Keith Southern
Active member
got a full day in today with the omega in a couple of civil war house sites.One site was a site I had never hunted but it did produce 14 .58 caliber minnie balls, a eagle button, a carved pencil, a butt plate off a Springfield, a craved nipple protector, old brass spoon, melted lead and such. Nothing deep though maybe 7 inches max.
No what I'm noticing is this thing loves flat iron like busted kettles and plow points and such also eats up crown caps ought to be good on tin back buttons.
Now I like a detector that hits flat iron and such that was one of the things about the t-2 I didnt like it I'D'ed iron too good.
the Omega handles nails fine but loves flat type thick iron calls it 80 on flat iron but it does squeal on it.
I wouldnt have dug the butt plate with the t-2 the mxt yes t-2 no so I like that.
One thing that concerns me is the conductors in the 40-49 range sometime if there not round wont read but one way.hate to leave a deep spur.It will do it!I almost left a few pieces today in that range till I learned what it was doing. Question is why is it doing it at all? Might not be a good jewelry hunter if you want chains? I dont know I dont look for that stuff but I know lots of relics hit in the 40's and all relics are not round.
Need some info on why its doing this.
Keith Southern
No what I'm noticing is this thing loves flat iron like busted kettles and plow points and such also eats up crown caps ought to be good on tin back buttons.
Now I like a detector that hits flat iron and such that was one of the things about the t-2 I didnt like it I'D'ed iron too good.
the Omega handles nails fine but loves flat type thick iron calls it 80 on flat iron but it does squeal on it.
I wouldnt have dug the butt plate with the t-2 the mxt yes t-2 no so I like that.
One thing that concerns me is the conductors in the 40-49 range sometime if there not round wont read but one way.hate to leave a deep spur.It will do it!I almost left a few pieces today in that range till I learned what it was doing. Question is why is it doing it at all? Might not be a good jewelry hunter if you want chains? I dont know I dont look for that stuff but I know lots of relics hit in the 40's and all relics are not round.
Need some info on why its doing this.
Keith Southern
It seems to do it on small bits of foil but not small rings. I'm wondering if it isn't some kind of software "trick" that Saad might have done to help ID "bad" targets of that conductive range? Usually, when I'm hunting, I sweep over a spot several times before I move forward and I've never noticed the Omega or the Gamma miss something in that range and then hit it but always the other way around, in other words, it seems to always hit it initially and then not hit it on SOME of the subsequent swings. Another thing I've noticed on some of the small foil trash is that it'll read quite a bit higher from one direction but gives itself away when you recheck it at 90 degrees, sorta like what some of the iron targets do. Of course all of this is only when in the disc mode and I've gotten in the habit of rechecking these sorts of targets in all metal and that always provides the full story. Hopefully Mike will chime in on this one for clarity.