How deep can you go?

[OutBack Duo]

I recently returned from vacation in Upstate NY and had a wonderful time detecting old homes and parks. I noticed that after tuning my White's DFX I was digging targets 8 to 10 inches deep in moist soil. Back in Kansas the deepest reading I ever got was maybe 5 inches (soil didn't matter).

1. What is the deepest you have been able to detect a coin?
2. What were the soil conditions like?
3. What kind of detector were you using?
4. Factory programs or custom programs?

Just a few questions to ponder.

Here are a few of the great coins I found while in NY.

Don

 

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[sherpa t]

Well just a couple thoughts,
Coins left undisturbed in the soil will tend to create a conductive halo around them, thus appearing larger to the detector and larger is better for depth. However you are using a DFX which should be performing easily beyond the 5 inch you describe. So...
maybe the old coin at 8 inches in upstate is getting leaves, grass clippings etc. building soil up over the 1900's. Maybe your Kansas coins have been loosing soil cover due to dust bowel and other erosion events during the 1900's ?? or not..., maybe it's as simple as people were in NY first.

 

[brandy]

I use an XLT and the deepest I had gotten was around 5 inchs until I started experimenting with custom programs. Now I have dug up to 9 inchs and feel confident I can get maybe another inch or two. HH

 

[rvbvetter]

? ? ?Very nice finds!! ? I live on an island, where the ground is a mixture of sod and sand. So when i got my Dfx and EXP II a few months back, after having been out of it a few years. I started finding coins at 10 in. easily, here on the island. I was thinking, ?WOW!! ?they really made some big advancements. But when i ventured off the island, and found more solid terra firma, some of my depth was lost. But even so, these detectors are much improved over the ones i last hunted with, and depth of detection today, is far superior. I've pulled a coin or two from 8 in. with good solid hits in solid dirt.. The soil on the island seems to offer no resistance to my detectors. But it also doesn't seem to offer any resistance to the coins either. Because the coins i find at 10 in. are from the 60's and 70's. I would tell you about finding coins here at 12 in, but i don't think anybody would believe it so i'll leave it at 10in. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? HH

 

[OutBack Duo]

I used to own an XLT and never got any deaper than 5". ?I also never messed with the settings. ?Since getting my DFX and started playing with the settings I have been able to go to 10". ?I can't believe I used to hunt in the factory preset programs. ?My finds have gotten so much better now that I am digging deeper targets.

 

[wmas1960]

Now, I don't know how deep these items have actually been as I tend to dig in sand. As I lift the scoop out, some sand and the items I find, immediately settle in the scoop or the hole fills in and it isn't possible to get an accurate measurement.

That said, I was out on the beach tonight and most of what I was finding was in about 4.5 or less of sand. I did dig a few things that read at 5.5 or 6.5. On a couple occasions, in the tip of the scoop (deepest objects from the hole, I saw a quarter or a bottle cap sitting on top. So, I was possibly picking up some items at 6" of SAND. I have, in the past, had many targets that the XLT SAID were at 7.5" The readout will go up to 10, I think but I have never pinpointed anything at deeper than 7.5. Usually, on Relic, I get a lot of readings of 7.5 Even those that I skim off the top at less than 2".

I have not adjusted or tweaked any settings. I have been using factory presets, Normally Coin and Jewelry, as I was tonight, and, as I said, Relic, on occasions.

 

[Monty]

My deepest coin to date was a 1965 quarter at close to 8" with a GTI 2500, Garrett product. I sug another quarter from on top of it at 4". I got a good solid coin beep indicating a coin the size of a quarter, but it tailed off funny and I almost thought it was a soda can. JIM

 

[morris]

best i have done is 9" IDX Classic SL... 1927 wheat Penny...

Morris
Ocala,Fl

 

[Floater]

My wife has accused me of lying to her on this subject since we've been married. As far as coins and relics go I have honestly dug a silver quarter out of hard pack sod and sand at 8" and in the wet sand I dug my 10K gold ring at 10 or better. It was hard to judge but I know it did not com up in the first scoop and that is easily 8 inches the second try i think i just missed to the edge and then recenterd and got it with the the third shot.

 

[JW]

Found a 1911D wheatie right next to a sprinkler head last night at 10+ inches. Found a Rosie a foot away at 8 inches. I've seen a Barber recovered at 11+ inches in the same field. Explorer2 with stock coil, sens at 24+, deep on, ferrous tones on, gain at 8, IM at -14.

 

[Vrent]

this is like asking a fisherman how big was the fish, without knowing fishing rulers skip 5-9 inches go straight from 4inches to 10

anyway, I spent 2 years working one small park, about 5-6 hours a day 7 days a week, it was theraphy for an ankle reconstruction. never saw anyone else and never saw any sign. right at the end I was digging what I could only describe as solid clicks. no tone no beep just a "click" I was using a garrett 350 that garrett upgraded for me by replacing the board to a 350A. any who I hit one click and started digging, I was up to my elbow in the hole before I found a Rosie dime standing on it's edge sparkling up at me. I approximated the depth at 18". I have never found anything that deep before nor since. I have had solid hits at 10" on occasion, but they always turned out to be good size pieces of iron. THe soil was some of massachusetts finest, a glacial mix loam on top and sandy beneath. I would like to go back to that park with a Garrett 2500 now, because I know that while there may be a few shallow targets there has to be some mighty fine deep ones.

I think if you spend alot of time with your detectorand get to know it and clean out the overburden you will increase your depth. That is why I think while the machines that tell you what is down there are nice, they are doing a disservice, because people are not removing the shallow targets. Also it may not be fun, but if you get rid of all the pull tabs you will find good targets below them, too.

If you have the time dig it all