Didn't take me long to remember WHY I use a Minelab!

[IDXMonster]

I wanted to make a video with my IDXPro to send in a long overdue package to a friend. I got all loaded up,the specialty 14"DD coil all mounted up and went to a local park. I just wanted to video how good it was with discrimination and finding deeper coins. Well,it didn't work out. The coil works fine. But the first 3 targets that came in as quarters were actually rusty bottle caps! LOL! How the HELL did I hunt so long with this machine? Number of bottle caps I've dug with the Explorer2 or the CTX? NONE! Because of where they hit on the Smart Screen it's a no brainer that it's a bottle cap. I thought..."I MUST be forgetting how to run this machine,there's NO WAY I would've suffered with this affliction!" Nope. I wasn't forgetting a thing...except that I couldn't reject bottle caps! It's amazing what us Minelab users take for granted,and what others have no idea about when it comes to WHY Minelabs are so good at coin hunting.....

 

[D&P-OR]

Yah got that right!------I never knew there was so many bottle caps in the world till a few years back when I took a break from the FBS machines for another detector.-----Deep silver finds dried up at that same time also--crazy, huh!------Didn't take me long to get back to my "first love" (after my wife, of course).

I wanted to make a video with my IDXPro to send in a long overdue package to a friend. I got all loaded up,the specialty 14"DD coil all mounted up and went to a local park. I just wanted to video how good it was with discrimination and finding deeper coins. Well,it didn't work out. The coil works fine. But the first 3 targets that came in as quarters were actually rusty bottle caps! LOL! How the HELL did I hunt so long with this machine? Number of bottle caps I've dug with the Explorer2 or the CTX? NONE! Because of where they hit on the Smart Screen it's a no brainer that it's a bottle cap. I thought..."I MUST be forgetting how to run this machine,there's NO WAY I would've suffered with this affliction!" Nope. I wasn't forgetting a thing...except that I couldn't reject bottle caps! It's amazing what us Minelab users take for granted,and what others have no idea about when it comes to WHY Minelabs are so good at coin hunting.....

 

[IDXMonster]

It's mind blowing Del! I thought I was such a hotshot with that IDX,and it is a very good machine. But once I got the Explorer? Forget it! The IDX has its place,but anymore it's a very specialized niche hunting machine. Great in its day!

 

[sprchng]

Same revelation I had when I went from the etrac to a F75se and the Deus. It's not that you can't figure out ways to make a high percentage decision on what are caps or not with those machines , but the fact that you have to at all.! I dig more caps with my FBS machines hunting deep low conductor nickels chasing faint 20 something 13 signals than I do something like a high conductor. The newer screw caps made out of aluminum are a real weakness with the Deus because they sound "round" and often fall between the zinc and penny ranges where lots of interesting stuff lurks. The FBS machines give you signals on those screw caps that get your attention but the lack of quality/clarity of the tones is a dead give away. Really trashing sites with a lot of aluminum and screw caps makes the Deus a real pita because switching frequencies is not helpful like it is with steel caps ,,,, turns it into a niche machine like you say. However , in all fairness to those machines , heavy iron fields do much the same to FBS machines with their nulling and lack of recovery.

 

[IDXMonster]

Sprchng...interesting you say the "quality and clarity" is a dead giveaway...I notice the same. To me the sound is almost "hollow"... like a good signals ghost. And,yes...other machines may be better in the right hands in really tough iron and other places I run from! If I spent more time in those types of places I'd likely do better. I actually do better in those places with the Explorer2 running a wide open screen in Ferrous than the CTX. But I have a lot to learn.

 

[cjc]

I would add to that though that its the detectors that hear the most iron that find the co-located stuff. Also, from a discriminate point of view--it's the caps, nails and b-pins that are in the same range as gold. It is nice to be able to knock them out conclusively though.
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[IDXMonster]

I would add to that though that its the detectors that hear the most iron that find the co-located stuff. Also, from a discriminate point of view--it's the caps, nails and b-pins that are in the same range as gold. It is nice to be able to knock them out conclusively though.
cjc
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Very true! I should have said "I can see it's a bottle cap even with a high tone" rather than "reject bottle caps". I'll still run wide open with a lot of targets around,and I won't have ANY discrimination applied. Gotta listen to all signals unless the targets are very sparse....
Thanks Clive!

 

[Tony N (Michigan)]

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