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I had the gt sov out today the weather in the 60's and plenty sunshine.
I went to a local park to detect and do a little testing to compare with my other detectors.
In a place where the advantage out does my other detectors I wanted to compare the gt sov.
Now I admit I have a few years experience with the advantage and a newbie with the sov type detector.
I buried a test dime and covered it up and packed down the dirt.
In this place doing the same thing I can hit the dime at 8 inches max with the advantage with the 7-1/4" coil , with my cz70 and 8 inch coil 7 inches deep and the gt and 10 inch coil 10 inches deep.
I could not get the gt sov to go deeper in all metal mode but got a faint threshold change over the target. The discriminate signal was much stronger and diggable type of signal. I tried gb and sensitivity adjustments and whatever I could to have the all metal mode outdo the discriminate mode but it woudn't happen this time.
A buried nickel 8 inches was the max in this spot with the gt. Faint signal all metal mode and stronger with discriminate mode.
I have tested this sov on the highest value carrot wise gold I have and that is 22k arab gold ring and other 22k jewlery, plus a 1/4 eagle and 1/2 eagle and get good responses with these targets laying on top of the ground and at 7 to 8 inches distance.
the sound is in the tin foil area.
Today I was able to tell the differences on the pull tabs and coins just by sounds they make . Even dug a nickel by sound and could tell it was not a pulltab.
I think I'll put this sov in the corner along with the cz, and advantage as far as depth goes as they seem fairly similar so far. But as far as finding goodies in iron I think the sov is going to have the edge. Today again I got one of those blipper signals it took me about 3 minutes or so stepping around it and swinging from different angles of approach and finally digging it , and dug a penny and iron nut up together.
The penny was a wheat back. I am starting to get some confidence in it and it takes a little getting use to. But not as tough as I expected.
HH
Dan R.
I went to a local park to detect and do a little testing to compare with my other detectors.
In a place where the advantage out does my other detectors I wanted to compare the gt sov.
Now I admit I have a few years experience with the advantage and a newbie with the sov type detector.
I buried a test dime and covered it up and packed down the dirt.
In this place doing the same thing I can hit the dime at 8 inches max with the advantage with the 7-1/4" coil , with my cz70 and 8 inch coil 7 inches deep and the gt and 10 inch coil 10 inches deep.
I could not get the gt sov to go deeper in all metal mode but got a faint threshold change over the target. The discriminate signal was much stronger and diggable type of signal. I tried gb and sensitivity adjustments and whatever I could to have the all metal mode outdo the discriminate mode but it woudn't happen this time.
A buried nickel 8 inches was the max in this spot with the gt. Faint signal all metal mode and stronger with discriminate mode.
I have tested this sov on the highest value carrot wise gold I have and that is 22k arab gold ring and other 22k jewlery, plus a 1/4 eagle and 1/2 eagle and get good responses with these targets laying on top of the ground and at 7 to 8 inches distance.
the sound is in the tin foil area.
Today I was able to tell the differences on the pull tabs and coins just by sounds they make . Even dug a nickel by sound and could tell it was not a pulltab.
I think I'll put this sov in the corner along with the cz, and advantage as far as depth goes as they seem fairly similar so far. But as far as finding goodies in iron I think the sov is going to have the edge. Today again I got one of those blipper signals it took me about 3 minutes or so stepping around it and swinging from different angles of approach and finally digging it , and dug a penny and iron nut up together.
The penny was a wheat back. I am starting to get some confidence in it and it takes a little getting use to. But not as tough as I expected.
HH
Dan R.