Still learning with the MD

[NLINE SIXX]

Yesterday I went out with the metal detector across the street from my house to a recently built new elementary school (it's about 4 or 5 years old). I did not really find much except a few clad pennies, a token, and some trash. Not knowing for sure if any one else in my town metal detects or not, I have not noticed anyone myself. I only hunted around the play ground equipment in the pea-gravel. It was hard to hunt very close to the play ground equipment because of the steel frame work. I was hunting in Disc coin mode, I figured this would discirminate the steel but I would always get a coin belltone sound within say 6 inches of the framework. It would also indicate in the dime,quarter range.

Also that afternoon I decided to MD my mothers backyard, and found several clad pennies and three old matchbox cars that belonged to original owners son (they, original owners live next door now and their son is in his forty's).

I was also operating in Disc coin mode finding the pennies, metal cars (they, metal cars showed as quarters also) but what really stumped me was I hit a spot indicating a dime or quarter on the meter with coin belltone at 3 inches. I dug down to find nothing at 3 to 4 inches but still had strong signal of a coin there. Digging a little more I come up with a piece of foil folded over with nothing in it. Throwing it to the side behind me I check the hole again with results of no belltone or reading on the meter of a coin. With my factory pre-sets set for Disc how come I'm getting this kind of trash that is to be discriminated in the first place.Is this just me needing to learn more about the detector since coin and trash signals are producing the same sounds or what. Kinda confusing at times.

I have a Garrett Grand Master Hunter CX II with the analog type meter looks just like the GMH CX Plus that has the digital readout.

Still learning so be gentle with reply

Thanks

NL6

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Diving for Pleasure and Treasure - Grab it through Amazon!

[slow sweeper]

? ? ?You learned a very important fact that a lot of people just starting out in metal detecting fail to understand. A metal detector is not an x-ray machine or magic wand. No metal detector, no matter how expensive, or how many bells and whistles it has, is going to be accurate 100% of the time.
? ? In a nutshell?when some type of metal breaks the detector coils electromagnetic field it makes a GUESS at what it might be depending on the targets electrical conductivity. And that can be affected by size, shape, depth, type of soil, soil moisture, other nearby metal targets, and probably five or six other factors.?
? ? ?It just takes a while to learn what your detector is telling you. And sometimes what your detector is telling you is wrong.

 

[hollowpointred]

your detector not only reads the coductivity of an object but also its mass.a folded over piece of foil can trick the machine into thinking it is a coin because folded over, it has more mass that if it were laying flat. this kind of stuff happens to everyone. i guess its just part of the game.