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A question for you folks

What is the most problematic, waste of time trash target you dig. Is it iron or aluminun?
Definitely modern trash like aluminum screw caps, pieces of cans, curled up pieces of woven wire fences, etc….stuff that sizes like a possible coin but aren’t coins. If given the choice I would hunt iron 100% of the time, which is why I seek these areas out on purpose. That’s ME though…
 
Aluminum no doubt...I hate digging down close to 2 ft. only to find it's a dang aluminum can some idiot relic hunter had buried years prior so he could get his jollies from the next digger.
 
Depends on what you're looking for. If jewelry is your target then it's al. In most cases you can disc out most iron or many times have a clue it's iron. The biggest problem with iron is masking.
Masking iron is where we shine......It teaches you how to isolate coins within the iron.... Aluminum is just too hard to disc out without losing good targets.
 
Elmo, I get fooled on deep bent nails all of the time.
Tony
Deep , bent nails will bounce id's.....so the trick is to just barely disc the bent nail.... now a coin next to the nail should be detected if the coil passes the coin first and not the nail. When the coil hits the nail before a coin it is discriminated out. Pic 1 shows a coil swing to the left and the coin is discriminated. Pic 2 shows a coil swing to the right and the coin should be detected. This is why angles are so important. A left handed man may start off swinging left to right and miss a coin that a right handed man will hit with a right to left swing (SHOWN IN THE PIC'S BELOW).
On an etrac with my magic program, a bent nail should hit outside your detectors search pattern, providing a good hit in search mode and a bad hit in quick mask.
Without it you would dig a bent nail thinking it was a coin.

Below is a coin that is masked or missed with a coil swing to the left.

pic 1 coil swinging left.gif



Below is a coin that will be detected with a swing to the right.

pic 2 coil swinging to the right.gif


Don't take my word....try this test at home for yourself.

E L M Y
 
Deep , bent nails will bounce id's.....so the trick is to just barely disc the bent nail.... now a coin next to the nail should be detected if the coil passes the coin first and not the nail. When the coil hits the nail before a coin it is discriminated out. Pic 1 shows a coil swing to the left and the coin is discriminated. Pic 2 shows a coil swing to the right and the coin should be detected. This is why angles are so important. A left handed man may start off swinging left to right and miss a coin that a right handed man will hit with a right to left swing (SHOWN IN THE PIC'S BELOW).
On an etrac with my magic program, a bent nail should hit outside your detectors search pattern, providing a good hit in search mode and a bad hit in quick mask.
Without it you would dig a bent nail thinking it was a coin.

Below is a coin that is masked or missed with a coil swing to the left.

View attachment 34921


Below is a coin that will be detected with a swing to the right.

View attachment 34922

Don't take my word....try this test at home for yourself.

E L M Y
Elmy,
I agree with your testing. Thanks for that and the bent nail bouncing numbers.
When I used the Expl 2 I dug less nails due to the iron mask screen. Miss that big time.
Tony
 
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