Sweeping a signal?

[hollARDog]

So I read and read for noobs to dig every signal.
Now let me ask this........
Is that literally every signal? Or every single you can duplicate in a X pattern over target?
It's really hard diggin round here and that seems to be all I do is dig a little hole to find nothing🤔
I'm going on my 1st of many permissions I've recently been stacking up and want to do my best this morning.
I do have a couple cheapie pinpointers and they help on real targets but mainly just get poked in ghost holes and never beep. So I get a little heated, cover the hole, take a few giant steps away and start sweeping again.
So dig every signal or every confirmed signal? Thanks y'all🤘

 

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[hollARDog]

Something you might try doing after you get a good repeatable signal is, while still in pinpoint mode, outline the target and slowly raise your coil while over the target. That will give you an idea as to the size and shape and depth of the target. Couple that with your target id and you'll start to get a pretty good idea whether or not it's something you want to dig.

It's something I learned to do early on using a White Classic 3 that didn't have Target ID.

Nice tip, thank you. I haven't been using the pinpoint mode much yet. Gets me kinda confused and lost at times. I believe because I'm moving to far and hitting the next target🤔 so I kinda stopped using it until I become more comfortable/confident of with I'm doing🤘

 

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[Barrydang]

A lot of people will say dig the beep not the number. If at a new site dig it all. See what’s there and then you can kinda skip over pulltab signals or cherry pick it first then go back and dig the lesser signals. My nicest coin was a signal I probably passed over several times because it wasn’t a clear cut high tone because it was next to a nail. You’ll just be guessing til you actually dig it up.

 

[ARC]

A lot of people will say dig the beep not the number. If at a new site dig it all. See what’s there and then you can kinda skip over pulltab signals or cherry pick it first then go back and dig the lesser signals. My nicest coin was a signal I probably passed over several times because it wasn’t a clear cut high tone because it was next to a nail. You’ll just be guessing til you actually dig it up.

Beings i only use detectors that have no screen / numbers... I only can dig the sounds.
I will repeat something i have said many times here... many times the things you are skipping are not what you want to dig... Until it is.

In other words... If you null out iron... forget about finding that treasure chest you dream about.
Or can of gold coins.
Or stash in an ammo can.

Or .... like in the instance of one time when helping locate a large cache of silver coins in a Coleman steel belted cooler buried on a piece of property that i was given a percentage of for finding when i was seventeen...

FOR... all of the above will still be there after it has been detectd...
IF you ignore an iron signal.

 

[hollARDog]

Beings i only use detectors that have no screen / numbers... I only can dig the sounds.

I will repeat something i have said many times here... many times the things you are skipping are not what you want to dig... Until it is.

In other words... If you null out iron... forget about finding that treasure chest you dream about.

Or can of gold coins.

Or stash in an ammo can.

Or .... like in the instance of one time when helping locate a large cache of silver coins in a Coleman steel belted cooler buried on a piece of property that i was given a percentage of for finding when i was seventeen...

Would still be there after IF I ignored that iron signal.

Thank ya @ARC 🤘 that makes a lot of sense. I don't have my cheat sheet with me but I think I may need to do more research on setting up my machine. I think I've been turning the disc to 15🤔 following a beginners set up sheet I found someone say start with on another forum from a Google search.

 

[hollARDog]

Haven't got to get out this week with this great weather. I'm trying. A unit is the shop is giving me fits.

 

[ARC]

Here is your iron can that was skipped...

 

[ARC]

And here is what was in that IRON / STEEL can.

NOW... this can was found by eyesight... supposedly anyway.

It is the famous "Saddle Ridge"... which The Saddle Ridge Hoard is the name given to a hoard of 1,427 gold coins unearthed in the Gold Country of the Sierra Nevada, California in 2013. The face value of the coins totaled $27,980, but was assessed to be worth $10 million. The hoard contains $27,460 in twenty-dollar coins, $500 in ten-dollar coins, and $20 in five-dollar coins, all dating from 1847 to 1894. The collection is the largest known discovery of buried gold coins that has ever been recovered in the US.

 

[hollARDog]

What size is that can?

 

[ARC]

What size is that can?

Saddle Ridge Hoard - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[hollARDog]

Many cans🤘 makes more sense,thank ya