Strange Explorer experience

[Iron Patch]

or maybe I just dug too many holes today.

I was walking into a site and happened to swing over some modern trash, like balled up foil or something. Anyway, it seemed to hit like a fraction of a second after my coil had gone by. So I raised the coil and airtested it, the strongest signal was when my coil was well to the right. That so explains why I can never pinpoint trash like that, it's always in the side of the hole. I had always assume it was my error but never really thought about it, now I realize the detector just sees it that way and I follow the signal and it has me dig in the wrong place. Luckily I don't have to deal with modern trash often, if I did I probably would have figured this out by now. Crazy me for assuming all targets would hit dead center of the coil in an airtest. I'm going to try this out again because it still doesn't seem to make sense. I bet It was about half a coil width to the right of the junk when the target was the strongest.

6+ years and still learning!

 

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[Whyme]

or maybe I just dug too many holes today.

I was walking into a site and happened to swing over some modern trash, like balled up foil or something. Anyway, it seemed to hit like a fraction of a second after my coil had gone by. So I raised the coil and airtested it, the strongest signal was when my coil was well to the right. That so explains why I can never pinpoint trash like that, it's always in the side of the hole. I had always assume it was my error but never really thought about it, now I realize the detector just sees it that way and I follow the signal and it has me dig in the wrong place. Luckily I don't have to deal with modern trash often, if I did I probably would have figured this out by now. Crazy me for assuming all targets would hit dead center of the coil in an airtest. I'm going to try this out again because it still doesn't seem to make sense. I bet It was about half a coil width to the right of the junk when the target was the strongest.

6+ years and still learning!

Boy am I glad you posted this! I thought I was doing something wrong myself with pinpointing large foil or large canslaw. I can pinpoint a pulltab dead nuts in the center but anything bigger than that it's always on the side of the hole. Boy do I feel better after reading this

 

[Iron Patch]

or maybe I just dug too many holes today.

I was walking into a site and happened to swing over some modern trash, like balled up foil or something. Anyway, it seemed to hit like a fraction of a second after my coil had gone by. So I raised the coil and airtested it, the strongest signal was when my coil was well to the right. That so explains why I can never pinpoint trash like that, it's always in the side of the hole. I had always assume it was my error but never really thought about it, now I realize the detector just sees it that way and I follow the signal and it has me dig in the wrong place. Luckily I don't have to deal with modern trash often, if I did I probably would have figured this out by now. Crazy me for assuming all targets would hit dead center of the coil in an airtest. I'm going to try this out again because it still doesn't seem to make sense. I bet It was about half a coil width to the right of the junk when the target was the strongest.

6+ years and still learning!

Boy am I glad you posted this! I thought I was doing something wrong myself with pinpointing large foil or large canslaw. I can pinpoint a pulltab dead nuts in the center but anything bigger than that it's always on the side of the hole. Boy do I feel better after reading this

I'm still having a hard time believing the airtest on the junk was bad as it was.

What a nightmare it would be to hunt a place loaded with the stuff.