk of that era lost silver ones.

also remember how metal detectors "find and sort" items --by their electrical conductivity --a big amount of foil is just as "conductive" as a small copper cent is --thus they have a similar "conductive rating" to the machine and will ring up the same ---- gold and pulltabs are close on the "conductivity scale /amount" and tend to read the "same" --also zinc cents and indian head cents are too.

to properly set your machines disc level to find gold -- use a 10 kt gold item (a nickle will do if you do not have one) and a pulltab -- set you disc level / knob at 0 put the items on the ground about 3 feet apart -- wave the coil over em --beep / beep now slowly up the disc level until the pulltab stops being detected but the nickle / gold item is still detected --if you can not fully "seperate" the two say both fade out at the "same time" very slowly lower it till they both come in again --the coin should "sound" solid and clear --the tab broken and scratchy sounding -- congrats your now "set up " properly for max gold finding with min tabs to dig.

my current delta 4000 (teknetics) $279 ---being a 0 -99 number type display machine can sort many tabs as a "60" while 10 kt gold and nickles come in at 58 and 14kt reads as 67 --thus helping me avoid many of the pulltabs and make my hunting time more productive overall

silver and copper being at the upper end of the metal scale are not normally a issue except for aluminum cans and bigger aluminum type items often at "silver coin type" depth ringing up as silver -- to see if its a coin or a can --lift the coil upward --if its a can or much larger than coin sized item --it will still ring up --but a coin sized item will "drop" out of detection rapidly

Thank you Ivan. This is excellent advise and gives me a lot to think about. As my techniques improve, this forum and people like you will be the ones responsible for my successful hunts. I can imagine others are reading and learning from all of the tips given by the detectors that have pioneered for us newbies and we thank you for that. Being in Georgia, with stringent enforced laws, we have to be diligent in the way we approach the hobby. A lot of areas that would be rich in coins and relics are off limits. However, with proper research and obtaining permission, there are still many opportunities for us. I recently received permission to detect the county parks, but I am not allowed to dig, so after fairs and other events, many items could be picked up, including gold and silver. To get to the old items, private property owners have to agree to digging. I have done some research and am working on an owner of an area known to have indian relics and civil war items. I expect it will take awhile to gain trust, so I am taking it slow. Again, thank you for your response.