A poker chip stops my Minelab Safari dead in its tracks

Had a great idea buy some poker chips an use them as markers in the field when want to mark potential targets. Well I went to my local Walmart and purchased a $6 box of poker chips. So the next day I went hunting and came to an area with multiple targets I flaged three of them and then went back to confirm their exact location before digging. Well as soon as I swung my coil over the chip Null. So I switched to all metal - no discrimination on my Safari and I got the low tone of iron in fact it read a -10 which is as Iron as you can get. So to my surprise this lowly poker chip stopped me from seeing anything but the poker chip. So I have a new way of checking masking without carrying around a rusty nail. Now all I need is a poker chip. I would of never guessed.

Bryanna

Let us know when a silver dime stops you in your tracks as you will have made big strides in learning your unit...Not being a card player what in heavens name are those chips made of ....always thought they were non-metallic....except of course in casinos where they are actually coded in some manner to prevent counterfeit chips being cashed in...

Some of the better fake clay chips have an iron core to bring the weight up.

That is what you have got there.

I bought a cheap bag of colored golf tees to do that with....I got out all the brighter colored ones and took them along and would put them a little ways in the ground to mark my spots. Well...it didn't work as planned as I ended up not re-finding most of the targets due to the golf tees not being visible enough lol had to go back over the same ground and find them with the detector again.

I had burnt orange ones...I think hot pink ones would be better if they even make such a thing. Nothing in nature is hot pink so it sticks out like a sore thumb...the crazy red/orange dirt we have here, come to find out, camo's a orange golf tee pretty good. LOL

Well that makes more sense I was beginning to think they where made with some of that culpepper soil I have heard so much about. - They do have some weight to them. Will have to break one apart to see what's in there

Dan - funny you mention golf tees that was my first thought but talked myself out of them. Well my poker chips are easy to find but I have to pick them up and remember the spot kind of defeats the purpose.

Live and learn.

Any other good ideas for visible target markers that are not ferrous or conductive in any way?

Bryanna

Frnifo Wrote:
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> Some of the better fake clay chips have an iron
> core to bring the weight up.
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> That is what you have got there.

The cheapest kind of plastic pokerchips will do well.

I do quite a lot of target marking, I use circles of card about 2.5 inches / 6 cm diameter, often cut from cereal boxes. Most are white, but the best colour is a lurid pink. They are cheap, and card will rot away harmlessly if I lose one. They are not good if it's windy, though. I thought about some kind of golf-tee / card-circle hybrid marker but so far have managed without.

Depending on the area, a small can of paint (I like florence pink) works well, I would not use it in a park tho. a golt tee with a small strip of orange plastic strip may do it for you.

I have used the golf tees, but I put the tee through a piece of ribbon so it is very easy to see. Use two different colors and it's even easier to spot.