Hello, When I hunt in the woods my Fe3O4 meter hardly shows one bar and things sound great and the VDI works fine down to 5-6in...but when I hit corn fields the Fe3O4 meter will jump around. The machine doesn't VDI correctly in these fields either. I assume the fields have lots of fertilizer on them which causes this. My question is- what can be done about it? I turn the sens down and go super slow...is there anything else? Why does the T2 have the Fe3O4 meter anyway? I can already hear when the machine is having problems in tough soil. Thanks!
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Fe3O4 on T2
- Thread starter Charlives
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Did you do another 'Ground Grab' in the corn field once you noticed it was performing erratically ?? i was out today on Saxon/Iorn age site and most of the ground is limestone which did cause some problems and was getting a similar FE reading but i had too GG every so often but the machine did run smoothly after,if it wont GG you could always do a Manual GB.
TheHunterGT
Member
The T2 can often times show a single bar on the mineral graph. Do not trust the side to side swing to show you the proper mineralization - pump the coil without pressing the trigger to get a proper reading.
So just like you are ground balancing...but without pressing the trigger forward.
Here in Colorado I can swing and get one bar...then pump and get 4 bars at the .3 level...which is sadly the proper reading in my terrible Colorado soil.
So just like you are ground balancing...but without pressing the trigger forward.
Here in Colorado I can swing and get one bar...then pump and get 4 bars at the .3 level...which is sadly the proper reading in my terrible Colorado soil.
TheHunterGT
Member
Basically just have to deal with it. Ground balance it the best you can and hunt it. I would only worry about GBing again if I saw visual changes. Grass to dirt...sand to hard pack...hard pack to clay...etc.
My backyard alone can change from 85 to 65...and it's not a huge backyard. For something like that I'd just GB to about 82 and go to town.
My take is have fun when I hunt....GBing 20 times is not fun for me. I can sleep fine thinking I may have missed one or two targets due to bad soil. To each their own obviously.
Little bit about my terrible soil.....XP Deus and T2 cannot hit a 5 inch dime in my backyard. F19 can hit it easily.
Take it to a local park with nice grass and soil underneath...T2 and XP will go much deeper than a F19.
Soil sucks sometimes.
My backyard alone can change from 85 to 65...and it's not a huge backyard. For something like that I'd just GB to about 82 and go to town.
My take is have fun when I hunt....GBing 20 times is not fun for me. I can sleep fine thinking I may have missed one or two targets due to bad soil. To each their own obviously.
Little bit about my terrible soil.....XP Deus and T2 cannot hit a 5 inch dime in my backyard. F19 can hit it easily.
Take it to a local park with nice grass and soil underneath...T2 and XP will go much deeper than a F19.
Soil sucks sometimes.
TheHunterGT
Member
In my personal Colorado nasty soil...I feel the F19 is one of the best at handling it.
F19 can ID coins in my backyard testbed that the T2...XP Deus...AT Pro...F70...will not even beep on. My USGS survey is among the most terrible I have ever laid eyes on. I have fossils everywhere around my house...clams and fish fossils. Prehistoric salt lake...I live on the shoreline by some huge dinosaur tracks. It's some nasty soil here full of iron, salt, and magnesium.
F19 so far beats everything I have tried in depth.
I will reiterate...that when I go to softer soils or manicured parks and schools...the F19 then is outperformed in depth by the T2.
F19 can ID coins in my backyard testbed that the T2...XP Deus...AT Pro...F70...will not even beep on. My USGS survey is among the most terrible I have ever laid eyes on. I have fossils everywhere around my house...clams and fish fossils. Prehistoric salt lake...I live on the shoreline by some huge dinosaur tracks. It's some nasty soil here full of iron, salt, and magnesium.
F19 so far beats everything I have tried in depth.
I will reiterate...that when I go to softer soils or manicured parks and schools...the F19 then is outperformed in depth by the T2.
Yeah, I hear ya...the f19 outperforms the t2 in tough ground....but why?...is it the higher frequency? and again, I'm wondering if a multi-frequency machine would beat all the mentioned detectors....or are we still waiting for a machine that can give us 10in coins in difficult soil?
