I have had it for over a month and finally it quite snowing and some ground thawed and had time to take it out for its first hunt and wondered if reading and rereading the book if I was ready, but found out when I got out and forgot how the ground balance so run it anyway.
I had did some settings before by seeing what others were recommending to start at instead of factory setting. The sensitivity was at 20 and I had turned up the disc to 11 and notched out everything up to 18 as it was my first time out with it. I ran 5 tones and the Iron bias was 5 and the recovery was 5 also. It sure did run smooth and the first signal was a 13 and did see 12 couple of time, but mostly 13 and was thinking a nickle possibly and pinpointed it and being so loud I figured it was on top of the ground and used my Uni-probe as it has depth, but no signal so I checked the signal again in disc before I dug to make sure of it. I dug a 7 inch plug and it wasn't in there and thought maybe it is trash further down so went in with the Uni-probe and seen it was deeper, but a good signal and dug more dirt and got it out of the hole and went over the dirt and finally seen it as it did look like a nickle, but was surprised it was a 1908 V nickle. Then the next signals I got is what was left of a old mechanical lead pencil that is broke, but still had lead in it and still writes. most of my signals were in the 11-14 range and they turned out to be square pull tabs, pieces of some alum cans and even some alum foil in a ball, but only 1 other one seem to be a 13 and went to 14 one time and it was the ball of alum foil.
Now one of the problem I had and still wonder what is going on is when I went to pinpoint a couple of times I couldn't hear the signal as it was super quiet with some of the targets were only 3-4 inches deep. I know I moved the coil away and even held it in the air and put it in pinpoint and took it out and did it again but it seem like if it is deeper target it didn't sound weak. Thought maybe it has to do with my iron bias set at 5.
I was only able to detect for maybe 45 minutes before my body wore out, used to go out for 8 hours straight in some hot weather before.
Signals in most cases were deep that is good and they were easy to hear, some good one way, but when going around it to see if it moved or not most changed tone and broke up a bit. If those would have been weak deeper sounding signals I may I dug them. Ran real nice and was happy for my first hunt and only hope it gets better. The area I was in is beside a school gym that was built in 1958 and before it was built it was the ball field for the old school that was built in 1912 or so. This school has been hit hard by me with my different Minelab with the Sovereign getting the most finds, but that was 18 years ago and the only thing I have found there in the last 8 years other than new coins is a old token with my CTX 3030 3 years ago.
I had some problems with my body though as I had a tough time getting up and down as it happened last year at our club hunt too as when I went to my knees I would tip over and fall face first get up and do it again and when I stood up I fell over and to day after 30 minutes I was doing it again. Tried to post pictures, but cant do it unil I find a program to make them fit on the forums.
Rick
I had did some settings before by seeing what others were recommending to start at instead of factory setting. The sensitivity was at 20 and I had turned up the disc to 11 and notched out everything up to 18 as it was my first time out with it. I ran 5 tones and the Iron bias was 5 and the recovery was 5 also. It sure did run smooth and the first signal was a 13 and did see 12 couple of time, but mostly 13 and was thinking a nickle possibly and pinpointed it and being so loud I figured it was on top of the ground and used my Uni-probe as it has depth, but no signal so I checked the signal again in disc before I dug to make sure of it. I dug a 7 inch plug and it wasn't in there and thought maybe it is trash further down so went in with the Uni-probe and seen it was deeper, but a good signal and dug more dirt and got it out of the hole and went over the dirt and finally seen it as it did look like a nickle, but was surprised it was a 1908 V nickle. Then the next signals I got is what was left of a old mechanical lead pencil that is broke, but still had lead in it and still writes. most of my signals were in the 11-14 range and they turned out to be square pull tabs, pieces of some alum cans and even some alum foil in a ball, but only 1 other one seem to be a 13 and went to 14 one time and it was the ball of alum foil.
Now one of the problem I had and still wonder what is going on is when I went to pinpoint a couple of times I couldn't hear the signal as it was super quiet with some of the targets were only 3-4 inches deep. I know I moved the coil away and even held it in the air and put it in pinpoint and took it out and did it again but it seem like if it is deeper target it didn't sound weak. Thought maybe it has to do with my iron bias set at 5.
I was only able to detect for maybe 45 minutes before my body wore out, used to go out for 8 hours straight in some hot weather before.
Signals in most cases were deep that is good and they were easy to hear, some good one way, but when going around it to see if it moved or not most changed tone and broke up a bit. If those would have been weak deeper sounding signals I may I dug them. Ran real nice and was happy for my first hunt and only hope it gets better. The area I was in is beside a school gym that was built in 1958 and before it was built it was the ball field for the old school that was built in 1912 or so. This school has been hit hard by me with my different Minelab with the Sovereign getting the most finds, but that was 18 years ago and the only thing I have found there in the last 8 years other than new coins is a old token with my CTX 3030 3 years ago.
I had some problems with my body though as I had a tough time getting up and down as it happened last year at our club hunt too as when I went to my knees I would tip over and fall face first get up and do it again and when I stood up I fell over and to day after 30 minutes I was doing it again. Tried to post pictures, but cant do it unil I find a program to make them fit on the forums.
Rick
