Hey RockieBoston !
Thanks !!!!
Neat funny in your signature "Rusty nails are my specialty"
(I've dug my share of rusty nails too [emoji38])
Regarding your question, I did get a TID that indicated possible silver and if I remember correctly there were some other TIDs that jumped in there too, but since I was able to keep getting that possible silver TID I decided to dig.
(it's possible the trash target that was in the same hole as the silver was able to mask the silver enough to past detectorists that they chose not to dig)
Also, I think that silver was deep enough that I had to rescan more slowly over the area to pick up the possible silver TID again, making me think it was possibly a deep target and perhaps a better chance at silver than a shallow target.
Before that first silver 10 out of 10 possible silver TIDs I had previously dug were aluminum caps or other trash, but I figured to have any chance of digging silver I had to keep risking digging trash especially since the areas I had been detecting in were fairly trashy.
Sometimes when hunting in known very trashy areas the number of "iffy" signals I dig might vary depending on if it's a shorter hunt or a longer hunt, or if I've already found some non-trash targets I might risk digging more "iffy" signals than usual knowing at least it won't be an all trash hunt [emoji38]
Also, if you haven't read it yet on the forum, there is a "raised coil" test that is recommended, that if you get what is a seemingly good signal, raise your coil several inches off the ground and rescan, if you still get a signal indicating a deep target it is "likely" large trash like a crushed aluminum can. Now that test might not be 100% foolproof, but the times I've dug a "raised coil" signal just to check I only remember finding large trash.
