Has anyone notice on the M6

[Joe Kononchik]

I hunt the beach mostly and the M6 is new to me. I use low disc. in order to pick up small gold. I have not found any gold with it mostly do to lack of time behind the machine. I noticed if the ID bounces it is ussually a steelcap or a deep target. If I bounce the coil right over it ussually goes negitive if it is a steel cap. It seems to be a quick check for a steel cap.I do not know about how this work on other targets.Good hunting,joe

 

[saika]

Thanks for that. That worked on my fisher 1260 very nicely. I will give it a shot next time out.

 

[saika]

I just spent two days at the beach, one of the major reasons I bought the M6, and made a point to apply what you have noticed. You are absolutely correct. If I bob the coil it sits firmly at hot rock or maintains a very low iron number and the tone id variances do not happen. This only works up until the 10" mark. After that the VDI stops registering when you bob the coil and tone id only responds part of the time.

It does however give you a VERY (90%) good indication that what you are looking at is indeed a bottle cap or something else with a high iron content. The beach that I hunted is generally very clean except for flakes of iron and lots of bottle caps down to about 10". The coins are deep as this beach has very soft fine sand that seems to go on for ever. I noticed one of the fluttering targets and tried this technique and found this time that it would still give me a mid tone with the occassional high ping. It was a very mdoern Canadian quarter at 10", the quarter has 4 pinpoints of red, rust crust on it.

It is a sucker bet to hunt this beach other than for the fact that it has very testing conditions for any metal detector. It is a great place to find out what your machine is made of. There are streaks of black sand and nails everywhere from decades of bonfires.

Since WWII and up until the early 70s this beach was very active with easily several thousand people on it on any given sunny day. There was a chip shack on the top of what was once a dune. The beach now sports several mansion sized cottages and no way for the public to get on it really other than an unpleasant walk from a parking lot that has capacity for maybe 50 cars. 20 or so years ago I went down there with a white's gold machine to hunt. My brother took over when I went for a swim. He handed me the machine back and said that he would be right back. He came back with a wheel barrow and a digging spade. In less than an hour he had dug up a small horsepower Evinrude outboard motor.

At the end of it all I am really impressed with how the M6 performed, it reached very deep for any metal and told me with a pretty good certainty what it was I was digging. I was digging all targets. my best performance dig was a flake of copper about half of the size of a dime and very thin from 11". I could raise the coil a few inches off of the sand before it lost the target.

Thanks for bringing this up, it was a great help.

 

[ccfl]

n/t

 

[Joe Kononchik]

I have not been able to hunt in the dry do that i am mostly a water hunter. I live in SE Florida and we have the same soft sand. I also bought the M6 for beach hunting but also plan to do some park hunting.This machine is a coin getter but it has the right freq. for gold.I run my disc. on the "F" on foil to hopefully to pick up smaller gold. Have you found that some of the newer quarters come up like a dime's id?. I use the tone id side and have not figured out if the single tone or the id side hits better.Anyhow it is a fun machine and can not wait to try the 6x10 coil. Good hunting,Joe

 

[saika]

I use the eclipse 10x6 coil all the time now. Unfortunately the machine is calibrated for US coins, I hunt in Canada. Most of our coins ring in the mid ranges and you can't really go by TID to tell you if it is a coin. Most coins do however give a little high tone ping in the mix of the audio. The 1$, .01$ and 2$ coins ring high usually. I haven't noticed if the single or multi tone is deeper either. They both seem to be about the same. I don't usually compare the two since I hunt in multi tone mode and just switch to pinpoint mode and back. That is going to be my next experiment at the beach. In my parks I hunt with low power right now because it is so dry. Once the fall or steady rain arrives I will go deeper in the parks.

 

[saika]

It seems that after about 6-8" bobbing the coil will cause many good targets to read hot rock, even coins and gold. The best way still seems to be how the pinpoint wanders or not.