Iron nails masking a silver dime caught on film. News at 11

[TheGeorgiaCanuck]

Iron masking caught it on film while using my new Tachyon camera. Silver dime 2" away from two rusty iron nails. They weren't on top or below the target but they sure messed with the signal. I dug it because I'm used to digging iffy signals with the AT-Pro when running zero discrim and iron audio.

Depth and size of iron - 3" deep, two rusty iron nails spaced 1" apart.
Depth and type of coin, VID number - 3" deep, a 1959 Canadian silver dime.
Spatial locations relative to one another - Silver dime was 2" behind the nails at same depth.
Conditions - dry soil, wet soil, mineralized soil, time of day, etc. - dry ground, medium high mineralized, afternoon around 6pm PST.
Target trace - did it show both targets? How did it appear? Broken 12-41 to 12-43 signal with iron showing in ferrous-coin.
Did you get audio on the coin? yes, iffy and broken.
Settings, pattern, etc. (e.g. - Were you running ferrous coin?) ferrous-coin/combine, deep on, fast on, open screen. pinpoint: sizing, auto sensitivity.

Enjoy.

http://s227.photobucket.com/albums/d...vermasking.mp4

[Goldhunter]

I would have thought that in medium high mineralized soil, most if not all detectors would struggle to produce a clear signal on a silver coin only 2 inches from 2 rusty iron nails. Glad you dug the 'iffy' signal though.

[jeb]

I was wondering why you didn`t double check just to confirm, with your FeCo discrimination mode ?

[botto]

I read on some forum that using the pinpoint with the pinpoint target trace ON works sussing out iffy signals, i tried this out on Sundays dig and it does work a treat. On some very iffy signals that i would have normally left i tried this out and the pinpoint builds up a target on the screen and lets you know something is there, brilliant feature that is worth using.


Cheers,
Gav.

[TheGeorgiaCanuck]

I was wondering why you didn`t double check just to confirm, with your FeCo discrimination mode ?

I've never used an Etrac so I'm not used to all these modes. I'm too used to listening to the signals and digging.