Digging iron tones with the t2 se

[2 Much Trash]

Out of boredom and the urge to swing my detector a few evenings ago, I brought the t2 out on my deck and then placed a nickel between 2 nails that are about 4" apart. Just messing around, I left the the sens at 60, disc at 10, and put it in bp mode. No ground balancing here. Nails everywhere. Just trying to get a high tone on the nickel. No luck unless I was an inch or two above the target. In order to knock out the nails completely I set disc at 25 then began swinging the coil. No more low grunts except for the nickel. The machine was pickling up the nickel amongst all the nails but picked it up as iron. Did the same test with a 3 ring Minnie ball and a flat button and got the same results. So, a couple days later I had just a little time to kill and drove to one of my old spots that's produced quite a few relics. But one small section of this property is littered with iron, very difficult to hunt. Set the t2 up to disc out the iron, 25 did the trick. I was only there for about and hour. I dug every low tone I got and this is what I came up with in that short hunt. Not much but it has sure made me think about what I'm going to dig the next go round when I've disc out iron and still get a low tone. Go figure.

 

[chuck ky]

are you talking about the low iron tone or the tone that every thing below nickle comes in at. thanks

 

[2 Much Trash]

Thanks Chuck, I'm using bp mode, only 2 tones. Low for iron, high for all others

 

[SteveP(NH)]

Nice report about your technique/results....thanks for sharing. I usually setup like you but leave the discrim low. I'll bump it up next time I hit a nail patch.

 

[Monte]

Since 5-4-'69 when I first hunted my first hunted my favorite ghost town, I have made it a point to concentrate on learning and mastering the challenge of hunting in a dense iron nail environment.

If you can hunt a site slowly and methodically, with a smaller-size search coil and ONLY barely reject iron nails, then you simply recover ALL targets that 'beep.' Pretty simple to do, and just glance at the VDI numeric readout for fun and ignore the Tone ID response.

Many detectors on the market will not handle a dense scattering of iron nails, be able to reject them, and still respond to many better conductors in a close proximity. The favorable targets produce a not-so-favorable Tone ID or visual read-out because they are masked and their response is drawn down to a lower read-out, even into the 'iron' range above the nail rejection point.

Certain makes and models excel in such dense nail challenged conditions, some are so-so performers, and many kind of flunk the test. I had two T2's and kindly put them in the 'so-so' category.

Don't increase the Discrimination much above iron nail rejection or you'll impair the performance and likely not get a hit at all. Also, not expect to get a nice-and-proper audio or visual read-out in such conditions.

Monte

 

[2 Much Trash]

Monte, you don't know how much I appreciate your response. Matter of fact I almost titled it "A question for Monte" and word ii a little different. Just wasn't sure how often you read this particular forum.
Everything you've said backs up my conclusions after this simple air test and short real world hunt. It also backs up my game plan for this coming season.
Thanks for your input Pal.
Bill