GTI1500 info

[oldranger]

Soon it will be cold and the ground hard in western Pa.
Ovewr the winter i plan on doing some research for sites in the
spring, as well assort thru the coins and stuff I found this year.
Is there anything i can do with the GTI as far as practice indoors?
Seems like putting coins on the floor wont wrok well becauce of nails etc
in the studs.
Also Ive heard from local detectors that I should have GTI recalibrated.
True or not?

Any tips and onfo about any of this is as always much appreciated
Thanks
Ron
and remember
Rangers Lead The Way

 

[cc8137]

First, there's nothing you can do indoors to "practice". You might build a test garden outside and set different coins or other targets at different depths but other than that there's not much you can do. (the coins must be in the ground for a least a week before accurate responses are detected) As far as recalibrating you detector, the GTI 1500 has a reset function by holding down the power button for a few seconds until it resets to factory settings. No other recalibrating is needed.

Charlie

 

[oldranger]

Charlie

thanks for the info. Im always looking for advise on the GTI
Any suggestions about cleaing a bunch of face value coins
mostly pennies that are grungy but still usable i doubt they go thru the mahine at
the bank the way they are now apor $200.00 or so total coinage all denominations
but the quaters nickles and most dimes are clean enuff

Thank
ROn

 

[Terry in PA]

Never had mine recalibrated and it work well year after year . Good detector!

 

[Uncle Willy]

No need to recalibrate unless it starts getting a little squirrely.

Bill

Another old Ranger saying, " If it moves kill it. If it don't move kill it anyway.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Pick up a tumbler for cleaning your non-valuable coins. Harbor Freight has them on sale often for about twenty bucks. You can go to their web site - harborfreight.com

Bill

 

[oldranger]

Thnaks to all for the good info. I love the GTI. Now all i gotta do
is get better with it. that will take time and practice.Im still
not certian about c signals reading iron or above. The rings i found
were basiclly an accident > i dug signals that just seemed to say
"dig me " I stlll feel like im missing good stuff Any suggestions about what
Odd siganls Might be is appreciated >
Good Hunting
Ron

And another Rangerism from the SE asian war Games

Kill em ALL let Budda sort em out!!!

 

[coin hunter]

Did I understand this right you say you dug up $200.00 worth of coins this summer? If that's the case you didn't miss to much.Did you find any old coins? If you didn't its only because your not in the right place.Gold rings , I always feel like I was lucky only because of all the trash to be found around the 5 cent area.Silver rings hit around 50 cent area. If you ever do a old farm field run on jewelry mode. Musket balls hit between 5 cent and a penny. I have about 15 musket ball that I have found in farmers fields. Farmers fields are great places to hunt. Little trash and plenty of goodies . Good luck!

 

[oldranger]

Tks for the advise. What aprt of Wv are yo uin?
Im in the Pittsburgh area.If close maybe we can plan a
hunt in betwwen us!!

Ron

 

[oldranger]

Tks for the info. Much appreciated

What part of Pa are you in? Im in the
Pittsburgh area. if close maybe we could plan a hunt

Ron

 

[oldranger]

I admit i got lucky. Most of the coins are current face value.
I found a lot around playground equipment ( with the wood chips on the ground)
and a lot around concession stands with gravel> tahts easy digging if you call moving a
pice of gravel digging!!
and my luckiest spot was an area in a park that must have been used for a coin
hunt for kids. I found over $30.00 in an area as big as a 2-3 bathtubs.someone
must not have felt like scattering the coins. or the kids were lazy!!
Alos heres a tip ( sorta) I found about $10.00 in current coins under straw
near a picnic shelter in a park> i alosmot (ALMOST ) felt guilty cause i wasnt sure
if they had even conducted the kids hunt!!


Anyway good hunting and thanks for connecting
Ron

 

[Terry in PA]

I'm above Harrisburg about a good three plus hour's from Pittsburgh.

 

[RickIowa2009]

I could use calibrated, dont tell my wife!

 

[coin hunter]

Just looked out my window,SNOW! I live in NY near Binghamton. How about a hunt in the Carolina's, outer banks sounds good.