Bouncing signal

[Dimeman]

2 days before Christmas last year I went out to one of the park areas where some of us local hunters have been searching. The large area used to be a 800+ acre ranch/farm owned by a family who settled in the area in the 1840's. The family was pretty well of and at least 4 complete families of the same name had similar acreage in this area of town.So the land has history and lost items from the 1840's on up. A church was built in 1848 and is still standing and being used.

The park area is about a mile from the church and was built on a small 7 acre pasture in 1958.
In our past searches we have dug wheats,IH's,Buffalo 5 centers,early Jefferson nickels,some Barber dimes, some Mercs, a couple of Washington quarters, a Barber quarter,and a Standing Liberty quarter.

This day I was trying to dig up a lot of the bottlecaps in a certain area hoping for a good target below the trash items.

I had dug so many caps I had to empty out my finds bag twice.
I was finding a few clad coins when I got a signal that jumped from bottlecap to half. Each pass of the coil the meter would jump and wouldn't lock on a icon or number ID. I decided to dig.
At 3 inches I dug up a rusty bottle cap. As I scanned the hole again it registered as a half dollar. about 3 inches deeper...I dug a Walking Liberty half--it had been directly under the bottlecap, masked by the cap.

I scanned the bottle cap on the ground--it read as a bottlecap---I scanned the half on the ground---it read as a half---I put the bottlecap on top of the half and scanned it on the ground. The meter wouldn't lock on , and it jumped back and forth.

If you get a jumpy signal....investigate it. It could be a very good target under a bad target.

[odave]

Good find and advise Robbie thumbsup01 thumbsup01

[Nitro 54]

Nice Walker Robbie :smitten: :smitten:

[Judy]

Wow what a beauty she is Robbie ==== well done!!! <:

[Carver]

That's great advice Robbie,,,,,I HAVE to dig signals like that,,,if I didn't I would not sleep at night :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

Great Walker!!!! :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:

[pulltabsteve]

Yup! On the M6 if I get a good tone mixed with junk, I DIG :peace:

[Evan/tn]

Big congrats on some big silver Robbie,that was a great dig on the masked half :clapping: :clapping:
Way to go!

[Dixie Rebel]

That is a nice looking Walking Liberty half. WTG thumbsup01

[cnr_dogs]

good advice and a beautiful walker WTG

[Salty Dog]

Nice Robbie,If in doubt dig it out :beerbuddy:,congrats on the walker...

[greg]

Just proves that you should dig it all. Nice hunk of silver

[Ill Digger]

Good advice Robbie !!
I have a similar story. As a lot of us probably do.
I was getting a signal on my DFX last spring that was reading; iron /foil that would jump up to dime :confused: I dug it up and found 8 nails, a small piece of can slaw, and in the plug was a 1814 Capped Bust dime !! :happydance01:
When in doubt....DIG !!! :yes:
Nice find !!
Congrats !! :grin:

[giant056]

That was an excellent find Robbie thumbsup01 you never know what it is till you dig it!

[BillZ]

Persistence pays off!
Nice! :clapping:

[Epi-hunter]

That is a beautiful, amazing half! :happydance01: Congratulations!

[top pop top]

Congrats on the Walking Liberty Half. It pays off to dig it all :clapping: :clapping:

[coinnut]

Congrats on the WLH. :happydance01: I used to dig a lot of bouncing signals on the DFX. In the woods they were usually deep buttons :clapping:

[Snickerdoodle]

Sweet story Dimeman glad you landed that walker @ digging all those :dontknow: bottle caps :yes: :yes:

[Napa Steve]

Good job Robbie, the jumpy sigal will have me thinking now.

[russellt]

your moving up in the world robbie i thought you only found dimes.... thats sound advice and a great find . imagine how many folks walked over that walker .................................................. ...................pun intended :poke:

[BOWSER]

i wonder how much stuff i have walked over. :crying02:

[Cheap Thrills]

Sweet find and well worth your labor . The M6 is a great detector . thumbsup01 thumbsup01

[wheresthegoodstuff]

Awsome find, that one it still on my list to find.

[milco]

Very nice, a good reminder to all of us!

[wingmaster]

Yep I'm starting to learn this as the really deep targets will do this as well, I've pulled some dimes at 10 that was jumping around alot. Most of the time it is junk but if its deep dig it, the signal sounds good but will jump around like junk does. So if it sounds good and pinpoints small and its deep definitely dig it.