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Well, the WV bros and Jim in Tennessee said it...move the disc down to 0 and hidden things should show up better.
I have been hunting in monotone, Disc 1, SL, sense in the 80's, Thresh at -5 and things have been relatively quiet and gets me decently deep with my F70.
I get a good picture of exactly what is going on down there in 1 disc and I didn't think 0 could make a difference but after a couple of hunts in areas I have scoured before I am finding still more so it might.
Remember also this is very difficult soil with red clay mineralization and extra helpings of tiny iron infused into the soil and bits and pieces of dense iron of all sizes laying...everywhere.
At 0 disc in SL and higher sense things get really noisy so I adjusted my settings a bit to compensate.
Speed is changed to DE which helped a lot, sense lowered to about 70-75...down to 60 sometimes in some areas but still seem to get good depth, Thresh left at -5 and I can still pick up the tiniest items at this level so I might go even lower in future hunts.
Tones on 1, monotone.
This US Sugar Corp thing is a pin and appears to be some sort of employee badge, I think.
Pretty large at a couple of inches long and absolutely no similar items like this can be found on the net in my research.
Probably from the 40's because it was found in an area of this park where I have found other things from that era at the same depth which was at the 4-5" mark.
I have been over this spot countless times and usually dig all signals that aren't iron.
This one was jumpy in the 30's-40's but stayed out of iron and was at the right depth so I dug it.
I might have gotten the same signal in higher disc but I didn't think to try it at the time.
What this thing was doing here I have no idea because as far as I can tell this company is based in Florida and there were no businesses in this area related but who knows.
I also found some modern coins in other area that were really masked and the prize of the day was this nice little sterling cross also in an area I know for sure I have scanned before because it is right next to an old stone walkway.
Why I missed these things before I don't know, I either just didn't get the coil over them or this 0 disc setting might help to unmask more than even disc set at 1.
The cross was kinda weird, it wasn't all that deep at 3" but way lower than other smaller silver items which might come in below dimes but still in the higher zinc areas.
This was a pretty solid 50-52 in the ground and a solid 49 out of the ground.
It weighs about 1.75 grams.
I don't really like 0 disc as far as how it makes the tones sound, kind of squeaky and skewed compared to even that little move up to disc 1 but I will put up with it if it helps me find more.
More hunts and experimenting to to on 0 disc....stay tuned.
I have been hunting in monotone, Disc 1, SL, sense in the 80's, Thresh at -5 and things have been relatively quiet and gets me decently deep with my F70.
I get a good picture of exactly what is going on down there in 1 disc and I didn't think 0 could make a difference but after a couple of hunts in areas I have scoured before I am finding still more so it might.
Remember also this is very difficult soil with red clay mineralization and extra helpings of tiny iron infused into the soil and bits and pieces of dense iron of all sizes laying...everywhere.
At 0 disc in SL and higher sense things get really noisy so I adjusted my settings a bit to compensate.
Speed is changed to DE which helped a lot, sense lowered to about 70-75...down to 60 sometimes in some areas but still seem to get good depth, Thresh left at -5 and I can still pick up the tiniest items at this level so I might go even lower in future hunts.
Tones on 1, monotone.
This US Sugar Corp thing is a pin and appears to be some sort of employee badge, I think.
Pretty large at a couple of inches long and absolutely no similar items like this can be found on the net in my research.
Probably from the 40's because it was found in an area of this park where I have found other things from that era at the same depth which was at the 4-5" mark.
I have been over this spot countless times and usually dig all signals that aren't iron.
This one was jumpy in the 30's-40's but stayed out of iron and was at the right depth so I dug it.
I might have gotten the same signal in higher disc but I didn't think to try it at the time.
What this thing was doing here I have no idea because as far as I can tell this company is based in Florida and there were no businesses in this area related but who knows.
I also found some modern coins in other area that were really masked and the prize of the day was this nice little sterling cross also in an area I know for sure I have scanned before because it is right next to an old stone walkway.
Why I missed these things before I don't know, I either just didn't get the coil over them or this 0 disc setting might help to unmask more than even disc set at 1.
The cross was kinda weird, it wasn't all that deep at 3" but way lower than other smaller silver items which might come in below dimes but still in the higher zinc areas.
This was a pretty solid 50-52 in the ground and a solid 49 out of the ground.
It weighs about 1.75 grams.
I don't really like 0 disc as far as how it makes the tones sound, kind of squeaky and skewed compared to even that little move up to disc 1 but I will put up with it if it helps me find more.
More hunts and experimenting to to on 0 disc....stay tuned.
