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ElCidofValencia
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I've dug up God knows how many nails and chunks of metal. There have been a few coins and other interesting artifacts in there, but nothing silver.
Which is why I wonder, why does my metal detector keep telling me that there is something that identifies as a silver coin when it never is? Does anyone else have this problem? I've come to realize that aluminum registers the same as silver, I believe. But why do I sometimes get nothing but a REALLY small nail or something? Does anyone know?
Which is why I wonder, why does my metal detector keep telling me that there is something that identifies as a silver coin when it never is? Does anyone else have this problem? I've come to realize that aluminum registers the same as silver, I believe. But why do I sometimes get nothing but a REALLY small nail or something? Does anyone know?
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How much experience do you have?
When I get a decent signal, I sometimes try it from 4 angles to see if it's consistent. It's not a 100% guaranteed method because it could be a coin next to a nail, but often it helps determine if it's a nail or a coin.
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I have a Tesoro Cibola and hunted a park yesterday. Although I had the discrimination set just above the Tab level, I was still hitting pull tabs. I had to turn it up much higher to avoid them. Was probably just a function of the soil conditions at the time. It had rained hard the day before, so perhaps that made a difference; I'm not sure. Even at a high discrimination setting, I hit a couple of nails. They were regular size nails, not small, though.
I am new at it. I've been doing it about every day, though, so that should help me get experience. It's really fun but it would be cool if I could get a coin older than 1964! (and it was a nickel, so not silver
Aluminum should not register the same as silver unless it's a large chunk, like a soda can.
If you're getting hot signals on REALLY small nails, maybe you should back down a little on the sensitivity.
No matter how sophisticated your machine, though, there will be times when it "lies" to you. I have found that this tends to be a bit more prevalent with the discrimination and meter readings on Garretts, for some reason. (I'm not sure why. They're good machines, otherwise- I'm a Garrett man, myself.)
But don't let that discourage you. When in doubt, dig! And with practice, you'll learn to "read between the lines" a bit more and not rely so much on the meter.
You WILL pop that 1964 barrier and get a silver coin eventually, if you're hunting in places that were developed before 1970. You'll know you're getting warm when the Wheat cents start appearing.
It's gonna take a LOT of patience, though. And a lot of dug trash.