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A little change on my disc settings gets me more!

REVIER

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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.
 
The next hunt I go on I'm going to vary my swing speed and see what happens, gradually I've been slowing my speed down trying to listen for those deep faint signals but according to Elton and some other post members that causes you to lose depth.
We've got this one place in the park that we've hunted a 1000 times and we " think" it is cleaned out, I'm going to try that area with short fast swings and see if maybe I can get down another couple inches, we know there is some silver just out of reach. This is something you may want to work with if you haven't already tried it.
 
still looking 52 said:
The next hunt I go on I'm going to vary my swing speed and see what happens, gradually I've been slowing my speed down trying to listen for those deep faint signals but according to Elton and some other post members that causes you to lose depth.
We've got this one place in the park that we've hunted a 1000 times and we " think" it is cleaned out, I'm going to try that area with short fast swings and see if maybe I can get down another couple inches, we know there is some silver just out of reach. This is something you may want to work with if you haven't already tried it.

I read that post, but I think that would work much better in clean dirt with low mineralization and way less iron than I deal with on a daily basis.
For me the opposite happened...when I slowed way down I started finding much more.
I tried some fast sweeps in a few areas on the last few hunts after reading that, then I went over these same areas much slower and got a few signals I missed with the faster sweep.
In the soil I hunted in Kansas that fast sweep speed seemed to work on the deeper targets to get better ID's because I have known about this for awhile, plus I am a naturally fast swinger so I found much in that state with sweep speeds from slow to fast.
That faster sweep does seem to work here to pin down deeper iron signals from time to time but I have to pinpoint the exact spot to swing over to do it.
Here with all these problems in areas that have been hunted by me for years and many others for decades I can say with certainty that slower works better...but my conditions here are kind of strange with an unusual amount of iron of all kinds from microscopic to large.
I seem to do ok with both my larger coils here also, surprisingly good even with the big DD, but lately I have been using the sniper and that seems to work even better...or so it seems so far.
Different soils, different conditions, different techniques...adaptation is the key.
 
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