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« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2013, 07:44:48 pm »
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Can I ask you if you dig for ferrous signals or do you blow them off?

I dig every target no matter what. I've found at least 100 items of high value that most people would have blown past because they believed their detector when they should have used their computer. The one between their headphones.

Rings mostly get confused by the detector's computer. Second come nickels, both of which can be seen as a pull tab on some machines. Ferrous targets can be valuable sometimes. Found an Altoids tin at the beach one day with $87 in it plus small change. No ID or I would have spent some time returning it. I was following behind a guy with a Minelab and saw him blow off the target as not worthy. Never told him about it. Just smiled to myself.

Do I dig ferrous? Yep. Every single one.

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« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2013, 08:35:47 pm »
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I dig every target no matter what. I've found at least 100 items of high value that most people would have blown past because they believed their detector when they should have used their computer. The one between their headphones.

Rings mostly get confused by the detector's computer. Second come nickels, both of which can be seen as a pull tab on some machines. Ferrous targets can be valuable sometimes. Found an Altoids tin at the beach one day with $87 in it plus small change. No ID or I would have spent some time returning it. I was following behind a guy with a Minelab and saw him blow off the target as not worthy. Never told him about it. Just smiled to myself.

Do I dig ferrous? Yep. Every single one.


OK, I will trust you!  I am doing it now!  Between you and me I have been competing with some guys I met and I have gotten sooo frustrated comparing what they find and the places that they get permission to go to (they live down the street from me, have superior detectors, and a video channel that just gets me agitated because they make it look so easy) that I started blowing off the ferrous.  But I just stopped subbing them and am starting anew.  Thanks so much for your info  Cheesy  You have no idea how much I appreciate it!!!!!

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« Reply #12 on: September 20, 2013, 05:04:20 am »
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OK, I will trust you!

Famous last words, those.

All kidding aside, sometimes a ferrous object is actually an object of interest. A gun, for example, is ferrous metal. Hinges, door handles, escutcheon plates, padlocks, flatware, pots, pans and tools are nearly all ferrous targets. All of those are interesting. I often dig horse tack items like cinch rings, trace chains and all manner of wagon parts from a hundred or more years ago. Always fun to look at. Like most, I do prefer coins of the era and when I clear out the ferrous, the coins are far easier to find in the ground.

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