B.RATNY said:
Due to our mild winter I was able to take out my new Racer over the weekend and hit a couple of my favorite pounded sites.
Winter where I am in far Eastern Oregon has been pretty decent. Most of the snow is gone around here, and they forecast highs of 56° next Monday and Tuesday. Let's hope good spring weather will arrive for most of us soon.
B.RATNY said:
I absolutely love the speed of this machine, I dove right in and took it to the most iron infested spots I could.
By that are you referring to the recovery speed? Also, in your "
most iron infested" spots, what type of iron is the main offender? How closely spaced or encounters per sweep?
B.RATNY said:
The two tone mode is great in the iron and seems to be able to zero in on the good targets even in the heavy junk.
I love the 2-Tone mode for most work I do in trashy old sites I hunt, and I mean very dense ferrous junk, mainly nails, in very closely spaced abundance. There's other junk to, hunting old home sites, former barn and other outbuilding sites, town sites, mining camps, etc. I sometimes work in 3-Tone a little just for a change of pace, maybe for 10-15 minutes or so, then go back to 2-Tone, re-hunt that area and continue on. I use 3-Tone mode mainly for traditional urban Coin Hunting.
In 2-Tone I generally keep my ID Filter [size=small](Discrimination level)[/size] set at '10' and seldom increase to ±21 to just barely reject iron nails. Where did you run your ID Filter?
B.RATNY said:
These are just a few of the finds made from my outing. I also found a bunch of wheat pennies, a couple flat buttons, a small silver religious medal and a few other interesting odds and ends. I was using the stock coil which really impressed me, I can just imagine how great the OOR coil will be in the trash. Can't wait to get it.
Nice looking finds, especially the 1864 Indian Head, Great shape for a 152 your old coin!
Once you get the little
'OOR' coil and work with it in very trashy conditions, you just might leave it on the Racer full-time. I know that's what I do, as do several of my Racer-using friends. I keep smaller coils on most of my detectors for full-time service and rarely switch coils. Unless I don't have another model already equipped for such assignment, which I just happen to. Matter of fact, I was ready to head out today with my Racer &
'OOR' to an old site, but they are coming to install a new wood stove and piping this morning so I had to change my plans.
Might have to hold off 'til Friday and a buddy & I will take our FORS CoRe's and Racer's to an old CCC camp location and a WWII POW camp location. We might nab some Merc.'s like you did, but our older ghost towns sites, 35 miles to 1 hour drive away are still snow bound with 5" to 8", so I don't think a beautiful old Indian Head will come our way at next weeks sites.
Report back once you get the
'OOR'-mounted Racer out to your iron littered sites.
Monte
waiting for the impact 
or something like that !
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guess they call them racers for a reason 
