This was my first using a T2 and I could have not picked a more difficult site, it is to hot to hunt in the lower AZ desert this time of year, so I decided to go to a recreation area located between Flagstaff and Prescott.
The ground cancel phase ran from 92 to 98 with 3 bars in most areas, I had to hunt for spots to get a good balance. To make matters worse I learned by talking to the locals that when the place was constructed they used fill dirt that was loaded with trash and for chits and giggles they covered the ground with bottle caps and chopped them up with lawn mowers.
Just to see what I was up against, I started hunting in all metal and there were targets ever where. A ton of iron of every size, bottle caps and pull tabs out the wazoo. I tried every setting Combo I could think of and settled on 1+, Sens at 60, and Disc at 49. Every time I increase the Sens the T2 would snap, crackle, pop and chatter, I know this is due to hot soil and an overload of undesirable targets.
I did not feel to bad, I left with some change and a good understanding on how the T2 works. I don't know about other T2's but mine does have chatter, but it will run hot and deep. After a couple of hours of dealing with all the targets, I decided to do some testing. I placed some coins on the ground to see how far away I could pick them up, using All Metal on a nickle the 5" coil was buzzing at it at 14 inches and the stock coil was more like 20". The only other detector that I have used that would even come close to that was an X5, another Dave J design. When I was doing the testing a couple of guys who were both into metal detectors came up to check out the test. Both of them were blown away by the test of the 5" coil, they both said that the detectors that they had at home would not come near that kind of performance.
Colt
The ground cancel phase ran from 92 to 98 with 3 bars in most areas, I had to hunt for spots to get a good balance. To make matters worse I learned by talking to the locals that when the place was constructed they used fill dirt that was loaded with trash and for chits and giggles they covered the ground with bottle caps and chopped them up with lawn mowers.
Just to see what I was up against, I started hunting in all metal and there were targets ever where. A ton of iron of every size, bottle caps and pull tabs out the wazoo. I tried every setting Combo I could think of and settled on 1+, Sens at 60, and Disc at 49. Every time I increase the Sens the T2 would snap, crackle, pop and chatter, I know this is due to hot soil and an overload of undesirable targets.
I did not feel to bad, I left with some change and a good understanding on how the T2 works. I don't know about other T2's but mine does have chatter, but it will run hot and deep. After a couple of hours of dealing with all the targets, I decided to do some testing. I placed some coins on the ground to see how far away I could pick them up, using All Metal on a nickle the 5" coil was buzzing at it at 14 inches and the stock coil was more like 20". The only other detector that I have used that would even come close to that was an X5, another Dave J design. When I was doing the testing a couple of guys who were both into metal detectors came up to check out the test. Both of them were blown away by the test of the 5" coil, they both said that the detectors that they had at home would not come near that kind of performance.
Colt
