can any one help

[Anonymous]

i need help with settings for explorer2 cant seem to get any depth out of my machine there are finds deep in the feilds i use as they are roman occupation sites i have had some great finds including silver roman 10 silver hammered so i no the stuff is out there you might say whats this guy moning about depth is the key to finds on my site just cant get that depth that i am looking for <img src="/metal/html/cry.gif" border=0 width=40 height=15 alt=":cry"> pls help any settings tips be@north-wales.net

 

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[Anonymous]

I recently found an excellent post from a fellow contributer Cody, I posted it below.
From: Cody
I'm guessing about half of more experienced Explorer users hunt like I do, Open screen/IM-16. I do usually have bottle caps blacked off. If you hunt this way it is pretty much mandatory that you use FERROUS. Otherwise all the iron hits will sound high like good targets.
I'm always amazed at how much iron trash is in the ground, there have only been a few times that I found sites where the machine isn't constantly sounding off on iron, one was with Rick(ND) at an old baseball field that must have never been built on.
Anyways, long story short at most sites you will be in almost constant null if you have any Iron mask on at all, unless you turn the sensitivity way down. It seems that the explorer takes longer to recover from a null than it does from a tone and this allows you to hear more.
Another benefit is that nickels and other lower conductivity targets that hit more to the right of the screen will now give a higher tone and are more likely to catch your attention.

 

[Anonymous]

I find if you want the depth you have to run manual sensitivity and go slow, auto will run smoother and you can go faster, but you will not have the depth you get in manual sensitivity. If you are in an area with a lot of iron i find you may have to open up the iron masks to a -14 or -15 too and go to ferrous tones.
I find mostly there is no one setting that will work everywhere and you have to know which one to use at the site you are at.
Rick

 

[Anonymous]

Run reasonably high sens. in IM at -10 or less, bump up your gain a notch or two. I like conductive tones - whichever you use stick with it long enough to learn what you are hearing.
I think the thing you need to do most is check each and every little signal. That is, as you swing slowly, double check each tiny "churp". If it nulls quickly as you zero in, go to the next. If it repeats and sounds good one way turn 90˚ and see if it still sounds good. Sometimes it will sound so "coiny" one way and null at 90˚ that I dig them anyway, with probably a 50/50 chance of being nonferous.
In iron it becomes a big task to check every churp but every so often you will get the tiny hit that repeats and is way down there.
I guess my point is that the real deep ones that I have dug were very weak/quiet signals that are too easily overlooked. Another thing I have noticed with a few real deepies is that the signal nulls out a tiny bit on both sides of the hit. So as I make a three inch sweep directly over the deep target I hear a quick tiny null - then the tiny high tone - then another tiny null. I have been told that this is because there is iron close by but I wonder. It has happened numerous times on 11 inch coins.
I hope this helps and HH - Robin
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