Can someone give me a relic program to try ....

[LOUIE FROM kALIoKA]

I am currently using the preset relic program for civil war sites and early home sites. I feel like i am missing allot because of the bad nulling problem i am having. Just thought if i accepted more i would start hearing some more of the button and old coin sounds .. Need some opinions Ouattro users.
hh Louie

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Get rid of all the nulling by accepting everything. Then watch the numbers, listen to the tones, and dig what sounds and looks good. By not having anything discriminated out, you will hear EVERYTHING. But there also won't be any nulling either. And for most relic hunting, we aren't hunting in trash pits anyway. "All metal" works well in fields, pastures, the woods, the beach...places where there isn't a lot of trash. Even in trashy spots, where it can be a little trying on your nerves, the lack of nulling may make it easier to pick a good target out from amidst the bad. Try it. I used to hunt that way with my Quattro and do so with my Explorer II now.

 

[Rick(ND)]

As Mike is saying run the all metal mode and hear everything, then when you see a few targets you don't like you can disc them out and save them. Now you will get some nulling, but only the target you disc out that you didn't want. I did this with my Quattro when i had it and run the relic mode being it has ferrous tones for my coin hunting in areas where there is a not of iron.

 

[LOUIE FROM kALIoKA]

saying that i can disc out in all metal on certain iron numbers if i want too? Please tell me step by step and i have not ever trid to use the accept reject mode yet. I don't completely understand how too use this function.
Thanks for your help. There is a ton of old rusted nails and smaller pieces of iron at the site i am hunting. Just wanting some more expierenced opinioms on how to try different things.
hh Louie

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Louie, have you read the manual? I have it in PDF format if you need one.

The function is pretty easy. When you find a particular object that you want to discriminate out, pass over it a few times to make sure you have a good ID of it. It will fall into one of the segments on the scale, from -10 to +40, which in All Metal mode will all be accepted. Wherever that spot is that item falls into, when you hit the Accept/Reject touchpad that segment will now be blackened. So that item will no longer be accepted.

This is what the manual says:

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[beachguy777]

Hey Loui, Mike and the other guys are right on the money on this. I know it can get a little tricky, but you're basiclly programming the detector to accept or reject certain numbers which correspond to certain conductivity of targets. Generally -10 to 0 is pretty much iron like old nails, etc. If I'm not mistaken you can even use this accept reject method in the all metal mode. Just realize that the numbers correspond pretty much to different types of metal. Penny's for instance are around 34 or so. Silver is a higher number. Most nickels come in at around 15, but be ware that some pull tabs come in as a 15 numerical readout, so you need to practice reading the numbers versus what they are corresponding to. I can't help but tell you to get Andy Sabisch's book Mastering the Quatro for an "in depth" view and review of the way the Quatro works. It' s an in valuable book to have if you own the Quatro. Good luck on all this and let us know what happens for you. I know that in some cases the soil may be so ironized that it "plays hell" with your readings, but this is rare, and Mike addresses this in an earllier post with another guy. One more thing is make sure you use your ground balance every time you start detecting somewhere. It literally reads the ground and the surrounding area to set the detector up for the search in the best possible way. Good luck, and keep us posted. Marc Trainor.