Does The Omega Love Iron Junk?

[Ronk]

This is the first time I have read where someone said the O8 loves deep iron junk and bottle caps.I thought bottle caps can be rejected with a concentric coil.Has anyone else had their Omega identify deep iron as a good target?

HH!
RonK

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

ALL machine identify deep iron or just iron in general as good targets. Experience with your machine will help in this area more than a certain machine.

That said, Gamma does very well in iron. Its a bit quieter than the Omega.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

I've found the Omega to be excellent in iron, but the 11" DD coil does like crown caps, like almost all of them seem to.

 

[Eric (NH)]

It likes old rusted bent nails at depth as well, but you can Id them, since the numeric ID will not lock on.

 

[TerraDigger]

Eric.......the bent nails.....is that with the concentric......or the DD coil.

 

[Ronk]

n/t

 

[rick (nova scotia)]

I would agree with big boys hobbies, but would add that if the iron is thicker, (like an Ox shoe) or circular in shape (like a large chain link) you can get a pretty good stable ID number. and that does go for ALL brands and makes of detectors INCLUDING the almighty minelab.

If the iron item in question is thinner, or odly shaped the ID# will likely jump around somewhat. that is a clue that the target in question "could" be iron. As there are exceptions to every rule. Example there could be multiple targets very close together.

ALSO if the ID jumps all the way up to 99, then you can be 99% sure you have iron.

Also if you pinpoint and get a 5 inch depth, for example, and you dig a 6 inch plug, and the target is still deeper, then you can again be quite sure the target is iron.

Hope that helps, and not too complicated. I've used Omega for two seasons, and dug countless holes in that time with it. All the above is true.

Rick