10 coins 10 nails discrimination test-- whith musketeer

[Gunnar MN]

I have been reading dankowskeys masking articles, and deciced to do a test whith ten nails and ten coins i dug a hole 6" deep 16" wide and 24" long put all the dirt in a cement mixer and mixed it all together and then put it back in the hole packed it down good and i actually found all 10 coins my disq was set at 11:00 and nails where silent , i got some choppy signals swinging fast but when i slowd down and made shorter swings the coins started coming thru somtimes i could only get the signal one way but in the end i got all ten the TS800 slimline coil is very good at getting beetween nails Gunnar MN

 

[Rick(ND)]

Let see what happens in reg hunting in old areas where the coins and nail have been there for years and see if it will see the coins and not the nail, I know it sees the rusty bottle caps real good and sound like a coin. When I did some air test with mine the coins sounded good while the nails didnt that i had dug before, but seem like in the feild where they been there for years the nails sounded too good not to dig. So this is why I ask you to see what it will do in actual hunting and see if it will be differnt.

 

[JHM]

One thing I've come to realize is when the junk is closer to the coil masking is a BIG issue. Lay the nail or any other trash on a brick and disc it out, then put the coin on the ground beside it. If you can detect the coin you better hang on to that detector. I haven't found one yet that will do it. As a matter of fact it can mask uo to foot around the object. I think this is why good stuff can be found in so called hunted out areas as soon as a little dirt work is done. Aluminum trash tends to stay shallow.

 

[crazyman]

As Rick said things do change in the field. When you have freshly buried nails and coins on the same level when doing these tests target masking results are unreliable on any detector. Put those coins 2 inches or more below those nails and things change. There is no detector made today that will see through one metal and hit the other. The old TR detectors suffered least of all when it came to masking but had very little depth in moderate to heavy mineralization. Doing these type of tests with nails and coins would be better as a test on a detectors recovery speed more so than it's target masking abilities. When it comes to hunting Iron infested sites like ghost towns or demolition areas a detector with a slow recovery speed and a discrimination range that has to much bias towards iron would be a poor choice. The Advantage is an excellent detector for hunting these sites. It has a super fast recovery speed and a discrimination range that can be set just low enough in the iron range to offset some of the masking.